Halò, is mise Linda.

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ItalianInSouthUist
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Halò, is mise Linda.

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Halò,
Is mise Linda. Tha mi às an Eadailt. Tha mi a’ fuireach ann an Uibhist a Deas.

I’ve been living here for a week only so that’s as much as I can say for now.
I hope I can learn very good Gaelic! I hope I wrote everything correctly.

Tapadh leibh!
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faoileag
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Halò, is mise Linda.

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Halò Linda,

Fàite chridheil ort! :D

Agus tha thu às an Eadailt! Nach eil sin inntinneach.
Càite anns an Eadailt?

Tìoraidh an-dràsda!

Ciao!


Welcome!
And you're from Italy! Isn't that interesting.
Where in Italy?
Bye for now!


from Italy: Tha mi às an Eadailt
in Italy: Tha mi anns an Eadailt

from S. Uist: Tha mi à Uibhist a Deas
in S. Uist: Tha mi a' fuireach ann an Uibhist a Deas

This is probably too much grammar right now :spors: , but just in case you were wondering:

às and anns an if the name of the place has an article ("from / in the Italy")
otherwise à and ann an (no -s). ("from / in Uist")
ItalianInSouthUist
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Halò, is mise Linda.

Unread post by ItalianInSouthUist »

Tapadh leat Faoileag for the explanation, I have corrected my mistakes.
My grammar is very random because I wanted to start practicing straight away!

I would have never guessed I should say “in the Italy” !

Tha mi às an Turin. I come from Turin.
faoileag wrote:

Tìoraidh an-dràsda!
So, Tìoraidh is bye?
I was at the supermarket and a man would only talk to me in Gàidhlig and I wanted to say something, but I couldn’t understand anything! So I decided I was at least going to say bye, I knew it was “mar sin leibh” but I wanted confirmation with someone local first, so I asked the cashier how to say bye and she said a totally different word (which now I realise must have been Tìoraidh) so I just ended up smiling and nodding and not speak any Gàidhlig :|
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Halò, is mise Linda.

Unread post by GunChleoc »

You use the article with most country names (some exceptions are Alba, Sasainn, Èirinn, Breatainn), but not with cities, unless those city names are real Gaelic words. So, Tha mi à Turin.

"Tìoraidh" is Gaelic spelling for "Cheerie" ;), and people say "Tìoraidh an-dràsta". Mar sin leat/leibh is also common, or Beannachd leat/leibh, among others.
Oileanach chànan chuthachail
Na dealbhan agam
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