This is only a tiny bit off-topic...do kids in Ireland still learn to read an analog clock? If I were to write an article on "Telling time in Irish" for kids, will I be an anachronism if I base the lesson on a 12-hour clock?

Redwolf

I am sure they do. Saoirse introduced us to a book in Irish for doing exactly that some time ago.

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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).

Nope They still learn on one of those paper analog clocks that you can move the hands on . I just helped my cousin with the a chlogs last week

http://www.omahonys.ie/catalog/c%C3%A9n ... 26159.html

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"Cén t-am é?" le Siobhain Grogan ? Go hiontach !

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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).

I have a problem with that kind of clock (as is the case with lots of 'official' teaching aids) and so I often find myself making my own. I much prefer to have the numbers in written form - so that they naturally fit in with all the vocabulary and expressions that are associated with the activity of reading the time. I also make my own clock dominos and clock memory games with a similar presentation. Around the clock face are arranged at the appropriate places are placed - leath tar éis, ceathrú go dtí etc.

That book has the time written in words and numbers. The child puts the hands on the big clock where she thinks they should go (according to the little story) and then she can 'check' that she's correct against the picture under the flap which is in analogue and digital form. Each page adds another few sentences to the story and changes the time so the hands on the clock need to be changed each time to match. Making other games to help learn the time is a great idea as well. The more resources which are practical and hands on, the better.

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One game that might help with the terminology, at least, is "Midnight." That's a game we played when we were kids...you probably had a version of it yourselves. One kid is "it." The other kids line up on the other side of the room or yard from "it" and say "what time is it?" as they move a step closer. The kid who is "it "gives a time. This repeats over and over again, as the line of kids creeps ever closer. When "it" decides that they're close enough for him to catch one of them (or decides that the element of surprise is on his side) he yells "MIDNIGHT!" All the other kids have to make it back to the other side of the room or yard to be safe...the one "it" tags is the new "it."

Redwolf

We played a game like that in the schoolyard when I was very young. I don't remember what it was called. Other cultures too have it. This if from one of my favourite films The Orphanage -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2butfPWy ... re=related

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Our version of that was called "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?" and the "catch" word was "Dinnertime!".

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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).