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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 33 of 69 16 February 2014 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Similar non-team member, but friendly observer from the sides here, still learning Welsh, primarily with the Say Something in Welsh Materials. I'm around ½ way through the intermediate course, although I did actually skip through most of it once before, but I'm now doing it in more earnest. I've signed up for their end-April "bootcamp" (for which you only theoretically need to have done the beginners course and vocab, but I think in practice, the more the better...). In contrast with Iversen, my primary goal is to speak the language, and not write it. I guess I would like to read it more seriously in due course, but that's not where my emphasis is at the moment (and that's not the way SSiW works). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 34 of 69 28 February 2014 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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A good story, largely featuring "Say Something in Welsh", on the BBC website:
Darganfod=Discover It's in Welsh, but Google Translate does a passably good job. One of the learners featured there is an HTLAL member, as well as an SSiW success story: I will leave him or her to "out" themselves here if they wish to. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 35 of 69 07 March 2014 at 6:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Gabh mo leithscéal, a chairde...tá brón orainn! Sorry I've been away from the Forum for so long, guys. My life has been extremely hectic these past couple of months, and I feel like I'm letting you all down. Yet despite my abysmal captaincy, I can see from our language logs that some of you have been making excellent progress, so well done. I must admit I've fallen by the wayside myself in terms of learning Irish, but reading your posts again fills me with inspiration to get back on the wagon and orient to a hopeful horizon!
To get the ball rolling, and to follow up on one of my initial suggestions, I've copied across a big ol' list of resources for learning Irish from my blog and shared this on a Google Drive. I'm thinking that this might form the beginnings of a team list of Irish resources, so that anybody who clicks the link below can view our list and leave comments and offer suggestions throughout the rest of the year and well beyond. If you'd like to help edit the document directly, please send me a PM and I'll add you as an editor too. The information in the current document is somewhat dated though, so don't be surprised if a few of the links no longer work or if some of the texts have sold out of print; it happens, I guess. Perhaps we can check this over together. Resources for Learning Irish It would be great if we could add similar documents with links and references to learning materials for other Celtic languages as well as we go along, and then we could collect them all together in one shared Team Celts folder. There are lots of great links and references for most (if not all) of the Celtic languages in our 2013 TAC team log that could go into this little project. As it looks like my hectic schedule will probably continue for at least another few months, I was wondering if anyone would like to take the reins for a while and help organise an interesting challenge for April? Spring is a great time for mixing things up and starting afresh, as well as cleaning out closets. And for everyone else in the meantime, if you haven't already, please could you add a post here in our team thread to give us all a quick update; we'd love to hear how you're getting on. Slán go fóill! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 69 07 March 2014 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just posted a status report.
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 37 of 69 07 March 2014 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been updating my log as well. I'm really pleased with my Irish progress lately! I'm
almost done with the beginner volume of Gaeilge gan Stró and I just had a major listening comprehension upgrade yesterday! I'm on track to reach a solid intermediate level before the end of the year and I'm hoping on a Gaeltacht trip by summer 2015. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 38 of 69 17 March 2014 at 5:37am | IP Logged | ||
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So in a poll on Reddit asking what languages should be offered on Duolingo Irish was the big winner! And
according to this thread it's going to happen! (1st comment) I'm not sure how it all works but I guess the next step is for natives and fluent speakers to sign up to be incubators. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 39 of 69 17 March 2014 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, sctroyenne, that's great news! I hope something comes of it soon!
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 40 of 69 17 March 2014 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Happy St Patrick's Day everybody!
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