Gaeilge

d4gurl

An mhaith le aon duine de scudu gaeilge a chleactadh? Tá me an nervíseach mar níl aon obair a deanta agam! Cad a deanfaidh mé ma se do thol e? Tá ceist agam - how do u pronounce words such as
Fhéadfadh
Bhíodh
crochadh
lasmuigh
d'fhaigheadh

basically most Modh Coinilach words? Cad é na ceisteanna ata le ullmhu againn? Cabhru mise

abercrombie

Fhéadfadh = aid-ach
Bhíodh = V-ach
crochadh = cruc-ach
lasmuigh = lass-mwigh//lass-mwuh
d'fhaigheadh = die-ach

i've prepared what would you do if:
-you were principal
-were president/taoiseach
-won the lotto
-moved to the country
-you didn't get enough points in the leaving for your desired course

stuff like that

Zapp Brannigan

I did mine last tuesday and the examiner was nasty!
He asked me five Mó Chionilach (spelling?)
What would I do to improve respect for Irish?
How would I change the Irish course to improve it?
What would I do if I was Minister for Education?
Where would I like to live, and what would I do there?
And finally, what would I do if I caught a Drug Dealer?

he was evil! Though everyone keeps saying to me I must have done well because of the amount of conditional I had to answer.
Other stuff that came up for me was: do I like the school, difference between the country and the city, how I get to school, my area, what I was gonna do next year and what I'd do after the oral.

EDIT: By the way, I do Ordinary level. Thing is though I'm near enough fluent in Irish when I'm speaking but I can hardly write the language, hence me dropping down.

Rockerette

"Fhéadfadh = aid-ach"

my teacher says you can say it that way, or "-aid-oo", same with all of them... "ooo" instead of "uck"..

ahaha i think that made sense.. ahaha...


tá brón orm..



is maith liom milseáin.

curtains

...speaking of such subjects, which of these is right:

nuair a tiocfaidh mé abhaile
nuair a thiocfaidh mé abhaile

(I know tiocfaidh doesn't normally have a seimhiu but after a...)

d4gurl

go raibh mile maith agat! níl aon fonn agam! is fuath liom an Ardtesit!tá se homogéneseach! yuk

d4gurl

For the sliochts how do u say:

Bhaineadh - is it wannach or wanna
shíneadh is it heena or hennach?
gabháil - goll oor gawal
bealach - balach or byalch

I kno der stupid little ones but better safe than sorry!!
how do u say if i dont get the points i would repeat (i wont but ill jus say it!)

abercrombie

Bhaineadh - i'd say vwin-ach
shíneadh - heen-ach
gabháil - ga-wall
bealach - bal-ach

*marie*

curtains wrote:

...speaking of such subjects, which of these is right:

nuair a tiocfaidh mé abhaile
nuair a thiocfaidh mé abhaile

(I know tiocfaidh doesn't normally have a seimhiu but after a...)

I'm doing Irish in college and I'd say nuair a dtiocfaidh mé....
but i'm not 100%!!

d4gurl

one more sorry
inár dteannta?
and do u say ann as awn or onn

abercrombie

d4gurl wrote:

one more sorry
inár dteannta?
and do u say ann as awn or onn

d-an-ta

love your sig

Rockerette

Se&#225 wrote: »

dont get worried about mixing up dialects i mix them up all the time in school and we speak a connaught irish mostly. but i always say:

guh row maith agat

instead of

go rEV maith again

aye in our classes we have them 2 ^ completely mixed up, rev/row.. whatever we feel like.. well, i always say rev, but noone is worried, cos i'd say our irish is a mixture of all the dialects, due to y'know, us east coasters having none of our own really :rolleyes:

Rockerette

Oh Sean Mac, did you get my pm?

d4gurl

abercrombie wrote:

d-an-ta

love your sig

tnks i took a leaf out of ur book!ahh! are u sure its d - anta and not deyanta ann? tnks for all d help!!!wens ur irish oral?

Rob30888

How did some people have the Irish Oral last week? I thought it was French or is it different around the country?

