I don’t think there’s a point. But anyway… 😀
Speaking as an ex fluent speaker, you’d have to go to a very basic level – just to learn pronunciation.
It’s pretty impenetrable to an English speaker. Now I’m not saying, say, French, German, Italian or French are “easy” languages to learn, but they’d be a piece of piss compared to Irish. If an English speaker had to read a sentence in a Western European language, most of us could make a reasonable stab at it. Your average Irish sentence would be as impenetrable as a Slavic language.
Gaelic has some stunning combinations of consonants that make the sounds of the letters missing from the alphabet. We have no j, k, q, v, w, x, y or z. We do however, have the sounds made by combining other consonants. Oh, it’s great fun. Say, for “v”, we have “bh” as in “Siobhán” But the fun starts when sometimes that “bh” is a “w” sound. In fact the “h” (or séibhú as it’s called) is massively important in Gaelic. It shags around with the pronunciation of loads of words.
Just for starters like…