16 - 18 seolta agam anocht. Tá an diabhail slaghdán úd fós ag cuir isteach orm, ach ....

Bainigí sult astu.

BTW Cionadh, I thought it might be a good idea to record the common prayers since we often get requests for them. (and there is no difficulty with copyright!)

Have you a few MB still to spare?

Tá brón agam faoi an diabhail slaghdán seasmhach, a Aonghus. Agus go raibh maith agat. Cuidíonn Anseo is Ansiúd liom go léir.

Go raibh maith agatsa!

Scríobh Aonghus:

>>BTW Cionadh, I thought it might be a
>>good idea to record the common prayers
>>since we often get requests for them.
>>(and there is no difficulty with copyright!)

Maith go leor. I've set up a new directory for you (I also moved BiThusa.mp3 there):
http://aia.gaeilge.org/religious/

If your files get numerous, I'll consider making a separate subdomain for them. For now, at least, having this separate directory will help avoid some confusion amongst the AIA files.

Le meas,
Cionaodh

I just wanted to add my thanks again to Aonghus & Robert for recording the stories from this little book. I noticed in another thread someone referred to them in passing regarding the use of the genitive case -- which tells me the lessons & audio files are already getting use & benefitting folks!

Go raibh maith agaibh, a chairde.

GRMMA, a Chionadh.

Cuirfidh mé leo, le cúnamh Dé. Ach ní anocht!

Ceacht a 19 & 20 seolta.

Ní fheicim an fillteán "religious" le mo chlianta ftp, a Chionadh! An raibh na cearta cearta air?

Mar sin, tá AnPhaidir.mp3 agus SeDoBheatha.mp3 curtha i measc na gceachtanna agam. An mbogfá iad, le'd thoil?

A Aonghuis,

Here's the new directory; you may need to navigate out of the "audiofiles" directory in order to access this via FTP:
http://aia.gaeilge.org/religious/

I'll move the new audio files there for you momentarily.

Le meas,
Cionaodh

Mo léithscéal. I ought to have thought of that, for soem reason I thought it was on the same level.

grma.

A.

Go raibh maith agat for the audio, but can you post a transcript anywhere? I checked the web for text translations, but there seems to be quite a variety.

A transcript of what, Iúile?
At a guess:

Ar nAthair, áta ar neamh,
go naofar d'ainm (I pronounce it t'ainm)
go dtaga do ríocht,
go ndeantar do thoil ar an dtalamh
mar a deantar ar neamh,
ár nArán laethiúl
tabhair dúinn inniu,
agus maith dúinn ár bhfiacha
mar a mhaithimid dár feichiúna fhéin,
agus na lig sin i gcathú
ach saor sin ó olc
Aiméan.

'Sé do bheatha 'Mhuire
atá lán de ghrásta
tá an Tiarna leat.
Is beannaith thú idir mhná,
agus is beannaithe toradh do bhroinne, Íosa.
A naomh Mhuire, a mhathair Dé
guí orainn na bpeacaidh,
anois agus ar uair ar mbáis,
Aiméan.

Proof reading required, it's late. Oíche mhaith, táimse ag dul a luí!

Just that! Many many thanks.

A chairde,

Our friend Aaron has raised the volume of another of Aonghus' recordings from Anseo is Ansiúd:
http://aia.gaeilge.org/audiofiles/aia1-07L-v.mp3

Bainigí sult as.

(GRMA, a Aaroin!)

A Aonghuis,
really great work! Go raibh míle maith agat!

A Chionaodh,
could you please post the link to the pdf-files of the lessons again? I got them somewhere up to lesson 10 but the rest ...
Also, it says "Book 1 - Lesson X" - does that mean that there were more books published? So far, I think it's a very good point to start from if you have had at least a few insights in the grammar before. Were they planned as school books or for self-learning?

Thanks in advance.
Le meas,
Stefan

Quote: "Were they planned as school books or for self-learning?"

Which ever the case may be, I'm finding that by systematically working my way through the stories and their accompanying questions, in sequence, I'm making much more progress than I did with any other approach. I suspect there are many others out there who would discover this to be true for them. Y'all need some way to call more attention to this and the other related threads. Perhaps a heading that more clearly identifies the content. I ignored the current one for more than a week because I didn't realize what was being offered. This thing really works!

GRMA, Aonghus, Cionaodh et al.

Really Good Irish Lessons Here for Free!

How's that?

Really Good Irish Lessons Here for Free!

This one's better.

Scríobh Sgm:

A Chionaodh,
could you please post the link to the pdf-files of the lessons again? I got them somewhere up to lesson 10 but the rest ...
Also, it says "Book 1 - Lesson X" - does that mean that there were more books published? So far, I think it's a very good point to start from if you have had at least a few insights in the grammar before. Were they planned as school books or for self-learning?

http://www.gaeilge.org/AIA1/

I know of four books within the Anseo is Ansiúd series. There's a Bunleibhéal meant for preschoolers, and then books 1, 2 & 3, which roughly correspond to the first few years of primary school. The link above contains the 30 lessons of book one.

(Before you ask, yes I'd be happy to make books 2 & 3 available if some of the members here would like to do audio for them, but let's finish book one first).

This was a series published in the early 1970s meant to foster reading comprehension (the Bunleibhéal really only teaches vocabulary, though). Without a lot of added material (such as recordings, answer keys, etc.) they wouldn't suffice for self-study. These stories do work nicely in a classroom setting, though. And if you throw in recordings and answer keys, this simple series becomes something entirely more useful to learners. It's a shame it's been out of print so many years.

Le meas,
Cionaodh

Scríobh Pádraig:

Y'all need some way to call more attention to this and the other related threads.

When we have the full set of audio, I intend to make up a web page containing links to all of the audio and to the set of answer key sheets I've made for this book, at which point we can "broadcast" this little project a bit further afield. For now it's rather a "work in progress".

I'm finding that by systematically working my way through the stories and their accompanying questions, in sequence, I'm making much more progress than I did with any other approach. I suspect there are many others out there who would discover this to be true for them



I've used this series in adult Irish classes since the late 1980s, and to this day, people who studied with me will tell me that when they think of such & such a word or phrase, they immediately think back to when they first encountered it in the AIA lessons, and they'll often remember the little picture that went with the story.

Authors/editors who are crafting some of today's courses in the "communicative approach" could learn a thing or two from the authors of yesteryear. Sometimes simple is best.

Le meas,
Cionaodh

Ahhhhh, thank you so much!!!

Stefan

Ceacht a 21 agus 22 a sheoladh agam anois.

Maith thú, a Aonghuis!