Title: Far from "Learning Irish" or "Irish on Your Own"
Product review: Having a grandmother from Co. Cork in Ireland, I have always been interested in the Irish language and speak it well . Irish is not an altogether easy language to learn, and this book certainly doesn't help. The conversations are unnatural, the vocabularies are messy and the grammar is hardly explained at all. Bascially, this book encourages you to memorise phrases, not to actually learn to talk on your own. Ironically, there used to be another Teach Yourself Irish by M. Dillon, which was much better on teaching Irish.Do learn Irish, but avoid this book. My first recommendation would be "Learning Irish", followed by "Irish on Your Own". They are both superior to this book in every way. Another noticable point. The Irish taught in this book is a stilted language, removed from the native speakers, while both the other books are based on Irish as it is actually spoken.
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