Irish Language Practice

sometime, the heavyshower will come and wash all the rubbish of the streets......

and just when u thought it was safe to go back in the water....... thainig Jaws  lol

in space nobody can hear you shouting....

an bhfuil na freagraí sin ceart??

ceart go leor roibeard.  ni raibh seans agam an seachtain seo a bheith ar an riomhaire, tá brón orm. bhí me an gnothach ar obair. cad é an craic leat?

Someday a real rain's gonna come and wash all the scum off the streets ...

Tiománaí Tacsaí, ar ndóigh. Nó Tiománaí Hacnaí, má tá dúil agat i nGaeilge Ros na Rún.

An liomsa atá tú ag caint? 

Anyway, here's a few more.

Seiceáil isteach. Lig do scíth. Bíodh cithfholcadh agat.

Síorobair gan súgradh ar bith a dhéanas buachaill tur de Jeaic. 

An rud nach bhfaighidh bás, sa tromluí nach mbeidh aon deireadh leis.

Níl rud ar bith sa dorchadas nach mbíonn ann sa solas. Ach amháin an eagla.

In space, no-one can hear you scream ...

Or indeed play the piano ... 

Tá mé ag déaneamh staidéar ar ealaín anois. Tharraing mé piosa beag innue agus tá mé sásta leis an obair. Níl mé ach ag foghlaim #. Ba mhaith liom a bheith ábalta pictúir a dhéaneamh le duine.?- tá sé deachair. Beidh mé ag freastal comhrá amarach sa Ilac i mBaile Átha Cliath agus an i.n. in Óstán Lar  mB.A.C.

Slá go fóill.

Roibeard

An-mhaith, a Robert! Is maith liomsa an ealaín fosta. D'fhreastail mé ar ranganna ealaíne roinnt blianta ó shin. Ar an drochuair, níl mé go maith ag an ealaín. Nuair a dhéanaim pictiúr de dhuine, bíonn sé cosúil le marbh-bheo (still-life) nó pictiúr teibí (abstract)! Bain sult as na ranganna!

I got this far before your last message:

Am éigin, tá fíorbháisteach ag dul a theacht, agus nífidh sí an bruscar ar fad de na sráideanna...

At some point, fíorbháisteach is going to come, and she will wash all the rubbish of the streets... (could not find "fíorbháisteach" in any dictionary)

Taxi Driver

Go díreach nuair a shíl tú go raibh sé sábháilte dul ar ais san uisce ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Jaws 2

Sa spás, ní thig le duine ar bith tú a chluinstin ag scairteadh ...

In space, anyone can not hear you calling -> In space, no one can hear you screm: Alien

I've been through a lot right now and taking care of stuff one by one. It might take a while to get back to you with the next quotes but I will. Thank you for helping me with Gaeilge. I really appreciate it

A great rain is going to come. Fíor is one word. Try beaking down the extra long words and you can get a meaning for the different part and put them together.

Roibeard

Ná habair é!  

You've got the films there! I've used fíor as an equivalent to "real" as in "a real rain's gonna come and wash all the scum off the streets", but it's not a perfect translation, because it can just be an intensifier, as Roibeard suggested there. I'll try and think of some more well-known phrases or tag-lines, because they are a good way of getting a handle on how the language is used. 

Cosúil le sármhaith==excellent. Super good.  Fíormhaith. Really Really good? Fíormhór=fierce big. Srl. Tá an idirlín ana-mhaith faoi an teanga   á fhoghmaim.

Roibeard

Hello all.

I tried to start learning Irish many years ago, and did pretty well at first, but then life got in the way....

I notice several people using apostraphe (') in place of fada marks.  I have a really easy way of inserting characters with fada marks, but it does require a PC keyboard with a numeric keypad.  All you have to do is hold down the ALT key and enter a three-digit number on the keypad, then release the ALT key.  The combinations are as follows:

ALT + 130 = é

ALT + 144 = É

ALT + 160 = á

ALT + 161 = í

ALT + 162 = ó

ALT + 163 = ú

I learned this trick after giving my children Irish names (Éamonn, Siobhán, and Bríain).  It's a great thing to know when you're trying to write Irish on the fly and want it to look right.  It may take a little practice at first, but it should pick up pretty quick.

Dale D.

Alt + Control and letter you want to put the fada on. Simple. á-Á is alt +control + capitals. Just in one click.

Roibeárd

Whew, that seems a bit complex and time-consuming. I used to have a computer where Roibeard's trick worked (alt + control + vowel) but it doesn't work with this one. On my computer, (which uses Windows Vista - eugh), you press Alt Gr and then the vowel. If none of these expedients works, the best thing to do is to get all ten of the letters from somewhere (normal and capitals) and put them in a special folder. Then copy them into any document where you'll need them, copy what you need using alt + C and paste using alt + V and then delete them when you've finished the document. 

robert1campbell@yahoo.co.uk:

Alt + Control and letter you want to put the fada on. Simple. á-Á is alt +control + capitals. Just in one click.

Roibeárd

That's exactly the method I use, too. So easy and quick!

Though, for foreigners like myself, one must set up the language bar on their task bar and have the Irish keyboard selected for this method to work. I finally did this when I was so sick of using the Alt+Number Pad method which is handy to know, but it's so disruptive when I'm writing full Irish sentences.

Go raibh maith agat Princess L. Tá sé sin úsáideach-bainfidh mé triaíl as.

Slán.

Roibeárd