#gaeilge i mo chroí

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How to say 'I LOVE YOU' in IRISH 😊❤️ + Happy Valentine's as GAEILGE

[cla0chlaithe]

First post on here !

Sliogán (shell) is ainm dom.

My name on here will be Sliogán (shlig-gawn)(shell).

(She/her)

(sí/í/(s)ise)

Eolas fúm agus faoin blag seo:

Is as Éirinn mé. Táim ocht mbliana déag daois. Tá mo chroí go mór sa Ghaeilge! Tá spéis agam san fhilíocht, i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge araon. Ceartaígí mo chuid earráidí gramadaí, más é do thoil é!

feicfidh tú mo chuid filíochta, ábhar Gaeilge, agus b’fhéidir píosa beag ealaíne ar an blag seo!

Info about me and my page:

I’m Irish. I’m eighteen. have a passion for all things Irish language! (Lit: My heart is strongly in Irish!)I have an interest in poetry, in both English and Irish. Please correct my grammar mistakes!

You will see my poetry, Irish language content, and maybe small art pieces on this page!

Tabhair aire!

Take care!

[cillianmurphysdimples]

I love that you speak Irish. Isn't always perfect but you acknowledge that yourself and even when it isn't perfect, it's clear what you mean it's just literal rather than colloquial. That isn't a criticism, like I said there you know your weaknesses but you do really, really well. I wondered if you have or would get any tattoos as gaeilge?

Ah thank you for that message. I do worry that I come across as incredibly bad, but you've reassured me massively. Thank you!!! I'm trying so hard to get better - I confuse myself because I can read it fairly well, but don't find making conversation from what I know and understand all that easy.

As for the tattoos, I have 3! One I don't talk too much about, it was poorly orchestrated and looks like an IRA tattoo 🤦 but the other two I love. I have "mo chuisle" on the back of my neck, as my granddad rarely called me by my name and instead always called me mo chuisle or darling. And I have a "mo chroí" surrounded by stars on my left forearm as a sort of nod to my grandparents.

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Dán: Mo Chara, McGee

Nuair a bheidh sé ag cur baistí,

Nó nuair a bheidh stoirm i mo chroí,

Bíonn tú in aice liom,

Agus cruthaíonn tú spraoi.

Má a bheidh fadhbanna i mo shaol,

Má bheadh mé ag dul go gaol,

Beiféa tú in aice liom,

Ghéofá mé as an baol.

Is cara iontach tú,

Tugann tú dom na fadhbanna is lú,

Beidh grá agam i gconaí duit,

Má bheadh tú i gconaí u mo cúil.

Notaí:

Scríobh mé "Mo Chara, McGee" cúpla mí ó shin. Tá sé faoi mo chara, mar is cara iontach í. An bhain tú taitneamh as an dán? B'fhéidir go bhfuil bótúin sa dán mar níl gaeilge líofa agam, tá brón orm :( Má tá aischóthú agat, ba mhaith liom é a chloisteáil. 🥰

Translation:

I wrote the poem "Mo Chara, Mcgee" a few months ago. It's about my friend, because she's a great friend. Did you enjoy the poem? There might be mistakes because I don't have fluent irish, sorry :( If you have any feedback, I'd like to hear it. 🥰

[hostia]

tá a fhios agam i mo chroí istigh go bhfuil ghá leis na Sims 4 as Gaeilge... agus go bhfuil mise réidh dó... ach, chomh maith céanna, an bhfuil tusa? an bhfuil an chuid eile den domhan ... ullamh?

ó, agus is PEACA é nach bhfuil aon aistriúchán oifigiúil go aon teanga as Polynesia de, nuair a rinne siad an expansion pack "Island Living"...

[beanlonrach]

is aoibhinn liom filíocht mitski ina amhráin, agus mar sin d'aistrigh mé cúpla amhrán go teanga na gaeilge 🎀

seo 'Pink in the Night'

lonraím dearg i mo sheomra san oíche

tagann bláthú orm fútsa

agus cloisim mo chroí ag briseadh anocht

cloisim mo chroí ag briseadh anocht

an gcloiseann tú é chomh maith?

cosúil le múr samhraidh

le chuile deoir ag rá

mo ghrá thú, mo ghrá thú, mo ghrá thú

stánfainn ar do dhroim an lá uilig

stánfainn ar do dhroim an lá uilig

tá 'is 'am go gcuimil mé ort roimh

ach ní dhearna mé go ceart é

An féidir liom é a thriail arís?

*le saoirse chruthaitheach*

[saintsenara]

11, 13, 18 for the not from the usa asks 😊

thank you very much for the ask from the i’m not from the states ask game, anon!

11. who is your favourite native writer/poet?

i've given one answer to this here - and i still refuse to say seamus heaney - so i'm going to go with... the novelist anna burns.

