Since a few MacHosers showed some interest in learning a bit more of Jamie's native
      tongue, here are a few sentences to start practicing. Be forewarned that this teacher is still
      learning too. Actually, this teacher is still on the beginning of a Teach Yourself Gaelic book...

      In Italics I've put the pronunciation, and under each translation there's a link pointing to a
      small wav file where you can hear the actual words. If you have a sound card, this worked
      okay in IE and Netscape. Depending on the configuration of your browser it will play
      automatically, open a small play window where you can press the play button to listen to it,
      or finally (I hope!) prompt you to open the file or save it to your Hard Drive. If this is the
      case, you can open the file. If you're worried, there's no way this can have a virus. It's only a
      sound file. Sorry, Ladies with Macs! I don't know how to do the sound files for you!

      So starting from the very beginning, we'll have a greetings lesson. Always pays to be polite...
      If you get your Outlanders, you'll see in Chapter 24, Section 3, that Jamie greets Cobhar,
      Collum's bay horse, just like this... And BTW, Cobhar (Koh-wahr) means foam, froth.

      This is how you'd address one person, if you're familiar with him/her:

      Hallo! Ciamar a tha thu?
      Hah-LLOH! Ke-ah-MAHR ah hah huh
      Hello! How are you?
      Ciamar a tha thu

      Tha gu math, tapadh leat.
      Hah guh mah, TA-hpah lehaht.
      I'm well, thank you.
      Tha gu math tapadh leat

      Ciamar a tha thu fhèin?
      Ke-ah-MAHR ah hah huh eyen?
      How are you yourself?
      Ciamar a tha thu fhein

      And this is how you'd address more than one person, or someone with whom you'd be
      more formal:

      Ciamar a tha sibh?
      Ke-ah-MAHR ah hah shev?
      How are you?
      Ciamar a tha sibh

      Tha gu math, tapadh leibh.
      Hah guh mah, TA-hpah lehev.
      I'm well, thank you.
      Tha gu math tapadh leibh

      Thanks to Lady Valerie for christening these lessons(!) and for providing me with a verra
      useful pronunciation guide.

      Sound extracts were taken from Teach Yourself Gaelic (Book and Tapes), by Boyd
      Robertson and Iain Taylor, Copyright 1993 Boyd Robertson and Iain Taylor. Great book,
      and you can get if from Amazon.
 

      Rita