Do na daoine siúd ar mhaith leo éisteacht:

The online Irish-language magazine Beo! is introducing audio files for some of its articles.
Now, you can listen to the article as well as read it.

The news, and a list of articles with audio is at the Oideas Gael link below.
Beo! is at www.beo.ie.

An bhfuil an nasc díreach agat? Nilim in ann é a fháil

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Altanna áirithe atá le fáil. Amharc thíos:



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http://oideasgaelnews.wordpress.com/

"Over the past few months the team behind Beo! – the monthly online magazine published by Oideas Gael – have been working on a new feature. From now on each edition will contain audio recordings of a small number of articles being read aloud in different dialects of Irish. Both professional readers and some of the writers themselves will make the recordings.

If you enjoy listening to podcasts you will enjoy this feature, and we hope that these recordings will also be of benefit both to learners and to those who would like to get better acquainted with the different dialects in Irish.

The articles we have published with this feature until now include:

Caint an tSráidbhaile: Is Fada an tÚll ón Úllort Acu
Caint an tSráidbhaile: Glacaimis Céim Eile Chun Tosaigh
Léirmheas: Leabhar Mór na nAmhrán
Dara Ó Cinnéide
Cill Chiaráin na Breataine Bige: Curachaí agus Clocha Oghaim
Pósadh Comhghnéis Dleathach in Canberra
Ollanach i nDiaidh na Féinne
San Nioclás Myra na Tuirce

Beo! was the first ever online magazine in Irish and has seen 152 editions since it was first published in 2001. You can access all of our published articles back to the first edition in our archive."

Goro'maich 'at!

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This is a great resource especially for people who have limited access or experience with the living spoken language. If the articles are read by different people, it may also help people to realise that the difference between spoken Irish around the country isn't the gulf that some seem to have imagined it to be.

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Dialects or any sort?

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That's a very good idea!

You know, when I was at Oideas Gael this summer, and particularly in Gleann Fhinne, I was surrounded by people with different dialects, and the "understanding gulf" really ISN'T that big a deal. Sometimes we'd have to explain an expression, or there'd be a moment's confusion over a word that was pronounced a bit differently, but in general we had no problem understanding one another.

Redwolf

I find the "gulf" is much greater in English than Irish. Compare Donegal English to Cork English.

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Táim ag foghlaim fós. Fáilte roimh gach aon cheartúchán.

Are ye talking about learners from around the country (with all their quirks) or natives. Native-native should have no problems, as should not learner-learner, and even a native listening to a learner but the learner to a native you'd imagine would have the hardest time of it

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With TG4 and RnaG and the mixture of native speakers and non-native speakers on them, everyone should be getting much more used to everyone.

In our local Gaelscoil, they have a mixture of speakers from around the country. My eldest currently has a teacher from Gaoth Dobhair and previously had a teacher from Conamara. She doesn't have the same hang-ups about dialects or different expressions used in different areas or anything like that. She recognises that it's perfectly acceptable in Gaoth Dobhair to use beirt when counting tables, but that other areas don't do that. I think it is great that technology and the growth of Gaelscoileanna are bringing that kind of knowledge and understanding to children now. We just didn't have that in our English medium school and without TG4.

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