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Monday night Irish class, May 24, 2010

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Irish Class, May 24, 2010

Rang Gaeilge, 24ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2010

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This was an all-class event. All four classes met together in the room of the elementary class, the teacher of which was
wearing a T-shirt that said “Craic Addict”. The first part of the class was taken up by a crossword puzzle as Gaeilge and
another puzzle where the object was to guess the Irish word from a hint in English. The class was broken up in groups of about 5
students. Each group contained a mix of students from the various classes. The elementary students actually worked the
puzzles, while the more advanced students acted as resources and provided additional hints. We also passed on various sneaky
tricks words of wisdom about how to learn the language.
A few vocabulary and grammar notes

Irish Workshop, Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Spring workshop, April 24, 2010

Ceardlann, 24ú lá Mí na Aibreáin 2010

Gaeltacht Minnesota‘s Spring workshop at the University of St. Thomas.

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For the first time I was placed in the highest of the three levels. It was hard, but I don’t
think I did noticeably worse than my classmates. The emphasis was on conversation, which is the
weakest of my skills in the Irish language. In fact, I am not much of a conversationalist in English.

The first session was a set of get-acquainted questions. We went around and asked them to each other, to find out who had
done this or that. There was a question of who frequently went to the theater, and what play they had most recent seen. I commented:
Tá agam déagóir sa bhaile. Breathnaím dráma gach lá.

vocabulary

Monday night Irish class, April 12, 2010

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Irish Class, April 12, 2010

Rang Gaeilge, 12ú lá mí Aibreáin 2010

Fabhalscéal as Gaeilge / A fable in Irish

First draft here. This is the revision
with suggestions from Wes taken as September
21, 2009. I should have realized that Irish loan-words from English would follow British English usage. Additonal corrections
per Wes on April 12, 2010.

This is based on Eric Bogle’s song Nobody’s Moggy Now
(Lyrics), but is nowhere near as funny.

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