Fòram na Gàidhlig

neoni wrote:cus is usually used to mean "too much" - (facal feumail, alasdair!)

but i've never seen it with an accent (checked the dictionary, can't find cùs in it, only cus).

your son is getting this stuff from school??

I searched cùs on Stor Data and it only came up with cus which had "Enough, quantity etc." and oh... "Too much" didn't see that there, but i guess it could have been either...

darkside wrote:yes this is his homework in p2

that's ridiculous.

Have I not always said that FtMnG was full of people who don't speak Gaelic? *

Dé Gàidhlig air "I feel thoroughly vindicated". (Although I would have preferred to have been proved wrong.)

[*] Có-dhiubh air a' thìr-mhór.

yes, but i'm still always impressed by just how bad it is

Is cuimhne agam gun do bhruidhinn mi ri caraid air a' chuspair seo an uiridh, agus thuirt esan gu bheil mo chuid Gàidhlig math gu leòr mu thràth airson obair faighinn anns an FtMnG

Tha mi a' sireadh obair ann an Alba, ach tha cogais agam 's cha dèan mi seo

Níall Beag wrote:Have I not always said that FtMnG was full of people who don't speak Gaelic? *

FtMnG ? Gabhaibh mo leisgeul, ach dè tha sin ?

Pardon me, but what's FtMnG ?

foghlam tro mheadhan na gàidhlig

neoni wrote:foghlam tro mheadhan na gàidhlig

Mòran taing, a Neoni.

"Fàg a' fòn anns an rùm"

thuirt Mamaidh

any good online dictionary i can use so i can stop asking

does this mean?

"leave the phone in the room"

said Mummy

that's exactly what it means (it should be am fòn, though)

here's a good dictionary - http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php
but it won't be much good unless you have a strong grasp on the grammar

Níall Beag wrote:Have I not always said that FtMnG was full of people who don't speak Gaelic? *

I see this differently.

It's quite possible that the teacher in question does NOT 'speak' Gaelic badly, but is in fact a native-speaker who can deal with spoken Gaelic perfectly well, just hadn't had much if any Gaelic-language schooling him/herself, so makes spelling/punctuation mistakes when writing. This is the case with many of the perfectly fluent native-speakers I know.)

If the focus is on letting children in the first couple of years get exposure to natural spoken Gaelic and the chance to use it naturally, then a native-speaker is probably better than a learner with schoolbook grammar, punctuation etc.

The homework is presumably an aide-memoire for the children, reflecting things practised orally in class, not the Bible when it comes to (later more thorough) reading and writing.

Ideally you would have both elements, the native-speaker with both Gaelic language training and teacher-training, and we should strive towards that, but we are not at that stage yet, and personally I think if we wait till we are, it will be too late. Aiseag air falbh.

Good point, faoileag. Good teachers are always hard to come by, even in ideal circumstances.

neoni wrote:here's a good dictionary - http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php
but it won't be much good unless you have a strong grasp on the grammar

You might find my beginner's guide to finding stuff in the Stòr-Dàta useful.

faoileag wrote:

Níall Beag wrote:Have I not always said that FtMnG was full of people who don't speak Gaelic? *

I see this differently.

It's quite possible that the teacher in question does NOT 'speak' Gaelic badly, but is in fact a native-speaker who can deal with spoken Gaelic perfectly well, just hadn't had much if any Gaelic-language schooling him/herself, so makes spelling/punctuation mistakes when writing. This is the case with many of the perfectly fluent native-speakers I know.)

If the focus is on letting children in the first couple of years get exposure to natural spoken Gaelic and the chance to use it naturally, then a native-speaker is probably better than a learner with schoolbook grammar, punctuation etc.

The homework is presumably an aide-memoire for the children, reflecting things practised orally in class, not the Bible when it comes to (later more thorough) reading and writing.

Ideally you would have both elements, the native-speaker with both Gaelic language training and teacher-training, and we should strive towards that, but we are not at that stage yet, and personally I think if we wait till we are, it will be too late. Aiseag air falbh.

That is exactly what is happening.

Today sentence is:

Tha làr mòr anns an rùm

My tr*nsl*t**n is

Is the floor big in the room?

I wrote it down as is-are floor big in their room from my dictionary "abair!"

anns an = in the
anns a' = in the
ann an = in a

tha X = X is/are/am
chan eil X = X is/are/am not
a bheil X = is/are/am X?
nach eil X = is/are/am not X?