Advice for Learning Irish in 2025
If you’re looking for advice for learning Irish in 2025, look no further! See below for some of our most popular learner articles, which will hopefully provide you with useful language tips for the year ahead.
The goal here is to participate in some way, so that we can keep the online Irish community alive and vibrant. In fact, that’s one of the main reasons why we host our Free Workshop every month. See below for more info, and we look forward to meeting you online in 2025!
Considering our first Irish classes began in 2009, what is our most succinct advice for getting started? See Our Top 5 Tips for Learning Irish for a complete overview of the process, so that you don’t waste valuable time going in the wrong direction. This article, alongside Learn Irish the SMART Way!, can help you form a sustainable plan for language learning in the year head!
If you’re new to learning Irish, it’s likely you have a question or two about where to start and where to go! In fact, there tends to be certain common questions about learning Irish that most learners have at the start of their journey. See this article for our answers to common questions such as the difference between Irish and Gaelic, how long it can take to become fluent, what dialect to choose, and how to get started! See also our FAQ page.
Consistently one of the internet’s most recommended articles, The 12 Best Free Resources for Learning Irish provides readers with a clear list of the sources to support their Irish language progress. Bookmark this list, alongside our Frásaí Simplí and Learning Links, so that you have a list of useful links on hand whenever you need.
When it comes to learning a new language, it helps to know where you’re going and how you might like th language to sound when you speak it. An article such as The Top 50 Irish Words can be inspiring because it provides audio samples of Irish words that are often pleasing to hear and also useful in our studies. Similarly, articles such as Gaeilge sa Bhaile: Irish Phrases to use at Home and What Makes A Great Seanfhocal? are motivating because they provide excellent audio examples of the language we want to speak.
Our new video course, Essential Tools for Learning Irish by Dr. Caoimhín Ó Liatháin, promises to be an vital resource for Irish learners of all levels. This comprehensive course of 15 videos explains how to get the most out of the free online tools available to us all. The course is available 24/7 for all Members, and we’re very excited to share it with you!
Regular language conversation is essential to develop our communication skills. Each week we provide Comhrá sessions, based on our Topaic na Seachtaine. You can join for free as a Course student or as a Member. For January, we have added a new Comhrá session for Beginners, on Wednesdays at 1pm ET, alongside our regular Thursday session at 8pm ET for all levels. Bígí ag caint!
Wednesday:
Comhrá, 1pm ET (beginners)
A1 Beginner, 6:30pm
Thursday:
A2 Elementary, 6:30pm (full)
Comhrá, 8pm (all levels)
Saturday:
A1 Beginner, 12pm
Sunday:
A0 Introductory, 3pm
All times are in ET (New York).
If a course is listed as full, you can still join as a ‘VideoOnly’ student – please contact us for assistance.
Le Teacht/Upcoming
Free Workshop, Sun, Jan 5th, 12-1pm ET – register here.
New term of 7-week online courses begins Jan 6th.
Comhrá sessions begin from Wed, Jan 8th.See topic lists here.
Video courses available 24/7.
Bígí páirteach!
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