Great, I'll try to post something on youtube in the next day or so then. At the end of TYI, Dillon recommends that students ought to move on to the works of Peter O'Leary, so I thought that I'd try reading from O'Leary's historical novel, Niamh.

Here is the link for the bilingual edition at the corkirish website:
http://www.corkirish.com/wordpress/bili ... n-of-niamh

And to be honest, I'm starting from pretty much nothing in terms of pronunciation. I mean that every other word that I say will probably be flatly incorrect in every dialect, so my goal at the moment is just to get in the range of correct with respect to how the language is actually spoken. If there is someone who knows the Munster dialect and would be willing to listen to and correct my recordings that would be fantastic, but I think that any help I could get would be a big improvement at this stage. My first priority is just to make myself understood, and I'd personally rather have a slightly mixed up accent than not speak Irish at all because I couldn't learn it with a good Munster accent.

I was rooting around on the cork Irish website, and I found a page where a native speaker breaks down all the individual vowel, dipthong, and consonant sounds into individual sound files along with example words that the sounds occur in. I think it should be a big help to me. If anyone is interested, the link for it is here:

http://www.corkirish.com/wordpress/pron ... intonation

Just thought of something today, that kind of ties in with the regular verb lesson. Caithimíd and caithfimíd. Are they pronounced the same?

I understand that, but the th is also supposed to be pronounced like a h, no?

That's interesting. I've heard the luach and tráchnúna pronunciations, and a few others like that (dath comes to mind). But I didn't realise it was a general rule. Is the th in caith like a broad ch? I'm fairly sure maith doesn't have that ch sound in Ring.

That's an excellent idea, Peadar Ua Laoghaire's mo sgéal féin can be found at http://wikisource.org/wiki/Mo_Sg%C3%A9al_F%C3%A9in in its origional spelling- which in my opinion is an absolute blessing! Fair play to ya, this sort of determination will definitely see ya through.