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teaching irish to catalans!

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  • 12-05-2005 9:45am
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    Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭


    hey! my boyfriend is catalan, and gets a great kick out of learning irish. i usually slip some words into conversation, like leaba.etc, and its so funny when i hear him use the words later in the day. anybody else got some words that irish people slip into english conversations that i can teach him? :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Gael


    Fonn leathair ort?

    Wanna f**k? ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭keevita


    what does that mean? *shocking display of ignorance*


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Gael


    keevita wrote:
    what does that mean? *shocking display of ignorance*

    Say it to your boyfriend and see what happens. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,860 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    My last GF was from London but I had her speakin lotsa Irish.
    Try "oscail/dún an doras" (open/close the door) or "brostaigh ort" (hurry up) and "suas/sios an staighre" (up/down stairs). i dunno how u spell them but try sayin please and thank you in irish. they're slightly more advanced for non natives compared to us native speakers ;). oh ye and if ur late say u'll be there in a cupla noiméad and u were delayed coz u were havin a cupla focal with ur mate in the siopadoreacht. also ask does he want a cupán tae. jaysus never realised how much i talked to her as gaeilge. sure i can barely speak it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭diarmuidh


    my Argentinian fiancee now tells our baby daughter to drink her bainne! quite funny!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭keevita


    diarmuidh wrote:
    my Argentinian fiancee now tells our baby daughter to drink her bainne! quite funny!
    cute. i actually used to work in a irish bars kitchen in the states with two mexican women and they would always be dropping in words like that, bainne being a favourite!


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