Postby Josquin » Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:33 pm
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!
Thanks, Teango, for wishing us good luck! I'm sorry you won't be part of the team this year, but obviously your language adventures have brought you to different shores than Ireland's picturesque cliff coast. Best of luck for your language endeavours with French, Hawaiian, or wherever your curiosity may lead you. If you ever feel like working on your cuid Gaeilge again, you'll be more than welcome here. Ádh mór ort!
Welcome, fáilte, and sé do bheatha, galaxyrocker! Good to see you on the team! I'm definitely looking forward to studying Irish with you this year. Let's hope some other keen Celticists will join our circle soon.
Some buneolas about me:
I'm a 31-year old German PhD student, doing a degree in musicology, with a keen interest in languages. I have been studying Irish for nearly three years now, having started in May 2013 when I first took a trip to Ireland. I only stayed for a week, but I immediately fell in love with the land, its people, and its culture. I bought a copy of Mícheál Ó Siadhail's Learning Irish in Dublin and since then I've been hooked. It took me some time to find an approach to Irish that suited me, as the learning materials for this language were somewhat different from what I was used to from bigger languages, but I've finally found some resources that I can work with. I'm an A2/shaky B1 now, but there's still a lot to learn. I hope 2016 will be the year when I finally reach a solid intermediate level in Irish.
Go n-éirí an t-ádh linn!
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Oró, sé do bheatha abhaile! Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh.