I've marked resources that I think are especially useful for beginners with a ✅. This list is an evolving document, and I will frequently be adding new things to it as I come across them. If you know of something you think should be on this list, let me know!

Tools

Learning materials:

Textbooks:

• ✅ Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks by Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh & Iain MacAonghais
  • By far my favorite introductory textbook. It has clear explanations of grammar and vocabulary, and lots of example sentences, and includes a free audio download.
• Colloquial Scottish Gaelic by Katie Graham and Katherine Spadaro

Grammar, dictionaries, pronunciation, etc.

• ✅ Am Faclair Beag
  • The only dictionary you will ever need.
• Brìgh nam Facal by Richard A. V. Cox
  • Monolingual Gaelic dictionary designed for schools, no longer in print but available for free online from the author. Also available as an app for iOS and Android.
• Blàs na Gàidhlig by Michael Bauer
  • Easily the most comprehensive available book on Scottish Gaelic pronunciation, a must-have.
• Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar by William Lamb
  • A well-written and fairly comprehensive reference grammar. Not as useful for the beginner, but something you'll want to invest in at some point when you are more advanced.
• Geàrr-ghràmar na Gàidhlig by Richard A. V. Cox
  • A grammar reference written in Gaelic, available for free online by the author but available in print as well.
• Gaelic Grammar Wiki

Flashcards & frequency lists

• Eibhlìn's frequency list
  • A regularly updated frequency list based on the my own immersion, includes lemma-only version.
• iGàidhlig.net frequency list
  • Unlemmatized frequency list based on online printed Gaelic

Immersion material

Podcasts & radio shows

• ✅ An Litir Bheag
  • A simplified and shortened version of Litir do Luchd-Ionnsachaidh, I recommend starting here.
• Beag air Bheag
• Dealan-Dè
• Na Doideagan
  • A podcast in the form of a traditional céilidh by two women from Nova Scotia. Very cozy, and great if you're curious what Nova Scotia gaelic sounds like.
• Litir do Luchd-Ionnsachaidh
  • Weekly letter to learners of Scottish Gaelic with audio and transcription by Ruaridh MacIllEathain (Roddy Maclean)
• Taghta
  • News & current events
• Prògram Choinnich
• Spòrscast

TV, Film, & Videos

• BBC Alba on iPlayer
  • A wide variety of programs, most unfortunately with burned-in English subs and none with Gaelic subs. Region-locked to the UK, so you will need a VPN to access elsewhere.
• BBC Alba on YouTube
  • Clips and excerpts from programs on iPlayer, available without a VPN.
• Cluicheamaid (Twitch)
  • Twitch streamer who plays and commentates video games in Gaelic. Also has a YouTube channel.
• YouTube playlist of Gaelic-language videos

Other

Social media

• An t-Ailbhean (Mastodon)
  • Gaelic-language mastodon server
• Àras nan Gàidheal (Discord)
  • Gaelic-language discord server.

Websites

• iGàidhlig.net
• An Gèidheal Ùr
  • Gaelic-language blog dealing with LBGT topics and news, includes dictionary of LGBT terms in Gaelic
• An Duilleag Geal
  • The website of scholar, writer, and poet Nathaniel Harrington, Ph.D., with an excellent list of fiction and speculative fiction in Gaelic and other languages, as well as the author's own work in both Gaelic and English, among other things.
• Hidden Heritages
  • An transcribed collection of Scottish Gaelic- and Irish-langauge tales, songs, and folklore from Ireland and Scotland. A collaboration between Tobar an Dualchais and the National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project
• Drilseach.net
  • The website and blog of Timothy C. Armstrong, author of the Gaelic science fiction novel Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach.

Bookstores & publishers

• Acair Books
• Birlinn Ltd.
• Bradan Press
  • Publisher of Gaelic books based out of Nova Scotia
• Gaelic Books Council