February 25, 2008

Irish Class, February 25, 2008.

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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.

• m1 nouns use the same form for the genitive singular and the nominative
  plural (slenderize the final consonant).
• In Munster initial bh- is pronounced /v/ even as a broad consonant,
  instead of /w-/.

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Next was a review of
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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.

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Irish Class. February 11, 2008

Irish Class, February 11, 2008

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The first exercise was about asking each other various questions

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Irish Class, Monday night, Feb. 4, 2008

Irish Class, February 4, 2008

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Irish Class, Monday night, January 28, 2008

Irish Class, 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

some vocabulary

Irish Class, January 14, 2008

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”.

• léine “shirt”
• briste “trousers”
• cóta “coat”
• gúna “dress”
• stoca “stocking”
• sciorta “skirt”
• geansaí “sweater”

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.

Irish Class. January 7, 2008

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.

Then he did a couple exercises where he described a
scene as Gaeilge and we tried to draw a picture of it.

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