if you are offering me the Sabhal Mór intensive correspondence course, my learning is too advanced for that, but for others who don't mind the time and expense, I hear it is good. I don't think Keith presently has ambitions to really learn the language so in this instance both of us are specifically speaking of coaching in pronounciation.

I'm amazed to hear Alisdair Codona is in Ireland. He lived in S Uist for some years and I thought he was still there, teaching music. I know good friends of his in Skye (long-term residents there, not SMO students)so I'll ask them what the news is about Alisdair. He learned Gaelic very well.

I'm living in the Northwest of Ireland. I do get around to various music festivals from time to time (mostly in the north, including Donegal), and make a special effort to attend if I hear of visits from Scottish Gaels ... I haven't come across Alisdair in the past couple of years.