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PostPosted: Mon 26 Mar 2012 4:38 am 
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Féabar wrote:
This is good counsel from Brendan. He told me this when I started studying and I thought he was a crazy man from Oz or something, but he was right. Stick with the spellings and study the pronunciations closely. In time it will become very predictable. In addition you might want to sign up to get a word each day on http://www.talkirish.com That way you can click the audio file and look at the sentence for the day. It'll get you used to the spelling. It worked for me.

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Ag obair liom i gconaí,
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There is a lot of good material on the site that Féabar has provided, not least of which is Buntús Cainte which has a very good level of unanglicized pronunciation of standard Irish and a step-by-step introduction to everyday vocabulary and sentence structure through small conversations.

Hakavon, you should be wary of people claiming to be "native" speakers on the web. Many make that claim based solely on the fact that they were born in Ireland, even though their first language is actually English. Often their Irish is anglicized. If possible you should seek material by Gaeltacht natives until you learn to distinguish the anglicized Irish from the Gaeltacht Irish yourself.

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[quote="Breandán

Hakavon, you should be wary of people claiming to be "native" speakers on the web. Many make that claim based solely on the fact that they were born in Ireland, even though their first language is actually English. Often their Irish is anglicized. If possible you should seek material by Gaeltacht natives until you learn to distinguish the anglicized Irish from the Gaeltacht Irish yourself.[/quote]

I do hope that wasn't meant as a dig at Bitesize. The founder of that program's first language is, actually, Irish...not English. His dialectical roots are in Kerry, but he doesn't see a need to be dialect-exclusive, which is why the program aims at being as dialect-neutral as is reasonably possible.

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