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Janis Graufurt (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 03:15 pm: |   
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hi, i'm a young german Guy, dreaming of learning Irish. i found this Website and so I just thought, Let's ask.
May someone of you can give me an useful advice!
And please forgive me my terrible English xD
Greetings from wonderful (and cloudy^^) Germany!
I would be very, very happy. :)
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Teifeach
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Username: Teifeach
Post Number: 104
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 06:06 am: |
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Fáilte / Welcome i have made some sound files if you would like to listen to them , http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/viewtopic.87563.html also there are many sites to help learners as well as this one , wher you can ask what you would like to say http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/ http://www.erinsweb.com/gaelic1.html http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/ http://homepage.eircom.net/~eofeasa/lessindex.htm this should get you started , ádh mór ort/ Good luck to you |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 8447
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 07:01 am: |
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Mikel Fernandez (Unregistered Guest)
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I see a recommendation for this book: Wort für Wort, Irisch-Gälisch Can someone tell me if tits audio file is in native irish? In other languages of the same collection, the speaker looks like a german. http://www.reise-know-how.de//download_offen/kauderwelsch/iris-gae_probe.mp3 |
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Lars
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Username: Lars
Post Number: 349
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 08:34 pm: |
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He speaks good Irish, so yes, he's probably native. He is definitly not German.
His name is "Herr Diarmuid Johnson aus Connacht" (acc. to the CD) :-)
Lars |
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Suaimhneas
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Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 482
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 08:47 am: |
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Sounds like a native speaker from Conamara |
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Brídmhór
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Username: Brídmhór
Post Number: 16
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 06:45 pm: |
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I listened to the soundfile.
"Bitte" is "Please" (más sé do thoil é) not "thank you" |
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Curiousfinn
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Username: Curiousfinn
Post Number: 272
Registered: 08-2008
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Hmm... there are exceptions, at least in certain situations, I was taught danke and bitte work somewhat along these lines (100% accuracy not guaranteed):
Waiter: Wasser? (water?)
Customer: Ja danke/Nein danke/Danke (=no thanks)
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Customer: (Ja) bitte. (= Yes, thanks)
Waiter: Hier bitte! (= Here you are)
Customer: Danke schön! (= Thank you very much)
The usage of bitte and danke aren't very straightforward, not as much as their counterparts in English at least. Gearmáiniseoirs might be able to explain better. I only had short German in high school, Swedish mucked it up for me quite thoroughly, I flunked the abitur on it, but there are some "flashes" that come back with ease.
Ich glaube unser Deutsch Freund wisst besser als ich. (Sorry for the lousy German, gabh mo leithscéal fai mo Bhreac-Ghearmáinis) - Ceapaim go raibh a fhios fearr ag ár gcara Gearmánach ná agamsa.
(Message edited by curiousfinn on June 17, 2009)
(Message edited by curiousfinn on June 17, 2009)
(Message edited by curiousfinn on June 17, 2009)
Tine, siúil liom!
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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
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Username: Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Post Number: 617
Registered: 04-2008
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A Fhínn, sa dóigh seo go beacht atá mo chuid Béarla ag obair: "Water?" "Please!" D'fhéadfadh "Thanks" a thuiscint mar "No thanks" ina leithéid de chomhthéacs. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 8462
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 02:47 am: |
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quote:"Bitte" is "Please" (más sé do thoil é) not "thank you" Sá chás seo is malairt nós atá ann! Ar mhaith leat cupán tae? Ba mhaith, go raibh maith agat. ach sa Ghearmáinís Moechtest du noch eine Tee Ja, bitte! i. Ní botún atá ann. |
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Curiousfinn
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Username: Curiousfinn
Post Number: 273
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 04:50 am: |
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Taneli Edvard G. Siltahovi kirjoitti:
"Water?" "Please!"
D'fhéadfadh "Thanks" a thuiscint mar "No thanks" ina leithéid de chomhthéacs.
Ah. On another look, yes, it would work like that for English too. For the Finns, not so linearly. Our usage of "kiitos", and the "kyllä|ei" words before it, doesn't map evenly over the English or German context.
Mo bhotún, gabh mo leithscéal.
Tine, siúil liom!
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