#Cáca milis

[strabane-asda0]

people who don’t shut up on trains

I realized I might be a bad person when I watched cáca milis and I imagined someone I didn’t like in pól’s place and myself in Catherine’s and thought, “fair enough”

[cosmicyam]

is duine mailíseach é Dennis

[james-stark-the-writer]

um. so. i'm watching Cáca Milis (it's an Irish short film, the name translates to "Sweet Cake" i believe, apparently Irish kids were shown this in school at some point, uh. RTGame sent me here and it's a short so i decided to just watch it bc i haven't seen any films entirely in the Irish language, despite watching stuff set in Ireland, and it features Brendan Gleeson so that's a plus as well, and it's on YouTube and at least largely subtitled in English besides some background dialogue, if anyone wants to go watch it, but ANYWAY), and the cuts to like pages of the books with the phrases of the person in the text getting more and more naked while Brendan's character continues to infodump about his life is killing me like that's good filmmaking, baby.

[airbus-a350]

it's been accurately said that the storytelling & art traditions here are invariably melancholic and tragic. i remember once planning out the ending for a story and including a "they lived happily ever after" scene and having to talk myself into adding it because it (accurately!) felt so disingenuous, it felt like something which would be roundly mocked if anyone i knew irl read it. I don't think this is a bad thing to be clear I'm just giving context that when seeing a story about hope and friendship or whatever, i know it is not from here. It's interesting then to see people online say things like "every story is about love" or like drawing a happy ending to someone else's art. If more people were raised on a healthier diet of midcentury irish tragedies i think they would be more comfortable with negative emotion in stories

[oh2e]

I love when I start watching something and Brendan Gleeson appears. It’s like seeing an old friend <3

[ly0nstea]

Apologies to @sleepycrowhours for stealing the tags but i want to make a point about learning irish (and I think it applies to language learning as a whole) Duolingo (especially the app, the website is better to be fair but not by much) shouldn't be your primary, or even secondary resource for language learning, it should be a supplement, like flash cards because that's basically what duolingo (Esp. the app) is. It's electronic flash cards, it's nice for vocabulary but horrible for learning grammar, it's yes or no, right or wrong, and language is more fluid than that.

In colloquial speak, if you get it more or less right, the speaker will probably get it, (especially with something as minor as séimhiú and urú which is the english equivalent to switching his/her/their, while duolingo will tell you a sentence is a complete bust if you replace gcat with chait with cat which contexually, speakers will fix themselves and probably won't even mention it to you. Not to mention language is fluid, speakers won't talk like a text book, they'll use conjunctions and phrases you dont know, they'll invent words on the fly.

You should always be learning from books, movies (Yu Ming is ainm dom or cáca milis for irish aimed at young children, an cailín ciúin for more general cinema), poetry (géibheann, an gnáthrud, etc.), music (Teir abhaile riú, oró sé do bheatha 'bhaile, an dreolín, etc.), tv (all of TG4, they have spongebob), RTE player is available for free online.

Buying an irish enlish dictionary, using focloir and teanglann, and reading grammar books will help, writing irish helps too because it makes you look up words you dont know. I had no idea how to use the subjunctive and imperative before, now i do.

All of the info i wrote about séimhiú's and urú's can be found with google, and all of my words of the day are on focloir and teanglann.

tl;dr, using only duolingo is going to give you more robotic speak that even textbook, your vocab will be kind of weird and hyper-specific (kinda like how only learning in a classroom only teaches you to speak about yourself and your family and nothing else). Read irish, write irish, live irish. Remember, you weren't taught your native tongue formally, 80% of what you learn comes from just picking up and talking to people, family, friends, teachers, and maybe 20% was taught in the first few years of school (and a lot of that is written/spelling anyway not actually communicating)

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

okay i should definitely be asleep ive started cáca milis posting and if im not careful im gonna get sucked down the an creatur pipeline as well and i already watched Robert Sheehan unbraindamage his brother enough times this week

[miaroseheart]

Hit or miss🥺

OMG Cáca Milis will be on my exam😻😻😜

[evilmosquito47893]

People who don't have to do Irish in school, you don't understand how lucky you are. Count your days.

