Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
Slainte = "slaan-sha"
Mo chroi = "mo (gutteral, like "loch") ch-oye"
What does "slaan" sound like in English? What does in rhyme with?

So the "mo" in mo chroi sounds like "maw?"

And is the "ch" in chroi a soft ch as in "church" or is is hard as in "loch?"

Somewhere I got the impression that gaelic had no soft "c" sound not even in "ch."