A chairde,
I haven’t been here in some time. Ashamed to to say that for numerous reasons my Irish has been sitting on a shelf for the past four years. This is mostly due to hitting a hard spot in my learning; there are no learning groups around here, and my dear friend who was a native speaker moved back to Ireland. My Irish is all over the place (I’ve at least narrowed it down to wanting to focus on a Donegal / Gweedore dialect), and I felt like I didn’t know how to move forward at all beyond continuing to listen to RnaG a few times a week.
After a bit of debate I’ve decided to order Ó Donaill’s Gaeilge gan Stró and give that a try, and am going to revisit Speaking Irish: An Ghaeilge Bheo as well. In the meantime, while I try and find a DVD player for Speaking Irish and wait for the other to be delivered, I’m, however foolishly, diving head-first into book of short stories by Liam Ó Flaithearta that my native speaker friend gifted me a few years ago. If I can manage to get through the first one (Dúil) I’ll be thrilled.
Would be okay to post my progress on here and offer it up for correction? I have a sense of guilt over this because it seems very tedious and as if I’m asking a lot, but I could use some real help and don’t have anywhere else to turn for it. Only two paragraphs in and I’m already getting tripped up - but I’m really determined to get through this and use those trip-ups to learn things along the way.
Right now I’m using google docs for this. If it’s better for me to post it straight to the forum rather than linking to the document that’s fine too - just let me know.
Also - if anyone has any further suggestions, please let me know. (I’m saving all my pennies to do the immersion course at Oideas Gael next summer, fingers crossed!)
Here’s the small bit I have from this evening:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J53s8Hby8UuNInM6ied79P1bC_h-cteD7T74VLaXJgE/edit?usp=sharingGo raibh míle míle míle maith agaibh as ucht bhur gcúnamh!