Lost it long ago actually. It saddens me.
Like too many other Irish people, my command of the language is almost non-existant. I was fluent when I was about 12, but secondary education beat it out of me and now I have none.
I put on the Irish language radio station this evening on a whim, and despite daily education in the language for about 15 years, this is what I heard.
Radio is fast so it is hard to understand. Is there a TV station? That has the added benefit of visual clues. How about people who speak the language that you can associate with. Also childrens books can help because the language is at a very basic level.
Swedish is apparantly a parasitic language, eating up all possible challengers, including my English spelling, grammar and punctuation! See, I knew if I stayed here too long something like this would happen :smack:
Honestly ruadh, you should hear me speak, I make even less sense than when I type. I actually said “more bigger” yesterday. To a journo from Dublin. He gave me a very strange look and I could have died on the spot. Although I don’t see why I should feel uncomfortable, it’s a perfectly cromulent phrase!
