Irish Class, March 3, 2008
The first part of class was a translation exercise, with a twist: We were given 12
simple sentences in Scottish Gaelic, and asked to produce the Irish
equivalent, and the English translation:
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We started with some number drills–
counting objects.
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When you use plural forms for counting you start at three, not two. In
Irish two takes the singular.
| aon bhád amháin | one boat | [or] |
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| uan | lamb | m1 |
| naoi n-uan | nine lambs | n- eclipses a vowel |
| capall | horse | m1 |
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There was some discussion of on-line resources.
Beo was particularly recommended.
With four students in the class, we split into two pairs. Each pair was given a theme for a dialog to compose. We then read them and the other pair had to figure out who we were and what we were talking about. My partner was JS, who had her notes from last September’s all class exercise on curses to add some spice to our contribution, a scene in a restaurant between a waiter and a customer.
Irish Class. February 11, 2008
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The first exercise was about asking each other various questions
Irish Class, Monday night, January 28, 2008
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Go raibh maith agat, a Lou!
We started with a picture description exercise. Nick showed some pictures, and we described
what we saw as Gaeilge
Late last week at work was difficult, and when I got home Friday night I was in something of a funk about all I had to do. However, I settled down to what had to be done, did it (insert Powdermilk Biscuits commercial) and had a good time.
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A cold weekend–high temperatures not much above 0oF/-18oC. Continue reading
The first part of the class was a game. Each of us was given a card with some general category. We had to come up with specific examples for that category. E.g. éadaí “clothes”.
Each of us would first say a few of our examples. The other class members would try to guess what the general category was. If they did not get it at first we would add more examples.
The second hour was spent beginning our reading of Gaeileoirí. My notes for that are here. I will be adding to them each week as we read the play.
While reading the first scene JS said that it sounded familiar. She had to leave early, but as we read the second scene I realize that three of us had seen it on video at last summer’s Winona workshop.
The opening hymn today in church was St. Patrick’s Breastplace. The English translation and the current tune are quite modern, but the Gaelic words were ancient in colgaffneyis time, originally in Old Irish. Continue reading
Irish Class. January 7, 2008
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Notes for a scéal, although I only used the first
two sentences in the conversational part of class
Tá orm strus mór ag obair. Tá agam bainisteoir olc. Is
tíoránach suarach é. Is fuath le na hoibrithe é. Teastaíonn post nua
uaim b’fhéidir
We played a couple rounds of 20 question (Who am I), with Nick
being the subject–some particular public figure. It became clear
that Nick sees a lot of People magazine and its kin than
the rest of us.
| fear gorm | black man (race). Lit. blue man | cf. Fórsaí gorma, “black forces” from December 3 |
| An bhfuil tú beo | Are you alive? |
Then he did a couple exercises where he described a
scene as Gaeilge and we tried to draw a picture of it.
