Recommended Books

Laurenpedro

I'm trying to improve my Irish and I want to read as much as possible. I've started reading some basic novels (from the local Gaelscoil bunscoil) but I find its taking me a huge amount of time because I end up looking up the dictionary and by the time I find the word and then I see other words in the dictionary that I want to learn as well etc etc. All well and good for the learning experience but I would like to be able to finish a book at some point and I find that looking up the dictionary distracts me from the storyline :rolleyes:

This is probably a long shot but are there any books that already have the translation (eg. at the back or on another page). In that way I can read through the Irish and then quickly look at any words that I don't know.

Go raibh mile maith agaibh.
Roc

Míshásta

http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Padraic-Pearse-Dual-Language/dp/0853428832

GaryOR

Sílim go mbeadh a fhios ag Gael faoina leabhair is fearr dhuitse.
Bíonn a lán acu ar an suíomh seo thíos:

I think Gael would know about the best books for ya
A lot of them are available on the website below.

http://www.litriocht.com

GaryOR

Seo dhuit:

http://www.litriocht.com/shop/advanced_search_result.php?search_in_description=1&inc_subcat=1&keywords=%DArsc%E9al+don+Fhoghlaimeoir+&categories_id=&manufacturers_id=&osCsid=d3c3ee77917981c7efba1f42bcf03b84&x=10&y=6

Roc = Rock of Cashel?

Gael

Laurenpedro wrote:

This is probably a long shot but are there any books that already have the translation (eg. at the back or on another page). In that way I can read through the Irish and then quickly look at any words that I don't know.

Go raibh mile maith agaibh.
Roc

The books given by Gary above at litriocht.com have extensive vocabularies on each page of the various Irish words in English. They're probably your best bet.

Laurenpedro

Ta an eolas seo go h-iontach. Go raibh mile maith agaibh agus go n-eiri on bothar libh. Slan.