Rockerette

its different around the country i think?

from what someone told me...

in the southern half(ish?) they had irish first maybe?
and the northern areas had French/German/Spanish first?

and then vice versa for next week..?


maybe im wrong..!

d4gurl

ur right! Some schools have irish the first week and den language d next...go to www.examinations.ie whoever really cares!:D

abercrombie

d4gurl wrote:

tnks i took a leaf out of ur book!ahh! are u sure its d - anta and not deyanta ann? tnks for all d help!!!wens ur irish oral?

you're right actually...that's what i was saying in my head, but it didn't come across like that over the internet

d4gurl

so its dey - anta?

smemon

d-day tomorrow for some of ye im sure break a leg.

they're saving the best 'til last as im up on thursday/friday. im terrified and shaking with nerves at the thought of it

it'd b a laugh to go in and just talk english an t-am ar fad. or else learn about 10mins of stuff of by heart and keep talking until the time is up, not letting the examiner speak.

if all else fails ive got a plan so re-direct the questions back to the examiner..."inis dom faoi do theach?" "bheul, tá sé go deas, ach cad faoi DO theach? Déan cur síos ar do theach..."

abercrombie

d4gurl wrote:

so its dey - anta?

sure is

d4gurl

tnks for all d help!d day is tomorrow im so nervous!

smemon

d4gurl wrote:

tnks for all d help!d day is tomorrow im so nervous!

why?

d4gurl

cuz ive done no work and i unlike u am not a genius :P (sarcasm by the way ) can someone tel me what to study pharmacy is in college??PLEASE!!! oh and if i say i want to do pharmacy i may be asked on health system
soo whats Mary hanafins name in irsish
shes the t-Aire slainte?
ok desperately need help

smemon

d4gurl wrote:

cuz ive done no work and i unlike u am not a genius :P (sarcasm by the way ) can someone tel me what to study pharmacy is in college??PLEASE!!! oh and if i say i want to do pharmacy i may be asked on health system
soo whats Mary hanafins name in irsish
shes the t-Aire slainte?
ok desperately need help

chill out girl, your panicking. deep breaths. go in there and talk about what youve prepared. if sumtin else comes up, give a quick response and divert the question to something youve learned.

eg- "so you'll be studying pharmacy, tell me about the health system in ireland....."
well, i think it's flawless and i couldnt do a better job myself, speaking of myself..... i like computers and spend all day on them....boards.ie is so addictive....the lastest craze is bebo. bla bla..."

just think like me and you'll be grand, just say to yourself, what would smemon think?

d4gurl

will do!haha!but here no has told me what mary hanafin is in irish! Máire ní what?????????? how do i say i wish we could have a system like britain where healthcare is state funded. woah now dat wud be cul to say!i hv to miss the oc cuz of this oral grrrrrrr. Is mhaith liom Tg4. Is é an OC an clar is fearr liom mar taispeanann se na fadhbanna de ogmheisculacht, drugai agus brú na staidear . Is mhaith liom Teenage kicks (hvnt a clue wat dis ones about someone fill me in quick!)im calm now ill jus keep sayin tá smemon an mhaith agus tá sé an cliste blah!hehe

abercrombie

d4gurl wrote:

will do!haha!but here no has told me what mary hanafin is in irish! Máire ní what?????????? how do i say i wish we could have a system like britain where healthcare is state funded. woah now dat wud be cul to say!i hv to miss the oc cuz of this oral grrrrrrr. Is mhaith liom Tg4. Is é an OC an clar is fearr liom mar taispeanann se na fadhbanna de ogmheisculacht, drugai agus brú na staidear . Is mhaith liom Teenage kicks (hvnt a clue wat dis ones about someone fill me in quick!)im calm now ill jus keep sayin tá smemon an mhaith agus tá sé an cliste blah!hehe

Mary Ní Hanafain???? sure that'll do!!

you missed the OC to study for your oral but yet you're online.....

can't you watch it and be online at the same time?!?!

d4gurl

haha wel ive alredy seen it about three times (from my "cousin in US" hope u catch my drift!) i jus wnted to watch d end again so i did! I wz online for school purposes

d4gurl

Ill say Máire Ní hanafain!wait shes d stupid education one
hmmmmmm Máire Harney?haha

exiot

watch out for the Modh Coinniolach questions, as for some reason when someone asks me something in it, I answer first in it and then change to the Fháistineach..

