In this thread, try your best to make sentences in Irish. Where possible, translate your sentences into English as well to help others build their vocabulary.
If you see a mistake, or think you see a mistake, feel free to mention it. (This means that people will point out your errors in this thread - this is a Good Thing, please don’t take offense )
Is mise Elizabeth, agus tá mé i mo chónaí i Londain. Is Meiriceánach mé. Bíonn mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge 5 bliain ó shin, ach ní mé ag foghlaim mé é “actively” go minic. I 2007 bhí blog as Gaeilge agam, http://asgaeilge.blogstream.com/ , ach ní scríobhann mé ann anois.
I am Elizabeth, and I live in London. I am American. I have been learning Irish for five years, but I don’t study it “actively” often. In 2007 I had a blog in Irish, http://asgaeilge.blogstream.com/ , but I don’t write in it now.
Mise Audrey (nó “Redwolf” mas mian libh), agus tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge le cuig bhliana anuas. Is Meiriceánach atá ionam fosta. Tá mé i mo chónaí sna sléibhte Santa Cruz, ar an cósta California, seachtó míle ó dheas ná San Francisco.
Canaim i gcór Gaeilge, agus is docha go múinfidh mé rang Gaeilge an fómhar seo chugainn, mar beidh an múinteoir gnách thar sáile. Is ball ghrúpa comhrá mé fosta…tá cruinniú againn gach Aoine ag bialann áitiúil.
Tá mé pósta. Tony is aimn do m’fhear céile. Is ríomhchláratheoir é. Tá iníon amháin againn. Johanna is ainm di, ach is fearr léi “Anna.” Tá dhá pheata againn – cat dubh (“Jonah”) agus púdal mionsamhail (“Wiley”).
Caithfidh mé imeacht anois, mar tá coinne dochtúra agam. Feicfidh mé sibh go luath!
Slán go fóill!
Redwolf
I’m Audrey (or “Redwolf” if you like), and I have been learning Irish for five years. I’m an American as well. I live in the Santa Cruz mountains on the California coast, seventy miles south of San Francisco.
I sing in an Irish choir, and it’s possible that I will be teaching an Irish class this autumn, as the regular teacher will be overseas. I’m also a member of a conversation group…we have a meeting every Friday at a local restaurant.
I’m married. Tony is my husband’s name. He’s a computer programmer. We have one daughter. Johanna is her name, but she prefers “Anna.” We have two pets – a black cat (“Jonah”) and a miniature poodle (“Wiley”).
I have to leave now, as I have a doctor’s appointment. See you soon!
Inniu, bheimid go dtí teach tábhairne mar ag seinm ceol Sasanach. Níl fhios agam na cheol fós ach tá fhios a Máirtin é. Bheidh Máirtin a fhidil aige agus bheidh mé mo consairtín agam.
Today, we are going to a pub to play English music. I don’t know the music yet but Martin does. Martin will have his fiddle and I will have my concertina.
Tá lá ceoil romham fosta. Tá cleachtadh cóir shéipéal agam ar leath i ndhiaidh a naoi, an
t-aifreann ar leath i ndhiaidh a deich, agus cleachtadh cóir Gaeilge idir leath i ndhiaidh a haon agus leath i ndhiaidh a ceathair. Ar a laghad déanfaidh Tony dinnéar anocht, buíochas le Dia…beidh mise ro-thuirseach!
I’ve got a day of music ahead of me as well. I have church choir practice at nine thirty, the mass at ten thirty, and Irish choir practice between one thirty and four thirty. At least Tony’s making dinner tonight, thank God…I’m going to be too tired!
Anocht, tá seisiún anseo freisin, ach beidh ceol Gaelach aige, ó na traidisiúin as Éire 's as Alba. Agus gan dabht ólfaidh mé “an stuif dubh”.
This evening there is a session here, too, but it will be Gaelic music, from the traditions of Ireland and Scotland. And of course I will be drinking “the black stuff”.
Okay, Gaeilge switch off. I see I forgot to lenite the G in “gramadach”, following “mo” as it did. Now, I sometimes see some variance about that within the same combinations (such as the GHB piping term rendered either “ceol mór” and “ceol mhór”), and am wondering if that variability is hard error for one or the other, or the flexibilty of an acceptable if not necessarily correct option, or simply an acceptable option.
I realise that lenition and such also have much to do with noun gender and other fun stuff, and I’ve yet to get my head fully around that.
Whatever other difficulties you might encounter with it, at least D/N/Lakota uses only the intransitive case.
I don’t know if the h was right or not in that instance…sometimes I just go with what feels right! But I don’t think there’s much in gaeilge that is optional in terms of grammar.
Anocht, beidh seisiún anseo freisin, ach beidh ceol Gaelach ann, ar nós na hÉireann agus na hAlbain. Agus gan dabht ólfaidh mé “an stuif dubh”.
Don’t take this as gospel, though…I’m not exactly a grammar mayven.
“Gaelach” wouldn’t be lenited after “ceol” because “ceol” is masculine. If speaking Irish, “ceol mhór” would be incorrect (I don’t know about Scottish Gaelic, other than that the accent would slant the other way). Unfortunately, a lot of these lenition errors get perpetuated by the musicians themselves, who may not understand Irish well (which is why you see “Sí bheag, sí mhór” so often, even though it’s just plain wrong).
I’m flying out the door at the moment to chaperone Jo’s school field trip to San Francisco, but I’ll be happy to take a look at it tonight, if you like.
Yeah, I have a love/hate relationship with grammar, too.
Years ago I went through engineering school, including lots of math, physics, and very dry theories, all of which makes a language grammar look like fun. In fact, it was at about that time that I got an interest in languages, and, yes, I then discovered that the most comprehensive and direct route to another language was by a study of the grammar of that language. So, today, as I now head into Irish, I’m going straight into Irish grammar.
Yuk, this is work! Yet, it seems that it’s the very work I must do. A grammar simply helps to put the whole picture together, detail by detail.
OK, enough of all this talk! It’s time for me to back to my homework.
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'S níl mo ghramadach go maith ar aon nós.