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Monday Night Irish Class, April 28, 2008
What is in a name?
Monday Night Irish Class — April 21, 2008
Irish class, April 21, 2008
Irish class, April 21, 2008
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Bígi reidh le caint ar rud suimiúil atá ar siúl.
Be prepared to talk about something interesting that is happening.
I thought about saying something about the weekend’s activities with
colgaffneyis, but quickly rejected that–it is hard enough to
explain as Bearla (in English). Instead:
Tá orm strus mór ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc. Is tíoránach suarach é.
Is fuath le na hoibrithe é. Beidh agam bainisteoir nua go luath b’fhéidir.
| Tá a fhios agam go ____ | I know that _____ |
| beidh tú i d’aonar | you will be alone (lit. “in your oneness”) |
| pléigh | discuss |
| de ghnáth | usually |
| ullmhaigh | prepare |
Indirect Speech
Show Time!
Again following-up on last night’s post from mia_mcdavid, yesterday we loaded colgaffneyis trailer for our first camping show of the season, in Charles City, Iowa. Setup is Thursday evening, down there. I am busy Monday (Irish Class), Tuesday (colgaffneyis dance), and Wednesday (Church choir), so I got my traveling woodworking kit together (I hope) this afternoon, and did most of my other packing this evening.
Not bad
I took another look at that list of projects that I mentioned earlier today. I have finished 11 out of 14. Of course, I can think of a few additions….
Monday Night Irish Class–ongoing
I have updated my notes on Gaeilgeoirí through this past Monday’s class.
Monday Night Irish Class, April 14, 2008
Dialects
Monday Night Irish Class, April 7, 2008
Irish class, April 7, 2008
Irish class, April 7, 2008
The first exercise was to take three scrambled sentences from an article
in Lá and put them back in order, without using our dictionaries.
The general form is:
- Verb
- Subject or subject Phrase. The noun will be in the nominative case.
- One of more of:
- Direct object
- Preposition phrase
- Adverbial Phrase
- Possibly a dependent clause. Look for go, nach or a+verbal noun. Then analyze as above.
It is a lot harder than it sounds, after step 1.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 