Collected Reuben from his Gaelic nursery, thought I had better learn a few basic words myself so found nice BBC website – but it looks really hard!
The pronunciation bears little relationship to the written word, but not only that, there are a lot of unusual sounds. According to Wikipedia, “Most consonants have both palatal and non-palatal counterparts, including a very rich system of liquids, nasals and trills (i.e. 3 contrasting l sounds, 3 contrasting n sounds and 3 contrasting r sounds).”  In fact consonants can be palatized or velarized, which I have only ever come across before in Arabic.
Interesting also to read that Scots Gaelic retains a formal way of speaking to others, with a plural “you” as in the French, but this is no longer the case with Irish Gaelic.  Although the 2 are closely related, native speakers cannot usually understand each other without some effort.