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Re: Pronunciation

19Plastic.Saoirse.Paddy16 — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:04:26 GMT

You're a funny guy. You're right, I've heard that. I was imitating in accent in English.

I don't like his politics, he's obsessed with money

Re: Pronunciation

seano — Sun, 18 May 2014 18:09:56 GMT

Please - don't imitate Gerry Adams. Whatever you think of his politics, his Irish is not the best... The only way to learn a language properly is to get hold of a lot of spoken material and listen to it again and again, over and over until the sounds and the intonation just sink in and become natural to you. It doesn't matter if you spend the first three months just hearing noise, eventually you will start to distinguish words and phrases that recur and you will get a feel for how the language is put together. This is how a baby learns language and it works for adults too. :-)

Re: Pronunciation

19Plastic.Saoirse.Paddy16 — Thu, 15 May 2014 18:42:37 GMT

Thanks a bunch

Re: Pronunciation

Dale D — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:55:30 GMT

Hello, Paddy16.

I hope I can help a little with this, although some differences exist with the various dialects, and if you're imitating Gerry Adams, you're likely imitating the northern or Ulster accent. That may or may not influence the dialect you want to learn. To start with, though, I wouldn't worry so much about any specific dialect.

I am in no way discounting or discouraging the use of the TalkIrish forum and other resources. The MP3 course they offer, or the online course, both use the recordings from Buntús Cainte, and they are quite helpful in learing pronunciaton. To a limited degree, the Daily Irish and Dictionary utilities on this site are also useful when they provide recordings for their various entries, so they are worth a listen.

However, there is another Irish learning site that has some useful information and drills for practicing pronunciation that is not based on audio recordings. You may be interested in checking it out: http://www.irishpage.com/irishpeople/index.htm

The lessons follow quite a different construct, as you can imagine, from Buntús Cainte, but they move forward in a similar fashion. Each of the lessons seem to have a bit larger scope than those of Buntús Cainte as well. There are a total of 125 lessons on the website.

Slán!

Dale D

Pronunciation

19Plastic.Saoirse.Paddy16 — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:03:29 GMT

I'm having trouble with pronouncing. Everything!!!! I've a mid western accent , but with a slight American South undertone. I don't know how to talk with a good accent either. I can imitate Gerry Adams in English proficiently. Are there any exercises I could do?!?!?

Could you help me?!?!?