A single glance at cúpla would put you in a coma, cáca milis would probably kill you

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Hii! I saw you reblogged a post talking abt learning irish etc and how more people should include irish wprds and stuff in their daily lives etcc. I was just wondering if you knew of any ways of getting into actually learning irish. Ive tried duolingo but they kind of stopped offering support for smaller languages etc and most other language learning apps either suck or dont include irish at all.. any suggestions?

Thank you for the ask anon, I'd be happy to help! Here are some things that helped me:

Use Irish language stickers you can put on objects around your house. I used to have some German ones when I was in school and it really helped to see some common vocab in places I'd be every day. (All links will be included below!)

Take online classes (or in-person classes if possible). You can also find some videos on YouTube that are sometimes just as good.

Keep a notebook. Use it to write down anything you learn so you can revise it later. I find it helps to look over it just before you go to bed so it's easier to remember in the morning.

Talk to native speakers if at all possible. Irish isn't really spoken a lot outside of Ireland (and barely spoken outside the Gaeltacht areas these days) so you may benefit from finding them on the internet. It can be a good opportunity to meet new friends as well as brush up on your Irish.

Watch TV shows and movies in Irish. They are easiest to find on TG4, which has a lot of well known TV shows dubbed in Irish. There are also some you can find on YouTube which are on the Junior/Leaving Cert such as Yu Ming is Ainm Dom and Cáca Milis.

Try out some printable Irish language worksheets you can find on websites such as Twinkl. You can also get past exam papers on Studyclix and Examinations.ie, though these may be a bit advanced for a beginner.

I hope you found these tips useful! Ádh mór!

https://www.examinations.ie/

[tootiredforaname]

New levels of ableism invented by classroom discussing cáca milis

[richkidcityfriends]

is é daoine a bhíonn ag gearán faoin gcaoi a bhfuil cúpla agus cáca milis an chúis nach mbaineann páistí taitneamh as an nGaeilge ar scoil an-greanmhar. ar labhair tú le déagóir le deich mbliana anuas?? is breá linn an cac seo. Is é cúpla an leabhar is fearr riamh #foireannsharongodeo

[james-stark-the-writer]

holy fucking shit, they showed this to CHILDREN????? WHY??????? this is a horror movie and it's delightfully terrifying. like it's actually a horror movie about unkind people. i clearly need to see more Irish cinema. please drop recs if there's more like this.

My ★★★★½ review of Cáca Milis on Letterboxd

[yourcomputerr]

putting my faith in oisín and cáca milis

[brotherdusk]

man opposite me on the train is eating a giant brownie so loudly I'm seriously considering a live cáca milis reenactment

[the-clockwork-three]

Cáca Milis (sweet cake) is an Irish Language short film released in 2001. It is 18 minutes long and all on Youtube with English subtitles. And I really like inflicting it on others and I have a newly found platform to do so.

Some things I would like you to keep in mind as you watch Cáca Milis:

This is on the leaving certificate curriculum so almost all Irish people who have gone through school in the past 10 or so years have seen this film.

This is a fairly standard amount of macabre for an piece of media as Gaeilge.

Also I said this in the masterpost but trigger waning for character death and ablism, and also for shots of food meant to cause you to feel disgusted.

Some (completely optional) questions :

What type of book is Catherine reading? You might have to pause to look at her page.

What words does Paul use to describe his cake? (acceptable cheating method available by using a dictionary)

What type of person is Catherine? What does the way she treats her mother reveal about how she thinks about those dependant on her? How does that mindset affect Paul?

What emotions does the ending evoke in you?

"In the film Cáca Milis we are shown the relationship between Catherine and Paul, and the result of that relationship." Discuss this statement. (2022 higher level Irish exam question, translated from Irish. Worth 30 marks, or 25 minutes to write 1.5 pages.)

Please send any and all reactions my direction, I need to relive seeing this for the first time.

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