#the rest of my family is scottish/german jewish n somehow I have one (1) native argentinian abuela I’m really not sure how that one happened

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Wait. Your family spoke Syriac? Is that what you’re saying?

Not doubting, just looking for clarification.

I’ve been fascinated by the language and I wish that the Assyrians had an independent country again, they’ve been through no end of shit these last few centuries.

(I have several posts relating to them and the Syriac language, you can reblog them if you wish)

I’m an Irishman and I don’t speak a word of Irish, I’m generally bad at speaking other languages in general and it makes me feel dumb.

And the lessons in had in school never stuck with me.

Hence why I have plans to learn Armenian and Syriac.

not syriac! I’m also irish (american) :) a lot of my great/great-great grandparents moved over here bc they were in poverty in ireland during the era when the us was still really hostile to the irish, hence why they had to hide that fact. over just a couple generations they full on forgot the language. my grandpa (immigrated after serving in wwii) was sort of the only exception to that, he’s where I learned most of my irish culture knowledge from