Category Archives: Gaeilge

Irish Proficiency Test

Posted by maca on August 18, 2005 11 comments

Via Something Interesting Happens Everyday I discovered this Irish Proficiency Test from Transparent Language. These sort of tests are excellent for showing you just how crap you are at a language. I got about a quarter of the way down when I got depressed and gave up. Give it a go though, it’s a good [...]

Progress in Irish: Lesson 5

Posted by maca on August 18, 2005 8 comments

Lesson 5 of Progress in Irish.

Progress in Irish: Lesson 4

Posted by maca on August 13, 2005 6 comments

Lesson 4 of Progress in Irish. Tá conjugation: present tense

Progress in Irish: Lesson 3

Posted by maca on August 6, 2005 2 comments

Lesson 3 of Progress in Irish. More vocabulary: nouns and adjectives

Progress in Irish: Lesson 2

Posted by maca on August 2, 2005 Comments Off

Lesson 2 of Progress in Irish. Another simple one…

Progress in Irish: Lesson 1

Posted by maca on July 29, 2005 0 comments

This is the very first lesson of Progress in Irish. It would be handy if you had the text as I don’t think I will be posting the sections ‘Learn’ or ‘Read’. Progress in Irish (Máiréad Ní Ghráda ) is published by The Educational Company (ISBN 0-86167-159-7) and available from any of the Irish online book stores.

New content for Ráiméis

Posted by maca on July 29, 2005 13 comments

As well as a new blog script I have also been planning some new content for Ráiméis. When it comes to learning languages (in this care Irish) motivation (or rather lack of-) is a big problem. I have all the books/tapes etc but never use them. So a couple of week ago I decided that [...]

Dingle Dangle

Posted by maca on July 19, 2005 6 comments

It’s still in the news, the not very exciting Dingle-An Daingean debate. It’s the first story which caught my eye this morning via Back Seat Drivers via Irish Blogs. The latest info is that Kerry County Council have decided yesterday that a poll should be held to see if the west Kerry town’s original placename [...]

Is Brendán talking through his Erse?

Posted by maca on June 27, 2005 2 comments

I’d heard via Slugger that the Sunday Indo launched a ‘stinging editorial on the EU’s recognition of the Irish language’ so I went asearching. I don’t know if this is the one Mick was referring to but Brendan O’Connor has cúpla focal [registration cheat] to say. It’s quite possible the article is tongue in cheek [...]

Forrin keyboards

Posted by maca on June 27, 2005 1 comment

You have possibly noticed that on every forum or mailing list where you are likely to get some Irish somebody has raised the question of how to add fadas. And in response people have posted all kinds of solutions like using a character map, or downloading keyboard layouts or using Alt Gr, or even using [...]