Jason, I cannot thank you enough for gifting us with your knowledge and keeping what is unfortunately a dying language alive and accessible to the public. I was myself born and raised in Scotland - not a word of gaelic was spoken, and after years of living in new countries I saw so many languages fading into the obscurity of the shadow of the English language. Since then, I have made it a priority to learn the language of my own ancestors to keep our culture alive and you have selflessly and gracefully opened up this opportunity for people like myself. Thankyou, sincerely, for all that you do

Lol I yelled to my cat “Ciamar a tha thu Salem!!” And he came running lol

No one, absolutely no one at the survival 101 course: Jason: do not use Gaelic on a hike, you will attract bears, snakes and big cats. Wild animals love Gaelic!

You had me at pets and wild animals love Gaelic!

Jason you are a great teacher. You have the knack and the ability to communicate on all levels, with that dash of humor thrown in for good measure. I visit Sout Uist a lot and these videos are helping me tremendously to pick up the mother tongue even quicker. And I agree, thinking in picures, visually, accerelerates the process of assimilation much faster.

Hi, I discovered your channel a few days ago. Till now, i thought it was easier to learn russian than gaelic! But now, with your lessons I find hope again! And I believe that gaelic can be learned! Thanks a lot! You're very pedagogue ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It's so interesting to realize the connections between French and Gaelic! In French, you say Tu (easy connection with thu! ) when it's informal, and Vous (sibh) when it's formal. And there are feminine and masculine nouns also! It's a real pleasure to learn with you Jason!

Thu it is very similar to "tu" in french, for your friends, family, relatives and we have "vous" which is used for pluriel when we talk to several peoples at the time, or older person, or your boss, or to someone we don't know. And it is exactly the same thing in german "du" und "Sie"... So great ! I love your class. continuez ! de France

When you said Calum has Iron Brew and I got it...magic! There is nothing better than an "Aha" moment. Jason, I got here through watching Bruce Fummey videos. Thank you so much for the wonderful job of touching our minds!

I really enjoy this channel. You teach in such a fun and helpful way that makes it very easy to understand and grasp.

I'm learning Gaelic at uni and just wanted to have some spoken Gaelic to listen to to keep my mind going and your video was the first result and can I just say OMG YOUR SHIRT I LOVE IT

I watched this after a 13+hour day at the post office. Tha mi glè sgìth! 🥱😴

First, my daughtr listens to Eluveitie, 2nd you are the Bob Ross of learning gaelic. Love it!

I've watched just a few videos with your instruction and am using statements that I'm able to remember and actually understand just within the last 24 hours of beginning. I don't feel overwhelmed or even self-conscious in doing so. The way you're teaching and relating concepts is exceptional. It's *sticking*!

Jason you are great teacher. I do and redo your classes everyday. Love it.

I'm thinking you must have spent time amongst the native speakers? As a native speaker I am very impressed. Sgoinneil ! I love that you are teaching our language in such a brilliant way, glad that hopefully it will stay alive !

Hello Jason, I appreciate your work. I can now begin to learn the language of my ancestors, please keep posting.

Gaelic is easier than learning French only loving how I can already practice some of the words around the house

You’re such an amazing teacher! :) such a calming soul!! Thank you

Brilliant!

Thoroughly great work Jason - very easy to understand in both the way its written and presented. All the best - Master Brian MacGregor.

I will be reviewing all these videos until I get my new computer ....up and running....Thank you so much

I just wanna say tapadh leibh for all your lessons - you're by far the richest resource for gaidhlig learning online!

Thank you! I love your little illustrations!!

Halò agus feasgar math! I'm from switzerland and I've started to learn gealic three days ago. I can't thank you enough for gifting me your knowledge. Your lessons are funny and so easy to understand. Next year I want to start a jouarney in scottland for three or four weeks, thats why I wanna learn this incradible leanguage. Tha mhath, tapadh leat Jason!

Thank you for your courses, great addition to learning on line. Very nice language. Keep up the great work Jason !

