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About Living Language: Use & ShareFor many of us, Irish is a language rarely taken beyond the boundaries of the classroom. Come and join an online community, make use of it - it's a Living Language.
Help us put words into people's mouths ... post your Irish caption to the featured cartoon, and add your very own twist.
Indicate your level of learning when you submit your idea.
Click through and participate, or just take a look at the suggestions.
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Frustrated that life gets in the way of pulling out a book or DVD to practice Irish? You might as well turn a mundane task like cooking into a lesson: from writing your shopping list in Irish, to preparing the meal, try and use as many Irish words and phrases as you can and build your skills up in no time.
We invite you to submit recipes translated into Irish. You may want to try your hands on it yourself, or do it as a group exercise? Over time, we are aiming to build a collection which, who knows, may well rival English-language equivalents?
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A wealth of good Irish-language videos can be found on the web but it can be time- and bandwidth-consuming to find a gem.
Find videos which you might consider to be meaningful to your learning, or just purely enjoyable.
Registered users may submit their own favourites.
World Irish examines regional-specific vocabulary, cultural items and slang words and attempts to find their Irish equivalent. Participate in the discussions, read through previous suggestions, or post a word you would like to be discussed by the wider Iora Rua community.
Click through and participate, or just take a look at the suggestions.
Wanted: Gaeilgeoir to moderate this section. Contact Iora Rua via Contact Us button.
A stack of free eCards to send around - most of them containing a cúpla focal. Use them to send birthday greetings, wedding greetings or a bit of a cheer to a sick person. Find appropriate cards for most seasonal holidays (published as the event draws closer).
Learn through Irish poetry. Learning Irish is poetry, put simply. Immerse yourself into some stanza of poetry as Gaeilge, and watch the mists lift over those hills that you need to cross before you reach your destination. (We thought it'd be appropriate to lax wyrically here!)
Wanted: Poetry to publish. Contact Iora Rua via Contact Us button.
The Well of Songs is a collection of Irish language song lyrics for your enjoyment and education. Please feel free to suggest songs to us for inclusion on this list. We will be adding to this list as frequently as possible.
Wanted: Lyrics or any recordings of sean-nós singers for publication. Contact Iora Rua via Contact Us button.
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Living Language: Use & Share
