How to speak Gaelic - Lesson 3: Useful phrases

I thought we'd carry on from where we left off last time.  Do you remember?

Question:  Ciamar a tha sibh? (How are you?)

Answer: Tha mi gu math, tapadh leibh. (I'm fine, thank you.)

You can hear the exact pronounciation here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section01/lesson1_1.shtml

Well, we've been rather formal with our Gaelic above.  We'd probably normally use the "familiar" version:

Question:  Ciamar a tha thu? (How are you?)

Answer: Tha mi gu math, tapadh leat. (I'm fine, thank you.)

You can hear how these sound here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section01/lesson1_2.shtml

Let's stick with the "beag air bheag" (a nice interactive resource for Gaelic learners provided by the BBC) and learn a couple more really useful phrases:

Halò a (Hello)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section01/lesson1_3.shtml

Tapadh leat (Thank you)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section01/lesson1_4.shtml

Mar sin leat (Goodbye)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section01/lesson1_5.shtml

Dè an t-ainm a th’ oirbh? (What's you name) and Is mise... (My name is...)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/foghlam/beag_air_bheag/section02/lesson2_1.shtml

I think that's enough for now.  Keep practising and I promise we'll do something dynamic Gaelic next time.

Mar sin leat!

Previous lessons:

Lesson 1: The Gaelic alphabet

Lesson 2: All the sounds