In an effort to get in touch with my (perhaps more distant than I'm willing to admit) Celtic heritage, I'm trying to learn some Irish Gaelic in a project for my AP Brit Lit class. On the way, I'll teach you, my devoted and limited audience, a few terms, and maybe a bit of culture or history here and there. Slainte!
Friday, September 5, 2014
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!
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