Hello all, looking for any links to any online Irish news paper.

Basically, I want to improve my ability to read and pronounce word structures as if I were fluent. I am nowhere close to fluency now; I'm at the very beginning stages of learning. But I am picking up new words every other day with BYKI Irish (which uses Connemara dialect) and I've also purchased Colloquial Irish.

If there's any site that offers news articles in Irish, preferably Connemara dialect that'd be great. As I've said, along with learning the grammar with CI, and picking up vocab with BYKI, I'd like to add a third element to my learning by being able to work with letter sounds and letter pairing sounds in words I have yet to learn. I know after doing this for some time, I'll improve more and more to the point where I'll be able to pronounce words/sentences/paragraphs perfectly even if I've never seen them before. If any other beginners would like to give that a go as well, I'm sure this post and any comments supplying sites for news outlets would help a great deal!

Thanks everyone!

Dia dhuit a chara

Have you tried looking at beo.ie or tuairisc.ie ?

Oh these are excellent! Go raibh maith agat!

Teanglann.ie is another excellent source for definitions, phrases, grammar, pronounciation etc.

For flashcards, I have found Anki.com to be quite helpful. You can create your own sets from Teanglann, Beo or any source. You can also set it up on an Ipad, Ipod Touch for practice "on the go"

Séamus

Definitely appreciate all of the sites (although the Anki site led me to a toy/model cars site lol), but I've actually been using Teanglann for about a day or two and it really helps immensely! For starters, as many non-native beginners we'll most likely encounter is the "Dia duit/dhuit" argument that I've seen quite a bit. Many videos don't state which dialect they are using so many argue over the "correct" pronunciation. Thanks to Teanglann, it offers the pronunciation of many words and phrases in each dialect. Unfortunately it doesn't have "Dia" or "duit" but I found words with similar spellings to use as examples.

For "Dia" the argument is between "Gia" or "Dia" as for pronunciation, but thanks to that site it really depends on the dialect so both are actually correct.

For the slender consonant "D", Ulster pronounces is like a "G", Connacht almost like a "dz" combination, and Munster like a "D". I find it cool how it progressively changes from the south to the north and it's not a dramatic change between consecutive dialects.

Sorry for the ranting, I'm the only one out of my friends and family who's picking up the language (which is a shame) and I have no one but you guys to talk about how much I'm learning and how excited I get when it all comes together and makes sense and everything just clicks! I'm sure this isn't the right post for a little lesson, but regardless I just couldn't stop typing!


Anyways, thanks so much for the sites! As you can see, they seriously do help!

There's also Forvo that you try and you also might find what you're looking for on YouTube, Vimeo etc where there are presentations of basic grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Have you looked at the Cic.ie bookshop - where they have various coursebooks for sale such as - Buntús Cainte ? There's also the section on learning materials here on this forum.

Ryboss21
Sorry about the ANKI site address. If you try www.ankisrs.net/ you will get information on the program including downloading.

Séamus