Tá an béaltrial Gaeilge go han éasca, bí cúramach go gcurieann tú isteach na sémhú ins na áiteanna ceart. Tá ár múinteoir Gaeilge imithe don seachtain ar fad chun na béaltrial a dhéanamh, agus tá sé ar súil ar an Deardaoin agus an Aoine!

d4gurl

Tá se criochnaite! i cnt tel how it went. it was ok!she let me speak for most of it!i dont kno! :S

smemon

d4gurl wrote:

Tá se criochnaite! i cnt tel how it went. it was ok!she let me speak for most of it!i dont kno! :S

told ya not to be panicking over it, ya did grand. now get on wit ur life and kick that oral outta ur head.

U CANT CHANGE THE PAST. all you can do is focus on the present.

d4gurl

precisley it wasnt all that bad!i just wish i knew what I got! good luck in urs (im sure ull say u wnt need it but hey il be nice )

smemon

d4gurl wrote:

precisley it wasnt all that bad!i just wish i knew what I got! good luck in urs (im sure ull say u wnt need it but hey il be nice )

ah yeah, il stroll in der and put my feet up, start wafflin on about sumtin. i dont need the points like other people so theres absolutely zero pressure on me which is nice

our examiner asks basic stuff (or has done so far) so i shouldnt have any problems. ive a few tactics, such as putting down the longest 5 sliochts available so as to kill a few seconds, turning questions around on the examiner to kill some time and finally ive got links to most topics so i'll be grand.

theres nothing to fear but fear itself.

Rockerette

"Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself"

flashbacks of the Junior Cert there smemon.






had mine today, twas grand. she indirectly asked me if i was doing honours irish, which i found a bit sneaky.. as its not supposed to matter..


but yeah, nothin too difficult.
what i want to do--> journalism--> watching the news --> current events
was about as difficult as it got..

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

"Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself"

flashbacks of the Junior Cert there smemon.

sorry, i lost ya there rockerette! was that an essay choice or sumtin?!

Rockerette

sorry sorry... from To Kill A Mockingbird, which was drilled into us for 3 years :rolleyes: !
i forgot that not everyone did it..!


that line just stuck out to me there as i read your post..

*sighs*


im getting all nostalgic now.

"shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember... its a sin to kill a mockingbird.. mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us...."


anyway. gaeilge.


im gonna miss reading those sliochts, they were great craic!

abercrombie

Rockerette wrote:

sorry sorry... from To Kill A Mockingbird, which was drilled into us for 3 years :rolleyes: !
i forgot that not everyone did it..!


that line just stuck out to me there as i read your post..

*sighs*


im getting all nostalgic now.

"shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember... its a sin to kill a mockingbird.. mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us...."


anyway. gaeilge.


im gonna miss reading those sliochts, they were great craic!

i LOVED to kill a mocking bird!!!


and yeah...the sliochts....the easiest 30 marks you can get!!

Funkstard

I found out all of yesterday that those stupid things we were reading in class were actually the ones we were going to get asked on in the oral! I thought they were some old ones and that the examiner gave you an unseen one to read out in the exam. Oh well.

My Irish teacher is the biggest joke I've ever seen. He didn't know the names of the months last week, and today there were a few of us down the back studying for our oral (which is tomorrow, also tomorrow is the deadline for my portfolio so s'later irish, but anyway) instead of doing a listening comprehension. He made us put away our notes and do the LC instead.

Like, our oral is tomorrow and he wouldn't ****ing let us study for it today in class. What an absolute dickhead, he's a little bollocks.

Does anyone know the Irish for 'portfolio' and 'November'? I think November is Samhain but I can't remember. My deadly Irish teacher was just too capable to teach us this.

