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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5547 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 8 16 April 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
For anyone interested in learning or promoting the Irish language, there are a couple of interesting campaigns going on right now in Ireland.
The first is the Bród Club, which seeks to promote the Irish language and encourage any learners, both past and present, to be proud in what you know and "use what you have". There's a fun series on tv hosted by former WBA champion Bernard Dunne that accompanies the campaign and shows how other people are getting together throughout Ireland to help. For my part, I'm making Irish my priority language over the next 3 months, and I've even already started adding simple phrases like "Dia duit", "go raibh maith agat" and "slán" (hello, thanks, bye) to all phone calls with my Irish family. Here's some info for anyone interested in taking part and pledging their support: "The grand ambition of this campaign is to get 100,000 people who use little or no Irish now to use their Irish again, however much or however little that is. This is not a learning series. It’s an appeal to show your pride, your “bród” in your language by using what you have – and we all have some. Re-engage with the language. It is only by using it will you rediscover it. Take small steps. Start with what you know and build from there. Although we spend 14 years of our lives learning Irish very few of us actually speak it. This campaign is a passionate, loud and brash attempt to turn this situation on its head by asking people to commit to using whatever Irish they have. It is a multi-platform campaign and once signed up to the Bród Club, members will be plugged into an entire community of like-minded people, spinning off into a range of Facebook and Twitter conversations. This online social network will also give you access to a wide range of tools to help you use the Irish language in your everyday lives. The campaign wants to make noise and will use a combination of guerrilla tactics, publicity stunts and local advocacy to re-ignite the spark in people to use Irish. This campaign is a national call to action. Be proud of your language – use what you have – or as Fiona Looney would say, get back on the capall!" 
The second thing I've joined up to is the Líofa Challenge, which simply means "fluent" in Irish and is a commitment to try and learn Irish to fluency by 2015. Although it's predominantly aimed at learners in Northern Ireland, I think it's another great opportunity to show public support for learning the Irish language, and who knows, I might even reach this goal over the next few years too, knowing that I'm not alone in the big climb! (I wasn't sure if these projects had already been posted up on the forum or discussed whilst I was away in Russia, so I'm passing on the info for anyone who's interested, just in case.) Edited by Teango on 16 April 2012 at 5:19pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 17 April 2012 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Useful? Certainly! I'm not going to join the two groups you mention, but hopefully I can profit from their activities from the sideline.
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This encourages me to pick up Linguaphone Cúrsa Gaeilge once again. Who knows where my Irish will be by 2015.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6142 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 4 of 8 18 April 2012 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm very tempted to take up this challenge late next year. Recently, I've found myself watching Nuacht, the Irish language news program, and it's made we wonder why I haven't invested more time in a language that I've spent more than 15 years learning. 3 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 5547 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 8 18 April 2012 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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The more the merrier! It would be amazing to be able to understand programmes like Nuacht one day with ease, but for the time being, I'm having plenty of fun with the training wheels still firmly attached watching Cúla 4. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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A friend of mine says he still has this excellent course somewhere in his attic. I'm hoping that he'll have a little gander sometime and let me borrow it for a round of Guinness. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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I've read somewhere that the accent and grammar in the course (the one I have, from 1974) is somewhat artificial/standardized, but probably "better than nothing". :)
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| Teangaúr Triglot Newbie Ireland Joined 4556 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Irish Studies: Japanese, Polish | Message 8 of 8 28 May 2012 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Teango, I like the idea of the Líofa 2015 challenge; especially the element of challenge.
I don't have a television but I managed to see some of the Bród Club TV series online, I was particularly impressed with boxer Bernard Dunne's obvious sincerity and commitment. There were also billboard posters everywhere around town (Dublin) for a while. It can't have done any harm but I am also wary of the amount of lip service that is paid to the Irish language. Almost everyone loves the idea of it but only a minority - it has to be said - are willing/able to put the work in. Certainly it helps that the image of the language has changed so dramatically over the past couple of decades. And every little bit helps! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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