Modern Irish

(Person 1)- Dia duit.
(Person) 2- Dia is Muire duit.
1- Dia is Muire duit is Padraig.
2- Dia is Muire duit is Padraig is Brid.
1- Cad is ainm duit?
2- Jean-Luke is ainm dom. Cad is ainm duit?
1- Popeye is ainm duit.

10 points to whoever can guess what they're saying! (Contest goes till whenever I decide to update again.)

Anyways, I like modern Irish. Which is weird because after Latin I was sure that I had sworn of languages, other than English, forever. It does suck that it's the only class that I have 2 times a week, 2 hours a day.. for a total of 4 grueling hours a week. As Scott pointed out, 2 hour blocks are too much to learn a language.. there's just too much.

Irish numbers are weird. We did 1-10. Got it down nicely. Then we started to do more 11-100. Don't have it down so well. The teacher suggested we played Bingo with the numbers 1-20. She starts calling off numbers and after a little while looks up at the class and asks if anyone has Bingo yet. We all shake our heads no and she looks at us and said that she already called all the numbers. Oops. At least it was the whole class and not just me.

So we have numbers 1-100. Cool. Think it's that easy? No, of course it isn't. The Irish have a different counting system for people and nouns. (I'm not sure if that makes 2 total, or 3 total.) So now we have to learn a whole new set of numbers for counting people.. ugh. Why can't they just have one set of numbers like normal languages?

We also listen to these tapes of people speaking Irish and have to either choose the right answer to what they said or try to write down what they said, like their phone numbers and stuff. These started really, really easy. And I was really excited because I was getting the answers right. But now, the people talk so fast I'm trying to figure out what they said 3 words ago and miss bits. It stinks. Actually I didn't do as bad on the last one as I though I had, but she did play it 3 times..

I will impress you all with my Irish soon. I'll tell you all about Maynooth and the things that we have. Be prepared to be impressed! :C)