Spring 2024 Scottish Gaelic Classes via Zoom
with Kerrie Kennedy
Subject to sufficient registration, the following classes will be offered
Introduction to Scottish Gaelic - Part 2 / Beginner 2+ Scottish Gaelic / Level 3 Scottish Gaelic /
Tutorials with Kerrie / Private Classes / About Kerrie
Introduction to Scottish Gaelic - Part 2
Tuesday evenings via Zoom for 6 weeks from April 16 through May, 2024, 6:30pm-7:30pm eastern time.
A continuation of the January 2024 classes. New students are welcome, but some prior knowledge of the language is required. Class is limited to 10 students.
Students should have some familiarity with verbal nouns, the vocative case, and the prepositions aig and ann an.
Students will be sent a short optional practice exercise each week for extra practice.
Cost for 6 x one-hour classes
$50
$45 for seniors 65 and over
$45 students (students will have to show a valid student card at first class).
Payment for all classes is by InterAc on your online banking site to payment@torontogaelic.ca (no password necessary). We regret that we cannot accept payments by PayPal or Credit Card. Arrangements can be made to pay by cheque. For more information, or to register, please email:fios@torontogaelic.ca with the email address that you want to use for class, and include the level of class that you want to enrol in.
Beginners 2+ Scottish Gaelic
Thursday evenings via Zoom for 10 weeks beginning April 11 through May 16, 2024, 6:30pm - 7:30pm eastern time.
A continuation of the Beginner 2, January 2024 class. New students are welcome. Some prior knowledge of Gaelic is required. Class is limited to 10 students.
Students should have some familiarity with the simple past tense, the future tense of regular verbs, is toil leam and bu toil leam, in addition to phrases that use orm (I am hungry, I am thirsty etc.), agam, possessive pronouns (mo, do etc), and how to use gu bheil, gun robh, and gum bi to link sentences.
This class will work on having simple conversations, while continuing to build general Gaelic skill, possibly adding our first irregular verb in the past tense.
Cost for 6 x one-hour classes
$50
$45 for seniors 65 and over
$45 students (students will have to show a valid student card at first class)
Payment for all classes is by InterAc on your online banking site to payment@torontogaelic.ca (no password necessary). We regret that we cannot accept payments by PayPal or Credit Card. Arrangements can be made to pay by cheque. For more information, or to register, please email:fios@torontogaelic.ca with the email address you want to use for class, and include the level of class that you wish to enrol in.
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Level 3 Scottish Gaelic
Saturday mornings via Zoom beginning April 13 through May 18, 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am eastern
New students are welcome.
Students should have experience with the prepositional pronouns agam, orm, leam, dhomh, and rium, and how to use them, as well as some irregular verbs (deach, chunnaic, rinn. thuirt, chuala, fhuair), the simple past tense of regular verbs, the future tense of regular verbs, possessive pronouns and possession with aig, and the relative future tense.
This class will continue to build base knowledge of Gaelic, practicing more with “the” and the relative future tense and looking at the conditional/subjunctive tense. Each of the six Spring classes will have a conversation, listening, or sight reading and translation exercise.
Cost for 6 x 1.5 hour classes
$65
$55 for seniors 65 and over
$55 students (students will have to show a valid student card at first class)
Payment for all classes is by InterAc on your online banking site to payment@torontogaelic.ca (no password necessary). We regret that we cannot accept payments by PayPal or Credit Cards. Arrangements can be made to pay by cheque. For more information, or to register, please email:fios@torontogaelic.ca with the email address you want to use for class, and include the level of class that you wish to enrol in.
Private Classes
Kerrie is available for private classes, including classes to work on a specific topic. Private classes are tailored to the needs of each individual student.
Private classes are $40 (tax included) for the first hour (or any part of the first hour) and can be broken into 15 minute additions after that. Please contact fios@torontogaelic.ca for further information or to arrange times.
Tutorials with Kerrie
Students who want to have a private session to review concepts covered in class, work on conversation, or who want to review a concept they will need for a class level can arrange to book a 30 minute tutorial with Kerrie.
Tutorials are only available to students who have registered in TGLA courses for either the September 2023 or January 2024 term. Students who have registered in any of these group classes can book a tutorial any time until a new year of classes begin in September 2024.
Tutorials are 30 minutes in length for $25 (tax included). Contact fios@torontogaelic.ca to arrange a time.
About Kerrie
Kerrie Kennedy is a former Highland dance teacher and has studied Scottish Gaelic at University of Toronto and the Gaelic College in Cape Breton. She is a past recipient of the Kennedy Society of America Gaelic Scholarship and the An Comunn Gàidhlig Ameireaganach (the American Scottish Gaelic Society) Gaelic Scholarship. She has been teaching Scottish Gaelic group classes for the Toronto Gaelic Learners’ Association, and to private students since 2001.