Everyday Gaelic Online Language Sessions
Our Instructor is Sìne Màiri MacDougall from Nova Scotia, Canada
Winter Session 1 will be JAN 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2022:
Beginner/Intermediate Level - Saturdays, 9-11 a.m. (10 space available)
Intermediate/Advanced Level - Saturdays at 12-2 p.m. (10 spaces available)
Classes will continue from where the fall session left off.
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
Future sessions:
Winter Session 2 dates will be FEB 26, MAR 5, 12, 19, 26
Spring Session dates will be APR 9, 23, 30, MAY 7, 14
Scroll down for class content information and to register for the Winter 1 Session.
Winter Session 1 will be JAN 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2022:
Beginner/Intermediate Level - Saturdays, 9-11 a.m. (10 space available)
Intermediate/Advanced Level - Saturdays at 12-2 p.m. (10 spaces available)
Classes will continue from where the fall session left off.
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
Future sessions:
Winter Session 2 dates will be FEB 26, MAR 5, 12, 19, 26
Spring Session dates will be APR 9, 23, 30, MAY 7, 14
Scroll down for class content information and to register for the Winter 1 Session.
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About the Instructor 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. |
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Beginner/Intermediate Level
Intermediate/Advanced Level
For any questions, email us at gaelictoronto@gmail.com
- Basic conversation: important verbs in present and past tenses and situational vocabulary building.
- 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.
- Social language. The things we say when we meet each other.
- Talking about the body and the possessive form mo/do.
- 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.
- 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.
Intermediate/Advanced Level
- Playing with language: more verbs, idioms and proverbs, future and conditional tenses. Topics to be tailored to group interests
- 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 your 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.
- Topics in current affairs. Things making the news in Canada /UK / internationally.
For any questions, email us at gaelictoronto@gmail.com
