Hàlo, is mise Coempa

[Zwalla28]

If you're like me and like to dive right into the grammar, I'd highly recommend taic: http://www.taic.me.uk/
Akerbeltz has great stuff on pronunciation.

Those two coupled with a Gael friend I made a few months ago have gotten me to an unaided-novel-reading and fairly conversational level in about a year.
Gur math thèid leat!

[coempa]

Thanks for the suggestion mate, but truth be told, I actually found out about taic.me.uk this morning and I've gotten to lesson 6 today in between studying biology and chemistry.
I hope to meet some conversational partners whom I can chat with on skype, or something along those lines. Experience has shown that the only way to get attuned to a language is to speak to other people.

[GunChleoc]

Fàilte (caran anmoch) bhuamsa cuideachd!

Yes, the TAIC site will definitely be one for you. to use some grammar speak: Gaelic has dependency marking, that means that verbs have 3 forms:

- Independent: Used when the sentence starts with the verb
- Relative: Used when thre is a relative pronoun in front of the verb (identical with the independent form except in the future tense)
- Dependant: Used when there is something else in front of the verb

You then of course have tense stuff etc.

Reference lists of verbforms here: http://www.foramnagaidhlig.net/index.php?sid=&page=142

[coempa]

Tapadh leibh, a GhunChleoic.
I wanted to dive straight into the grammar, to actually try and understand the structure, before indulging myself with the spoken language. Even though the 'Learning our Language' series on Youtube is useful for getting to know the intonation, it's still essentially just a list of useful phrases, beefed up with some acting and shots of Glasgow Castle.

[GunChleoc]

I thought you might, since you're a Latin scholar. Just make sure you get a basic understanding of how the sound system works, because otherwise you won't understand the spelling. This actually does tie into the gammar - lention and slenderaization are your keywords.

[coempa]

Lenition is still a bit tricky, lots of rules to memorize. There's a lot of 'If x then y', more so than any other language I know of.

[GunChleoc]

What I did at the beginning was to read all of them to get an overview, and only as a second step did I learn them one by one.