Dialogue Development
Confidence in Conversation
Comas Labhairt
Love Gaelic has created these Dialogue Development Courses to meet the needs of students to become more confident with everyday conversations. As many want to learn to speak Gaelic as a priority but often do not have the opportunity to do so, these courses will give you the platform to do just that.
The delivery of these courses has continuously developed and has become a cornerstone of their learning on which they can further build vocabulary and grammar. It is evident that you can be taught to master a certain level of fluency at any level, as long as you solely focus on the correct application of your skills and knowledge at that specific level, through a combination of correct grammar use, pronunciation and reading skills (emphasis and breathing breaks). With this solid foundation, you will always have something to fall back on once you move up a learner level, without knocking your confidence in conversation settings.
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Post-Beginner
1-1 Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Post-Beginner Gaelic Learners who want to develop their conversation
(on the spot thinking) and dialogue writing skills. It includes the use of basic grammar covered in the
Cùrsa Ro-ìre (use of To Be, Verbal Noun, Can, Prefer, Like) and vocabulary building relating to the 8 practical topics. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation and fallback
for further dialogue development at higher levels.
Post-Beginner Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
8 x half-hour lessons (max 8 weeks)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately here.
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Resources
What you get
Online resources and soundfile downloads.
e-mail support
Online Reward:
Badge with access to a lesson sample of the Regular /Irregular Verb Use & Dialogue Drills at Intermediate Level Course
Admission Requirements
Fully booked until March 2024.
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Waiting lists for March 2024 are open on the events' page.
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Updates are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Completion of our
- Cùrsa Ro-ìre (Self-study)
and
- Cùrsa Còmhraidh (Luchd-tòiseachaidh)
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You have fully mastered the use of the verb to be, like, can, prefer, word inversion, sentence construction.
Post Beginner
Group Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Post-Beginner Gaelic Learners who want to develop their (formal and informal) conversation (on the spot thinking) and dialogue writing skills. It includes the use of basic grammar covered in the Cùrsa Ro-ìre (use of To Be, Verbal Noun, Can, Prefer, Like) and vocabulary building relating to the 8 practical topics. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation and fallback for further dialogue development at higher levels.
Post-Beginner Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
Resources
What you get
Online resources and soundfile downloads.
e-mail support
Online Reward:
Badge with access to a lesson sample of the Regular /Irregular Verb Use & Dialogue Drills at Intermediate Level Course
Admission Requirements
​Waiting lists for 2024 are open on the events' page.
​
Updates are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Completion of our
- Cùrsa Ro-ìre (Self-study)
and
- Cùrsa Còmhraidh (Luchd-tòiseachaidh)
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You have fully mastered the use of the verb to be, like, can, prefer, word inversion, sentence construction.
INTERMEDIATE DIALOGUE DEVELOPMENT
1-1 Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Intermediate Gaelic Learners who want to develop their conversation
(on the spot thinking), dialogue & writing skills. It focuses primarily on re-enforcing the use of
regular verbs in past and future tense and excludes the use of regular/irregular verbs in conditional or passive tenses. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation and fall-back for further dialogue development at an advanced level.
Intermediate Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
8 x half-hour lessons (max 8 weeks)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately here.
​
Admission to the course requires:
You have fully mastered the use of regular and irregular verbs in past and future tense, word inversion and prepositional pronouns.
Resources
What you get
e-mail support
Online resources and Soundfile downloads.
Student course handbook to be purchased separately
Online Reward:
Badge with access to a lesson sample of the
Advanced Dialogue Development Course
Admission Requirements
​Waiting lists for 2024 are open on the events' page.
​
Updates are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Interview for new students with evidence of 2 year taught study at intermediate level with university/college & near fluent reading/conversation ability at intermediate level.
OR
Successful completion of the taught
Uibhist Intermediate Booster Course.
OR
Ùlpan 48 (Love Gaelic students only)
INTERMEDIATE DIALOGUE DEVELOPMENT
Group Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Intermediate Gaelic Learners who want to develop their conversation (on the spot thinking), dialogue & writing skills. It focuses primarily on re-enforcing the use of regular verbs in past and future tense and excludes the use of regular/irregular verbs in conditional or passive tenses. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation and fall-back for further dialogue development at an advanced level.
Intermediate Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
8 x 1 hour lessons (max 8 weeks)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately here.
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Admission to the course requires:
You have fully mastered the use of regular and irregular verbs in past and future tense, word inversion and prepositional pronouns.
Resources
What you get
e-mail support
Online resources and Soundfile downloads.
Student course handbook to be purchased separately
Online Reward:
Badge with access to a lesson sample of the
Advanced Dialogue Development Course
Admission Requirements
​Waiting lists for 2024 are open on the events' page.
​
Course dates and availability are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Interview for new students with evidence of 2 year taught study at intermediate level with university/college & near fluent reading/conversation ability at intermediate level.
OR
Successful completion of the taught
Uibhist Intermediate Booster Course.
OR
Ùlpan 48 (Love Gaelic students only)
ADVANCED DIALOGUE DEVELOPMENT
1-1 Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Advanced Gaelic Learners who want to develop their conversation (on the spot thinking), dialogue & writing skills. It focuses primarily on re-enforcing the use of irregular verbs in past, future, conditional and passive tenses and more complicated sentence structures. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation in order to work on group debating skills development at the alumni post-advanced level.
Advanced Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
8 x half-hour lessons (max 8 weeks)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately here.
​
Admission to the course requires:
You have fully mastered the use of regular and irregular verbs in conditional and passive tense and genitive.
Resources
What you get
e-mail support
Online resources and Soundfile downloads (Native speaker & learner centred)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately
Online Reward:
Badge with access to an Irregular Verbs Translation Workout in Past and Future Tense.
Admission Requirements
​Waiting lists for 2024 are open on the events' page.
​
Course dates and availability are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Interview for new students with evidence of 2 year taught study at advanced level with university/college & near fluent reading/conversation ability at advanced level.
OR
Successful completion of the taught
Islay Advanced Booster Course
OR
Ùlpan 144 (Love Gaelic students only)
ADVANCED DIALOGUE DEVELOPMENT
Group Tuition
These 8 lessons are aimed at Advanced Gaelic Learners who want to develop their conversation (on the spot thinking), dialogue & writing skills. It focuses primarily on re-enforcing the use of irregular verbs in past, future, conditional and passive tenses and more complicated sentence structures. Apart from working on pronunciation, you will build a solid foundation in order to work on group debating skills development at the alumni post-advanced level.
Advanced Dialogue
Cost £240 + Book
(certificate included)
8 x half-hour lessons (max 8 weeks)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately here.
​
Admission to the course requires:
You have fully mastered the use of regular and irregular verbs in conditional and passive tense and genitive.
Resources
What you get
e-mail support
Online resources and Soundfile downloads (Native speaker & learner centred)
Student course handbook to be purchased separately
Online Reward:
Badge with access to an Irregular Verbs Translation Workout in Past and Future Tense.
Admission Requirements
​Waiting lists for 2024 are open on the events' page.
​
Course dates and availability are posted on the upcoming courses page.
Entry requirements:
Interview for new students with evidence of 2 year taught study at advanced level with university/college & near fluent reading/conversation ability at advanced level.
OR
Successful completion of the taught
Islay Advanced Booster Course
OR
Ùlpan 144 (Love Gaelic students only)
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