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[quote user="Princess L"]You say you're afraid to branch out using the forms that you're given as examples in your Irish book. Why is that? That's what they're for! Those sentences are given to you to show you how to convey that kind of statement. I think all you need is more self-confidence and less pressure on yourself. Don't
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Go raibh maith agat, Michelle. :) I don't have any time at the moment, but I will post some of my uncertainities soon. The learner's blog sounds like a great idea and I would definitely follow it once it gets off the ground!
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I'm now about six months into my study of Irish and while my vocabulary is growing and growing, I am still having amazing difficulty forming basic sentences. I have all these words and no idea how to use them! All the resources in my bookmarks folder are focused solely on grammar and vocabularly, with very little on how to form sentences with that
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Arís, go raibh míle maith agat. I can hear all these things when I listen to the dialect, but I don't always think to use them in my own speech until it is spelled out for me. For example, I can always hear the rounded ú sound, but until you said "rounded" I wasn't sure why I didn't sound the same. Now that's
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Thank you! Donegal was my second guess after the Dublin area, so I was close. :) That is definitely the dialect I wish to practice. The stress placed on certain syllables sounds so melodious. If you have any other tips that are distinct to Donegal Irish I'd very much appreciate it.
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Go raibh míle maith agat! The link to changing Firefox to Gaeilge is most welcome. I changed my facebook page ages ago and it's helped me learn a lot of vocab, so I'm happy to have that option for my browser. :)
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I've been watching lots of Irish TV lately and there is a certainly dialect that I hear occasionally and am fascinated by, but I am having trouble identifying it and was wondering if anyone from Ireland could offer their expertise. If you fast forward to about the 3:00 minute mark, a man begins to talk and that's the dialect I'm wondering
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Go raibh maith agat, a Sheano. I actually do an okay job of making the gargling Gh/Dh sound when I speak it, but for some reason it still intimidates me on the page. Hopefully soon it will become second nature - I never thought I'd get accustomed to mh, bhf, etc, and those are now second nature and I don't have to think twice about the pronunciation
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Tá brón orm, a Fhaber, it is a busy time of year! Unfortunately I don't have a phone at the moment (probably not until after the holidays) but I will gladly shoot you an e-mail soon. If you have time to reply, I would be happy to talk through emails. Of course, nothing is as good as speaking the language but at the moment any practice
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I feel your pain, Faber, of having no one to speak with. I live in the northern part of Michigan, and have never heard the Irish language in real life - only through Internet audio/TV programs. When I tell people I am learning to speak Irish, most of them don't even know it is a language. They wonder if I am trying to learn to speak with an Irish