Hello!!
My name is Marian, and I am from Spain. Why a Spanish girl is in a site like this? Well, I have been living in Ireland for a year, Do you know Maynooth, close to Dublin? I was studying there, and I have falled in love with Ireland. I would like to learn some Irish words and things like that...so, if you can help me, THANKS!!
Have a great day!
Marian

Hi Marian!

F�ilte go dt� for�m seo. -- Welcome to this forum.

I hope you enjoy your stay here.

If you want to learn Irish, a good place to start would be
Neil McEwan's Scottish and Irish Gaelic lessons.
I have some other links and interesting documents in my office. I'll set up a link
in the forum here.

Go n-�ir� an b�thar leat! -- May the road rise up to meet you!

Sl�n leat,
Roidsear

Hehe, s� do bheatha! -- You are welcome!

Sl�n agus beannacht leat - Bye and a blessing...

Roidsear

If you're in Dublin you should drop into Tri D on Daswon Street in the City Centre. It's an Irish speaking cafe! You'd pick some stuff up there real quick, and everybody there's real nice.

Sl�n

Hi
thanks for all your recommendations!!! I am not in Ireland, I am back in Spain, but I will write down the name of the place you have told me to go next time... although if I go there I will be sooooooo lost with Irish... I was cheking a page that one of you has given, and i am trying first the vowels with the accents, and then... I will try consonants and vowels together...
When I was living in Ireland I was living with 3 irish Girls, and sometimes they were speaking in Irish, it was sooooo hard.... but like everything in life... Everything is possible if you wanna get it!!!
Slan!!!
Go n-�ir� an b�thar leat!
Marian

You can speak English in Tri-D aswell!

At least you're trying though. It's a pity how foreigners are so enthusiastic about trying to learn Irish, yet most Irish people couldn't give a fuck about it. Suppose you can't blame them when it's drilled into your head from age 7 or so.

Keep it up though!

Aye... if you're forced to do sth. you will never really love it unless you
really want to do it...

And, another page with some proverbs and other grammar stuff:
Dalta� na Gaeilge
(there are sound samples for each proverb as well...)

And for the pronounciation: listen to songs. Many songs. But keep in mind, when
listening to Clannad or Altan, that this is Donegal Irish, which has somtimes a slightly
different pronounciation.
i.e. "raibh", which is there pronouced "roh" instead of "rev". And you might find
some Scots Gaelic related words in Donegal Irish, like "cha" and "char" for "n�" and "n�or".
Some ppl say that Donegal Irish is mor "lyrical" that Munster or Connemara Irish... but I like every dialect... I've heard some really nice Sean-N�s songs from Connemara...

Anyway, sl�n go f�ill, bye for now...

Roidsear

Hello!!!!
Happy Monday....! I hate mondays!!!
Hey!! where can I get music in Irish? all the Irish music I have is in English... do you think that I can download it from the Internet?? I am sure I cannot find that music in Spain....
You are right. Foreigners always are more enthusiastic about things of your own country, it is the same in Spain with the Flamenco, a typical dance...we are tired of seeing people dancing that, but foreigners are like:" i wanna try", I feel the same... but the thing is that when i was studying over there I wanted to study some Irish, but they didn�t give us the chance to try, they told us: it is very difficult for you, it is Iirsh! you don�t need that in the rest of the world.... I wanted to learn, but I think any culture is good in your life.... so now it is cool you are helping me with some proverbs and so on. Thank you very much. It is like being for a while in Ireland and wih Irish people.
Thanks!!
Go n-�ir� an b�thar leat!
Sl�n.
Marian

hi marianneire!
because of the gaelic songs, maybe I can send you a few, just contact me

hey Roidsear, can you pin a linklist with those language stuff?

The hell !
The differences from Munster to Ulster or Connemara makes it all the more difficult for us to learn Irish (I have a book with Munster Irish and Ulster Irish pronounciation and it's not the f*cking same). Well, I still find it hard to pronounce any word, Ulster, Munster or whatever...

Slan agat

(at least I can pronounce Tiocfaidh ar la, not too badly I hope)

Hi again!!!
who or what is Provos??? does it mean something???I am just curious!

Provos =
Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Thanks for the infomation!

Hello to you all! Sorry, I've been away from some time... Those f*ckin' partial exams you know...
It seems the site is attracting more and more new people. Nice thing, and the greatest thing is, it are people from all over the world interested in 1 topic: Ireland!
Too right! Now myself, I haven't been in Ireland for some time but I may get the same chance as Marianne next year: Erasmus in Ireland. Would be smashing for me... Living and working (for nothing though ) in Ireland for half a year...
And I could probably get stuck myself...

i haven�t started my exams yet... i start next wednesday... and I am soooo nervous!! This is my final year
Good luck to those who have to take exams!!
sl�n!

The 30th of january I'll have finished. Man, the streets of Ghent won't be safe that night! Me and my friends will have some beverages to handle, I can assure you that!