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

"shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember... its a sin to kill a mockingbird.. mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us...."

stop showing off, i got an A in english and can't remember a thing i did. oh yeah, romeo & juliet, loada rubbish. i did get a kick out of writing 'shakespear' though (without the 'e'), used to piss off my english teacher.

Rockerette

aah smemon ya ****head, im not even trying to show off..
i remember the first part of the quote, but had to google for the rest of it


i just liked the book...


pfft, you wouldnt understand. youre anti-english :rolleyes:

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

aah smemon ya ****head, im not even trying to show off..
i remember the first part of the quote, but had to google for the rest of it


i just liked the book...


pfft, you wouldnt understand. youre anti-english :rolleyes:

im not anti-english, i just dont like reading books, poetry and drama's. sin é. i cant see how people get a kick out of looking at black lines on a white page. give me a 50" HD plasma, 7.1 surround sound system & popcorn anyday.

english needs modernised, no one reads books anymore and no1 cares about shakespear or poetry. im sorry if im too modern for you.

Rockerette

a few weeks ago i wouldve angrily replied to smemons comment.. but alas, i've grown to understand him.... :rolleyes:


im not havin a go at you here, but while you " cant see how people get a kick out of looking at black lines on a white page.", some people dont see the kick of a plasma screen adn sourround sound.

each to their own..


or like me, love both

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

a few weeks ago i wouldve angrily replied to smemons comment.. but alas, i've grown to understand him.... :rolleyes:

im not havin a go at you here, but while you " cant see how people get a kick out of looking at black lines on a white page.", some people dont see the kick of a plasma screen adn sourround sound.

or like me, love both

i just think books are boring and uninspiring, plus they take ages to read. a film is in ur face, over in a couple of hours and highly entertaining. time is money my friend. people dont have time to waste reading books. money makes the world go round.

id prefer to have a cinema in my house than a library. plus books clutter up the place and are heavy, dvd's are thin, lightweight and can be stored easily. kids learn from interactive software more than they learn from books, fact. q.e.d. i win. argument over nice doin business with u.

d4gurl

guys why do the two of u hav to take over every board and hav a big ass discussion about tv vs book?!! i detect a bit of sexual tension between u two!hahah! kiddin btw or am i dum dum dum!

Rockerette

oh yeah, smemon....
i bet all the girls here want him.. he's just so... charming?!?!?!
*sarcasmetre implodes*

:rolleyes:


but anyways yah,

"when i read a good book, i wish that life were three thousand years old...."


clearly some people cant handle concentrating on somethign for more than 3 hrs... aaah well!


and smemon, dont dare Q.E.D. me when you're so far from making a decent point!

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

clearly some people cant handle concentrating on somethign for more than 3 hrs... aaah well!

and smemon, dont dare Q.E.D. me when you're so far from making a decent point!

aye aye captain! u tryna say ive got a short attention span? i can read books if i want to, i read roy keane's autobiography in 2 days (yes, i want medal be4 u ask!).

if im interested in sumtin, i'll do whatever it takes to get it. i dont find books stimulating, colourful, moving pictures are more stimulating for me!

Lord Oz

I think you'd like those pop-up books. Try reading one of them before completely giving up on books. If they're too advanced I'm sure there's some suitable preschool books available.

smemon

Lord Oz wrote:

I think you'd like those pop-up books. Try reading one of them before completely giving up on books. If they're too advanced I'm sure there's some suitable preschool books available.

aha! gud 1 :cool: i'll stick to my films thank u very much, never did like books at any age! tá siad as dáta.

d4gurl

oh god!dis was an IRISH thread! i swear!! mod lock it please it just get stupid :
omg u dnt like books
omg i do
omg GET OVER IT!
ohh and mr rockerete (r u a guy>??)i was sayin sexual tension betwixt u and ur dear fellow smemon! hehe

Rockerette

jees louise, how is it getting stupid??!
we were just having a discussion...

ok so maybe it wasnt irish related.. but its still exam related!






and nope, last time i checked i wasnt a guy.......