How many can speak Irish in AH

uch

How many people in AH can speak a good level of Irish,, conversational level at least? I can hold me own but what about the rest of yiz?

puzzle factory

faigh bas asal

Pushtrak

Know very, very little, which means more than I need.

endacl

I can, but I rarely if ever post here. Does that count?

Thoie

Níl a fhios agam -cé mhéad?

Pushtrak

endacl wrote: »

I can, but I rarely if ever post here. Does that count?

Yes, it counts. And I'm sorry, but you may be sane.

endacl

uch wrote: »

How many people in AH can speak a good level of Irish,, conversational level at least? I can hold me own but what about the rest of yiz?

Sorry! Feck! Forgot it was AH. You can hold your own what?

Lol, etc...

Duggy747

She’d go “Aon focal, da focal ,two focal eile!"

And I not knowing no focal at all

Battered Mars Bar

I can but my keyboard has English buttons

The King of Moo

Tá caighdeán mhaith agam, ach níl me líofa cosúil le duine éigin ón Ghaeltacht, mar shampla.

Níl ach "Gaeilge scoile" atá agam, ach tá mé in ann caint le daoine gan fadhbanna mhór.

Ach, táim cinnte go bhfuil a lán botúin déanta agam ins an post seo .

TI;DR: I speak a bit.

puzzle factory

The King of Moo wrote: »

Tá caighdeán mhaith agam, ach níl me laofa cosúil le duine éigin ón Ghaeltacht, mar shampla.

Níl ach "Gaeilge scoile" atá agam, ach tá mé in ann caint le daoine gan fadhbanna mhór.

Ach, táim cinnte go bhfuil a lán dearmadaí déanta agam ins an post seo .

TI;DR: I speak a bit.

nil fada ar mo eochairchlar, as india, an eochairchlar.

uch

The King of Moo wrote: »

Tá caighdeán mhaith agam, ach níl me laofa cosúil le duine éigin ón Ghaeltacht, mar shampla.

Níl ach "Gaeilge scoile" atá agam, ach tá mé in ann caint le daoine gan fadhbanna mhór.

Ach, táim cinnte go bhfuil a lán botúin déanta agam ins an post seo .

TI;DR: I speak a bit.

You've the best sig i've ever seen

Go raibh mait agat as do phóst, ach ní fháca mé riamh aon síniú cosiúl le do síniú

The King of Moo

uch wrote: »

You've the best sig i've ever seen

Go raibh mait agat as do phóst, ach ní fháca mé riamh aon síniú cosiúl le do síniú

Go raibh maith agat, is as leabhair íontach é, "Last and First Men."

LH Pathe

seems I know more fùckin french

uch

LH Pathe wrote: »

seems I know more fùckin french

I know enough to put down on the census that I can speak Irish.

Naomi00

Mise

Ach níl Gaeilge líofa agam.

efb

soinneáin di piss

uch

efb wrote: »

soinneáin di piss

Google doesn't count

efb

póg mo thoin

charlemont

Níl. Dúirt mé Gaeilge uafasach.

charlemont

charlemont wrote: »

Níl. Dúirt mé Gaeilge uafasach.

You say Irish horribly?

charlemont

Deleted User wrote: »

You say Irish horribly?

First way I could think to say it in Irish, What I meant it to mean is My Irish is crap.

mikemac1

an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?

Claasman

chuaigh mé go dtì meanscoil làn gaeilge, ach tà an chuid is mo dearmadtha agam ag an àm seo. Tà sè deacair an gaeilge a cleachta ì NZ

uberwolf

is feidir liom

mintoffdom

With rare fluency

Ms.M

Mise! And I've been helping my buddies learn recently. They seriously underestimated their Irish. I think a lot of people do. That's why I think Bernard Dunne's Bród club is a good idea.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

charlemont wrote: »

First way I could think to say it in Irish, What I meant it to mean is My Irish is crap.

That's grand, I'll put you down as fluent, so.

/Census

efb wrote: »

póg mo thoin

And how long will you be visiting Ireland for?

Badly Drunk Boy

Tá mé ábalta cúpla focal a chuir le chéile.

I stopped using Irish over 20 years ago. Even then, I was offered a course in Trinity to do Irish, even though I was good at written Irish, but all of the lectures were spoken. Out loud. As Gaeilge!

I even struggle with English, verbally...

tá bergán gaeilge agam.

joolsveer

Tá cúpla focal agam freisin.

