In my search to try to learn Scottish Gaelic I’ve come across lots and lots of sites that have pages and pages of rules, pronunciation tips, and some even have the odd audio clip to listen to which is incredibly helpful.

But I still think it will be very hard to learn this way.  Most of the time there are only individual words on these pages, and sometimes short phrases as examples, but unless a specific phrase that I’m looking for just happens to be in their list I’m out of luck.

So we’ve been thinking about taking the Rosetta Stone Irish Gaelic course – I’ve heard so many awesome things about Rosetta Stone, and I’ve also heard once you learn Irish Gaelic you’ll be able to get the gist of Scottish Gaelic, that they’re similar but not the same.

Opinions?  Anyone out there speak Scottish Gaelic and have some ideas for me?  I live in the middle of nowhere so I’m pretty sure there are no in-person classes.  And besides, I took French in school for 7 years and always got A’s, but still could not create very many simple sentences, certainly couldn’t hold a conversation, so I want to stay away from that style of teaching/learning anyways.

Either way, I’m going to figure this out!