Have a native speaker on hand
When I was learning, not very hard, I had my wife's father available as a Lewis native who used to have aeschemic attacks and forget how to speak English occasionally. Sadly he died in 2001. I could phone some of her other relatives but that's not a great solution as they are busy.
Some of those sounds are simply not in English and I had to have them repeated many times to get them.
That's the very best way to learn to gaelic sounds. I have been complimented on my Scottish accent in gaelic, although I am from Birmingham and Banbury in the English midlands by upbringing and have a normal midlands accent in English.
Descendant of Malones from West Cork or Kerry and O’Higgins from Wicklow, and a Gibson
Married to a Macleod
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