/r/ireland will try their hardest to be negative about this, for some reason.
Heard her on the radio with Oliver Callan, sounded really lovely and speaks more Irish than most of us!
Done more than Heather Humphries did while Minister for the Gaeltacht.
Fair play to the British Ambassador.
Has more respect than HH for the language.
(And Im a FG voter)
shame they tried to kill it
6 weeks of daily Irish lessons is more than Heather Humphreys had done
My teenage daughters are getting really good at their Irish so I downloaded duo lingo a couple of weeks ago and I’m finally loving learning it. Duo lingo is really addictive. Much more productive than doom scrolling.
In fairness she’s impressive and best of luck to her.
Watched the video NGL cried a bit 🤣
I believe her husband is Irish so to be fair, she’s got real connections here and fair play to her.
Previous British ambassador has decided to stay, and taken up a job running the Irish Universities Association.
Brilliant. What a legend, fair play to her.
Good for her.
I speak three languages fluently and another to an intermediate level. My Irish remains at Leaving Cert Ordinary Level because I’ve never had any reason to use it. However, it is, by far, the most complex language I’ve ever seen.
Take plurals for example. In English, Spanish, etc you just add an s to the end, plus learn a few irregulars (mice, children, sheep, etc). However, in Irish you have to have to decide between strong plurals and weak plurals, remember your five noun declensions, and learn all the rules that apply to each. It is *insanely* complex: https://www.allaboutirish.ie/blog/cruinniu-na-mbad
She made more of an effort than Heather Humphries ever did lmao
Personally the biggest struggle I’ve had with Irish has always been how to make it “my own” if that makes sense.
I feel like when I work out how to form a sentence I’ve thought of, I’ll look it up and find out I’m completely wrong and it feels like the right answer is always out of left field. I’ve never been able to feel like it is actually mine if that makes sense
Good woman. Fair play.
Props to her. She’d get more votes than Heather for president
The video of her speaking Irish is quite something. The switch between her quite posh English accent and (what sounded to me, a non-Irish speaker) really strongly accented Irish was astounding.
Tbf, while the sentence structure is very different and there are some very strange ruies, it’s remarkably adherent to those rules. So if you learn those rules you’ll be correct 95% of the time. Unlike English that has an almost unfathomable amount of grammatical exceptions.
Still, not easy learning a language you can’t really immerse yourself in. That is by far the easiest way to learn. Fair play.
Kara Owen is ainm dom.
We’re going to get angry letters about assimilating their foreign officials, aren’t we?
Ots is a very ‘literaryy’feeling language
A former US diplomat said much the same thing, about 40 years ago.
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/r/ireland will try their hardest to be negative about this, for some reason.
Heard her on the radio with Oliver Callan, sounded really lovely and speaks more Irish than most of us!
Done more than Heather Humphries did while Minister for the Gaeltacht.
Fair play to the British Ambassador.
Has more respect than HH for the language.
(And Im a FG voter)
shame they tried to kill it
6 weeks of daily Irish lessons is more than Heather Humphreys had done
My teenage daughters are getting really good at their Irish so I downloaded duo lingo a couple of weeks ago and I’m finally loving learning it. Duo lingo is really addictive. Much more productive than doom scrolling.
In fairness she’s impressive and best of luck to her.
Watched the video NGL cried a bit 🤣
I believe her husband is Irish so to be fair, she’s got real connections here and fair play to her.
Previous British ambassador has decided to stay, and taken up a job running the Irish Universities Association.
Brilliant. What a legend, fair play to her.
Good for her.
I speak three languages fluently and another to an intermediate level. My Irish remains at Leaving Cert Ordinary Level because I’ve never had any reason to use it. However, it is, by far, the most complex language I’ve ever seen.
Take plurals for example. In English, Spanish, etc you just add an s to the end, plus learn a few irregulars (mice, children, sheep, etc). However, in Irish you have to have to decide between strong plurals and weak plurals, remember your five noun declensions, and learn all the rules that apply to each. It is *insanely* complex: https://www.allaboutirish.ie/blog/cruinniu-na-mbad
She made more of an effort than Heather Humphries ever did lmao
Personally the biggest struggle I’ve had with Irish has always been how to make it “my own” if that makes sense.
I feel like when I work out how to form a sentence I’ve thought of, I’ll look it up and find out I’m completely wrong and it feels like the right answer is always out of left field. I’ve never been able to feel like it is actually mine if that makes sense
Good woman. Fair play.
Props to her. She’d get more votes than Heather for president
The video of her speaking Irish is quite something. The switch between her quite posh English accent and (what sounded to me, a non-Irish speaker) really strongly accented Irish was astounding.
Tbf, while the sentence structure is very different and there are some very strange ruies, it’s remarkably adherent to those rules. So if you learn those rules you’ll be correct 95% of the time. Unlike English that has an almost unfathomable amount of grammatical exceptions.
Still, not easy learning a language you can’t really immerse yourself in. That is by far the easiest way to learn. Fair play.
Kara Owen is ainm dom.
We’re going to get angry letters about assimilating their foreign officials, aren’t we?
Ots is a very ‘literaryy’feeling language
A former US diplomat said much the same thing, about 40 years ago.
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