How many can speak Irish in AH

joolsveer · 02-06-2012 10:12AM

Tá cúpla focal agam freisin.

Ms.M · 02-06-2012 10:14AM

This thread could do with a poll op.

snubbleste · 02-06-2012 10:18AM

Aon uair a deirim rud eicint tagann foclaí brocach lofa salach amach..

Dudess · 02-06-2012 10:22AM

I can hold a basic conversation in it. I wouldn't be able to understand much listening to TG4 or Irish language radio though. I could get the gist reading it. I'm glad I have a bit of it. Silly to forsake it completely IMO - it's an important part of our heritage.

If people have no interest in speaking it themselves, cool, but to dismiss it outright as pointless and to be done away with is uncalled for IMO.

mongdesade · 02-06-2012 10:24AM

Never learned Irish, much to my regret...raised abroad until I was 15 before my family returned to Ireland.

DOE exemption when I started in the Irish school system

Would love to learn it given the opportunity.

FloatingVoter · 02-06-2012 10:25AM

an will cead agam dul go dti amach an lethoras ?

That said, I never went back.

Dudess · 02-06-2012 10:28AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

an will cead agam dul go dti amach an lethoras ?

That said, I never went back.

You never came back from the toilet? Brazen pup! :pac:

davetherave · 02-06-2012 10:31AM

I could have a simple conversation or get the basic gist of a page out of foinse but that's about it. Shame really, 14 years of learning a state language and that is the height of my explotations these days.

elefant · 02-06-2012 10:31AM

Nílim iomlán líofa, agus ní bhíonn seans agam mo Ghaeilge a cleachtadh mar cónaím tharr larr anois, ach ceapaim go bfhuil caighdeán réasúnta agam fós.

Herb Powell · 02-06-2012 10:48AM

Tá Gaeilge líofa agam.

Peetrik · 02-06-2012 10:51AM

Went to an all Irish school, so can hold a conversation but it was over 10 years ago so I've forgotten most of it and replaced a large portion of what I remember with other languages I've had a crack at learning since. My brain seems only able to remember 'English' and 'Other'.

To wszystko Sín é

Gumbi · 02-06-2012 11:04AM

Gaeilge líofa 'gam féin ón gcliabhán

The Master of Disaster · 02-06-2012 11:15AM

I used to be pretty good at it when I was in school; I got a B1 in higher level. But like a lot of people I just haven't used it since I left school. I can't speak it or write at all really now though I can still read it reasonably well (Suppose when it's put in front of you and you don't have to remember the words or grammar etc. it's a bit easier).

Gumbi · 02-06-2012 11:16AM

The Master of Disaster wrote: »

I used to be pretty good at it when I was in school; I got a B1 in higher level. But like a lot of people I just haven't used it since I left school. I can't speak it or write at all really now though I can still read it reasonably well (Suppose when it's put in front of you and you don't have to remember the words or grammar etc. it's a bit easier).

Yeah, unless you're in an Irish speaking area, you really have to be active about looking to speak it.

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-06-2012 11:35AM

I got a C in Honours Irish in my Leaving Cert (before they brought in the C1, C2, C3 and especially C4 business) so I wasn't too bad at it.

In the mid 90s, I went for a while without a telly so I'd listen to the radio. I'm into quizzes so the 'as Gaeilge' quiz every week was a highlight. Even though I didn't fully know the questions, I used to get the answers...

1ZRed · 02-06-2012 11:58AM

Irish is my first language a bhitch!

shopaholic01 · 02-06-2012 12:00PM

Remember very little of it from school. It's a pity that we aren't taught to speak and appreciate the language, as opposed to wasting time on poems, stoires etc.

I was unlucky enough to have to endure Peig

for my LC, so that killed any interest I had in the language.

Enkidu · 02-06-2012 12:02PM

Tá súil agam go bhfuil mo chuid Gaelainne ag dul i bhfeabhas. Go deimhin, tá sí thar mar a bhí sí dhá bhliain ó shin, ach caithfead a rá ná fuil sí cruinn fós. (Ní mhian liom mo líofacht a mhéadú thar na beartaibh) Léim, mar a déarfá, trí leabhair sa tseachtain mar is breá an cnuasach focal a bhainir as na leabharaibh.

Gumbi · 02-06-2012 12:14PM

Enkidu wrote: »

Tá súil agam go bhfuil mo chuid Gaelainne ag dul i bhfeabhas. Go deimhin, tá sí thar mar a bhí sí dhá bhliain ó shin, ach caithfead a rá ná fuil sí cruinn fós. (Ní mhian liom mo líofacht a mhéadú thar na beartaibh) Léim, mar a déarfá, trí leabhair sa tseachtain mar is breá an cnuasach focal a bhainir as na leabharaibh.

Is follasach go bhfuil tuiscint mhaith ar an nGaeilge agat, a chara

Is maith an rid é roinnt canúinte a fheiceáil mar théacs ó am go ham.

cocoshovel · 02-06-2012 12:15PM

Never learnt it in school. I know more Japanese than Irish.

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-06-2012 12:20PM

Flann O'Brien was a great writer. As Myles Na gCopaleen, he wrote Irish text using English phonetics, and English text using Irish phonetics.

And wrote a novel as a skit of 'Peig', An Beal Bocht.

Joshua J · 02-06-2012 12:47PM

Ta me ag imirt le me fein.

Ficheall · 02-06-2012 01:00PM

Ja, ich kann Irisch ziemlich gut sprechen.

Standard Toaster · 02-06-2012 01:04PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Tá caighdeán mhaith agam, ach níl me líofa cosúil le duine éigin ón Ghaeltacht, mar shampla.

Níl ach "Gaeilge scoile" atá agam, ach tá mé in ann caint le daoine gan fadhbanna mhór.

Ach, táim cinnte go bhfuil a lán botúin déanta agam ins an post seo .

TI;DR: I speak a bit.

You're just showing off now :pac:

snubbleste · 02-06-2012 01:06PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Irish is my first language a bhitch!

A bhitcheach nó a bhitchín :pac:

dlofnep · 02-06-2012 01:07PM

Tá gaoluinn agamsa.. Sásta í a úsáid am ar bith.

recylingbin · 02-06-2012 02:03PM

Why the hell is it 'fear gorm'?
Always wanted to know that.

pconn062 · 02-06-2012 02:11PM

Nein, aber ich spreche Deutsch.

Did Honours Irish for my leaving Cert about 7 years ago and got a B1 but have lost most, if not all of it, simply from lack of speaking it. I also concentrated more on German since then as it is much more widespread and a more useful language for me. The effort required to learn Irish to fluency just wouldn't be worth it for me, another European language would be much more useful.

1ZRed · 02-06-2012 02:14PM

recylingbin wrote: »

Why the hell is it 'fear gorm'?
Always wanted to know that.

A black guy. fear dubh is another name for the devil that's why it had to be gorm.

Stupid I know:rolleyes:

mikemac1 · 02-06-2012 02:32PM

It's all around us

Uisce beatha, bastarized to whisky
The Irish has a meaning, water of life
The English means nothing, just copied a word and changed it around a bit

Irish is so good we set the standard for drinking words :cool:

How many can speak Irish in AH

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