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Learning Irish Gaelic pronunciation from Russian

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    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    davwain wrote: »
    On Wednesday, I found a nice video, geared to speakers of Russian and Irish Gaelic, looking to learn the other's language:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c54X29Uwko

    It makes me realize how hard Irish pronunciation is, not just vs Russian.

    There are some similarities, not surprising since both are Indo-European but also perhaps because both have been more conservative than many other languages situated geographically between them e.g. English, Dutch etc.. English is less guttural than Irish or Russian. But most remarkably, I believe it is correct to say that the Slavic variety of L pronunciation is replicated in Irish to a greater extent than in any other European language.


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