Irish Translation Forum

Somhairle wrote:- If they just sit there staring at you with a quizical look on their face then you may need a wee more practice -

What if you get yourself a stupid dog? They never learn anything.

Hallo,

well this thing with the madra is, that it really works.

I have a japanese dog born here (8 months old puppy) and practise japanese with him. And if I pronounce it correct, he looks curious with his head turned sidewards (cute! like a teddy bear) or opens his mouth and lets his tongue hang around, what looks like smiling.

This is usefull if you need a nice picture of the pet. I can imagine that working with Irish too.

Elisa

Would anyone suggest the software from the site? I may get it for Christmas

I don't know if any of you have seen this, but I've been using it to convert Real audio files (Raidió na Gaeltachta) to normal wav. files so that I can burn them to CD's. Really good for a long journey:

http://www.freecorder.com/

I would deffinately as you can download it for free, open it up, and then go to settings and change the audio line to microphone, so it records what is playing on your speakers.

I hope this suggestion isn't too obvious, but O'Dónaill's dictionary, Irish-English, is invaluble (at least to me). It has the genitive and plural of each noun; irregular verbs in most of the tenses; and loads of information on prepositions (like all the prepositional pronouns and suchlike). It's got lots of nice little phrases and constructions too. I can't say I know where to get it outside of Ireland though ...

http://www.litriocht.com/ (for anyone who may be casually reading through)
I'm saving up for that one as we "speak" . . .

David

blixt wrote:I hope this suggestion isn't too obvious, but O'Dónaill's dictionary, Irish-English, is invaluble (at least to me). It has the genitive and plural of each noun; irregular verbs in most of the tenses; and loads of information on prepositions (like all the prepositional pronouns and suchlike). It's got lots of nice little phrases and constructions too. I can't say I know where to get it outside of Ireland though ...

I just got one, and it's a treasure!

Redwolf

blixt wrote:I hope this suggestion isn't too obvious, but O'Dónaill's dictionary, Irish-English, is invaluble (at least to me). It has the genitive and plural of each noun; irregular verbs in most of the tenses; and loads of information on prepositions (like all the prepositional pronouns and suchlike). It's got lots of nice little phrases and constructions too. I can't say I know where to get it outside of Ireland though ...

blixt, there's also a good online resource - An Foclóir Beag

I tune in to RnaG and leave it on in the background while I'm at work or when I'm screwing around the house. I'm actually surprised at how much I can understand. Plus, it's blazing away in the background, so I know that some of it is sinking in somewhere.

I watch Ros na Rún all time, i'm addicted to it, plus the it helps me learn words and there pronunciation because of the english text at bottom, i'd be lost without the text.