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

as a nation, we love/"love" parades and bonfires. maybe you're thinking that doesn't sound strange... but it is the way we do it. the same is true of street art.

as a nation, we very much don't love small talk. this caused a lot of trouble for me when i lived in england, because people will ask you benign questions [where are you from? do you follow any sports? how do you pronounce the letter h?] because they're being nice... but over here any and all small talk is someone trying to work out what religion you are... [my apologies in particular to the wee girl who was trying to drum up interest in the christian union on my first day of university, asked me if i went to church, and was greeted with me immediately going full "who wants to know?"]

in terms of superstitions... we've got plenty. fairies are real, going out with wet hair will kill you, the child of prague stops rain, having itchy palms is a good thing, the devil lives in bread...

my favourite local one, though, is that a short drive from where i live there's the grave of a vampire king. because, the rest of the world is wrong to assume that dracula was from transylvania. he was actually an irishman.

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?

yes. in english i have a distinctive and beautiful accent which has only sometimes been described as "incomprehensible" and "nasal" [less so since i spent a decade living in britain and lost my rhotic r, which is a tragedy].

in irish, also yes. the irish language has three major dialects, which each have their own various subdivisions - so i speak the ulster dialect with a vaguely western-ulster flavour. you can get some idea of how that might sound from the youtube channel gaeilge i mo chroí - especially this interview she does with a native ulster speaker.

but it is worth saying that speaking any degree of irish is still relatively uncommon here. my dad made us learn the language fluently for... political reasons, but i was one of the only people who could speak it beyond a couple of phrases by the time i started secondary school [where it was on the curriculum]. so when i was younger i definitely spoke in a way which was slightly archaic/literary - and which was also influenced by the idiosyncrasies of my own family - which it took a bit of time to break the habits of...

contemporary irish-language media etc. in northern ireland is mostly found in belfast, so i also have a bit of a belfast twang in irish.

basically, it's a mess.

[mightybog]

Certified Irish person here with my own tried and test resources for learning Irish! Disclaimer, I am not fluent but you could call me a lifelong learner.

General Info

I could say a lot here but I'll start with some general info. I encourage anyone interested to go and look up these things and learn more, you'll be well on your way if you do!

We refer to the Irish language either as Irish or as Gaeilge.

It's taught as a mandatory subject in schools in the Rep. of Ireland from primary all the way to secondary level. In my opinion however, while there are genuinely good teachers out there, the syllabus leads a lot to be desired, many are backing its reform. Most of us have a similar level of Irish unless we have an Irish speaking background or have put in a lot of effort.

Irish has a different alphabet to English, some letter combinations will sound different than expected to English speakers, e.g., bh is a 'v' sound. We also use accents called fadas: á, é, í, ó, ú. The YouTube Channel Gaeilge i mo chroí is great for these kinds of explanations (see below).

We have a unique sentence structure: verb, subject, object.

There are 11 irregular verbs. All others have a predictable structure.

There are special mutations known as séimhiú and urú, these create differences in words depending on the situation/sentence structure. For example, Dublin in Irish is 'Baile Átha Cliath,' but if I wanted to say I live in Dublin it's 'táim i mo cónaí i mBaile Átha Cliath.'

There are three different counting systems, you'll find a good explanation here. Once you've read this, there are plenty of YouTube videos that teach you each one.

We don't have proper words for yes and no. Positive and negative replies to questions will use the verb back at the question asker.

There are three primary dialects but we tend to understand each other alright most of the time!

Online Resources!

I promise you Irish isn't dead, there's a lot to get your teeth into!

Get used to how it sounds! TG4 is the name of our national Irish language TV station and the Irish is usually very clear. I'm partial to documentaries myself, I recommend Fíorscéal (general topics) and Domhan an Dúlra (nature). It's all available online but you'll likely need a VPN to access it. I can also recommend a Raidío na Life, a radio station based in Dublin. You can listen back to shows of your choice or listen live.

Bitesize Irish: They have short explanation and pronunciation videos on YouTube, interspersed with some culture. On their website they also have a free learning challenge called Gaeilge Gach Lá (Irish Everyday), they will email you every day with a small assignment for a calendar week and send you a newsletter every week thereafter. This is highly beginner friendly and mostly gets you used to the idea of daily practice and effort. For those who really want to get stuck in, they have some paid resources including connecting you with other learners so you can practice.

Gaeilge i mo chroí: A really great all-rounder of a YouTube channel. They explained some grammar rules that I'd never quite got my head around in school.

Úna-Minh Kavanagh: I cannot sing Úna's praises enough. I'm sure my knowledge of her only scratches the surface of her achievements but she's translated Among Us into Irish, she streams games in Irish (she's Yunitex on Twitch), she forages in Irish and she teaches you how to use existing online resources and communities in your learning journey. She really specialises in the "how" of learning the language today. She is also a published author and she speaks out against racism in Ireland.

Online dictionary: foclóir.ie

Similar resource to the above with more explanation and pronunciations in the three dialects for learners: teanglann.ie

Books:

Gaeilge gan Stró! by Éamonn Ó Dónaill at beginners level and Gramadach gan Stró by the same. These books helped me return to Irish as an adult and are geared towards adults.

