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The Learning Irish/General Queries Thread.

  • 19-11-2010 02:07PM
    #1
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭


    Tá curtha ina n-iarrfaidh cothrom cúpla ar chomhairle cabhair/maidir le foghlaim na Gaeilge le déanaí.
    There have been a fair few requests for help/advice with regard learning Irish recently.

    Seo roinnt leideanna agus naisc más main leat an Ghaeilge a fhoghlaim
    Here are a few tips and resourses if you want to learn Irish,


    Ranganna Classes.

    Conradh Na Gaeilge.

    GaelChultúr

    Foras na Gaeilge



    Ciorcal Comhrá Conversation Group


    Creidim go bhfuil Ciorcal Comhrá an rud is fearr nuair a bhíonn tú Gaeilge a fhoghlaim. Is féidir leat éisteacht le daoine eile ag caint ar an teanga agus is feidir leat do focail nua a úsáid.
    I have found one of the most helpful things when Learning Irish is a Ciorcal Comhrá(Conversation Group). You can listen to others speaking the Language and can use new words you have learned.


    Is Leor Beirt


    Foras na Gaeilge


    Leabhair Books.

    Tá go leor leabhair chun cabhrú leat Gaeilge a fhoghlaim
    There are many books out there to help you learn Irish.

    Buntús Cainte

    Teach your self Irish


    Naisc Idirlín Internet Links.

    Learn Irish with Liam

    BBC



    Tá i bhfad níos mó ná seo. Más main leat chuie suas rud ar bith gur chaill mé
    There are many more resourses than this. Feel free to post up anything I missed.


    Go n-eirí an t-ádh leat.:)


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  • #2
    AWard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭AWard


    www.talkirish.com

    They have Buntús Cainte in a format for your iPod, iPhone, iPad, i.....whatever....

    60 lessons, seems to be pretty good so far... not as interactive as the web-based sample...?

    And thanks again to all the kind souls who have been helping me with this project of mine :)


  • #3
    mulvihill67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭mulvihill67


    My concern is, is it better to send a 10 year old to a residential course or to the course where they live with a family, this will be his 1st outing to an Irish college and I'm unsure what to do and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this, more than likely he will be going to a Munster based Collaiste as this is the type of Irish we learned ie Baile Bhuairne in Cork run by Geal Linn, any thoughts really apprecialte.


  • #4
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Coláistí Gaeltachta-Gaelthacht Courses.



    Gael Linn

    Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh

    Oideas Gael

    Coláiste Naomh Eoin, Dublin

    An Rinn


  • #5
    mulvihill67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭mulvihill67


    Thanks again deise go deo, B


  • #6
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Ceachtanna Bheaga - Abair Leat. :D


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHaVK_XFOY


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmoCUCBCzs


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0tPvEesbZY


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0VaU-_4ho


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2F-mXFsvy0


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7Bp08Ofb4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4CuAM-2hNM


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIF964dBpS4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSgG8TntcZc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1ea87RVrg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwJcayq0yZc


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFScNbWg-Jw


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziILNzOw_FM


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsUTUhN-FZ4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OyU69P9C3k

    :D


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  • #7
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    Does anyone here speak Irish and want to practice on Skype? I would looooove that! Pretty please? Message me your username if so.


  • #8
    Toyota_Avensis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Toyota_Avensis


    Tá Facebook ar fáil trí gaeilge...Tá sé ann leat chun do gaeilge a úsaid!


  • #9
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    My Irish is horrible, but I am guessing that you're saying that Facebook has a Gaeilge group that I could/should join?


  • #10
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    dhayashi wrote: »
    My Irish is horrible, but I am guessing that you're saying that Facebook has a Gaeilge group that I could/should join?


    It means that Facebook is available through Irish


    If you go into settings and go to the languages section, you can choose to display Facebook through about 30 different languages, Irish is one of them.;)


  • #11
    Bob123123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Bob123123


    http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Say-A-Few-Phrases-In-Irish


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  • #12
    Asry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Asry


    Is é seo go maith do ghramadach?


  • #13
    phatrat1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭phatrat1982


    Hello everyone I am new here and I am a total newbie to the Irish language. I currently live in the US in Nebraska, and my family and I are all learning Irish. Part of the reason I found this place was in my search for Irish speakers. My goal is to become completely fluent as much as possible and pass it on to our kids. I am currently teaching my nieces and nephews as I learn but since I am a beginner myself I am always worried I could be saying things wrong.


  • #14
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    There's an "as Gaeilge" forum too if you're up to it http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=904

    Mind me asking how you're all going about learning it? Do yous use books, or is there a Gaeilgeoir among you?


  • #15
    phatrat1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭phatrat1982


    Right now we are using the internet mostly. We listen that BBC program Giota Beag and I have all the mp3s from Talk Irish 365 on my ipod and there is BYKI, um let's see we have been checking out other websites also, Youtube has been helpful. As for starting out it's all kind of rough at the moment, we got the kids saying please and thank you in Irish and we taught them their colors so far that's it for the kids since we're all learning also it's kind of rough at the moment.


    Hm I thought this was the forum for learning maybe I got lost there are so many forums on this site.


  • #16
    Aard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    The one I linked to is for posting in Irish only in a discussion-style. This one is for asking about the language and is more of a Q&A.


  • #17
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭eire4


    Translate.google.com

    Is féidir a bheith cabhrach google translate.


