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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5349 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 121 of 195 29 April 2013 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Gourc'hemmenoù (congratulations) Tarvos, that's great news! Edited by Teango on 29 April 2013 at 9:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4621 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 122 of 195 30 April 2013 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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@Teango et al:-
It's very exciting to see a Celtic team. I'm afraid I'm not in a position to join you, but I'm with you in spirit pobol! (Welsh would have been my poison). I did make moderately serious attempts to learn Welsh, oh, probably back in the 1980s or so, mainly via BBC Radio Wales (the English service, but they had Welsh lessons at certain times), TYS, and a lot of material my in-laws gave me. My wife's family all learned Welsh to some degree, as they had lived in Wales for a number of years and I was influenced by them to some degree although I've always been pro-Celtic in principle (if not much in practice :-) ). I do hope to get back to it one day, and of course there is much more in the way of accessible resources nowadays. By the way, if you are able to access it (I'm not sure what restrictions there may be outside of the UK), there is a soap opera on BBC Cymru TV called Pobol Y Cwm (People of the valley), which has been running for decades. My in-laws used to watch it. You can switch on English subtitles in the iplayer interface. Pobol Y Cwm Well, I may pencil it in for next year some time. :-) In the meantime, have fun boyo's! EDIT: p.s. This may have been posted, but some pretty good resources here:- BBC Wales - Learn Welsh including the series I used to listen to years ago: "Catchphrase". "The Original Catchphrase" Edited by montmorency on 30 April 2013 at 1:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4397 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 123 of 195 24 May 2013 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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How are we all doing?
I've had little chance to study Gaelic over the past month but will continue on from next week. I'm also planning (depending on the cost of flights) a trip to the Outer Hebrides over the summer/autumn. Hopefully the trip would help me to push on to a solid level. For anyone that's never been, I can highly recommend South Uist, without a doubt one of the most beautiful places I've ever had the chance to visit. I've received a copy of Colloquial Welsh by Gareth King which I hope to begin sometime during the winter when my Gaelic will (hopefully!) have improved a great deal. This past week I've been sitting my final exams, with four being in Irish. Just a grammar paper on Saturday and then I'm free :) I've also noticed the large collection pf Irish books I've accumulated over the past year which I haven't had the chance to explore in depth. Hopefully they shall provide some pleasurable reading for the duration of the holidays. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4500 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 124 of 195 24 May 2013 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since completing Le Breton, n'm eus ket graet netra. N'oa ket amzer.
(I haven't done anything with Breton, except looking at possibilities to spend a week in Bretagne on a summer course. But that won't be this summer) Edited by tarvos on 24 May 2013 at 12:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4637 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 125 of 195 26 May 2013 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, as most of you will have read in my log, I had a little crisis over the last month, but having returned from Ireland my interest in the Celtic languages is stronger than ever. I am now studying Scottish Gaelic again (still using Lehrbuch der schottisch-gälischen Sprache, I'm at unit 20 right now) and I'm dabbling a bit in Irish. I bought Mícheál Ó Siadhail's Learning Irish in Dublin and I'm having a look at it now and then. I'm not planning on studying Irish seriously for the next time, but the day may come when I'll take a closer look on that language. Well, I want to enhance my Gaelic first, so that day may still be far away.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6496 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 126 of 195 27 May 2013 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I have been away for home for about three weeks, and now where I'm back I am bogged down with my travel photos, family visits, my job (where we have to move to another building next week) and other menial tasks. I did bring Teach Your self's Irish socalled grammar along, but I just got even more annoyed with this clumsy hybrid between a true grammar and a text book. I expect to get back to Irish sometime this week, but then it will be after a hiatus of almost a month. But I expect to get back into 'learning mode' fairly quickly with those of my tools which I trust (one grammar and one dictionary plus abair.ie), and my intensive study time will of course mostly be based on Harry Potter. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4500 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 127 of 195 29 May 2013 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I have bought Harry Potter 1 in Breton. Hopefully that will improve my level. Edited by tarvos on 29 May 2013 at 11:00am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4471 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 128 of 195 29 May 2013 at 11:56am | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha! Did you you glask.com? Otherwise, where did you buy? I haven't really touched Breton this month, apart from the daily reviews. It's a shame, but I'm focusing more on Classical Chinese for the 6WC and there's a Chinese movie/docu festival in town, and it's swallowing up pretty much all the time I have. I've heard that my grandmother's extended family (which I've never met) has some Breton speakers, including some whose French is heavily Breton-accented, perhaps hinting that Breton is not only their native language, but also their main daily language. Who knows, perhaps I'd get the chance to meet these people some day! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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