[langue-etrangere-deactivated201]

Buzzfeed says “if you can get at least 12 correct, you’re probably a genius.” Well, I think Langblr can get twelve, easily :P

[languagesanddoggos]

Add “why weren’t you at elf practice” in your target/native language

Finnish: Miksi et ollut tonttuharjoituksissa?

[culmaer]

Afrikaans: waarom was jy nie by kabouterrepetisie nie?

[gutrazdaofficial]

Gothic: "duhve ni wast at usþrôþein albê?"

[loveslanguages-deactivated20181]

What does “aaibaar” mean?

if someone describes something as “aaibaar” does it mean that it‘s very soft?

[culmaer]

I believe “aaien” means to stroke or pet (like eg. stroking a kitten), so if something is “aaibaar” it means you would stroke it ? and so it probably would be very soft

I’m not a native speaker though…

[loveslanguages-deactivated20181]

Ah thank you! I think youre right, although it seems like a strange word to me haha

[culmaer]

on the question of softness though, I’ve just been wondering : if you were to run your hand over a pangolin or an iguana… would that not count as stroking/aaien ?

they’re not particularly soft ; not in the usual sense. maybe it’s more about adorableness ?? but even then, is an iguana adorable ?

[gutrazdaofficial]

maybe it means something you'd especially *want* to pet? just like you *could* eat paper, but we don't think of it as edible, because paper isn't really something people *wantj to eat, under typical circumstances.

[pkeoj-deactivated20190117]

I think the only kinda lame thing about latin is that I can’t ask natives for help. Like, what am I gonna do? Raise someone from the dead?

[salvadorbonaparte]

a cool thing I learned in introduction to Hispanic culture today

which I hope someone with more knowledge can confirm:

during the Franco era (fascist dictatorship in Spain) speaking Catalán was outlawed but what did people do? They founded hiking clubs so they could just walk around remote areas where no-one could control them

which I think is pretty badass, you go Catalans!

[thelanguagecommunity]

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Scottish Gaelic. It will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! also, please let me know if any of the links suddenly stop working.

courses

learngaelic

memrise

taic.me.uk [downloadable pdfs!]

dictionaries

a pretty big glossary

megapost of dictionaries

grammar

adjectives

articles

articles: forms

articles: nouns beginning with B,P,F,M

articles: nouns beginning with C,G

articles: nouns beginning with s

articles: nouns with initial vowel

articles: nouns in s followed by l, n, r or a vowel

articles: nouns with an article 

denoting possession

personal pronouns

possessive pronouns

syntax

literature

gutenberg - virtual library

poetry

songs

spiritual poems

news

bbc

pronunciation

consonant sounds

vowel sounds

quizzes & exercises

vocabulary games

radio

bbc

tumblrs

@ambi-alba

@sgribhisg

verbs

dependent form of the verb “bi”

verb forms

vocabulary

wiki phrasebook

swadesh list

[ayeforscotland]

GET LEARNING FOLKS💪

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

Another thing I’ve realized about academia recently is that you and your advisor form part of an intellectual lineage, going back through your advisor’s advisor to your advisor’s advisor’s advisor, theoretically all the way back to the beginning of the modern Western academic system.

[salvadorbonaparte]

conculture idea where your intellectual lineage is as important as your family lineage and is included in the family tree

[gutrazdaofficial]

1. that would be so cool

2. I think the Catholic church has a similar thing with bishops or some such?

[salvadorbonaparte]

I have no idea about catholicism but think about how cool it would be to introduced as “child of XY, protège (or however they’d express this) of AB”

Of course people usually have several teachers so there’d had to be a system of most recent and most relevant.

[gutrazdaofficial]

maybe in this society there would be tutors who would be assigned to a student, if that makes sense? there might be a certificate someone achieves in their preferred area of study and they're spoken of as the student of the tutor that was with them when they achieved the certificate

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

Another thing I’ve realized about academia recently is that you and your advisor form part of an intellectual lineage, going back through your advisor’s advisor to your advisor’s advisor’s advisor, theoretically all the way back to the beginning of the modern Western academic system.

[salvadorbonaparte]

conculture idea where your intellectual lineage is as important as your family lineage and is included in the family tree

[gutrazdaofficial]

1. that would be so cool

2. I think the Catholic church has a similar thing with bishops or some such?

[gutrazdaofficial]

this blog could use a real makeover so I’m going to update my theme, then reintroduce myself because hopefully I can get back into it...um, yeah, that’s the tea

[gutrazdaofficial]

dark langblr show me the tips for learning dead languages because how am i gonna talk to native speakers

[salvadorbonaparte]

✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and out 💛✨

I am not on mobile so just pretend I added lots of heart emojis!!!!! Thanks!!!

