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Irish (the language)

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Chickenkeev · 04/08/2023 20:14

Does anyone else feel a connection to it? My dad was a gaeilgoir but never taught us. But i'm 42 now and still feel a pull towards it. It's inexplicable. I spent a year in france but i feel nothing at all towards the language. But Irish draws me in massively.

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Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 11:54

Botunai, focal maith!
Ta an focal nua inniu.

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 11:57

Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 11:54

Botunai, focal maith!
Ta an focal nua inniu.

Focal nua gach la!

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 13:10

Tá mo brain fried ar fad. Tá me thinking as gaeilge ach tá me ag eisteacht leis an radio agus ag léamh as bearla! Tá se deacair!

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Guimpe · 05/08/2023 13:39

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 13:42

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GRMA!

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 13:46

Jayney mack tho, nil me in ann Insta a usaid. Is seanbheann ceart me 🤣

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SparkyBlue · 05/08/2023 15:26

Unfortunately I've zero interest and zero connection to it. I even tell DD to concentrate on other subjects at school and not to give learning Irish much headspace. No idea why I have such a dislike for it.

Keykaty · 05/08/2023 15:45

Peig killed it for many back in the day, and perhaps the memory of that tortuous read has gone down the generations. So bloody depressing.

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 15:47

SparkyBlue · 05/08/2023 15:26

Unfortunately I've zero interest and zero connection to it. I even tell DD to concentrate on other subjects at school and not to give learning Irish much headspace. No idea why I have such a dislike for it.

I think (rightly or wrongly) that the more languages you learn, the easier the rest follow. I would never discourage my DD from learning a language. She shows zero interest tho so not an issue here.

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SparkyBlue · 05/08/2023 15:50

@Chickenkeev she is very interested in learning languages. That certainly isn't an issue

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 15:52

Ach, taimid ag caint Gaeilge anseo. Ta me ag eisteacht leis an radio, sport ata ann, ta se ann boring ar fad. Is brea liom sport, ach nil se suimuil bheith ag eisteacht like

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 15:57

SparkyBlue · 05/08/2023 15:50

@Chickenkeev she is very interested in learning languages. That certainly isn't an issue

Interesting that she likes languages but not Irish. It's a 'useless' language i know, but i really believe no language is useless. I think/feel that all languages help when learning another. Caveat that i could be 100% wrong and crazy though 🤣

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 15:59

Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 15:57

Interesting that she likes languages but not Irish. It's a 'useless' language i know, but i really believe no language is useless. I think/feel that all languages help when learning another. Caveat that i could be 100% wrong and crazy though 🤣

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Ta bron orm naach raibh me abalta e sin a scriobh as gaeilge!

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Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 16:28

Is maith liom @Chickenkeev gur scriobhann tu as Gaeligish, cosuil Franglais, back in the day like!

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 16:33

Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 16:28

Is maith liom @Chickenkeev gur scriobhann tu as Gaeligish, cosuil Franglais, back in the day like!

Ta go leor languages i mo cheann, bionn me fierce mixed up an t'am ar fad!

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Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 16:52

Ta an teanga tabhachtach (as Gaelige), mar ta se an teanga seanda.
(I just wonder if a lot of people had it shoved at them in school and it wasn't fun, just dry learning. It could be fun again for sure tho.
Plus, I kind of feel I owe it to my ancestors, with what they had to put up with, being banned from speaking it etc.

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 17:07

Villagetoraiseachild · 05/08/2023 16:52

Ta an teanga tabhachtach (as Gaelige), mar ta se an teanga seanda.
(I just wonder if a lot of people had it shoved at them in school and it wasn't fun, just dry learning. It could be fun again for sure tho.
Plus, I kind of feel I owe it to my ancestors, with what they had to put up with, being banned from speaking it etc.

Ta an ceart agat, bhi se uafasach ar scoil. Ni raibh aon craic ann leis an gaeilge ar scoil. Ta bron orm faoi sin, ba ceart gaeilge bheith 'a bit of craic'. Botunai go leor ansin ceapaim 😊

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 17:23

Ta me ag feachaint ar Bruce Springsteen anois, ta se ag dul go Corcaigh an bliain seo chugain, ach nil se ag dul go Gailiamh. F*cker!

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Inextremis · 05/08/2023 17:32

I've understood about 10% of this thread - which is more than I expected to! On the back of it, I've just ordered a copy of The Midnight Court which has both English and Irish versions - I know it's not a beginner's read, but I remember loving the poem years ago (English version) and thought it was worth a punt :) Think I'll go back to Duolingo again and see how far I get!

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 17:34

Inextremis · 05/08/2023 17:32

I've understood about 10% of this thread - which is more than I expected to! On the back of it, I've just ordered a copy of The Midnight Court which has both English and Irish versions - I know it's not a beginner's read, but I remember loving the poem years ago (English version) and thought it was worth a punt :) Think I'll go back to Duolingo again and see how far I get!

That sounds v fancy! Welcome anyway, any cupla focail are welcome 😍

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 17:39

Taim an-bhuioch diobh go leir don thread sin, ta se go h'iontach ar fad. Go raibh maith agaibh do leir.

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mathanxiety · 05/08/2023 18:26

I love it. Loved my summers at Irish College. Studied Irish at university.

I still read it, though I get little chance to speak it as I'm in the US. One of my DCs started learning it on Duolingo and we have the odd short conversation using simple phrases.

xPeaceXx · 05/08/2023 18:29

I can't connect with Irish sadly. My daughter loves it. I lived in Spain for a few years and people (Spanish people) are impressed by my Spanish, so it's not that I have no gift for languages. I class myself as having linguistic intelligence, but disappointingly, I can't speak, or understand Irish. I used to live in Elche (Elx) and heard some valencian/catelan and I understand two people talking catalan better than I understand two people talking Irish. This baffles me but it is true.

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Chickenkeev · 05/08/2023 18:34

xPeaceXx · 05/08/2023 18:29

I can't connect with Irish sadly. My daughter loves it. I lived in Spain for a few years and people (Spanish people) are impressed by my Spanish, so it's not that I have no gift for languages. I class myself as having linguistic intelligence, but disappointingly, I can't speak, or understand Irish. I used to live in Elche (Elx) and heard some valencian/catelan and I understand two people talking catalan better than I understand two people talking Irish. This baffles me but it is true.

Give it a go though, you're obvs well able for languages. This is a nice safe non critical space. Dip your toe in the water!

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xPeaceXx · 05/08/2023 18:36

Oh sorry, I thought it was a question not a call to those who do have a connection to it. I am not trying to not have a connection to it. I am just hopeless at it.

Not "making excuses" but I am good at languages but somehow not good at Irish.