Beginner's Irish with Online Audio by Gabriel Rosenstock

Beginner's Irish with Online Audio by Gabriel Rosenstock

The Irish language, also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaeilge, is spoken today by approximately a million people worldwide. It is also the basis of the Irish literary tradition, which is the oldest in Europe after Greek and Latin. Whether you want to connect to your Irish heritage or carry on a conversation when visiting the Gaeltachtai (small rural pockets in Ireland where Irish is the first language spoken), Beginner’s Irish with Online Audio is the perfect start! Ideal for those new to Irish, learning at home or in the classroom, this guide includes a brief history of the Irish language; 10 carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and expressions; a guide to the Irish alphabet and pronunciation; and online MP3 audio files for free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers. The author uses the medium of poetry to enrich the reader’s study of Irish. Numerous examples from Irish literature and poetry, as well as common proverbs and sayings, help teach vocabulary and grammar in an engaging way. A chapter on Irish names and their origins and another on Geography and Tourism round out this unique guide to learning Irish.

Gabriel Rosenstock, poet, haikuist, playwright, writing in Irish and English, is the author/translator of over 100 books. He is a member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters. He has worked in theatre, radio, television, print journalism and book publishing. Some titles of note include his selected poems (from the Irish) Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman, from Domhan Books, New York; Forgotten Whispers, haiku and senryu (Anam Press, Cork); Signs of Rain: Irish Weather Wisdom (Appletree Press, Belfast); Irish Proverbs: in Irish and English (Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin) and the compilation A Treasury of Irish Love( Hippocrene Books, New York.) Recent volumes of poems in Irish are Syojo (Clo Iar-Chonnachta) and Eachtrai Krishnamurphy (Coisceim). A forthcoming volume of poems in English, Uttering Her Name, consists of love poems in the classical tradition of spiritual longing. A former Chairman of Poetry Ireland/ Eigse Eireann, he is a member of The World Haiku Club and an Hon. Life Member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. He taught haiku at the Schule fur Dichtung (Academy of Poetry), Vienna in 2008. He has translated thousands of haiku and poems into Irish, including the selected poems of Heaney, Grass, Michele Ranchetti, Said, F X Alarcon, J W Hackett, Issa, Shiki, Buson, Santoka, John W. Sexton, Michael Augustin, Hansjorg Schertenleib, Peter Huchel, Georg Heym, Willem M. Roggeman, Andres Ehin, Zhang Ye, Georg Trakl, J P Tammen, Hilde Domin, Michael Kruger Rosenstock has read his poetry and haiku in Ireland, Britain, North, South and Central America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia and India. He contributes a haiku column to the newspaper LA. A new Selected Poems/ Rogha Danta appeared in 2005 from Clo Iar-Chonnachta.

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ISBN 13	9780781813815
ISBN 10	0781813816
Title	Beginner's Irish with Online Audio
Author	Gabriel Rosenstock
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2019-04-18
Number of pages	152
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