I will do it like ma friend @rivkahstudies and include them here to make it easier

Rivkah I didn’t want to tag you twice so feel included pls, @welsh-n-stuff @the-polyglot-wannabe @14august14 @gutrazdaofficial @silveraspens @fictionbanshee @jibbbbbbbbl 

[souffle-trys-to-language]

Langblr community, reblog this and tag your favourite area of languages to learn (germanic, slavic, romance, African, etc)

[ipablo6-blog]

language learning made easy

I’ve summarized professor  Alexander Arguelles’ video, because I think this is crucial for language learning. 

There is no magic trick that will help you become fluent in 1 month, but there are very effective approaches to learning a new language and if you combine them, you will surely become fluent.

If you’re learning a new language, the most important thing you need to consider is – what type of language learner are you? 

1. If you:

have a more deductive approach, which means that you’re better at listening to and observing the language first and learning through that, rather than starting with plain grammar points from a textbook

have a fair degree of intuition

like to observe a phenomenon

feel somewhat comfortable with ambiguity for a while, until things become clear

are someone who can feel comfortable being corrected when they realize they were wrong, rather than getting confused and frustrated because they went down an initial path that turned out not to be correct (so you actually learn from being corrected and you don’t get confused by it)

then, these manuals are best suited for you: the Assimil Language Series, the Linguaphone Series, the Cortina Methods.

2. If you:

have a desire to have things explained to you beforehand in a nice and clear way

have a logical and analytical mind (which is usually the product of education in general)

have a need for a systematic approach (basically if you’re most comfortable with a book which is going to introduce the grammar according to an agreed set of methods or an organized plan)

then, you should try out some of these manuals: the Hugo Series, the Made Simple Series, the Teach Yourself Series, the Buske Series. 

3. PAY ATTENTION TO PATTERNS!!!

the most important part are the patterns of a language

no matter what type of language learner you are, I think it’s really clever to incorporate this method into you learning. 

a language is actually made up of patterns which constantly repeat themselves and that is THE KEY TO FLUENCY

repeating the patterns over and over again, until they become natural, until you no longer have to conjugate the verbs in your head before speaking

when you become really good with patterns, your sentences will come out naturally, and patterns are what will get you to fluency

I’ve provided the links, where you will find a review of the books, so that you can have an idea of what they look like. You can find most of these on amazon.

There is also an amazing blog on here, which provides free books, and I think that you can find half of these series for free there.  @lovelybluepanda

[gayforlangs]

IRISH IS SO BEAUTIFUL I THOUGHT IT LOOKED SO NOT PLEASANT BUT ITS SO CUTE SOMEONE PLS TEACH ME PLS SEND ME A MESSAGE IF YOU SPEAK IRISH OR KNOW GOOD RESOURCES

[gutrazdaofficial]

i actually just recently listed a few of the resources i use here, if you want i can give more in-depth opinions on them (as much as i can at least)

[gaeilge101]

Irish Language Resources

*[updated 5th/Oct/2017]*

DICTIONARIES

focloir.ie (search for words in English) + audio samples

teanglann.ie (search for words in Irish/English) + audio samples

tearma.ie (search for terms in Irish/English)

potafocal.com (dictionary)

dil.ie (dictionary of medieval Irish)

DATABASES

logainm.ie (placenames in English/Irish and their meanings)

ainm.ie (biographies in Irish)

PRONUNCIATION

teanglann.ie (sound samples)

forvo.com (sound samples)

smo.uhi.ac.uk (spelling and pronunciation)

wikibooks.org (spelling and pronunciation)

omniglot.com (spelling and pronunciation)

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

seachtain (online weekly newspaper)

nos.ie (online cultural magazine)

comhar.ie (online literary and current affairs magazine)

tuairisc.ie (online news magazine)

meon eile (belfast based news and videos)

nuacht1.com (gathers news from various online sources)

peig.ie (information hub and news source)

TV

tg4.ie (national Irish language tv station)

nuacht rté (rté news in Irish)

rté (rté website of articles/videos etc. in Irish)

bbc gaeilge (bbc’s Irish language content)

RADIO

raidió na gaeltachta (national Irish language station)

raidió na life (Irish language station located in Dublin)

raidió fáilte (Irish language station located in Belfast)

raidió rí-rá (Hit music station that broadcasts through Irish)

blas (bbc’s Irish language radio show)

raidió na dtreabh (online station based in Galway)

