Not usually as /də mə/, at least.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Irish is hard.

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Brand new Irish learner inclined to ask questions. Writer, Words & Worlds of New York, a website about language-learning. http://www.ellenjovin.com

What can make it seem harder is that at the beginning of your studies, discussions about the differences between the dialacts can make things seem very complicated. If you focus on either one dialect only or the caighdeán (standard) until you feel fairly confident about the language, it will not seem so daunting.

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Except if you try to learn Ulster Irish, which is resoundly ignored by most people. And then of course there's subdialects!

-> pub tour language stay in Gaoth Dobhair

I will be spending a week in that neck of the woods in July!

Edited to say that I have just noticed that the line going through 'pub tour' did not come out when quoting and I have no idea how to do that.

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Nice! What will you be doing there?


Yeah, it's weird, the [s]-tags seem to have been deleted. Which, by the by, is how you do it.

This thread explains..... viewtopic.php?f=28&t=763&hilit=family+gaeltacht+gaoth+dobhair

I feel like this thread has gone slightly off-track, my apologies, Ellen! Saoirse.

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