Quote Originally Posted by MonkeyRogue View Post
Rosetta Stone has an Irish Gaelic program. Would we be remiss if we used that to learn the basic language?
Well it would be a bit like studying Dutch when you wanted to learn German, or studying Spanish when you wanted to learn Italian.

For sure you're far more likely to run into an Irish speaker, here in the States, than a Gaelic speaker, though I have run into a few. One was an Englishman who moved to Islay years ago and picked up Gaelic to converse with his neighbors.

Completely offtopic but I also ran into a guy who had picked up some Navajo in a similar way, having moved to a town where over 95% of the people are Navajo speakers, and some know no English.