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Thread #48707   Message #734350
Posted By: Haruo
21-Jun-02 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Scots Gaelic lessons
Subject: RE: Scots Gaelic lessons
Halò a lhjc agus Shcabby Dhoug! Tapadh leibh, both of you. The "Beag air bheag" link works okay (though I have to use the slower html version because the flash version runs off the bottom of the page and has no scroll bar) but I get an error message when I try to access any of the archived lessons at the InternetRadio site. The link to lesson 20 at the top of the page, as I mentioned previously, works, but the archived links (including #20) don't work at all. I guess I'll have to email them. BTW, when the man says "Tapadh leibh" there's a strong aspiration before the "p" (I noticed it in some other phrases, too, but most markedly in this one) as though it were spelt "Tachpa leibh". Is this a normal feature of Scottish Gaelic, or of some speakers' or regions' dialects, or is it a matter of the quality of the recording or my speakers, or what?

Líolaind