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 Message 1 of 44
01 January 2015 at 11:53pm | IP Logged 
Welcome to Team Celts 2015!

This is the third time we have a team thread devoted to Celtic languages. In the previous threads (Clan Lugus 2013 and Team Celts 2014) you can read all about the what the participants have achieved. Some of us are here for the third time, some just joined their first. Some have started from scratch and others have studied the language(s) on and off for many years. Beginner or advanced - we’re all here to help each other up the ladder.

In this installment of the Celtic TAC, the main focus languages are Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the following posts (will) contain resources. I keep additional placeholders just in case anybody else joins with another language from the family (Breton, Cornish or Manx). (Sign up instructions in bold face in the first post in this thread)




Last year, Teango posted some really nice ideas (and I quote):
[...]to get us all started, change things up a bit, and hopefully make next year all the more interesting:

- A shared online document of resources for Celtic languages that is quick and easier to access/edit (e.g., Google Doc, Wikipedia page, external language blog).

- A short profile of one of the six Celtic nations every two months (i.e., Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Breton, Cornwall), or perhaps even just an interesting aspect of the highlighted country's people and culture, and of course a cool picture to go with it.

- Quarterly challenges (another little thought: perhaps these could coincide with the Six Week Challenges on the Forum).

- More regular team updates (e.g., monthly summaries, like little sections in traditional newsletters).

- Group collaboration on other useful projects (e.g., building dialogue islands, aligning texts, translations).

- Meetups on Google Hangout for the brave at heart!


If anyone wants to contribute to any of this, super! Emme (captain of last year’s Scandinavian team) posted monthly challenges, and gave us the permission to borrow that idea (see below). Thanks, Emme!

Our team members are:

jbadg76421 (Irish)
jeff_lindqvist (Irish)
Josquin (Irish)
liammcg (Scottish Gaelic)
Mani (Welsh)
sctroyenne (Irish)
Shemtov (Scottish Gaelic)
tangleweeds (Irish)
Teango (Irish)

Good luck all!

Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 10 March 2015 at 8:03pm

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01 January 2015 at 11:54pm | IP Logged 
Useful links for Irish:

Courses and more:
Giota beag
Giota beag eile
Colin and Cumberland - material for beginners
Learn Irish with Liam Ó Maonlaí (mp3+PDF)
Bitesize - listening comprehension

Native media:
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta - national radio station
Raidió na Life - Dublin based radio station
Raidió Fáilte - Belfast based radio station
Nuacht24 - daily newspaper
Foinse - weekly newspaper
Beo! - monthly newspaper

Online TV:
RTÉ - national television

Dictionaries:
Pota Focal - collection of Irish dictionaries built from online sources
Breis Focloir - online dictionary and library, grammar database and much more

Placement and diagnosis tests:
TEG Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge - everything about the European Certificate in Irish, preparatory materials, CEFR standards

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Useful links for Scottish Gaelic
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02 January 2015 at 12:18am | IP Logged 
Team Celts monthly challenges (an idea borrowed from Emme in this Team Asgard post) - and members who concluded them:

January: self-introduction
Teango, Josquin, manu, tangleweeds, jeff_lindqvist
February: colourful idiom
Teango, eyðimörk (bonus contribution), Josquin, tangleweeds (from the rollback post), jeff_lindqvist
March: music video (or similar)
Teango, jeff_lindqvist
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:

Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 26 April 2015 at 2:12pm



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