These books and other physical resources can be bought from siopa.ie, which ships worldwide.

Courses:

Gaelchultúr, the publishers of Gaeilge gan Stró offer group online courses. There are others but this is one I've tried myself. They use Gaeilge gan Stró as their course book.

Well, this post was longer than I expected it to be but for any of you who decide to give Irish a go, go n-éirí libh!

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[aroorchid-slenderwoman]

Is duine Éireannach tú I mo chroí🧚‍♀️

Go raibh maith agat, b'fhéidir, Gaeilge Slenderman :)

[konckles]

préacháin<333

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HOW TO: say YOU MUST/ HAVE TO in IRISH 🇮🇪 | uses of the PREPOSITION 'AR' as Gaeilge 💚

[parcai]

donnacha :(

[goldrushzukka]

ronan tapping into his irish heritage and saying to adam "mo cheol thú" and adam saying to ronan "your ceol fucking sucks"

[crimeronan]

Dia duit! Conas atá tú?

So I just started learning gaeilge and I absolutely love it, but I can’t get the pronunciation rules to stick in my mind. They make sense to me and I don’t have trouble saying things right but I still can’t sound out words without checking the pronunciation. On top of that I’m learning two other languages right now, one of which I need to be fluent in in three years in order to be eligible for my master’s. That might be besides the point though, I just. Have no idea how to get my adhd brain to cooperate with me on this venture. Do you have any recommendations??? I hope you’re well!

táim go maith, go raibh maith agat!!

my advice will probably not be helpful if you're already DOING this, but for me the Biggest help was listening to irish speakers while reading along with an irish transcript (instead of english subtitles).

duolingo is pretty good for this, although there's only one speaker for the whole course

i also really like gaeilge i mo chroí, which is a youtube channel that covers basic irish and breaks down pronunciation basics with the accompanying words/sounds on screen.

(the eclipsis and lenition explanation videos on that channel are LIFESAVERS.)

perhaps the MOST important resource has been máire ní shúilleabháin's music, because she accompanies all of her songs with the transcribed lyrics onscreen

when songs go too fast for me to pick up the syllables i slow the video down to 0.75 or 0.5x speed and repeat the words more slowly!

for me, the main key to picking up irish thus far has been to relax and let myself absorb it instead of trying to consciously memorize all the nitpicky pronunciation rules and grammar constructs. it's kind of like how when you read a book, you'll stumble if you try to parse exactly one sentence at a time instead of letting the story flow without stopping

besides all of this info - which again, won't be super helpful if you're already doing auditory immersion - my best advice is to.... sort of.... ground your study? with mental associations. my own adhd brain is a sieve UNLESS i actively make connections that make the info accessible

by that i mean, tie the things you're trying to remember to something Else in your brain. some people do this visually; i'm not a visual thinker so my memory tricks are all audio. i give vocab words that are too similar little audio tricks. beef is martyred (mairteoil) and pork is mucus (muiceoil). take a toe (tógann) but give a tug (tugann). growth is fast (fásann) and excited fans wait (fanann). i have.... like.... hundreds of these. then as i practice more i cement the knowledge so i don't need the memory hack anymore

where this relates to PRONUNCIATION is: as your brain is picking up patterns in the spelling, pay attention to words that use unusual consonants/vowels. see if you can ground the pronunciation with the word itself

it's easier to give examples than try to explain fksjjd so like these r some of mine

bh - "w" with broad vowels; bhuachaill

bh - "v" with slender vowels; bhfear

éa - the letter A; éadaí

oí - the letter E; oíche

agha - the letter I; praghas

iúi - ooh; spéisiúil

dh - "yuh" sound; dheartháir

fh - silent; fhear

th - "h"; dátheangach

sh - "h"; sheanmháthair

basically just: where have i already seen this combination of letters before? how was it pronounced in that other word? is it the same here?

but truly i cannot express enough that becoming familiar with the pronunciation wasn't about memorizing lists of consonants or watching a ton of linguistics videos. it was just about reading and repeating enough irish words for my brain to start recognizing patterns by itself! the same will likely be true for the other languages you're learning as well. language is used to communicate, so the more you use it for that purpose (instead of purely academic analysis), the better your grasp on it will be

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Langblr Word of the Day Challenge “Grá“

Today’s word of the day of this challenge is “love”, which translates to grá in Gaeilge. My fav Irish song around the matter is “Cé a chuirfidh tú liom“ performed by Arcanadh; it’s incredibly mellow and comforting.

An grá - love An chroí - heart An mian - desire (as a strong wish, longing for sth) Grá agus gean - love and affection Is é mo ghrá - he is my love Is í mo ghrá - she is my love

Tá sé /Tá sí dúnta i ngrá le... - He/she is madly in love with... Thit mé i ngrá le... - I fell in love with... Thit tú/sé/sí i ngrá le... - You/he/she fell in love with... A (name), a chroí - my dear (name); directly tranlsates as (name), my heart Is é mian a chroí é - it’s his heart’s desire