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 Post subject: Learn how to dance
PostPosted: Mon 29 Apr 2013 7:29 pm 
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I saw 'Foghlaim conas rince' written somewhere today.

Do you 'déan' rince? I realised that I don't know how to say 'Learn how to dance'. :oops: :??: Smaointí le bhur dtoil? :?:

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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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I saw 'Foghlaim conas rince' written somewhere today.


Béarla...

I'd say "Foghlaim damhsa". I think it's even to be found in a song "an Seanduine Dóite", as sung by P. Uí Uallacháin.

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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
PostPosted: Mon 29 Apr 2013 8:33 pm 
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Yes that's the way they say it here too - Bhí na pháistí ag foghlaim damhsa nua. (Seachtain na Gaeilge) - Scoil Aodh Rua agus Nuala (if you scroll down)

http://www.saran.ie/?p=2884


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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
PostPosted: Mon 29 Apr 2013 8:42 pm 
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Lughaidh wrote:
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I saw 'Foghlaim conas rince' written somewhere today.


Béarla...

I'd say "Foghlaim damhsa". I think it's even to be found in a song "an Seanduine Dóite", as sung by P. Uí Uallacháin.

Yeah, ag foghlaim conas damhsa sounds like Béarlachas to me.
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Lughaidh
 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
PostPosted: Mon 29 Apr 2013 9:00 pm 
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Yeah, with "ag" before "foghlaim" without the verb "to be" before it's even worse :)

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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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:GRMA:

I knew it was shocking Béarlachas - it wasn't anywhere official I hasten to add, but then was stumped at what the best way to say it was. I presume damhsa and rince are totally interchangeable? Foghlaim rince / Foghlaim damhsa sound the most straightforward?

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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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Couldn't resist this, one of my favourite songs by Christy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsTy4_n4aqk
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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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MacBoo wrote:
Couldn't resist this, one of my favourite songs by Christy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsTy4_n4aqk

8-) Ar fheabhas ! Níor chuala mé an leagan sin roimhe seo.

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Lughaidh
 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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I think "rin(n)ce" is more used in the south, and "damhsa" is more used in Connachta (?) and in Donegal.

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 Post subject: Re: Learn how to dance
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Oddly enough, according to Breathnach, the two words for "dance" in the Irish both come from 'foreign' sources.
Damhsa comes from the French, danse, possibly through the English; and rince comes from the English rink meaning to skate.
And the names for the two most common forms of dance, jig and reel, seem to be also of external origin. :prof:
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