Everyday Gaelic Online Language Sessions
Level 1 instructor is Jason Bond from Maine, USA
Level 3 Instructor is Nathaniel Harrington from Ontario, Canada
Fall Session Dates TBA:
Level 1 -
Level 2 -
Level 3 -
Class size: Maximum 10 people
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
*Note - 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 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
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Level 3 Instructor is Nathaniel Harrington from Ontario, Canada
Fall Session Dates TBA:
Level 1 -
Level 2 -
Level 3 -
Class size: Maximum 10 people
Cost per session: $60 Member; $70 Non-Member
*Note - 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 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 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". Nathaniel Harrington: Nathaniel is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on fantasy and science fiction in Gaelic and English, and he also holds a Certificate of Higher Education in Gaelic and Communication from Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. He's originally from Boston but has been living in Toronto since 2015. Tha Nathaniel Harrington na oileanach Ph.D. ann an litreachas coimeasach aig Oilthigh Thoronto. Tha a chuid rannsachaidh stèidhichte air fantasachd is ficsean-saidheans ann an Gàidhlig is Beurla, agus tha Teisteanas Foghlaim Àrd-ìre ann an Gàidhlig is Conaltradh o Shabhal Mòr Ostaig aige cuideachd. ’S ann à Boston a tha e bho thùs, ach tha e air a bhith a’ fuireach ann an Toronto bho chionn 2015. |
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Level 1
Level 1B
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 1B
- 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
