#learn irish

[to-the-starlit-west]

[kelmenton]

A pronunciation guide for all of the Irish words & names in A Fix of Light! ☘️🦊🫶🏻🌈

Bród shona daoibh!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

[24hoursgyear]

First doodled/illustrated pic of some of the notes I've been taking. Today is various ways of saying bye along with their meanings and pronunciation. I'll probably go sketchier/simpler for future notes to save on time but had this silly idea so it'd stick in my head.

If you have any suggestions or more variants feel free to send them! I'll try to include those on future notes. I'm not really a linguist and this is the first language I'm trying to learn, since I was raised with English. I'm not really too aware of the three different dialects of Ireland either but will appreciate learning them even though I'm mostly on the basics of the language.

[kaityslangblr]

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[caodhanthecelt]

Hey Irish langblr, anyone know any shows on Netflix or something that are as gaeilge but that I can watch with English subtitles?

I wanna get more immersion but my Irish isn't good enough to just watch/listen with no English

Go raibh maith agaibh!

[mysecretforests]

Ok, day six of sharing what I’ve learned of Irish. Today I’ll be sharing how to pronounce Irish Vowels (Which in hindsight probably should have been my first lesson...) The vowels come in long and short versions. Long vowels are marked with an acute accent. This accent is called a fada in Irish, a word which simply means long.

I’ll be formatting as follows: Vowel | Pronunciation (example)

Long vowels:

á | aw (as in “taw”)

é | ay (as in “hey”)

í | ee (as in “knee”)

ó | oh (as in “woe”)

ú | oo (as in “shoe”)

Short vowels:

a | uh (as in “ago”)

e | eh (as in “peck”)

i | ih (as in “in or pick”)

o | ah (as in “mock”)

u | uh (as in “put” or “muck”)

Then there are letter combos that are always pronounced as long vowels, though they don’t have the fada:

ae | ay (as in lae pronounced “lay”)

eo | oh (as in eol pronounced “ohl” (to rhyme with “hole”)

ao | ay or ee (as in lao pronounced either “lay” or “lee”, depending on dialect)

Hope this has helped someone else learning. (Again, if anyone following sees I’ve made a mistake, go ahead and politely inform me so that I can correct it so I don’t accidentally spread mis-information!)

Next lesson I think I’ll share about consonants.

[mysecretforests]

Lesson 5

Hello, here’s day five of posting what I’ve learned of Irish in case anyone else would like to follow along and learn together. Let’s learn how to ask who someone is.

(Again, if anyone following sees I’ve made a mistake, go ahead and politely inform me so that I can correct it so I don’t accidentally spread mis-information!)

Who is this? - Cé hé seo (kay hay shuh)

Cé = Who | hé seo = this is

Who are you? - Cé tusa (kay TU-sah)

Cé = Who | tusa = you

Who are they? Cé hiad (kay he-ahd)

Cé = Who | hiad = they

What is your name? - Cad is ainm duit (Cod is an-m wit)

Cad = What | is = is | ainm = name | duit = you