Languages

[PluMGMK]

Practise what?

[Steo]

I would like to at least know Irish though

[The Jonster]

EVeryting!

[Steo]

Every laguage ever in the whole world

[The Jonster]

YES!

[Steo]

Alright then

[Cairnie]

Bloody hell at page 5 of this thread.

I tried to learn Dutch for when I went on holiday to the Netherlands for a wedding and ugh Dutch Gs and CHs. HOW?

[Steo]

Bump

Revisiting this while there's no madness, I'd like to be better at speaking Irish and I'd also like to know more French. They teach French here, but I only done it in a club back in primary school. Saying that though, they did teach Irish here (it was mandatory) and yet I still only know so much.

[PluMGMK]

We were actually discussing Irish in the canteen at work last week, and one of my foreign colleagues asked if there was any literature in Irish. I responded by saying there was, in Classical Irish, then proceeded to sing a verse of An Spailpín Fánach as an example of poetry dating from that period.

[Steo]

I do remember a stupid Carlsberg advert on TV where a guy was speaking very basic Irish because everyone was fascinated with it. If the translations are wrong then Plum will have fun correcting them.

Basically he said stuff like:

"An bhfuil céad agam dul amach go dtí an leithreas?" - "Can I go to the toilet?"
"Agus madra rua" - Either "and a fox" or "and a red dog"
"is maith liom cáca milis" - "I like cake"
"Agus Sharon Ní Bheolain" - "And Sharon Ní Bheolain"
"Tá geansaí orm" - "I'm wearing a jumper"
"Tá scamaill sa spéir" - "There are clouds in the sky"
"Tabhair dom an cáca milis" - "Give me the cake"

It gets worse at the end when he literally says "ciúnas mbóthar cailín bainne", which is basically "quiet road girl milk".

I also know that "milis" means sweet, so technically it's sweet cake, but we don't tend to say that in English.

[The Jonster]

Recently been thinking of learning French myself like ^ is. I only know a few things tbh.

[Steo]

Yeah I've been trying to learn some French recently, even playing the Rayman games in French to get ideas from them. I'm slowly but surely learning some things, but I definitely find it more complicated than English in so many ways.

[Hunchman801]

Still learning some Russian on Duolingo, not that I can have any meaningful conversation though.

[Steo]

I'm basically the same with French, unless a meaningful conversation is just me saying hello, telling you my name, and then asking how you are.

[PluMGMK]

I decided to pick up my book on Old Norse again a few days ago, it's a shame how much of that stuff has gone out of my head in few years since I last looked at it properly!

[Hunchman801]

They say that practice is everything, but I can't imagine it's easy with such languages.

[PluMGMK]

Since there's no one around to speak them with? Yeah, well, the book has lots of exercises at least Maybe when I finish it I'll do another translation of Rayman 2

[Hunchman801]

And next start an Old Norse version of RayWiki?

[arnoldfranklin]

And next start an Old Norse version of RayWiki?

I think Icelandic would be better.

[PluMGMK]

Took the words right out of my mouth!