Numbers can be verra useful. For example, you might need to count the number of times that Claire gets herself in trouble by speaking/acting without thinking.

Luckily, Àdhamh tweeted out a handy primer on numbers 1-10 in Gaelic with pronunciation guide.

@ugotDenise pronounc. guide is very difficult to represent with Eng orthog. I will have a go: aon /ouen/ like ‘ouef’ in French, dhà /ghaa/

— Àdhamh Ó Broin (@An_Comhghallach) February 4, 2014

@ugotDenise trì /tree/ with tapped Scottish ‘R’ ceithear/ir /KAYhir/ cóig /KOH-ik/ sia /SHEEah/ seachd /shachk/ ‘ch’ like ‘loch’….

— Àdhamh Ó Broin (@An_Comhghallach) February 4, 2014

@ugotDenise ochd /awchk/ naoi /noeui/ like French ‘ouef’ deich /jaich/ like ‘Jake’ & German ‘ich’ joined together -watch ‘ch’, musn’t be ‘k’

— Àdhamh Ó Broin (@An_Comhghallach) February 4, 2014

The good news is that Àdhamh says if you can master all sounds contained in the Scottish Gaelic numbers 1-10, you’re halfway there!

The bad news is I think being able to count 1-10 might only get us halfway through Part 2 of Outlander. 🙂