Everyday Gaelic Online Language Sessions
Winter Session Dates: Session 1 - January 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 13; Session 2 - Feb 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27.
Classes will run online for 5-week sessions, on Saturdays for 2 hours per class
Online classroom links will be sent prior to the class.
Dates: Session 1 - January 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 13; Session 2 - Feb 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27
Times:
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
Membership is $15/individual and $25/family. Membership funds support our efforts to provide opportunities for Gaelic culture and language education. Purchase
membership by clicking here: Become a Member
Payment in full for a class that does not run will be refunded in full. For alternate payment arrangements, please email us at The Gaelic Society of Toronto
Scroll down for class content information and to register.
Classes will run online for 5-week sessions, on Saturdays for 2 hours per class
Online classroom links will be sent prior to the class.
Dates: Session 1 - January 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 13; Session 2 - Feb 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27
Times:
- Level 1 class 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- Level 2 class 10 a.m. to 12 noon
- Level 3 class 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
Membership is $15/individual and $25/family. Membership funds support our efforts to provide opportunities for Gaelic culture and language education. Purchase
membership by clicking here: Become a Member
Payment in full for a class that does not run will be refunded in full. For alternate payment arrangements, please email us at The Gaelic Society of Toronto
Scroll down for class content information and to register.
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About the Instructors Archie Campbell: Archie was born and raised and lives on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. Gaelic is his main language. He studied Gaelic through his school years on into college at Glasgow University. He started tutoring Gaelic almost thirty years ago. Archie is an instructor with Atlantic Gaelic Academy and also has a busy tutoring schedule. He enjoys watching his students progress with the language. As Archie puts it, “My Gaelic has provided me with fellowship, income, and has taken me places.” Jason Bond: Jason is from Kennebunkport, Maine USA. He earned a BA in Celtic Studies (First Class Honors) as well as a Bachelors of Education at St. FX University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Jason taught for 5 years in the Scottish public school system on Islay and has been teaching for the University of Dundee since 2018. Jason also teaches online via his website "Gaelic with Jason" and his the author of numerous Gaelic language YouTube videos and two Gaelic language books for learners "Ròna agus MacCodruim" and "Deirdre agus an Rìgh". Level 1 instructor is Jason Bond Level 2 & 3 Instructor is Archie Campbell |
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
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
Level 2
- Review and consolidation of material in Level 1.
- 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.
Level 3
- 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
