an ghlúin nach ea?

Aililiú!

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

I finished chapters 5 and 6 on the perfect tense and the verbal noun and thought that I'd check in. It seemed like Chapter 6 added a lot more vocabulary words than previous chapters and the verb forms that it introduced gave me fits until I went back and drilled myself on the different endings and particles. Personally, I'm finding up to this point that the verb forms and other features of the language make the Irish --> English exercises a breeze but make getting the English -->Irish portion of the exercises a complete bastard to get completely correct. I always manage to forget a particle, screw up some lenition/eclipsis rule or not put a noun in the proper case, even though I don't have any problem recognizing these things in the Irish. I managed to get most of the questions in exc. 14 in Chpt. 6 wrong in some way or other (though I was having to rush a little more than I would have liked) after not making any mistakes on the Irish to English portion. On the whole, things are moving along smoothly enough, though. Probably the biggest flaw with TYI is that there aren't enough exercises to really master the material.

So, that's 6 chapters down and 21 to go. I keep hoping that I'll find some time to jump ahead a few chapters, but it hasn't happened yet.

I had the same problem with the limited exercises. I have taken to using exercises from the Basic Irish and Intermediate Irish units that cover whichever grammar point, just for the practice. Only problem is it's standard Irish, but if one is careful about that it helps. Well, it helps me, anyway.

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Táim ag foghlaim Gaelainn na Mumhan

Tá fáilte roim nach aon cheartú!
I am a learner. Any translations offered are practice and should not be used unless confirmed.

Well I'm reading it at the moment, I really want to get my hands on the original printing, but I have to say Amhlaoibh is some character, he's very descriptive in the sex scenes! I must post up some of the short historically interesting sections for people here. Funnily enough, in one part he makes love in front of a waterfall (Eas) with some local girl (not his wife, who was off somewhere else), however on first reading I understood it as weasal (also Eas) and I thought "They had sex in front of a big weasal, what?!". Luckily the article (an t-eas, not an eas) clued me in soon enough!

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Now, there's a tattoo request we are unlikely to get here on ILF!

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This Amhlaoibh does sound like a bit of an eas.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Well, if you do, I can be relied on to give you it in genuine 19th century Déise Irish.


He certainly is.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

A Chairde,
Dia daoibh.

It is good to be back.
I lost my hard disc, and everything on it, but fortunately, I did have some, if not all backed up, but I lost this site, and only found it again by accident.
TYI1961 has been updated.
It is now available as a stand alone pdf with the sound files cut to bite size, and fitted to the text more closely.
I found errors in the sound files in the process, but have not been able, or inclined to correct the old version, so it is now downgraded to beta. You can find the lates version on archive.org:
http://archive.org/details/TeachYourselfIrish
I have also done much collecting, and there is a considerable collection in my library which you can find at:
https://www.box.com/s/2e516599abbe49553576

I got involved in retypesetting, working on the Latin Diatessaron, my translation into English of which, you can find at:
http://archive.org/details/TheForgottenGospel

And having found Father Peter O'Leary's Gospels, I have started to do the Irish translation. The workfiles can be seen at:
https://www.box.com/s/pzq9zhi6y2f940r25oqg
Though over 95% of this latter task is just substituting Irish texts for equivalent English texts, referencing the Latin if in doubt, this is just a retypesetting operation, but there will be places where the system fails, and there I will need help.

Many of the books I have retypeset contain errors. My work is NOT perfect.
If you find any, PLEASE tell me so I can fix them.

Is mise, le meas,
Deghebh.

Now up to page 49
There are some complex sutures, (joinings), and I do need help.
Work files can be seen at:
https://www.box.com/s/pzq9zhi6y2f940r25oqg
Le meas,
Deghebh.