Fòram na Gàidhlig

fodha is correct. When there is no subject apply the pronoun to, they default to the masculine form: leis, ris, fodha, etc. a' dol fodha is the usual way to say "sinking". Oh good, I got something right! I probably saw the construction on DASG or somewhere because it's not in really in my...

gun + verbal noun is more or less the negative of air + verbal noun

Tha mi air fhaicinn -- I have seen him/it
Tha mi gun fhaicinn -- I haven't seen him/it

You could maybe go with "gun leirsinn" -- "leirsinn" is usually glossed as "vision".

I find this is a missed opportunity for language acquisition, albeit a small one, and it grates on me. Blasad bìdh, and grèim bìdh, both involve genitives, proper Gaelic plurals, and extend vocabulary beyond the immediate situation. Snack is a dead end word that doesn't enhance language acquisition...

I wonder if the new generations of FtMG students and SMO graduates might act to slow or reverse some of the erosion of the language which seems to have occurred when there was little or no formal education in the language, That would presuppose that GME teachers have good Gaelic themselves, and thi...

Croeso/Fàilte!

But generally, are the "+e" endings on feminine genitives being lost? Would it be good practice to try to retain these? Two principles that I apply when choosing between two forms in a language I'm learning seem relevant here: 1) As a learner, it is not my place to be an agent of change. ...

Fàilte!
Faoileag has already pointed you to the right places, so I'll just wish you luck for now!

The differences are pretty minor, all in. Some modifications of accent, the odd word here and there, and some differences in turn of phrase. But whatever you learn and wherever you end up, you're going to have to adapt. Nothing too serious, though, and the underlying heart of the language is almost ...

It's a regional accent thing.

The word often gets abbreviated, so you might here "agus", "eye-us", "us" or just "s" depending on who's speaking and how quickly.

I am also in the process of creating Quizlet files for each of her sections. So far I have the first 14 of 21 done. Feel free to help yourself! Did you check with Muriel before doing this? Remember, she makes her money by selling these things, and sharing her work for free interferes with her abili...

Oops... forgot to say... The one piece of research I'm aware of by an actual linguist with some kind of reliable supervision was a master's dissertation that found university more effective than Duolingo . While I wouldn't say it was the best dissertation ever, it is still useful as an insight into ...

I haven't seen a single report or academic paper discussing any significant change in the sales of Irish learning materials or the sign-ups to Irish courses. To me, that kind of says it's pretty much inconsequential. That's not an unreasonable point, but I wouldn't totally write it off on those gro...

... making "Àigh no bàs!" a likely origin. Lots of purported "original Gaelic forms" are corruptions passed from non-speaker to non-speaker. For example, the Gaelic for whisky is "uisge-beatha" -- literally "life-water", a direct tr*nsl*t**n of the Latin "...

...by the time Irish President Michael Higgins commended them [the creators] at a public ceremony in 2016... , millions of people — more than the population of Ireland itself — had tried the Irish course, according to company data. Today, the language has more than 940,000 active weekly users, arou...

I'm ideologically opposed to Duolingo, for similar reasons to the first paragraph of Faoileag's message. I'm also annoyed at how they've squandered the possibility of making something awesome, and made something with flashes of brilliance in a sea of "meh" (the platform, that is; not any s...