Suimiúil. Fair play to him. I have attended Oideas Gael and the Acadamh and his words ring true. I wonder which provincial dialect he prefers...
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Our teacher Diarmuid Johnson points out our flat English-inflected pronunciation, “the wet sandwich”, he calls it, that results in pronunciations like “‘taw gaylge agum”.
Maith an fear. In my experience some teachers seem so afraid of offending a learner that they will heap praise on them and/or avoid correcting anything, even when the pronunciation is just flat out wrong in all dialects.
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There is no need to go searching for Gaeilgeoirí in An Ceathra Rua; they are all around me. At 9am on Monday the Eurospar opposite the Acadamh rings with the sounds of An Ghaeilge, almost all of them unintelligible to me, apart from the standard greeting, “Cén chaoi ina bhfuil tú?” condensed into a single bullet like sound: “Kayhoinawilltoo?”
I can relate to this.
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