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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4693 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 33 of 72 12 December 2013 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You can get exercises for Learning Irish from Nancy Stenson's homepage. She's an experienced teacher of Irish and has created these exercises in order to provide practice for students who are working with the book.
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| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 34 of 72 14 December 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, we do have very similiar interests! Well, I'm actually not sure at this point which language I would want to tackle next, because although Portuguese is definitely on the radar, I'm leaning more towards French because of its utility (Assimil courses not published in English or Spanish) and because virtually every resource I own (TV, movies, books, etc) has been dubbed/translated into French, giving me loads of potential practice. But my goal for right now is to get to 200 hours of Irish before I start another language, and I'm only at 110 hours. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 35 of 72 16 December 2013 at 1:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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So since the 6 Week Challenge is over, I'm going to start posting every day at least to keep track of the number of hours of Irish I have studied. My goal is to reach 200 hours before I start up a new language (most likely French). So far today I studied 1 hour and 30 minutes of Buntús Cainte and Learning Irish, and watched about 1 hour and a half of Irish television. So that leaves me at (113h30/200).
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| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 36 of 72 17 December 2013 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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With the three hours I put in yesterday, and the hour I just put in this morning, I'm at (117h30/200)
Learning Irish (Lesson 20/36) Buntús Cainte (Lesson 59/60) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 37 of 72 18 December 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Two hours this morning, so I'm at (119h30/200)
Learning Irish (20/36) Buntús Cainte (60/60) With all of this free time on my hands, it's getting REALLY hard not to start French already! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 38 of 72 19 December 2013 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So far I'm at (124h30/200)
Learning Irish (21/36) Teach Yourself Irish Grammar (6/22) Still a long, long way to go but little by little I feel like I'm making real progress. Edited by Indíritheach on 20 December 2013 at 1:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6758 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 39 of 72 19 December 2013 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Which grammar topics have you covered so far, and which do you find most difficult to grasp?
Why I'm asking is because I'm taking a university course and get assignments each week. While Irish has its peculiarities to start with, I'm having a particularly hard time with all kinds of adjectives (nom sing, nom pl, gen sing, gen pl). All became a bit clearer after the Monday lesson, but I'm still struggling A LOT. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 3894 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 40 of 72 19 December 2013 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
The hardest part is vocabulary...it's so alien and you have to memorize the plural forms with the singular, something I am not accustomed to. I also have trouble with some of the tenses of the 'tá' verb, using the copula correctly, and a few other odds and ends. The possive adjectives drive me nuts too, and the emphatic forms. It's getting better though, I just wish the forms used in Learning Irish and Teach Yourself Irish Grammar weren't so different. But I have noticed that lately when I work on the translation exercises from Ó Siadhail's text I'm less stressed and the answers are coming much easier, so maybe there is hope after all. Edited by Indíritheach on 19 December 2013 at 11:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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