Everyday Gaelic Online Language Sessions
Our Instructors are Sìne Màiri MacDougall from Nova Scotia, Canada, and Dr. Jamie MacDonald from North Carolina, USA.
Spring Session dates will be APR 9, 23, 30, MAY 7, 14:
Beginner Level - Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (8 spots remaining)
Intermediate (Continuation from Winter 2) Level - Saturdays, 9-11 a.m. (6 spots remaining)
Intermediate/Advanced Level - Saturdays at 1-3 p.m. (6 spots remaining)
(All times EDT)
Class size: Maximum 10 people
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
To register at Member prices, you must be a current paid up member of Comunn Gàidhlig Thoronto at time of registration.
Purchase a membership by clicking here: Become a Member
Payment for a class that does not run will be refunded in full.
For alternate payment arrangements, please email us
Future sessions:
Fall 2022 TBA
Scroll down for class content information and to register for the Spring Session.
Spring Session dates will be APR 9, 23, 30, MAY 7, 14:
Beginner Level - Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (8 spots remaining)
Intermediate (Continuation from Winter 2) Level - Saturdays, 9-11 a.m. (6 spots remaining)
Intermediate/Advanced Level - Saturdays at 1-3 p.m. (6 spots remaining)
(All times EDT)
Class size: Maximum 10 people
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
To register at Member prices, you must be a current paid up member of Comunn Gàidhlig Thoronto at time of registration.
Purchase a membership by clicking here: Become a Member
Payment for a class that does not run will be refunded in full.
For alternate payment arrangements, please email us
Future sessions:
Fall 2022 TBA
Scroll down for class content information and to register for the Spring Session.
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About the Instructors Sìne Màiri MacDougall: Sìne Màiri (BA Hons. Celtic Studies, B.Ed) grew up in the NS Gaidhealtachd. A mainlander, she hails from Antigonish County. She's taught and tutored Gaelic for the past 15 years throughout NS, and Scotland. A member of the NS Ecumenical Gaelic Choir, she loves to share song and story. Dr. Jamie MacDonald: Jamie is a North Carolina native, a descendant of the original Highland Scottish settlers that immigrated to the Cape Fear River Valley in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His education includes a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Scottish Studies and a degree in Gaelic and Related Studies from Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college in Skye. Dr. MacDonald taught Celtic Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and has tutored many Gaelic learners individually. In addition, he has published a number of Gaelic learning materials and books. Jamie is the founder of the yearly Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Language and Song Week and the North Carolina Provincial Gaelic Mòd. He was co-founder of the US National Mòd as well. Dr. MacDonald has served on the board of directors for the Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia, the Antigonish Highland Society, and the Highland Village Museum in Iona, Cape Breton. |
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Beginner
Intermediate (Continuation)
Intermediate/Advanced
For any questions, email us at gaelictoronto@gmail.com
- The verb ‘to be’ ‘tha’ and ‘s e ‘ forms
- Talking about yourself. Where you were born and raised.
- Talking about where you live. The vocabulary of the home, one’s surroundings, town and country.
- Food and drinks. Likes and dislikes.
- Talking about things you have using agam, agad and so on.
- Talking about the weather. The days of the week. markers of time..... today, yesterday, tomorrow, in the morning, in the evening.
- Talking about the body and the possessive form mo/do.
- Counting 1-20
Intermediate (Continuation)
- Review and consolidation of beginner materials.
- Expanding on likes and dislikes to include things you like to do, and things you don’t like to do.
- Talking more about the place where you live. The things you like and perhaps dislike about it.
- Social language. The things we say when we meet each other.
- Talking about short-term future actions using present tense structures..... Càit a bheil thu a’ dol / dè a tha thu a’ dol a dhèanamh ? / a bheil thu a’ dol ?
- Talking in a little more depth about your educational experiences in school and beyond. Things you liked and didn’t like, and the choices you made.
- Completed actions in the past tense.
Intermediate/Advanced
- Consolidation and review of previous levels. This is necessary for the speedy recall of words and how to say something.
- Talking about things you did in the past. Introducing the idiomatic use of the prepositional pronoun ‘dhomh’ .... b’àbhaist dhomh....I used to . Also the use of conditional ‘bhiodh’ to talk about habitual action in the past. Talking about things you did in you youth.....the things you did and the places you’d go to.
- Use of ‘feumaidh’ and ‘faodaidh’ The things you must and may do. Asking why, where, when, or by whom something must or may be done.
- Asking questions in the future tense
- Use of materials from learnGaelic.net. Transcripts of interviews, Litir do Luchd-Ionnsachaidh, a short story.
- Use of conditional. Things which might be/how would it be if ? / what would you do if? / If you could /
- Topics in current affairs. Things making the news in Canada /UK / internationally .
For any questions, email us at gaelictoronto@gmail.com
