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The Irish language thread

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    #92
    Wolfe Tone
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    I like it, would love to learn it and be able to speak it, but I am a lazy lazy person, one day I will.


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    #93
    Carl Sagan
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    I'd love to have gone to Gaelscoil and automatically have learned it but I'm not bothered now. I'd much rather learn another language in its place though because it'd have more use.


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    #94
    seanybiker
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    I nothing it. I don't use it and I'm not bothered about it.


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    #95
    flyswatter
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    Loved it ever since I went to an Irish primary school all those years ago.

    It's really nice to be able to hold a conversation with my friend who's studying it in college and I often bump into old teachers from the primary school as my mam works there. It would just feel unnatural to start talking to them in English, in the school at least.

    My Irish isn't perfect by any means but I would consider myself fluent and it's a source of great pride to me. To speak the native tongue is an excellent feeling.

    tl;dr: Irish is awesome!


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    #96
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Don't forget, Seachtain na Gaeilge starts on Saturday. :)

    There is also a free Album in the Daily Star

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196942093669084


    Beidh Albam Rí-Rá ar fáil SAOR IN AISCE leis an Irish Daily Star an Satharn seo, 5 Márta 2011. Beidh ceol iontach trí Ghaeilge le cloisteáil ó bhannaí cosúil le:
    The Rí Rá Album will be available Free in this Saturday's Irish daily Star, There will be music from groups such as:

    The Coronas,
    The Rubberbandits,
    Republic of Loose,
    Delorentos,
    Heathers,
    Ham Sandwich,
    The Flaws,
    Fox Avenue,
    The Riptide Movement,
    Miracle Bell,
    The Spikes,
    Mo Hat Mo Gheansaí*


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    #97
    unknown13
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    I had the ability to be very good at Irish but I didn't have a decent teacher when I needed it to be able to fulfill my ability. That said I didn't mind going into Irish class in 5th or 6th year.


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    #98
    Bottleopener
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    deise go deo wrote: »
    Don't forget, Seachtain na Gaeilge starts on Saturday. :)

    There is also a free Album in the Daily Star

    Oh, thanks for the heads up on that. Will get it out of curiosity - I wonder if these will be all new tracks, or will a few of them just be rereleases of songs from the previous "Ceol" albums?


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    #99
    MavisDavis
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    Love it and wish I had more opportunities to use it.


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    #100
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,905 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Love it. Study it. Use it.

    Will probably include this thread in my thesis... >_>


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    #101
    ReacherCreature
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    'Meh'. In school you simply don't receive proper ability to use it I have found although there are exceptions. I've a serious beef with the way it's thought to students.

    I would love to know how to speak it but I was never passionate about it due to my teachers not being sufficient to the system being completely wrong. When there's cases like that you don't get excited about it.


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    #102
    Atavan-Halen
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    Went to an Irish primary school. I used to hate it and think Irish was so boring and pointless but now that I'm a bit older I appreciate that I'm one of the few that can have a conversation in Irish and understand TG4 without subtitles :P I mightn't have a really high standard of Irish but I'm happy!


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    #103
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    ReacherCreature wrote: »
    'Meh'. In school you simply don't receive proper ability to use it I have found although there are exceptions. I've a serious beef with the way it's thought to students.

    I would love to know how to speak it but I was never passionate about it due to my teachers not being sufficient to the system being completely wrong. When there's cases like that you don't get excited about it.


    I would strongly advise that you try to get involved, Its worth it.

    Dont blame the language, blame the Dept of Educaltion.

    All I can say is give it a go, I can guarantee that you will never have a worse experience with Irish than you have already had in School.

    Learning/using Irish is great and very rewarding once you put School Irish behind you.


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    #104
    Coeurdepirate
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    I adore it

    Everybody look up the channel 'tglurgan' on youtube, too lazy to find a link, they do Irish versions of English songs. and they're actually good


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    #105
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Bottleopener wrote: »
    Oh, thanks for the heads up on that. Will get it out of curiosity - I wonder if these will be all new tracks, or will a few of them just be rereleases of songs from the previous "Ceol" albums?


    Rubberbandits(who are fluent in Irish by the way) is defiantly new, Coronas might be a re-release but most of the tracks should be new.

    Anyway, its only 50 cent.:)


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    #106
    Namlub
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    Mo Hat Mo Gheansaí?! Ahahahaha.

    Erm I don't like the LC course but the language is fine I guess, I doubt I'll ever use it again except to talk about people on holidays...


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    #107
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    MavisDavis wrote: »
    Love it and wish I had more opportunities to use it.

    There are loads of opportunities to use Irish. There is probably a Ciorcal Comhrá in you local Area(if not, set one up, there will be people interested.)

    Is Leor Beirt


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    #108
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Love it. Study it. Use it.

