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> Ach, ar aon nós, táim an-shásta bheith ag léamh faoi Ghaeilge ar hn. N'fheadar liom cé mhéad atá anseo a bhfuil in ann sí a labhairt. I've wanted to learn it

by luxpir 10y ago

> Ach, ar aon nós, táim an-shásta bheith ag léamh faoi Ghaeilge ar hn. N'fheadar liom cé mhéad atá anseo a bhfuil in ann sí a labhairt. I've wanted to learn it properly since I took classes in Paris, but never really dedicated enough resources to it. I still enjoy watching TG4 and listening to RnaG/Failté from time to time but never went the distance. Swedish and French, being so closely related to English, they came much faster :) I can just about hack my way through the national anthem, for no good reason other than it's a cracking song. Maybe when all my free time isn't spent on 'asset building' I'll get back into some of the fun stuff! Tell me, how do you get on with (Scottish) Gaelic? I understand there's a large degree of mutual intelligibility between certain dialects and it'd be a fascinating area to study, like Welsh/Cornish/Breton also. I've seen some BBC Alba programming aimed at music-lovers/youth where an Irish performer was interviewed in Scottish Gaelic, replying in Irish. How set-up it was, I don't know.

soVeryTired 10y ago
You could pick it up quite quickly. I haven't seen or heard much Gaelic but I could get the gist of the stuff inscribed in the stonework around the city of Edinburgh from my Irish.
Y_Y 10y ago
I've watched a couple of programmes on BBC Alba, and understood a good bit. It was somewhat like hearing Dutch as a German speaker, except maybe easier. There has been talk of an "Idir-Ghaeilge" reunified language. The Irish online magazine Nós had a nice article on this recently http://nos.ie/gniomhaiochas/teanga/idir-ghaeilge/ http://nos.ie/gniomhaiochas/teanga/idir-ghaeilge/ (in Irish). Could become a reality in the unlikely but beautiful event of a post-Brexit Scotland uniting with Ireland in the "Celtic Union".
- luxpir 10y ago
  Thanks, that's really cool. I'll try to make head or tails of the article and look a bit more into the reunification. If that could be carried off, interest levels in the language(s) would potentially rocket. The example I thought of for mutual-intelligibility btw was Swedish/Norwegian/Danish - but perhaps it's not that close? With Swedish as a third language I can still understand most Norwegian TV in general use or those subject areas I'm more familiar with.

by luxpir 10y ago

soVeryTired 10y ago

You could pick it up quite quickly. I haven't seen or heard much Gaelic but I could get the gist of the stuff inscribed in the stonework around the city of Edinburgh from my Irish.

Y_Y 10y ago

I've watched a couple of programmes on BBC Alba, and understood a good bit. It was somewhat like hearing Dutch as a German speaker, except maybe easier. There has been talk of an "Idir-Ghaeilge" reunified language. The Irish online magazine Nós had a nice article on this recently http://nos.ie/gniomhaiochas/teanga/idir-ghaeilge/ http://nos.ie/gniomhaiochas/teanga/idir-ghaeilge/ (in Irish). Could become a reality in the unlikely but beautiful event of a post-Brexit Scotland uniting with Ireland in the "Celtic Union".

luxpir 10y ago
Thanks, that's really cool. I'll try to make head or tails of the article and look a bit more into the reunification. If that could be carried off, interest levels in the language(s) would potentially rocket. The example I thought of for mutual-intelligibility btw was Swedish/Norwegian/Danish - but perhaps it's not that close? With Swedish as a third language I can still understand most Norwegian TV in general use or those subject areas I'm more familiar with.