Learning Irish,
the Right Way.

Listen

Just press PLAY (▶︎) and listen:

• passively while doing something else, or
• actively by imitating the sounds.

The tracks feature native speakers and will play automatically, one after the other.

Tracks taken from LibriVox.

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The sounds of Irish are not the sounds of English.

English is the mother tongue of most Irish learners, so they use English sounds (phonology) when speaking Irish.

This is perfectly natural and expected.

Especially given how Irish is usually taught.

(From a textbook, badly!)

Irish has its own unique sounds, quite apart from English, but most learners do not recognise them.

And if you cannot hear the unique sounds of a language, then you will not make those sounds when you speak it.

The first step to learning Irish, is just listening to its sounds.

How do babies naturally acquire their first language?

By listening and babbling along to the speech they hear!

And this approach will work for adults too, daft as it seems.

So, just listen along and train your ear for Irish.

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