Irish Class, June 16, 2008
The big news is that Nick is leaving us in August. He got a job out east. It has been a great year, and we will miss him. However, he is a new Ph.D. in History, and we have to be happy that he has a job in his field.
From Nick’s class
page:
“….listen to a set of verbs and nouns that have an
initial mutation (usually lenition, but not always), recognize the root
word, and write down that root. “
Irish Class, June 2, 2008
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Nick was out this evening, but he left us some exercises to work on. The
first was a set of conversational questions for us to answer and discuss
as Gaeilge.
I skipped Irish class last night to stay home with mia_mcdavid. We had a good evening together.
This was a great event for colgaffneyis. Continue reading
Irish class, May 12, 2008
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We began with an English→Irish translation exercise. Not a lot of restrictions; just use
whatever Irish we could to give the general sense. Even so, this was quite hard.
Irish class, May 5, 2008
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First exercise. Two lists of foods, in Irish and in English, but not in the
same order. We had to match them up, doing as much as possible without the dictionary.
(Bealtaine/May blessings to you!)
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