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How about a Skype meet this weekend? A bheil ùile aig duine sam bith?
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Chan eil fhios agam ma bhios mi air laoidhne.
I don't know if I will be online.
I have now a micro, so I think it works but... I think I will feel very "disease" when I will try to understand and speak Gàidhlig. I write and read much more better than I hear. Is that normal ? How did you manage the first time ? :oops:
I don't know if I will be online.
I have now a micro, so I think it works but... I think I will feel very "disease" when I will try to understand and speak Gàidhlig. I write and read much more better than I hear. Is that normal ? How did you manage the first time ? :oops:
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miguel wrote:think I will feel very "disease" when I will try to understand and speak Gàidhlig. I write and read much more better than I hear. Is that normal ? How did you manage the first time ? :oops:
it's normal for all who are forced to learn alone and remotely, far away from other fluent and native speakers. All of us non-Scots struggle with the hindrance. Chances are that the person you talk to on skpye faces the same "trauma".
Read Gaelic articles and lessons loudly, talk to yourself, your dog, or your cat in Gaelic. Make your speaking tools, jaws, tongue, mouth, acquainted to the weird moves they have to make to form Gaelic sounds.
First time ever (three years ago? Oh my!), after months of secluded studies, was at SMO in a short course, entry level, no big deal. First time on skype a whole different story! I talked to Coinneach, or better, he talked to me as if trying to bespeak an ox to give milk.
Frustrated he shot me with his Glasgow accent and then he buried me in his native Lewis tongue.
Miracously I survived.
I think it's good to "use" people like Graisg, Steapan, Coinneach, or Mike McKay (of you're an American), who are fluent and used to learners. Try to intermingle those humbling experiences with talking to learners like you are. Not every fluent speaker has the patience to wait you out until you have finished constructing one sentence with eight words (most likely wrong anyway). They may start to babble away, which is a good thing, otherwise they may have fallen asleep before you finished your next paragraph!
Leaners may not be able to teach you speak a better Gaelic, but they are good to gain practice.
The more you speak the better you will become. Try it!
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I'd just like to say that's one of the funniest things I've ever readBhoniar wrote:I talked to Coinneach, or better, he talked to me as if trying to bespeak an ox to give milk.
Frustrated he shot me with his Glasgow accent and then he buried me in his native Lewis tongue.
In my defence my Glasgow accent is only in English, I have heard some people speak Gàidhlig with a Glasgow accent but I'm not one of them....
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Conversations via Skype
Hi, Everyone,
I'm sad that I missed the Skype conversation will all of you. Have just gotten back on the Fòram after a couple of grueling months changing jobs. My new job feels great, my new bosses are intelligent and energetic, and the projects that I'll be involved with are exciting. Did not miss a beat with my Gaelic lesson plans but, missed out on this. :(
I hope that this first session went well and that you all will consider doing it again.
Till next time - Beannachd leibh.
I'm sad that I missed the Skype conversation will all of you. Have just gotten back on the Fòram after a couple of grueling months changing jobs. My new job feels great, my new bosses are intelligent and energetic, and the projects that I'll be involved with are exciting. Did not miss a beat with my Gaelic lesson plans but, missed out on this. :(
I hope that this first session went well and that you all will consider doing it again.
Till next time - Beannachd leibh.
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Fàilte air ais!
I'll be pretty much out of it myself until the beginning of next month.
I'll be pretty much out of it myself until the beginning of next month.
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Na dealbhan agam
Na dealbhan agam
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Tha mi an dùil gum bi mi ann an deireadh-seachdaine seo. Cha bhi mi ann an ath oidhche co-dhiù. Nì mi partaidh còmhla ris na càirdean
Oileanach chànan chuthachail
Na dealbhan agam
Na dealbhan agam