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crimeronan · 2 years

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my irish after a little under a year of study is at a point where Most of the time as i listen to raidió na gaeltachta, i can only follow the very broadest strokes of what’s being talked about - like, news recaps i can identify Who and What Topic is being mentioned, general discussions i can identify The Basic Topic This Discussion Is About, music i can identify the general vibes of whether this is a relationship/farming/sailing/anti-imperialism song, etc

except that there are times when rafi will see me light up & be like “what are they talking about?” and the answer is “oh they’re talking about language preservation inside and outside the gaeltacht and the role of parents versus schools and whether it’s feasible or practical to open more gaelscoileanna when almost every workplace uses english exclusively and-”

imagine if i actually learned common vocabulary like a normal fckn person instead of. just. hyperfixating on all the vocab related to one extremely specific niche of extremely specific political discourse in a country i do not live in

#also i have not studied enough over these past few months #i've kept the vocab i know fresh & maintained my duolingo streak but #haven't practiced tougher stuff like preposition conjugation and the tuiaseal ginideach enough #which has made me rusty. i need to think too much when formulating sentences #i credit the radio almost entirely with being the reason i can still understand well enough #even when i don't know vocab definitions (which is most of the time) i can at LEAST transcribe phonemes #but oh god. if i'd kept at the same pace i used in my first two months i'd be done with the duolingo course by now #kitkat learns gaeilge

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