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Yukito Yu

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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:17 am

I'll update this as much as I can, every time with new words. Usually they'll have a theme like weather or family. This is Irish Gaelic (As opposed to scottish or Welsh).

(Since Gaia doesn't do accents very well, I've omited the fadas)

Basic Irish Words

My name is Bob
Is Mise Bob (Pronounced: Ish Misha Bob)

Welcome
Failte (Pronounced: Fallcha)

Hello
Dia duit (Pronounced: Deeya Gooch)

Cheers
Slainte (Pronounced: Slanta)

Bye
Slan (Pronounced: Slawn)

Good
Go Maith (Pronounced: Goma)

Very Good
Go-han Maith (Pronounced: Go-han ma)

Thank You
Go Raibh Maith Agat (Pronounced: Go-rev-ma-haga)

Please
Le do thoil (Pronounced: ley-du-hull)

Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithsceal (Pronounced: Go ma lash-gail)

And
Agus (Pronounced: agus)

But
Ach (Pronounced: ack)

Big
More (Pronounced: more)

Small
Beag (Pronounced: bee-ogg)

Tall
Ard (Pronounced: ard)

Dirty
Salach (Pronounced: salock)

Clean
glan (Pronounced: glawn)

Weather

It Is...
Ta se... (Pronounced: Ta Shay...)

Windy
Gaofur (Pronounced: Gweefur)

Cloudy
Scammalach (Pronounced:Skamalack)

Dry
Tirim (Pronounced: Tear-im)

Wet
Fluich (Pronounced: Fluck)

Cold
Fuar (Pronounced: foor)

Warm
Te (Pronounced: teh)

Cool
Fionnuar (Pronounced: fin-or)

Outside
Amuigh (Pronounced: Am-wig)

Here
Anseo (Pronounced: Ansha)

Today
Inniu (Pronounced: In-new)

Isn't the weather nice?
Nach bhfuil an aimsir go brea? (Pronounced: Knock will an aim-sheer go bra)

It is cloudy
Ta se scammalach (Pronounced: Ta shay skamalack)

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:52 am

*applauds you* Great idea!

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Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:15 pm

I didnt even know they had a seperate language. o_o

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:38 pm

Scrait

I didnt even know they had a seperate language. o_o

Yep! smile It's the official language of Ireland and students need to learn it like Canadians need to learn French at school. (There are Irish Immersion and your regular Irish classes). About 10% of Ireland's population is fluent in the language and about 50% can speak some Irish.

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:56 am

I'm one of the 10%. Mainly because we never got tought it here in the North. I'm planning on going south or finding a place that teaches it,German,Dutch and other languages.

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:51 pm

There is no use what so ever for anyone to learn dutch. xD Unless you like to talk to me. domokun And nearly everyone in the Netherlands speaks atleast 1 other language good enough to point you to the closest person speaking it better. (:

Aldo

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:06 pm

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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:35 pm

OMYGAWD,

I'm so proud of you all. ^___^

YOU GOT IT RIGHT!

The accents aren't there, but they're right. WOW. x3

Let's see what I remember...

Uh,

Iren gab tach.

I believe that's how it's spelled, pronounced:

Iren go bra.

To mean:

Ireland is beautiful.

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:10 am

Alonthra

Is mᠬiom Gaelgie. I taught myself a good bit all through high school and now I am in Nova scotia learning more! I can't wait to do the summer abroad!!!

I'm glad you took the time to learn the language although I have to correst you on the spelling it's is maith liom although it's pretty much pronounced the same.

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:17 am

Yukito Yu

I'll update this as much as I can, every time with new words. Usually they'll have a theme like weather or family. This is Irish Gaelic (As opposed to scottish or Welsh).

(Since Gaia doesn't do accents very well, I've omited the fadas)

Basic Irish Words

My name is Bob
Is Mise Bob (Pronounced: Ish Misha Bob)

Welcome
Failte (Pronounced: Fallcha)

Hello
Dia duit (Pronounced: Deeya Gooch)

Cheers
Slainte (Pronounced: Slanta)

Bye
Slan (Pronounced: Slawn)

Good
Go Maith (Pronounced: Goma)

Very Good
Go-han Maith (Pronounced: Go-han ma)

Thank You
Go Raibh Maith Agat (Pronounced: Go-rev-ma-haga)

Please
Le do thoil (Pronounced: ley-du-hull)

Excuse Me
Gab mo leithsceal (Pronounced: Go ma lash-gail)

I'm so happy you took the time to post this although I have to make a few corrections:

It's Gabh mo leithsceal with a h and dia duit is pronounced deeya guitch and the pronounciation of is mise is...is mise not pronounced with a h sound.

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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:35 pm

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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:43 pm

Blue haired chipmunk

I'm so happy you took the time to post this although I have to make a few corrections:

It's Gabh mo leithsceal with a h and dia duit is pronounced deeya guitch and the pronounciation of is mise is...is mise not pronounced with a h sound.

Hi smile And thanks! But, remember, there are four dialects and I'm only posting one. I believe I learned it in Northern. So, if you are from Munster or other parts of the country, it will be pronounced differently, but you are right about the typo smile

(BTW, I updated!)

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:28 pm

I think after highschool Im going to go backpacking around southern Ireland, That would be so badass.

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:08 pm

More irish in that post then what I've learned after living my whole highschool career here.

I have an exemption from irish as I used to live in the us, and all my friends say it's absolute hell to learn. But it's certainly very fun to shnow off on the interet. xD

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