An Irish Spring of Knowledge...

Lame joke, I know. This week I've received some more materials to use on studying this difficult language. My mother, who just happens to be studying the language too, had some books and CDs delivered this week, with an open invitation to use some. Hopefully this will help with my pronunciation, and teach me some rules of thumb on how to pronounce some words. (Still don't know how duit sounds like "gwitch", but hopefully I'll learn.) This week's lesson is perhaps the most important Irish word, Erin (phonetic). Erin is the Gaelic term for "Ireland", so hopefully this will be any easy one to remember. Slainte! 

Presentation #1

Well, I've presented everything I've been rambling about to ya'll to my teacher, and it's shaping up to be a good project. My plan has already changed a good bit, and I'm excited to see where it goes next. I have approval from my amazing teacher to continue with this crazy scheme of mine, so let's keep it rolling. Since the lesson last week was a little negative, let's brighten up a bit this week, with a full sentence at that. For all the lovers, dreamers, and me, this week is (NOT "Rainbow Connection") "Tá sí go hálainn." (tah shee guh hall-in) which translates to "She is beautiful". Can't tell you how fun it'll be thinking this all week. Slainte!

This is Embarrassing...

As the title this week suggests, I'm a little embarrassed by my work this week. I didn't really have time to do anything to study or brush up on my Irish at all. So, I really don't have anything to say about how it's been going, or a word lesson that I studied. I guess this really lights a fire under me to blow ya'll away next week. A word lesson for this week (that I may or may not be looking up while I'm typing) is hifreann (HIF-reh-un) which means ¨hell¨. So, if I don't have a much more interesting story next week, you can always leave the comment, ¨Go hifreann leat¨  to tell me just how you feel. Thanks for your patience, and slainte!

Plans always change....

As I continue my search into the Irish language, I've realized something: Irish is one of the hardest languages to learn. It's not a Romantic or Germanic language, but it's own sort of Celtic category. So, with this difficulty in mind, I've decided to alter my end goal. Instead of doing a full five minute presentation in Gaelic, I've decided to talk about the learning process instead, and go over a few key phrases, and the major differences between English and Irish. This week's lesson is "____ is anim dom" (phonetic) which means "____ is my name." For example, mine would be "Allen is anim dom". Slainte!