Irish class, May 12, 2008

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.

Some vocabulary and grammar notes

Irish class, May 5, 2008

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.

The list

Irish Class, April 28, 2008

Irish Class, April 28, 2008

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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.

Indirect Speech

Brother, can you paradigm?

I have updated my notes on Gaeilgeoirí through this past Monday’s class.

Irish Class, April 14, 2008

Irish Class, April 14, 2008

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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:

1. Verb
2. Subject or subject Phrase. The noun will be in the nominative case.
3. One of more of:
   • Direct object
   • Preposition phrase
   • Adverbial Phrase
4. 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.

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