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Worked on long vowels and greetings the last couple of days.

Maidin mhaith!

I’ve worked on Lessons 1 and 2 on Bitesize Irish Gaelic. Love being able to count from 1 to 10 with a real sense of how things are supposed to sound. Also learning the Irish alphabet. It’s so strange, going from an alphabet of 26 letters to an alphabet of 18!

Thoroughly enjoying myself so far though. :)

A couple weeks ago I entered a contest on Bitesize Irish Gaelic to win a 1 year membership. The site is quite incredible; it has several lessons that are “bitesize” so you can learn the language without feeling bombarded with information or confused by too much content. The greatest feature, in my opinion, is that each lesson has sound clips recorded by Irish speakers FROM Ireland so that you get a real sense of what this language should sound like.

Surprise surprise when, last night, I checked my email and discovered I was one of the five winners chosen. I now have a very practical way of going about learning this language! Today I’m working on the first lesson – counting from one to ten, and I’m already thrilled at how fantastic it is. No more confusion over exactly how something should be pronounced because there’s a clip I can hear and learn from.

I picked up cassettes and a workbook for Irish last week! Definitely looking forward to this one – it will make all my pastime research of faerie folklore a bit easier if I actually know the language that many of the things I’m reading about use.

Well, I never got around to doing anything with my French book like I planned; however with the start of the New Year I’m aiming to get a schedule that will actually work.

To add to this goal, I picked up a book and CD set for Ukrainian: The Complete Course For Beginners. Should prove to be interesting.

I dug out my “French Now! Level 1” book today that I bought ages ago and never used. 25 Units and 610 pages – I should learn something! Am adding this to my schedule so I make regular time to work on it.