Gaeilge for Parents and Families
Gaeilge Gach Lá at home
* Gaeilge with your family
It’s hard, but hugely respectable, if you’re thinking about introducing some more Irish language into your family life. At Bitesize Irish, we value your ambitions very highly.
Check out Ben and Siobhán from Bitesize Irish’s live Q&A HERE and hear them discuss the challenges that parents can face when trying to introduce more Irish language into daily family life. Get advice on helpful resources and strategies to help you to achieve your goals, whether big or small!
Bitesize cúrsaí: online irish language courses
Equip yourself with just enough Gaeilge, and you’ll see many opportunities for adding the Irish language into your every day family life. If you’ve had Gaeilge at school, you’re lucky to have a base of the Irish language that you might not yet appreciate.
Bitesize Cúrsaí are our online Irish language lessons to take at your own pace. You’ll cover many topics that apply to everyday life, from comparing items, counting, and asking questions.
If you become a member, you'll learn from these courses:
Pronunciation
- Crack Irish Pronunciation: includes videos, practice sheets and pronunciation resources
- Introduction: Pronunciation with a focus on vowels and vowel groupings
Cairde & Clann
- Talk about your house, family and friends
- Focus on verbs and sentence structure
- Course on everyday phrases includes: Love And Terms Of Endearment, expressing shock or dismay, teach your kids polite phrases like excuse me, please & thank you.
Irish language conversation skills
Vocabulary Building
- Telling the time & date, talking about age and numbers
- Directions, buildings, health & body parts, clothing, making conversation in a shop all in this course
- Work & the weather
- In the house (rooms, asking someone where they are in the house)
* All those topics above are covered in Bitesize Cúrsaí online courses, available to all Bitesize Irish members.