By popular demand, here’s the Irish Language forum. Your front-line moderator is avanutria.
Enjoy!
By popular demand, here’s the Irish Language forum. Your front-line moderator is avanutria.
Enjoy!
I thought it was C&F Enterprise, as the current lingo goes.
However, I’m a rank beginner at the Irish language, and I’m looking forward to this Irish Language forum.
Thank you, Dale!
Go raibh míle maith agat, a Dale!
Redwolf
Great, this forum’s going to make even less sense than the one about Flanges ![]()
Here’s all of the Irish I know. “Would one of you lads pour me a wee glass of guiness?”
I purchased a self-teaching course called Irish on Your Own. It came with cassette tapes. It seemed pretty good the few times I used it. I would enjoy learning more about Irish Gaelic.
If this forum could be incomprehensible, then just wait until the “old” Irish script gets used, the one with the dots over certain vowels!
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Dale, ta tu go han mhaith, ar fad!
–James
P.S. I’m hoping that’s the polite thank-you that I think it is. Dale, if I just called you something horrible, I do apologize. ![]()
Uh-huh. Uh…thanks?
According to my dictionary, you just called my Uncle Han an oven-broiled leather bridle. Them’s fighting words, Peeples.
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Aha! So you’re the one and only sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H person who bought a copy of my “Swamp and Bridge Buyer’s English-Irish Dictionary”.
peeplj:
Dale, ta tu go han mhaith, ar fad!
According to my dictionary, you just called my Uncle Han an oven-broiled leather bridle. Them’s fighting words, Peeples.
No, no. He’s questioning your ability to go do Chinese mathematics, and calling it a fad. If I were you, I’d bonk him over the head with your abacus.
Redwolf:
Go raibh míle maith agat, a Dale!
Redwolf
Uh-huh. Uh…thanks?
I said “thanks,” a stór. Your response is “tá fáilte romhat” (you’re welcome) ![]()
Peeplj said “you’re very, very good.”
Tin-titan: What you want is: “Ba mhaith liom gloine bheag Guinness, le do thoil”
Seo duit! (hands tin-titan a virtual pint). ![]()
“Irish on Your Own” is a very good starter program. We’ll be more than happy to help you supplement it.
(Psss…Cork? The dots go over the consonants!)
Redwolf
I’m mostly Welsh (as all good Joneses are). I’m quite handy at languages and have always wanted to learn Welsh…no time…no time.
Kudos to the Irish (and C&F) for what they’re doing to preserve their glorious mumblings. ![]()
Doc
Is maith sin! Tapadh leibh.
Tapadh leibh.
Gàidhlig na hAlbain atá ann. Teanga dheas, gan amhras, ach ní thuigim í. ![]()
Redwolf
Gàidhlig na hAlbain atá ann. Teanga dheas, gan amhras, ach ní thuigim í.
I actually understand this without a dictionary. That’s scary. ![]()
…(Psss…Cork? The dots go over the consonants!)…
Oops! Actually, I’ve only seen a few examples of the old script, just in passing.
So, it appears that I’ve now had my first Irish lesson, and my thanks, to you!
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Redwolf:
Gàidhlig na hAlbain atá ann. Teanga dheas, gan amhras, ach ní thuigim í.
I actually understand this without a dictionary. That’s scary.
I got everything except amhras and am now wondering what it is that Scots Gaelic doesn’t have.
Redwolf:
Gàidhlig na hAlbain atá ann. Teanga dheas, gan amhras, ach ní thuigim í.
I actually understand this without a dictionary. That’s scary.
Scary? Something similar happened to me while studying the Finnish language. Now, it’s true that many years ago I was passably proficient in the German language, which might be a factor, here, but, in my study of Finnish I discovered that I could passably understand both Norwegian and Swedish, as languages which I have never studied, and, as languages which are quite remote from Finnish. Yes, that’s scary, too!