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Foxxyred, There is another good free resource: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/learners/ You can download the audio lessons to your mobile (ahem, cell) phone , and listen to them anywhere. This is how I started learning Irish 2 yers ago.
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Culturlann, Culturlann, agus Culturlann! Which is in Falls Road.
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GRMA, a chara!
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Not exactly grammar, but a n idiom... How do you say :So what?" in Irish?
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After some time spent with a testbook or textbooks one natuarally progresses to reading and listening (and conversation, if they can get any). So, after learning Irish on my own for a year, I found myself able to read. A few libraries in West Belfast provided me with books, mostly children's books. However, I fear, I have exhausted their holdings
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Dative has survived only in the Southern dialect(s). The noun cases in Irish are a subset of the original 7 Indo-European cases, and used the same way as they are in, for example, Lithuanian.
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On the radio (Raidio Failte) hear people use "ins an ...", apparentl, instead of "san". What is this - a dialect? And is it indeed the same as "san"?
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Go raibh maith agat, a Mhichelle. Ach silim anois go bhuil se "Bhi tu ag ra ansin"...
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Almost correct: "ar rith" is a verb form (a verbal noun), but siopodoireacht is a noun (not an adjective). Hence the difference. "...a bheaith ag..." also stresses that you like doing something yourself, not just watch it.
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Sometimes, when listening to the radio as Gaelige, I hear certain phrases again and again, but can't make out the words. Here's one. It sounds like "Bhí torann sin" , but I think it is actually somethig else. What would that be?