thusspakeblixa Diglot Newbie Ireland espaprender.wordpres Joined 4516 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Irish Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 1 of 3 21 December 2012 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
I'm starting a log for TAC this year- hoping to achieve reasonable fluency in Irish. As I went through the Irish school system I have a basic level in the language already, just trying to give myself that extra push.
I also would like to keep up my Spanish and German, which I have made progress in over 2012. I would also like to build on my (very basic level) in another language. I have resources for Mandarin, Russian and French ready here- just trying to work out which I should put first. I was putting work into French before, because I worked for an NGO which works in Congo. But I've lost my job now, so I'm just going to pick the language I enjoy the most.
Resources for Irish:
Buntús Cainte and Turas Teanga - these are both aimed at beginners, but I still find them useful for revision.
TG4, Radio Na Life and RnaG - I'm lucky enough to have access to these media outlets, so I'll be listening/watching a lot.
Books, newspapers - I enjoy reading, so I'll be reading beo.ie and Gaelsceal plenty.
Talking - I'm trying to find a Ciorcal Comhrá to practice with here in Dublin.
Edited by thusspakeblixa on 07 January 2013 at 12:05am
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thusspakeblixa Diglot Newbie Ireland espaprender.wordpres Joined 4516 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Irish Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 2 of 3 06 January 2013 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
Right, after a fairly tough month personally and professionally, I'm now taking this bull by the horns!
Here are my goals for January 2013:
Irish: Watch one Irish programme on TG4 per week. Listen to radio programming at least twice a week. Read 3 articles (newspaper/online) per week.Attempt to find a ciorcal comhrá.
Spanish: Read three full short stories (from Short Stories in Spanish). Watch three Spanish language films. Speak on SharedTalk at least twice a week.
German: More or less as Spanish, except I'll be using a different parallel text book, obviously.
Russian: Finish two units in the New Penguin Russian Course. I also will try to source a Pimsleur/Michel Thomas course from the library.
I'm also waiting on the delivery of my New Practical Chinese Reader textbook, which is very exciting altogether.
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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 3 of 3 16 March 2013 at 12:31am | IP Logged |
¡Olé! Good to hear some fighting spirit when life starts getting tough. :)
I think TG4 is amazing, but I don't tend to listen to the radio or read newspapers so much. Which Irish radio channel or online sites would you recommend (especially for beginners like me)?
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