Hello,

Unfortunately I do not have any native Irish speakers around me, so I have been relying a lot on audio materials found online. I was hoping that somebody could critique my pronunciation? I am still very much a beginner, but I like to make sure I at least sound semi-decent. I have been learning mostly from Munster-based resources, so that influence is probably obvious.

I am practicing the present tense of several verbs (dúnaim, buailim, caillim, creidim, ólaim, cuirim). I am finding the slender /r/ the most difficult, and I'm also not sure if I have maintained an accurate slender-broad distinction in some words. Irish phonology is crazy!

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1UHbQUl5HpJ

Thanks!

I think that was pretty good.

I think you got the slender R correct.
Be more clear with "ólaim".
And the word "siad". Maybe you are following some dialectical form I'm not familiar with but that is not the usual pronunciation.
The general here has the Munster pronunciation of "siad" -
https://forvo.com/word/ga/siad/#ga

Thanks Bríd! I was just pronouncing 'siad' sloppily I think! Time to work on ólaim..

This was a clever way to have your pronunciation checked when you had nobody in the 'real world' to check with. For the record, I'm not suggesting that Bríd doesn't also exist in the real world!

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