Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 My fiance and I have decided we're going to learn irish... and attempt to make our main language of communication Irish whenever possible. Irish in the home. Latin in the Church. English in the world. It's gonna be uber cool... yeah, that was german, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catholicinsd Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 [quote name='Aloysius' post='1182372' date='Feb 1 2007, 03:54 PM'] My fiance and I have decided we're going to learn irish... and attempt to make our main language of communication Irish whenever possible. Irish in the home. Latin in the Church. English in the world. It's gonna be uber cool... yeah, that was german, whatever. [/quote] why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1618 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 [quote name='Aloysius' post='1182372' date='Feb 1 2007, 04:54 PM'] My fiance and I have decided we're going to learn irish... and attempt to make our main language of communication Irish whenever possible. Irish in the home. Latin in the Church. English in the world. It's gonna be uber cool... yeah, that was german, whatever. [/quote] Good Luck at that. Irish looks really hard to learn but if you can do it that's amazingly cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 I think the hardest thing will be pronunciations and some of the different odd mutations. The conjugations are much like in english, with very little variation among the persons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 you mean Gaelic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 yes; Irish gaelic. I used to talk about wanting to learn gaelic around my fiance... so for a gift she got me a book for gaelic... but it was about Scottish Gaelic. so I got a book that just says Irish, so I figured it's better to just say Irish so people know what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eilis Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I think that's amazing! My father is fluent in Irish, I study it myself. It's a beautiful, beautiful language. Very difficult to learn, but I think you'll find that it's definitely worth it. Any effort we can make to preserve the heritage! I was wondering if you know anything about the hunger strikers and what many of the prisoners did in the 80s to learn Irish in prison? My father was one of them, it's a big reason why I'm so dedicated to learning the language. Go mbeannai Dia thu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel's angel Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) What sort of Irish?? It differs hugely from area to area. I must say, my Irish is not the best. I do feel ashamed sometimes. It's always good to learn new languages Keeps the brain in tune Edited February 1, 2007 by Noel's angel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 I'm following the spoken form as set by the Linguistics Institute of Irleand in 1986 (according to the book I'm using, anyway)... and of course the official standard form adopted in the late 40's. I don't know what area's dialect I'll end up closest to... probably whereever the speaker on my audio CD is from lol I'm havin a hard time hearing the difference between a slender L and a broad L... let alone pronouncing the difference (cause I can't even tell the difference ) if I can pin the pronunciation, though, my previous experience as regards systematically approaching languages will probably help me pick up on its structure quick... especially the conjugations as they seem a lot easier than conjugations in other languages (more like english). the mutations are kind of like an easier form of noun declensions. it's this pronunciation which is gonna hold me up the most, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 You would think a young married couple could find better things to do.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 lol... you forget: we're a young ENGAGED couple likely facing a LONG engagement... we've got lots of time on our hands that must pursue non-married-couple projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 [quote name='Aloysius' post='1182512' date='Feb 1 2007, 07:29 PM'] lol... you forget: we're a young ENGAGED couple likely facing a LONG engagement... we've got lots of time on our hands that must pursue non-married-couple projects. [/quote] I figured you were tlking about after you were married. How long are you planning this engagement for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 well we want to learn the language now, so that by the time we are married we are able to speak totally in irish between ourselves. we don't have a date; but certain college ambitions (mostly hers, I'd give up college in a heartbeat if we could marry now) and family expectations (mostly, from her family) may push it back quite a while. I originally wanted it by next year at the latest, but it may sadly be longer than that... I don't know. like I said before, out of all the phatmassers who are currently engaged: I was first but will probably be last to the altar. it's already been more than a year since I proposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catholicinsd Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Again Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTrishaxLynnx Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I think it would be really cool to learn a language with your significant other, one that isn't common so that you can speak to each other and only you two will know what it means. Very romantic sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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