Ms.M

This thread could do with a poll op.

snubbleste

Aon uair a deirim rud eicint tagann foclaí brocach lofa salach amach..

Dudess

I can hold a basic conversation in it. I wouldn't be able to understand much listening to TG4 or Irish language radio though. I could get the gist reading it. I'm glad I have a bit of it. Silly to forsake it completely IMO - it's an important part of our heritage.

If people have no interest in speaking it themselves, cool, but to dismiss it outright as pointless and to be done away with is uncalled for IMO.

mongdesade

Never learned Irish, much to my regret...raised abroad until I was 15 before my family returned to Ireland.

DOE exemption when I started in the Irish school system

Would love to learn it given the opportunity.

FloatingVoter

an will cead agam dul go dti amach an lethoras ?

That said, I never went back.

Dudess

FloatingVoter wrote: »

an will cead agam dul go dti amach an lethoras ?

That said, I never went back.

You never came back from the toilet? Brazen pup! :pac:

davetherave

I could have a simple conversation or get the basic gist of a page out of foinse but that's about it. Shame really, 14 years of learning a state language and that is the height of my explotations these days.

elefant

Nílim iomlán líofa, agus ní bhíonn seans agam mo Ghaeilge a cleachtadh mar cónaím tharr larr anois, ach ceapaim go bfhuil caighdeán réasúnta agam fós.

Herb Powell

Tá Gaeilge líofa agam.

Peetrik

Went to an all Irish school, so can hold a conversation but it was over 10 years ago so I've forgotten most of it and replaced a large portion of what I remember with other languages I've had a crack at learning since. My brain seems only able to remember 'English' and 'Other'.

To wszystko Sín é

Gumbi

Gaeilge líofa 'gam féin ón gcliabhán

The Master of Disaster

I used to be pretty good at it when I was in school; I got a B1 in higher level. But like a lot of people I just haven't used it since I left school. I can't speak it or write at all really now though I can still read it reasonably well (Suppose when it's put in front of you and you don't have to remember the words or grammar etc. it's a bit easier).

Gumbi

The Master of Disaster wrote: »

I used to be pretty good at it when I was in school; I got a B1 in higher level. But like a lot of people I just haven't used it since I left school. I can't speak it or write at all really now though I can still read it reasonably well (Suppose when it's put in front of you and you don't have to remember the words or grammar etc. it's a bit easier).

Yeah, unless you're in an Irish speaking area, you really have to be active about looking to speak it.

Badly Drunk Boy

I got a C in Honours Irish in my Leaving Cert (before they brought in the C1, C2, C3 and especially C4 business) so I wasn't too bad at it.

In the mid 90s, I went for a while without a telly so I'd listen to the radio. I'm into quizzes so the 'as Gaeilge' quiz every week was a highlight. Even though I didn't fully know the questions, I used to get the answers...

1ZRed

Irish is my first language a bhitch!

shopaholic01

Remember very little of it from school. It's a pity that we aren't taught to speak and appreciate the language, as opposed to wasting time on poems, stoires etc.

I was unlucky enough to have to endure Peig for my LC, so that killed any interest I had in the language.

Enkidu

Tá súil agam go bhfuil mo chuid Gaelainne ag dul i bhfeabhas. Go deimhin, tá sí thar mar a bhí sí dhá bhliain ó shin, ach caithfead a rá ná fuil sí cruinn fós. (Ní mhian liom mo líofacht a mhéadú thar na beartaibh) Léim, mar a déarfá, trí leabhair sa tseachtain mar is breá an cnuasach focal a bhainir as na leabharaibh.

Gumbi

Enkidu wrote: »

Tá súil agam go bhfuil mo chuid Gaelainne ag dul i bhfeabhas. Go deimhin, tá sí thar mar a bhí sí dhá bhliain ó shin, ach caithfead a rá ná fuil sí cruinn fós. (Ní mhian liom mo líofacht a mhéadú thar na beartaibh) Léim, mar a déarfá, trí leabhair sa tseachtain mar is breá an cnuasach focal a bhainir as na leabharaibh.

Is follasach go bhfuil tuiscint mhaith ar an nGaeilge agat, a chara Is maith an rid é roinnt canúinte a fheiceáil mar théacs ó am go ham.

cocoshovel

Never learnt it in school. I know more Japanese than Irish.