Learning Irish is an act of political revolution

[Declan]

I have made it to section 3 well before year end as it turns out.

Section 1 has 1units.
section. 2 has 40 units
And now
Section 3 has 10 units.

So hopefully this will be done in short order. So now I will cover the whole thing in short videos of about 7 minutes. That will be hundreds of videos of course

Duolingo has about 1700 irish words.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1LAnR8bDIo

 

[Declan]

That would s pretty impressive. They might need to spend some time with connemara people to roughen up the accent on a few words

 

[Declan]

 

[Declan]

Only a couple of more days now and I will have the duolingo course done. Then I will do Mango and Pimsleur in short order.

and I will put Duolingo into videos as it is very difficult for a regular person to do it

 

[Declan]

 

[Declan]

So, I finished the Irish duolingo course. What happens then is you have a refresh each day of about 20 words or so , and after that, you can do nothing I guess til the next day.

The course has drastly improved my Irish.
you end up with a vocab of about 1700 words and the present, padt and future tenses good. Other tenses not good.

So you would need more. I suggest Mango, which has free Irish. I will buy a year of pimsleur as well shortly. Maybe rosetta stone as well.
But I will do mango first.

And mango offers Irish and a few more languages for free, otherwise it is $8a month

 

[feudalist]

I'm in favour of learning the Gaelic language. While the English are forgetting their old dialects of medieval English as they are torn down by the Jews the Irish should invest in learning Gaeilge & also medieval dialects of Gaeilge.

 

[Declan]

I am to embark on a huge effort through videos now. In the next few days

 

[Tiger]

Does anyone know what year being fluent ‘as gaeilge’ was removed as being compulsory for an Gardai?

 

[Declan]

The new irish will never have basically any irish

 

[Clean and free]

Does anyone know what year being fluent ‘as gaeilge’ was removed as being compulsory for an Gardai?

2005 according to this answer on quora.

Is it required to have an Irish Language to join the Gardai Siochana? (Irish National Police)

Answer (1 of 3): Being fluent and understanding Irish was a mandatory requirement up until 2005 It is no longer the case under the current rules applicants that join An Garda Siochana no longer have to hold a qualification in Irish or English. Instead, they will have to be able to prove they are ...

www.quora.com

I didn't think it was that far back.

Of course, the justification given for its removal was the usual unthinking PC bullshit, no doubt cooked up by some NGO gobshite looking to tackle structural racism within An Garda Síochána:

"It's very important that An Garda Siochana has the linguistic and cultural insight into all ethnic communities that they police"

I wonder when it was they got rid of the minimum height requirement? Always seemed a sensible measure to me. Were it still in place we'd be spared the ridiculous sight of stumpy 5"2 Bean Gardaí pretending they possess any sense of authority.

 

[PlunkettsGhost]

Eco-Gaelicism: The Aesthetic of Resistance — MEON

The first step to establishing a true opposition to the cultural and aesthetic apathy of modern Ireland is in reimagining what a re-Gaelicised landscape would look like

meonjournal.com

 

[Declan]

 

[Declan]

I knew I had read that someplace. I dont teally do substack, does this lad gave a website

 

[Declan]

How are you progressing on the duolingo or did you get stuck. I must start doing my videos this weekend

 

[Clean and free]

Tá mo chuid Ghaeilge "rusty", ach d'fhreastal mé ar scoil lán Ghaeilge agus táim réasúnta líofa.

 

[Declan]

Tá meirg ar mo chuid Gaeilge