Go raibh maith agat as an eolas. An fiafraí a dheineas fé seo im' chur in aithne, ní bhfuair sé aon fhreagairt.

Ah, Mallorcan! For those who think that what Barcelona Catalan doesn't have enough of is shwas.

For those who are curious what it sounds like, there's an excellent pop band from Mallorca called Antònia Font. Here's one of their songs (with lyrics): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6M0xPei49k.

Ok... true. So... I think I've heard the two kinds of l sounds and one kind of ll sound from the sound files you posted so far, right? Now only the broad ll is left for me to hear. About the two kinds of l (Achtáil and Lóma from your audio files) I think I can hear the difference, but I'm not totally sure. I think Achtáil contains the kind of l used in mainland Catalan and in British English, while Lóma contains the l used in Majorcan Catalan and in American English, but I may easily be totally wrong.

Well, actually, to complicate things more, the Catalan of Mallorca has an l that is a bit different from the general Catalan l (not sure about Valencian), I think. I often compare it to the American l (being like the majorcan one) and the British l (like the "general Catalan" one). But these are just observations of mine, I've never read about it so I may be wrong.

Yeah, we're the kings of the schwa. While general eastern Catalan only uses the schwa in unstressed syllables we also use it in stressed syllables, so we can even say full sentences only using consonants and schwas if we choose only schwa words.

Oh, Antònia Font, funny one. Always making weird songs with random words (the name of the group itself is a femenine random name nobody knows where it came from), but it's quite good. I'm surprised to find so many people who know so much about my language/place on an Irish language forum.

I think this is correct as far as American "L" and British RP "L" are concerned.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Really? I'm better than I thought.

So... any free site to learn?

Any particular dialect you interested in?

Well, I lived in Galway for a while, and that area is kind of like in the middle, isn't? So maybe I'd like to learn the Connacht dialect (Connemara etc), but linguistically speaking I honestly have no idea what it is like or what the other dialects are like. In fact, I wouldn't mind learning the standard Irish even though it's artificial, maybe that way it'd be easier for me to understand and communicate with all the dialects? As long as I don't get an anglicized Irish, it would be ok.

no, all dialects are interunderstandable (?), no need to learn standard Irish, which is just as easily understood (except for artificial words) but it sounds unnatural to all native speakers.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Hmm... I see... then I don't know... do most websites, books, etc teach a particular dialect or standard Irish?