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This could be an amazing resource if

1) Learner's use it to actually hear/see native Irish

which leads to 2:

2) They get native and/or highly fluent (near-native) speakers to do it.

There is a mismatch with the first book in that the video starts not at Caibidil a haon but somewhere else.

But yeah, could be great if they do it right

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The audio (click the blue bar with text "Caibidil 1") is 9 minutes and has the first 11 pages (of 15) read by a woman. For the second chapter the audio contains the whole text. Haven't checked the others. The videos of the man are just excerpts.

Can anyone say if the two readers are gaeltacht natives? Which dialect?

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Pages I made:
(These are unfortunately offline for the near future, but they'll be back!)

• Teaching Young Kids Irish (It's just my notes, a work in progress.)
• CD transcript and translations for the book Learning Irish

Caibidil 1: the woman speaks a blend of Munster and Connemara. Apart from that she pronounces quite well (except that she pronounces some of her r's as in English).

VIdeos : the guys speaks Munster Irish. His pronunciation sounds good, native or native-like.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

That's Alan Titley, while his accent and pronunciation is Munster-like, he usually speaks using the standard, rather than using colloquial Munster forms.

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

There's a second book available:
http://leighlinn.com/book/r%C3%BAn-bhon ... in/preview

The video is Mr. Titley again but the audio is someone new, a man. If I could ask again, could someone give an opinion on his accent? Donegal?

(I had a good look, I'm pretty sure no other books are freely available there.)

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Pages I made:
(These are unfortunately offline for the near future, but they'll be back!)

• Teaching Young Kids Irish (It's just my notes, a work in progress.)
• CD transcript and translations for the book Learning Irish

Donegal. Good pronunciation. He says words like 'lórlann' for 'leabharlann' and 'péipear' for 'páipéar', broad 'ch' as h at the end of words etc

Bare in mind tho, that what counts is a) articulation (can you make the sounds) and b) contrast (do you use them in words and grammar to show differences). A is physical and B, cognitive

Anyone could put on an accent yet not make the right contrasts

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