What you’ll be able to do
Dialogue-based lessons build your vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar, so you can start putting your own sentences together.
Meet people
Introduce yourself, say where you’re from and where you live, and talk about your family.
Places and plans
Talk about places in town, where you’re going and your holidays.
Everyday life
Say what you like and prefer, tell the time, and talk about health, clothes and people.
Past and future
Ask why, and start talking about what happened and what’s going to happen.
Presented by Susanna
Susanna presents the course, and Mark takes on the role of the learner: his questions are often the ones you’d ask too, and Susanna explains how Gaelic works as they go.
The idea is that you understand how Gaelic fits together, so you can build useful sentences of your own.
Inside every lesson
All 40 lessons follow the same shape, so you always know what to do next, and each one has a bonus episode to help it stick.
What’s included
Pay once and it’s yours for life, at your own pace.
- 40 main lessons In video and audio.
- 40 bonus episodes One after every lesson, to consolidate.
- Downloadable lesson notes For every lesson.
- Quizzes To check your understanding.
- Downloads Take the audio and notes offline.
- Lifetime access One payment, no subscription.
Video
The video lesson
Susanna and Mark work through a dialogue and the language in it.
Audio
The audio lesson
Listen to the same lesson as audio, and download the lesson notes.
Bonus
Bonus episode
After every lesson, a consolidation episode with its own notes helps what you’ve learned stick.
Quiz
Quizzes
Check your understanding as you go.
The 40 lessons
The lessons build up to a tour of Scotland, with a review at the end of each of the first three parts.
Part 1 · Lessons 1 to 10
Meeting people
Introduce yourself, say where you’re from and where you live, talk about your family, count to 10, say when you don’t understand and talk about the weather.
- 1Meeting people
- 2Introducing yourself
- 3Where you’re from
- 4Where you live
- 5Introducing your family
- 6Numbers 1–10
- 7Talking about language
- 8Language difficulties
- 9Talking about the weather
- 10End-of-unit review
Part 2 · Lessons 11 to 20
Places and plans
Find places in town, say where you’re going, talk about holidays and jobs, say what you’re doing and offer someone a drink.
- 11Places in town
- 12Asking where things are
- 13Asking “Where are you going?”
- 14Talking about destinations
- 15Talking about holidays
- 16Describing locations
- 17What’s your job?
- 18What are you doing?
- 19Offering drinks in Gaelic
- 20End-of-unit review
Part 3 · Lessons 21 to 30
Everyday life
Say what you like and prefer, tell the time, talk about health, clothes and colours, describe people, and start using the past and the future.
- 21Talking about likes and dislikes
- 22Saying what you prefer in Gaelic
- 23Telling the time in Gaelic
- 24The body and health
- 25Clothes and colours
- 26Describing people in Gaelic
- 27How to ask ‘Why?’
- 28Talking about the past in Gaelic
- 29Talking about the future in Gaelic
- 30Review
Part 4 · Lessons 31 to 40
A tour of Scotland
Tour Scotland from Glasgow and Loch Lomond through Oban, Mull, Skye and the Western Isles to Stornoway.
- 31Glasgow
- 32Loch Lomond
- 33Oban
- 34The Isle of Mull
- 35Iona & Staffa
- 36The Isle of Skye
- 37North Uist & Berneray
- 38The Isle of Harris
- 39The Isle of Lewis
- 40Stornoway
From learners on the course
“This is a brilliant course. I’m loving it. Clear and beautifully put together so that we can now start to rearrange the building blocks to construct useful sentences. I’ve never enjoyed learning a language so much before. Thank you!”
“I loved the beginner course of 40 lessons. And I would sign up for a subsequent level at the drop of a hat if there were one.”
“I absolutely loved this course I have done it twice through now and also listened to the audio even more whilst driving. I am a big fan of Coffee Break platform and used it to improve my Spanish and German. I would be soo keen for season 2 and beyond in Gaelic.”
Questions
Is this Scottish Gaelic or Irish?
Scottish Gaelic, the Gaelic spoken in Scotland.
Do I need any Gaelic to start?
No. Level 1 is for complete beginners and starts from your very first words. If you’d like a taste first, First Steps is a short free course.
What’s a bonus episode?
After every lesson there’s a short consolidation episode, with its own notes, to help what you’ve just learned stick.
Can I download the materials?
Yes. You can download the audio and the lesson notes for offline review.
How long do I have access?
For life. Once you buy the course, it’s yours to keep.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. Start with First Steps, our short free course, and you’ll see how the lessons work before you buy.
Not ready to buy? Start free
First Steps is free. Try a few lessons the Coffee Break way, then carry on into Level 1 when you’re ready.
Coffee Break Gaelic · Level 1
Start speaking Gaelic
All 40 lessons come with video, audio, a bonus episode and lesson notes, so you can work through them at your own pace.
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