Irish Class, September 14, 2009
Rang Gaeilge, 14ú lá Mí Mheán Fómhair 2009
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Wes was out, so we joined Will’s class. We started with Teacht
Google Gaeilge, imeacht tionscal an aistriucháin? This was a look at Google’s
computer tranlation service. Looking at the computer’s results meant that this was definitely a
“feel good” exercise :-)> We spent some time analyzing the mistakes it made.
| coicís | fortnight | |
| fáilte … roimh | Welcome | (plural) cf. fáite … romhat |
| sinn | we | = muid |
| i rith [+ gen.] | during | |
| rith sé liom | it occurred to me | |
| ghnólachtaí aistriuchain |
translation business | |
| saor | free, cheap | |
| saor in aisce | free | in the sense of money Corrected. Thanks, mobhlog |
| Ni fheadair | don’t know | |
| is cuma liom faoi … | it doesn’t matter to me about … |
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| ar shlí | in a way | |
| cáipéis | document | |
| lucht | group of people | with something in common |
| lucht éisteacha | audience | |
| Páirtí an lucht oibre | Labor party | |
| éinne | anybody | ← aon duine |
| smaoineamh | thought, idea | m1 |
| fánach | wandering, straying | |
| Níl ann ach smaoineamh fánach agamsa | Just a stray thought I had | |
| luaigh | mention | v |
| luaim | I mention | |
| ceap | think, invent | |
| cheapfainn | I would think | conditional |
| borradh | growth, expansion | |
| ceartúch´n | correction | m1 |
Just for laughs: I plugged my “fable”
into Google’s service:
Cat was someone on the side of the bhótair. The cat was
dead and the-plánach. He remembered not the large road laws. Is it any cat person now.
Or contestation by truck. The truck is sure to win.
To be absolutely fair, I will
try this again after Wes and the class have corrected my Irish.
The next part was a listening exercise: We listen to a reading of the fable An Sionnach is
an Cat (“The fox and the cat”). We had the text in front of us, but many of the words were blanked
out. Our task was to fill in the blanks based on what we heard. Will played the recording
several times. I did not do well at this.
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