LANGUAGE COURSES

easy irish (basic online introduction to the language by rté)

duolingo (total beginner introduction + audio examples)

gaelchultúr (includes online course for adults + language level testing)

oideas gael (adult Irish language and cultural courses)

gael linn (courses for teenagers and adults)

daltai.com (language courses in usa/canada as well as other countries)

peig.ie (includes map with Irish courses, conversation circles, events, + summer camps)

YOUTUBE

now you’re talking! (complete Irish language learning tv show from the 1990s)

nuacht tg4 (official tg4 youtube channel)

clisare (youtuber, various videos teaching the language)

scúp (tv show about struggling Irish language newspaper in Belfast)

PODCASTS

beo ar éigean (podcast by rté)

motherfoclóir (podcast all about the language itself)

DOCUMENTARIES

des bishop: in the name of the fada (US/Irish comedian learns Irish for a year)

guth in eag? a lost voice (insight into the decline of the Tyrone native Irish)

an feidir linn? can we? (investigating the revival of the Irish language)

it’s a blas! (BBC NI presenter learns Irish to host radio show) [audio missing]

MOVIES

lipservice (short film)

yu ming is anim dom (short film)

cáca milis (short film)

clare sa spéir (short film)

poitín (first feature film entirely in Irish)

fíorghael (short film)

the wind that shakes the barley (available dubbed in Irish)

song of the sea (amhrán na mara) (animated movie available in Irish)

MUSIC

songsinirish.com (database of songs in Irish + English translations)

ceol’08 (Irish artists sing their songs in Irish)

tglurgan (language students perform popular hits in Irish)

rte2fm (various artists perform songs in Irish)

m. máire ó súilleabháin (Irish songs with translations)

SHOPS

siopa.ie (books, music, games and more)

cnagsiopa.com (books, dvds and more)

anceathrupoili.com (bookshop)

udar.ie (games in the Irish language)

gael linn (includes shop with books, dvds and more)

daltai.com (includes shop with some learning books)

cló lar-chonnacht (music, books)

SELF-LEARNING

rosetta stone (software or online)

living language Irish (books, cds, online, apps)

linguashop (software, cds, books)

MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING

mylanguages.org (basic introduction to various parts of the language)

omniglot.com (history of the language, vocabulary)

duolingo.com (course aimed at complete beginner, audio examples)

101languages.net (beginner overview)

wikibooks.org (beginnger course)

irishcultureandcustoms.com (phrases, vocabulary)

OFFICIAL ORGANISATIONS

foras na gaeilge (responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout Ireland)

gaeilge.ie (information on Irish language organisations and services)

seachtain na gaeilge (Irish language week: annual national event)

udaras.ie (includes brief history of the language)

coimisineir.ie (includes more brief history)

APPS

getthefocal (two way translator)

cúla4 (aimed at children who are native speakers)

OTHER

list of Irish language media (wikipedia page)

ga.wikipedia.org (wikipedia in Irish)

abair.tcd.ie (turn written Irish text into speech)

lexilogos.com (many useful links!)

[finnlongman]

Ah yes, that well known story, The Future Tense in Modern Irish. A classic.

(I really like how this phrasing invites a comparison between “the future tense” and “the tragic death” because that sums up my experience of studying Irish pretty well.)

[gaeilgecymraeg]

Help me find Irish Resources Online Free?

I’m probably DUMB for asking this but like I haven’t been able to find that many? If anyone knows of any Irish resources online for free (preferably more comprehensive material) please let me know!

[gutrazdaofficial]

I remember this site was pretty comprehensive, but it's covered in ads now so beware: http://www.nualeargais.ie/gnag/gram.htm?artikel.htm

And this is by far the best online dictionary I've seen, it's got example sentences, pronunciation, basically everything you'd need: http://www.teanglann.ie/ga/

You can also find free pdfs online of Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook and Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook by Nancy Stenson, which are pretty good.

Here's another pdf, Buntús na Gaeilge, which focuses on the Ulster dialect but also teaches Connacht and Munster forms: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~hillers/BUNTUS-1.pdf

The Wikipedia page for Irish syntax is also pretty good: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_syntax

And then on Youtube you can find the series Now You're Talking, which has Welsh and Irish versions. It focuses on conversational Irish, and I haven't seen much of it but based on my experience with the Welsh series you might as well check it out. It also focuses on Ulster, at least at first.

I actually learned most of the Irish I know from Duolingo, and I don't know much of it, but once I start again soon, I'll just be buying books from Amazon. You might want to do that once you get far enough that you'd like to commit to Irish, since there's not much online. A book that's pretty popular is Learning Irish by Micheál Ó Siadhail, which is definitely not for beginners and teaches the Cois Fharraige dialect, which is notoriously strange compared to the others.