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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5365 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 33 of 44 26 January 2012 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||
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To Espejismo, Zecchino, Jellyfish and Quabazaa, welcome! Thanks very much Fasulye for editing the first post.
We have several Irish learners and a Scots Gaelic one now, so brilliant. --- Haha Ellsworth, great you noticed that. Do you know if Irish speakers would eclipse or lenite foreign words or company names when they're mentioned? I really hope so. I've heard that in Finnish they call Facebook literally 'face', translated. Edited by PaulLambeth on 26 January 2012 at 4:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4949 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 34 of 44 27 January 2012 at 2:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I am almost positive they do! For instance, in America, where most of the Irish speakers
are is in Boston, and I have heard "Tá mé mo chonai i mBoston." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5365 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 35 of 44 01 February 2012 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good to hear that!
How's everyone been going with their challenges? I've done another while of Irish and have started some free Icelandic speaking classes by an Estonian lady who's been living here for 18 years. Very handy for getting hold of some essential phrases I always forget. Hindi's still not catching up much though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4949 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 36 of 44 12 February 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well Irish is going terribly for me! I feel like I am just wasting all my studying time
hunting for the pronunciation of what I am trying to write! May switch to something with more resources like Farsi... :{ Edited by Ellsworth on 12 February 2012 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5122 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 37 of 44 12 February 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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My studying is going OK, but my log entries are suffering.
Normally, January and February are slower months for me, work-wise. I've been solidly busy this year for whatever reason (not complaining!). I've managed to keep up my studying, but I'm not documenting it very well. I need to be better about it. Oh well... In the next day or two I'll update my own log with what's been going on. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 12 February 2012 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5601 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 38 of 44 13 February 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Elsworth don't quit Irish!! I was just thinking that I wished Scottish Gaelic had as
many resources as Irish. I'm sure the pronunciation wil become more familiar to you with time - it's like Scots Gaelic too that they are supposed to be phonetic, right? I find it very difficult to get the sounds from the writing too but I am slowly improving. With more listening practise we should be fine. My learning is going well, I am a little weirded out by how easy it is for me to remember vocabulary in Maori, apparently I've had a lot more passive listening than I thought. The grammar of both Scottish Gaelic and Maori do seem rather foreign but I am not getting discouraged, it's quite fun really. I am in that great stage where I feel like I'm learning quickly. I also seem to forget some things quickly too, but I'm sure it will stick eventually. Hrhenry, hope you will find more time to study soon! Best of luck :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5548 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 39 of 44 13 February 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||
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@Ellsworth
Stick with it Ellsworth...all this new Irish strangeness will eventually fall into place. What are you currently studying? I find the Buntús Cainte books/CDs much more fun and light-hearted, and each lesson is just a little bite at a time. I'd also recommend leaving any grammar and pronunciation worries behind you for the time being, and maybe just watch a bit of TG4 instead - they have loads of cool programmes and I find it always motivates me to learn Irish! :) Edited by Teango on 13 February 2012 at 11:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4897 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 40 of 44 13 February 2012 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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My Luxembourgish input is fantastic a the moment. Driving to work and back, I'm listening to RTL Luxembourg (radio) and they talk a lot, written input is great too, as I typewrite a friend's short stories that are on their way to be published. So I type and he proofreads and edits his texts and I learn many expressions...
Kurdish is going slowly but surely. Vocabulary is still the major problem (especially remembering both verb stems). No problems with grammar so far, but it's only chapter 3 so I'll see what comes next. I'm definitely aiming for the basic Kurdish survival level ;-) I know how to say I'm thirsty/hungry (Ez tî me. / Ez birçî me.) and also know some food (nan - bread, penîr - cheese, sêv - apple, mûz - banana, hinar - pomegranate, porteqal - orange, goşt - meat) and beverage (av - water, çay - tea (obviously) and qehwe - coffee). So I only need to find out some more survival phrases like: I'm tired. / I'm sick. / Help me please. / Do you speak German/English/French? (I think I'll learn the last one in chapter 3).
Yup, mine too. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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