This is Day 10 of my Gaelic lessons and I'm learning so much thanks to your videos, Jason. I've been using hand gestures to reinforce muscle memory. Thanks so much!

Hai Jason! Glè mhath agus tapadh leibh! Fantastic videos! Really appreciate your hard work😀

Wanted to learn Gaelic for ages but never found good online resources or had time to study. Thanks to corona, I got some time on my hands and I stumbled upon your channel! It's good fun so far! Greetings from Germany.

Does anyone else see the chicken? (His thumbs up..) XD

I totally agree on your assessment of Runrig. 👍🏻 Donnie Munro years, of course.

Great work man. Keep it up, loving your course

Love your teaching style and your classes, I’m gona comment this on every video lol, YOU SHOULD START A DISCORD SERVER FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SPEAK GAELIC WITH OTHERS. Being from the US it would be awesome to have a place to practice with others!

Loving the t-shirt

Hi, thank you so much for these videos! They're one of the best resources I found for learning Gaelic. :) Would you ever consider doing a video on the letter r specifically?

Calum glè mhath oir ha irn bru aige! 🤩

Hello. Greetings from Euskal Herria (Basque Country). I found your channel about a week ago and this was the first video I saw. Beforehand I had never heard Scottish Gaelic, only some Welsh and Irish, but I consider Scottish Gaelic to have a more beautiful accent. Yeah. It sounds great and it would be a shame if Scotland lost its language. Currently I am mainly focusing on learning Suomalainen (Finnish) and because it is spoken only by some 5 million people, there is a lack of resources for learners, but to be honest that's not much of a problem when you've deciphered the right way to learn such a language from scatch when you are not paying a teacher to give you lessons and have no way to move the country where it is spoken... So long story short what I do is I formulate a long, nice sentence or paragraph with a lot of different vocabulary and after writing and writing it 15 to 20 times in 2 days, I memorize it. And once I've been doing this for a whole year I will have developed several skills in the Finnish language that will be enough to take the next step. I use Google Translate to get my sentences right and then (after having learned the basics and speaking languages with a similar grammar and logic) I check how well the sentences are translated. Most of the time I have to break them down to parts and twist the words here and there, but it ain't that hard to get a nice, clean translation. Then I listen to the pronounciation too, but the problem here is that for Scottish Gaelic I really have no foundation or way to do this as there's no voice feature on Google Translate, and it being a minority language... I really don't know how well the sentences are translated for the possible lack of information the Google algorithm might have. So I don't know how to pronounce anything and it just seems impossible to success with this language without the help of a native speaker. So I ask you to considerate including videos where you make up sentences and translate them into Scottish Gaelic and go word by word on the blackboard and I promise I will learn them and help your language to not disappear in the future. Probably will even move to where it is most widely spoken in Scotland and stay there for 2 to 3 years when I'm older. Thanks. Have a good day.

ya dancer!!! ahahah love it

Hi Jason, thank you for all your hard work, it’s really good stuff! Is there anywhere l can find the audiobook or lesson(s) on your super book ‘ RONA’ to make sure my pronunciation is right? All the best 👍 Mike

I like Jason presentation of the Scottish gealic it is fun learning with him .😊 Is toil leam Jason taisbeanadh air gaidhlig alba ,seo abhachd ionnsachaidh le esan.

I have subscribed. I enjoy the videos so much. Have you ever considered making a foundations 5-9? I love the format and really want more of these lessons! Led thoil! I am just starting to really understand the language. Chan eil Gàidhlig mhath agam. Bu toil leam.... Foundations 5-9!

This video was glè mhath.....see what I did there? Your vids are a great help to learning

I would love for you to translate some of the gaelic on outlander. I go crazy wondering what JAMMF said in those scenes ( like right before Claire goes back thru the stones). Also some of bear mccreary’s haunting song lyrics. I’m obsessed.

