Comments on: Progress in Irish: Lesson 5 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499 Níl ann ach raiméis : It's nothing but nonsense Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-484 maca Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:48:54 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-484 note to self: use a spell checker. Internation should have been international but you got the meaning anyway :) Downloads would be very handy, but i'll ask about shipping costs anyway, shouldn't be too much. GRMA arís! note to self: use a spell checker. Internation should have been international but you got the meaning anyway :)

Downloads would be very handy, but i’ll ask about shipping costs anyway, shouldn’t be too much.

GRMA arís!

]]> By: Cionaodh http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-483 Cionaodh Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:25:18 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-483 >Would they ship internation d’ya think? >Well I can ask JamusN anyway. >Thanks again for the info, i’d completely >forgotten about this. I'm sure he would; and it shouldn't be terribly dear, as he was quoting $2 per CD plus actual shipping cost. Fair enough, indeed! There's been some talk on their mailing list of someone at their school posting the MP3s to a website, and if that's the plan, you might save yourself the few dollars & just download at your leisure. >Would they ship internation d’ya think?
>Well I can ask JamusN anyway.
>Thanks again for the info, i’d completely
>forgotten about this.

I’m sure he would; and it shouldn’t be terribly dear, as he was quoting $2 per CD plus actual shipping cost. Fair enough, indeed!

There’s been some talk on their mailing list of someone at their school posting the MP3s to a website, and if that’s the plan, you might save yourself the few dollars & just download at your leisure.

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-482 maca Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:38:57 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-482 Go raibh maith agat a Chionaodh, buíochas as d'eolas!! I think i might get the MP3 CD, that would suit me perfectly. Would they ship internation d'ya think? Well I can ask JamusN anyway. Thanks again for the info, i'd completely forgotten about this. Go raibh maith agat a Chionaodh, buíochas as d’eolas!!
I think i might get the MP3 CD, that would suit me perfectly. Would they ship internation d’ya think? Well I can ask JamusN anyway.
Thanks again for the info, i’d completely forgotten about this.

]]> By: Cionaodh http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-479 Cionaodh Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:43:21 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-479 Fuair mé na DDí PII cúpla lá ó shin . . . 10 standard audio CDs cover the entire book's vocabulary WITH answers. They've got the whole thing in MP3 format available on 1 CD. I bought both formats. E-mail JamusN@aol.com if you'd like to get a set. The readers are well spoken. I don't detect a pronunciation bias toward any particular dialect, so the readers probably didn'y grow up with Irish, but it's certainly good enough for most learners. Students can go to the Gaeltacht and put a bit of "blas" into their Irish once they've mastered this stuff. I've only listened to a few lessons thus far (a sampling from the beginning, middle & end of the book). Most of the recordings evidently began life on a cassette tape (the earlier lessons aren't terribly crisp audio). The later lessons (with a different speaker) are clearer. All of them have a slight echoey quality which may (I hope) have more to do with my cheap earphone. I might sample of of this into my computer and see if software can sharpen things a bit. All in all, a big "maith sibh" to the Gerry Tobin "Scoil Ghaeilge" (http://www.scoilgailge.org) for completing this huge project, especially Séamas Ó Neachtain who brought it to fruition. Fuair mé na DDí PII cúpla lá ó shin . . .

10 standard audio CDs cover the entire book’s vocabulary WITH answers. They’ve got the whole thing in MP3 format available on 1 CD. I bought both formats. E-mail JamusN@aol.com if you’d like to get a set.

The readers are well spoken. I don’t detect a pronunciation bias toward any particular dialect, so the readers probably didn’y grow up with Irish, but it’s certainly good enough for most learners. Students can go to the Gaeltacht and put a bit of “blas” into their Irish once they’ve mastered this stuff.

I’ve only listened to a few lessons thus far (a sampling from the beginning, middle & end of the book). Most of the recordings evidently began life on a cassette tape (the earlier lessons aren’t terribly crisp audio). The later lessons (with a different speaker) are clearer. All of them have a slight echoey quality which may (I hope) have more to do with my cheap earphone. I might sample of of this into my computer and see if software can sharpen things a bit.

All in all, a big “maith sibh” to the Gerry Tobin “Scoil Ghaeilge” (http://www.scoilgailge.org) for completing this huge project, especially Séamas Ó Neachtain who brought it to fruition.

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-310 maca Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:23:57 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-310 Excellent, i'll be watching! GRMA a Chionaodh! Excellent, i’ll be watching! GRMA a Chionaodh!

]]> By: Cionaodh http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-309 Cionaodh Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:58 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-309 >>I must ask how to get a hold of the CD … >>do they plan to sell it d’ya know? They do; Séamas estimates it'll be 12 audio CDs at $2.00 each (I imagine this doesn't include shipping costs). I've offered to MP3 them for him, so as to reduce the overall number of CDs for folks with less money to burn. Stay tuned to their mailing list for updates. Le meas, Cionaodh >>I must ask how to get a hold of the CD …
>>do they plan to sell it d’ya know?

They do; Séamas estimates it’ll be 12 audio CDs at $2.00 each (I imagine this doesn’t include shipping costs). I’ve offered to MP3 them for him, so as to reduce the overall number of CDs for folks with less money to burn. Stay tuned to their mailing list for updates.

Le meas,
Cionaodh

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-291 maca Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:59:47 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-291 Go raibh maith a Chionaodh! Thanks for letting me know, but I have already subscribed and read the mail a short while ago :) I must ask how to get a hold of the CD ... do they plan to sell it d'ya know? Go raibh maith a Chionaodh! Thanks for letting me know, but I have already subscribed and read the mail a short while ago :)
I must ask how to get a hold of the CD … do they plan to sell it d’ya know?

]]> By: Cionaodh http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-290 Cionaodh Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:36:50 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=499#comment-290 Overheard on the Scoil Ghaeilge mailing list: >>I finished last night editting all the recordings >>that Raymond made. They will all be on CD soon, >>God willing, and now I am ready to do the >>remaining lessons. >> >>le meas, >>Séamas >>www.scoilgaeilge.org (In case you're not already subscribing.) ;-) Overheard on the Scoil Ghaeilge mailing list:

>>I finished last night editting all the recordings
>>that Raymond made. They will all be on CD soon,
>>God willing, and now I am ready to do the
>>remaining lessons.
>>
>>le meas,
>>Séamas
>>www.scoilgaeilge.org

(In case you’re not already subscribing.)

;-)

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