    Will probably include this thread in my thesis... >_>

    Feel Free, You are also invited to SnaG in UL between the 7th and 15th of March. PM me for details.:)


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    #109
    Insect Overlord
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    deise go deo wrote: »
    Feel Free, You are also invited to SnaG in UL between the 7th and 15th of March. PM me for details.:)

    I'll PM you tomorrow. :) Will more than likely be in contact with you regularly enough in the next few months!


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    #110
    Richard Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Richard Cranium


    Is aoibheann liom í, in aineoinn na mílte botúin a dhéanaim nuair a bhím ag caint (nó ag scríobh) an teanga.

    I love it. I love the way it's difference to the Romance languages. I love its roundabout, poetic way of saying things. I hate the whistley, nasal pronunciation of some native speakers (Connemara Irish in particular) . It's a great language really. I preferred it to French and German in school, and it's the only one I've made an effort not to lose.


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    #111
    Coeurdepirate
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    Richard Cranium wrote: »
    Is aoibheann liom í, in aineoinn na mílte botúin a dhéanaim nuair a bhím ag caint (nó ag scríobh) an teanga.

    I love it. I love the way it's difference to the Romance languages. I love its roundabout, poetic way of saying things. I hate the whistley, nasal pronunciation of some native speakers (Connemara Irish in particular) . It's a great language really. I preferred it to French and German in school, and it's the only one I've made an effort not to lose.
    Leave me alone!


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    #112
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Loads of Irish threads these days... I'm not pushed about it, I believe the way it's thought should be reconstructed completely and it should be optional for LC, but mandatory for JC (I've outlined my opinions in this thread).

    Of course, that'd be madness. The language would die if it wasn't shoved down everyone's throat, even people with no interest in it whatsoever.

    Rabble rabble rabble etc.


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    #113
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    jumpguy wrote: »
    I believe the way it's thought should be reconstructed completely and it should be optional for LC, but mandatory for JC.

    Of course, that'd be madness. The language would die if it wasn't shoved down everyone's throat, even people with no interest in it whatsoever.


    Come on, There are many reasons why making it optional would be bad for the language.

    If it was made optional as it is, then choosing it would put the student at a disadvantage in the points race, that is why the language would suffer damage if it was made optional.

    It should be reformed and restructured, but making it optional now would do no good and do plenty of harm to the future of the language.


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    #114
    ReacherCreature
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    deise go deo wrote: »
    I would strongly advise that you try to get involved, Its worth it.

    Dont blame the language, blame the Dept of Educaltion.

    All I can say is give it a go, I can guarantee that you will never have a worse experience with Irish than you have already had in School.

    Learning/using Irish is great and very rewarding once you put School Irish behind you.

    Easier said than done really. I won't have the time. I'm in 3rd year now and a possible post-graduate. Maybe sometime down along the line.


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    #115
    KnifeWRENCH
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    I was always pretty indifferent to Irish tbh. I don't really like the way it sounds when spoken, and the way it's taught in schools is painful. But I certainly wouldn't say I hate it. So I vote 'meh'.

    Strangely, I was actually really good at Irish in school. It was always one of my best subjects. I've completely forgotten everything apart from the basics now though, which is a shame. :o


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    #116
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    I like being able to speak the basics, but I was always crap at it and could never get the hang of it. I'm not particularly passionate about it, it wouldn't bother me too much if I didn't have to ever speak it again (and I probably won't), but I do like to be able to speak the basics.


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    #117
    ciara95
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭ciara95


    I love it:) went to the gaeltacht last summer, have two ceol albums, read foinse the odd time. I think its terrible people want to get rid of it as a compulsary subjects. Its part of who we are, well its part of who I am anyway:D


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    #118
    jumpguy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFfDirBE6w


    (Chorus is kinda funky, tbf).


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    #119
    soccymonster
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    I love the language itself! I like watching the news or listening to a song in irish and thinking to myself 'i know what she just said there!'.

    But like, atm I'm studying traits of a bealoidis in cearrbhach mac caba and i just want these stories to go away! Wouldn't mind being told an aul story or two to me but studying it in detail is stupid. :(


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    #120
    MyKeyG
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    I went to a Gaelscoil and I would say without any word of doubt that it was almost like the teachers tortured it into us. I saw things happen to young kids that their parents would have got a summons for just because they were caught speaking English. Thank god they didn't steal my personal love of it. I still speak it to this day but will never forget my experiences in school.


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    #121
    sock puppet
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    deise go deo wrote: »
    If it was made optional as it is, then choosing it would put the student at a disadvantage in the points race, that is why the language would suffer damage if it was made optional.

    You sure? I only glanced at the article in the Irish Times but I think it had Irish as one of the subjects students tend to do well in.


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