I mentioned Saor in another video and now I see a few other musical mentions here, whether the shirt or verbal (Metallica, Runrig). Kudos for the quality taste in music, but I'm wondering if you could recommend bands that help with Scottish-Gaelic pronunciations? Rammstein, for instance, are key for a lot of people wanting to learn German because of the clarity of their enunciations. I'm wondering if there are bands who could help learners of this language speed up their progress? I'm not familiar with Runrig, though I have recently listened to some Julie Fowlis.

hi, loving your lessons. Just started learning Gaelic, I have an app and a DVD learning course and am watching your video's. Only been learning a week but I make sure to do an hour every night. I'm a Scottish History degree student and travel up to Scotland every year from Yorkshire, I thought my career would benefit from learning Gaelic once I get my PHD and move to Scotland or Canada. Just ordered Rona to read. anyway Ciamar a tha thu fhein?

Tha mi toilichte oir an tuisge-baetha seo glè blasta. 😉

Jason, what lesson follows this one? I am in need of more and I can't find another one. I have completed Gaelic Foundations 1-4. More please!!!

Where did you find the torc? Do you know anything about the new England stone walls? Check out that video Secrets Of The Stones, you are from Maine it's right up your alley. And do you know much about the old rune letters?

Eluveitie bonus sub....;)

You write "an t-uisge" but you should ideally say/hear "a(n) duisge" or "an huisge" (Leodhasaich). Words ending in -n or -m affect the sound of the following b-, c-, d-, g-, p- and t- sounds :)

Tha mi glè toilichte a-nis, mòran taing a charaid!

The final sequence screamed enigma actually

| love your approach to language teaching. It is exactly what a parent would teach a child. But please, can we have a guide to the alphabet? I am lost otherwise.

Hàlo, Jason ciamar a tha thu? A mi glè mhath after your lesson. But what's exactly the translation for IRN BRU? Is it Bottle? Thank you! And have a snog day!!!!!

Botal mòr **glainne** de Irn Bru. Best ones. Brother loves them.

Ciamar a tha sibh, Jason? Tha mi glè mhath! Tha a' ionnsachadh Gàidhlig oirbh. Mar sin leibh agus tapadh leibh.

Tha mi toilichte cuideachd! Carson a tha mi toilichte, a Dheusain? Tha mi ag ithe dinnear an-dràsta, agus tha i CHO BLASTA, OH THA!

So ' ceart gu leor' translates as 'correct enough' ? What I find difficult is that there seems to be no patterns that relate to English and word for word translation crash spectacularly

Hi Jason - why would you not say Ciamar a bheil Mairi ?instead of Ciamar a tha Mairi?

So, following the example of omitting "mi" from "tha gu math," could one say "tha toilichte"?

In Duolingo it says Tha an t-uisge ann means its raining. Does that literally mean there's the water? Confused 🤔😄

Wait I’m confused air means on and because?

Irish Gaeilge and Scottish Gaelic are so similar

i Know the sound the cht in toilichte makes but my mouth doesn't wanna do it ... it keeps coming it out as shtch instead of the proper ch and tch sound :( lol

When do you use Tha gu vs tha mi?

Sibh is always plural in Irish, tu is always singular. The formal vs informal reminds me more of the French tu vous

Did.. Did you say gle math Metallica??

strangely enough, pictures dont seem to help me as much with learning languages 🤔 like, yours are small and iconic enough but often if a language app adds images they either confuse me or distract me xD

Tha gu math!

Carson how come math is preceded by gu at times and not at others?

You're such a don for uploading these wee lessons. Tapadh leibh!

Soy la única que intenta aprender gaélico hablando en español?

❤️😄⛷️ Where's the Irn Bru emoji? That's a disgraceful oversight on the part of Android.

Chan eil mi sgìth oir tha cupa cofaidh agam, ach, tha cupa cofaidh anns an fheasgar.

Come on, Jason.....this is a Scottish lesson. We all know that ain't uisge. Seo uisge-beatha 😉

chan eil me sgith