Wes's Class

Wes's Class? Or Classes?

Wes is busy teaching the Intro class for the next few weeks, so his students are joining up with Mary's gang to form a mighty force for the Irish language! For the next couple of sessions, Mary's page is your best source about what happened.

Last Class (January 9) (back to top)

So, What did we do on the 9th?

We continued with Chapter 11 of Buntús Cainte

First we worked on a fun little word find puzzle that has to do with animals. Look up the names of the animals pictured on the back of the sheet, then find them in the letter pile. Words can be backwards, forwards, diagonal, vertical, or horizontal. Be mindful of the fadas, and aware that there are other Irish words, as well as some misspelled versions of the animal names, within the puzzle to challenge you.

This chapter adds the preposition 'le' - with, to our vocabulary, and the verb 'caoin, caoineadh' - cry, crying.

'le' doesn't cause any initial mutation to the noun directly following it. You do have to use the form 'leis' before the definite article, however.

le Brídín, le spúnóg
with Bridie, with a spoon

but

leis an bhfear, leis na spúnóga
with the man, with the spoons

le	with
liom	with me
leat	with you
leis	with him/ it
léi	with her/ it
linn	with us
libh	with yous guys
leo	with them

Yes, 'leis' is also the conjugated form of 'le', meaning 'with him/ it'.

I look forward to seeing you all at the fundraiser on the 29th, at the Dubliner.

Previous Class (November 7) (back to top)

November 7th we looked at numbers again. This time, introducing the systems for counting objects and people.

Here is a useful link summarizing everything.

For now, I want you to concentrate on how to count things, and we'll revisit the people counting later, as well as ordinal numbers (first, second, third).

Next time I will show you how to use the Irish expression that corresponds to how we use the word "one" in this example:

Brian has a black dog, and I have a white *one.*

Irish uses the word for "head," which is "ceann." This word has irregular changes in form when used for counting.

Hopefully, we will also have time to do the next chapter in Buntús Cainte.

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