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Redwolf · **Posted:** Sat 23 May 2015 12:43 am

feadógaí wrote:

GRMA franc, for more leads on my favorite story. It would be interesting project to compare all these different versions, though at this point to read any one of them will be an aspiration/challenge project for me, working sentence by sentence with dictionary in hand. I've chased down both publications to add to my list, though.

And Redwolf, GRMA for the :good:

reference for An Siopa Gaeilge -- I love finding new overseas bookstores! It looks like they have all kinds of intriguing stuff to check out.

If you ever go to Oideas Gael, you'll find yourself spending a lot of time in there! It's a small shop, but they have just about everything! Both times I went, I traveled with a half-empty backpack because I knew I'd be traveling home with a lot of books and CDs. I'm like a kid in a candy store!

Redwolf

feadógaí · **Posted:** Mon 25 May 2015 8:29 pm

Redwolf wrote:

feadógaí wrote:

I was rewarded by finding a copy of this out of print bilingual story collection in the same store. It contains one of my favorite childhood fairy tales, Children of Lir, and I've attempted ordering it from a few other places, yet something has gone bizarrely awry each and every time (I mentioned this in my foclóir thread). So I'm not entirely willing to believe in this book either, until I open the package and hold it in my hands.
Favourite Irish Legends by Bairbre Mc Carthy

You'll have no trouble with An Siopa Gaeilge. Gearoidín, who runs the place, is really on the ball.

Gearoldin has been indeed totally on the ball: first off, she let me know they just sold their last copies. She went on to contact a couple of suppliers, and they were all out of it too. :darklaugh:

Clearly this particular book-sleuthing adventure of mine is cursed.

Well if anyone has a copy they'd like to sell, PM me... unless you're afraid the curse is contagious. I can vouch for it being a frustrating one! :bash:

franc 91 · **Posted:** Mon 25 May 2015 9:41 pm

Well it seems to be available from her own website and she's recorded a CD to go with the book.

www.bairbremccarthy.com/Favourite_Irish_Legends.html

feadógaí · **Posted:** Tue 26 May 2015 12:03 am

Awesome -- with a dual language CD available too! Let's hope she still has one left by the time I get my budget pulled back together. I bought that unexpected copy of de Bhaldraith, and I'm waiting for Paypal to refund me for this last failed attempt on McCarthy. And it's a banking holiday here in the US, augh!

feadógaí · **Posted:** Tue 26 May 2015 1:21 am

I've emailed her to ask if she still has these available. Her site's Buy links lead to a printable form and an address, not a web form.

Dáithí Mac Giolla. · **Joined:** Sat 01 Jun 2013 8:46 pm **Posts:** 466

I find Anki great for making glance cards with Audio. It also allows you to mark how well you get on with each card and how often it should be repeated.

Redwolf · **Posted:** Fri 29 May 2015 6:20 pm

Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:

I find Anki great for making glance cards with Audio. It also allows you to mark how well you get on with each card and how often it should be repeated.

True...but these are really more reference cards than what we'd call "flash cards" here. They're handy for quick look up when you need a filler phrase or you're not quite sure how to open or close a paragraph or you're looking for quick current events terms and don't want to plow through a dictionary.

Redwolf

feadógaí · **Posted:** Sat 30 May 2015 8:19 am

Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:

I find Anki great for making glance cards with Audio. It also allows you to mark how well you get on with each card and how often it should be repeated.

I would also call Anki flash cards rather than glance cards. But I totally agree with you on the usefulness of Anki's audio feature when learning a new language. What makes it even better is Anki's record feature, so you can play the card's audio, record yourself repeating it, and compare how the two sound. When I record myself, I often don't sound anywhere near as accurate as I thought I did. :cry:

I also have Anki create several cards from each vocabulary or sentence "Note". That way I can separate when I need more practice on spelling, or pronunciation, than I do in understanding the words or remembering them. Also by having more different kinds of cards, I'm less likely to get bored.

Dáithí Mac Giolla. · **Joined:** Sat 01 Jun 2013 8:46 pm **Posts:** 466

The only major downside is you can out in something which is just completely wrong and then have to try and unlearn it.
But that can also happen with notes I take down in class, I often come back, open up my book and wonder what the hell it was i was trying to write down.

Redwolf · **Posted:** Mon 01 Jun 2015 4:47 pm

Dáithí Mac Giolla. wrote:

The only major downside is you can out in something which is just completely wrong and then have to try and unlearn it.
But that can also happen with notes I take down in class, I often come back, open up my book and wonder what the hell it was i was trying to write down.

That happens to me with songs! Back when I was first learning Irish, I learned a couple of songs from a CD recorded by a person who, for some reason, pronounced "maith" as "mee." I don't have a problem with the pronunciation of the word when I'm speaking, but if I try to sing those particular songs, that word wants to come out as "mee," even though, after 11 years of studying Irish, I definitely know better!

Redwolf

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