The quality of the tape is good. Scottish Gaelic in Three Months. 1996. Roibeard O Maolalaigh. The text book can be described as conservative in that it uses the old orthography with both acute and grave accents. The International Phonetic system is used to guide pronunciation.
Everyday conversation is stressed, ranging from dialogue, anecdotes, to historical information.
The two tapes are 90 minutes in length, and were made using a male and female native speaker for pronunciation. The first 45 minutes are devoted to basic pronunciation of vowels, constants, and diphthongs. The rest of the tapes are on the 12 lessons. The second tape is designed to test the learner's progress. Words and sentence are spoken in Gaelic or English for the student to translate and compare with the verbal translations given on the tape.