Mark, there are two words, here. Agat, meaning "at you," as in "Go raibh
maith agat" (Good at you, or "thanks"), and "Agus" meaning "and", as in
"Slán agus beannacht Dé ort" (Good-bye, and God bless you).
I haven't heard of Pimsleur, so I can't answer your first question. There
are as many dialects in Irish (almost one per speaker, it seems) as there
are in English. There are always different ways of saying things, too -
some
poetic, some blatant, some literal, some unrecognizable.
Liam
> #2 I don't know how to write it in Irish, but the language course
> sometimes pronounces certain words with an 'S' sound instead of a 'T'
> sound, for example "Agut" is pronounced "Agus" sometimes. Is this a
> dialect thing?
>
> Thanks!
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