Description
Arcos Publishers, 2020. 85 pages.
Gaelic language learner literature
This novel is part of the Arcos Series of Gaelic folk tales for beginning and intermediate language learners. With a limited vocabulary and a strong focus on high frequency verbs and language structures, these short novels make the Scottish Gaelic language and folk tale culture easily accessible to learners. Enjoy reading!
Contains an extended and optimized Gaelic-English glossary. This glossary helps you to understand the story more easily and spend less time looking up words.
Michael –
A companion book to ” Ròna agus MacCodruim ” by the same author. Of a somewhat more accomplished level of a story plot and of language and vocabulary, but still accessible to the ” not quite beginner ” and those of intermediary level. Like in the previous book words and expressions are repeated to allow them to ” sink ” into the memory, but somehow without the story seeming repetitive !
There are as embellishments a few black and white pictures.
There are explanatory notes at the bottom of the pages of the more difficult expressions, with translations.
Also at the back is an extensive glossary including a lot of the words from the text, even the simplest grammatical words in all their forms. However, unlike in the previous book, a lot of words are also missing sometimes elementary ones, sometimes even more difficult words which surely should have been included.
Well worth getting, even for the ” not quite starting ” / intermediary level reader.
I went through the process of ” ignoring ” my Gaelic, and taking the arduous role of checking every word in the glossary, then letting the author and the publisher know about them, for improvements in a potential new edition.
So, due to this ” only ” 4 stars. Still well worth getting, even for the ” not quite starting / intermediary level reader.