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oidheadh-con-culainn · 10 months ago

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the trouble with learning a minority language is that once you've hit the upper-intermediate stage of actually reading books in the language and so on, it doesn't take very long to exhaust the books at your level that you have any interest in whatsoever, and then there aren't any more. so you read the ones you're not really interested in, but that feels like Work, because you're not really interested in them. but it doesn't exactly get better as you get more advanced because even the more difficult books tend not to correspond too closely to your preferred genres

#there's a serious lack of queer historical romance as gaeilge i'll tell you that #or yunno queer genre fiction in general :/#RIP #i haven't completely exhausted my book collection but the number of unread books is shrinking #and most of the others available at my reading level are translations #which a) i tend to find have harder language relative to the level of the story #and b) don't feel as helpful in learning the rhythms of storytelling in the languages #i will read them but i want more original fiction to read too #probs gonna have to email an siopa leabhar and be like. help me. i need you to send me more books #personal #néide ag foghlaim gaeilge #i'm pretty sure that tag is grammatically incorrect but blame me from three years agp

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