would you reccomend gaelteachs (spelling?)??

PlayGirl

have you ever benn to/ do you know any one who has ever been to a gaelteach ? would you/them reccomend it? just because i was thinking to go to rain na fairste up in donegal & wanted to get some feed back to see if there any good!

Thanks in advance
~Playgirl :cool:

rugbug86

i went to the Gaeltacht in 2nd year - twas brilliant.
It gave me confidence in speaking Irish, and had fun too.

go for it!

Kwekubo

rugbug86 wrote:

i went to the Gaeltacht in 2nd year - twas brilliant.
It gave me confidence in speaking Irish, and had fun too.

go for it!

Same for me. I went there in 2nd year detesting Irish and came back thinking it was ok - no worse than any other subject, anyway. I'm more or less fluent by this stage :rolleyes:

phantom_lord

I'd have to say I didn't learn anything.

Azureus

id definately reccomend it-i absolutely loved the gaeltacht and it really does improve your irish. Colaiste yeosaimh (sp?) is the best one ive heard of, having friends who went there, their irish was really improved after and they had a lot of fun too!
Do Not go to colaiste phiarsaigh though, i went there last year and despite having been to different ones twice before, it was hell. No irish whatsoever and id be very suprised if at least half the girls didnt go home knocked up. Just my opinion though, im sure theres some who loved it, but if you want to learn anything id avoid it!

:|

awh they're absolutely brilliant, so much fun. Id recommend colaiste arainn mhor, i never went myself but iv heard great things about it

grimloch

Alot of people who go don't seem to pick up any Irish. I went years ago and certainly didn't pick up a thing although how long you go for might have some effect on how much you learn.

Good fun though if nothing else.

polkadots

PlayGirl wrote:

have you ever benn to/ do you know any one who has ever been to a gaelteach ? would you/them reccomend it? just because i was thinking to go to rain na fairste up in donegal & wanted to get some feed back to see if there any good!

Thanks in advance
~Playgirl :cool:

Yeah, I went to one in Kerry for the past two Summers and would DEF recommend it!..Had an unreal time!..However, it does kind of depend on what you're looking to get out of it? I can't say my Irish has improved too much as a result but it was worth it for the craic!..It depends on where you go too though..I know a girl who went to one in Connemara and there was 60 girls and 8 boys there but where I went it was nearly 50/50!:)

Rob30888

I'd deffo recommend it! I went to Camus for 3 years and you gain such confidence from speaking Irish. It was awful at first and bloody strict, but you learn so much

Twin Lance

ya i went Camus myself for two years,absolutely great,i had an amazing time at both of em.they help you out so much so long as you bother to try a little,im pretty confident about Irsih in the LC now because of it.go to one,definitely!

Faith

Corca Dhuibhne on the Dingle Pennisula is pretty good. You learn a fair bit of irish and make loads of friends! There can be a lot of walking involved, depending on where you're staying

exiot

Great fun, went two years in a row to Inis Oirr in First and Second Year, madness! Good innocent fun.

X-SL

Yup, I went after 2nd year. Was brilliant. Good fun and you will learn even if you try not to! But if you try you'll obviously learn more Doesn't make you automatically fluent thought..

I've forgot most of what I learnt. Doing 5th pass irish now.

River Allow

Ghaeltacht is the just so much craic... Ive been there three times, back to Dingle. I would recommend it to anyone, no matter what level of Irish you are at. Tis just savage! Ya Faith I was staying 2 miles from my colaiste, but the walking home with the boys was the best fun ever, and the strange thing is, we actually talked Irish 90% of the time, without actually being told to!