  • #18
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Google Translate is a fecking disaster. Seriously.


  • #19
    phatrat1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭phatrat1982


    Ok I guess I misunderstood so I was in the right board ok. I am a long ways away from being able to read and write anything right now I can listen and understand some and I can sort of say a few phrases and words but nothing really useful yet.


  • #20
    Aodh Rua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭Aodh Rua


    Anybody who has not yet downloaded the free An Gum Irish-English/English-Irish dictionary to their android/Samsung phone yet, can do so here:

    http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00005726168

    It's quite excellent, although the difference between 'dílse' and 'dílseacht' in it is the reverse of the difference between both words in Ó Dónaill so I'm not sure which of those words is correctly 'loyalty' as in 'love and loyalty'.


  • #21
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    Are there any free Irish classes in or around Ranelagh/Rathmines area or in the centre of Dublin that I could attend ?


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  • #22
    SONIC2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭SONIC2008


    Hi,

    The name Collins in Irish I believe is O'Coileáin.
    If I want to speak of a female, do I write Máire Ní Choileáin or Máire Ní Coileáin. I just dont know if the Ní always adds a h behind the second letter of the surname when it begins with a consonant.

    Thanks


  • #23
    sunshine2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭sunshine2007


    Hello,
    I am looking for a private teacher of Irish. Do you know anyone who delivers 1 to 1 classes or where can I ask?

    thank you.

    Sunshine2007


  • #24
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


    Best thing to do is go to your local Library and find the nearest Ciorcal Comhrá, then ask there
    sunshine2007 wrote: »
    Hello,
    I am looking for a private teacher of Irish. Do you know anyone who delivers 1 to 1 classes or where can I ask?

    thank you.

    Sunshine2007

    22/25



  • #25
    Darth Rabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭Darth Rabbit


    Hey, I'm interested to know how everyone is getting on. Im in my 'mid 30s' and have recently began trying to refresh my leaving certificate Irish. For the majoriy of my time in school I wasn't interested in Irish because outside of school it had no practical use but toward the end of my secondary schooling and through a greater understanding of Irish history I began to appreciate this language. Having been abroad numerous times and see other live here whom are comfortably bi-lingual I wanted this for myself :) We have an Irish station I would like to be able to properly understand without subtitles and when I visit those remote parts of Ireland I want to be more confident engaging in conversation as Gaeilge.
    At the moment I'm using the book Gaeilge Gan Stró and have one of the CDs in the car. I'm amazed how quickly it is all coming back to me and how I'm expanding my vocabularly. If this is what I'm seeing after 1 month I can't can't wait to see where I'll be in 1 year so I'm interested to see how other people have got on?


  • #26
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Darth Rabbit wrote: »
    Hey, I'm interested to know how everyone is getting on. Im in my 'mid 30s' and have recently began trying to refresh my leaving certificate Irish. For the majoriy of my time in school I wasn't interested in Irish because outside of school it had no practical use but toward the end of my secondary schooling and through a greater understanding of Irish history I began to appreciate this language. Having been abroad numerous times and see other live here whom are comfortably bi-lingual I wanted this for myself :) We have an Irish station I would like to be able to properly understand without subtitles and when I visit those remote parts of Ireland I want to be more confident engaging in conversation as Gaeilge.
    At the moment I'm using the book Gaeilge Gan Stró and have one of the CDs in the car. I'm amazed how quickly it is all coming back to me and how I'm expanding my vocabularly. If this is what I'm seeing after 1 month I can't can't wait to see where I'll be in 1 year so I'm interested to see how other people have got on?

    I'm using duolingo at the moment. It's helping me at the moment.You could go to a ciorcal comhrá once and a while too.


  • #27
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭eire4


    AWard wrote: »
    www.talkirish.com

    They have Buntús Cainte in a format for your iPod, iPhone, iPad, i.....whatever....

    60 lessons, seems to be pretty good so far... not as interactive as the web-based sample...?

    And thanks again to all the kind souls who have been helping me with this project of mine :)



    The focal an lae link in there is a great one I enjoy as well.


  • #28
    castlebarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭castlebarian


    I have very basic irish I just about passed ordinary level in my leaving cert 10 years ago . I never had the intrest in it at a younger age but as of recent i would like to learn it and be able to speek it . I travel a 2 hour commute everyday and think this could be a good time to try learn it as I just listen to the radio anyway im just wondering is there any MP3 or CDs in which I can get to help me start all over again and learn the language. Id like to start from scratch. Even though I know words and responses I can't put a sentence together or use the right form of a sentence can anyone advise me on my best options ?

    Thanks


  • #29
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭eire4


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    I'm using duolingo at the moment. It's helping me at the moment.You could go to a ciorcal comhrá once and a while too.



    I am using dulolingo now as well and highly recommend it. Very easy to use and enjoyable way of learning.


  • #30
    Rabo Karabekian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭Rabo Karabekian


    I was just wondering if anybody could recommend or advise on podcasts that might help with the Irish. I'm taking classes, but was thinking that it might be an idea to listen to some (preferably basic!) podcasts as Gaeilge on the commute into work. I've had a look around the iTunes store, and am really only seeing language classes or podcasts specifically for the leaving cert. Any ideas? I'm learning Connacht Irish (I think: Connemara).


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  • #31
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,271 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    What's the difference between dá and má?

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