Resources:

I’m using ‘Now You’re Talking/Irish On Your Own’ (long out of print but available here with audio and some grammar explanation), mostly because it uses Ulster Irish, which is what I want to focus on (I’m from near Belfast and I’m hoping to go to the Donegal Gaeltacht in the summer) - but even if you’d rather learn a different dialect it’s still great

Duolingo is surprisingly good! I think if you learn the grammar alongside doing the exercises you’ll be fine; I feel like people who dislike it tend to avoid grammar and learn set phrases.

I have an advantage because I live in Ireland but I’m looking at attending some classes soon and if I do I’ll share resources from that :)

I’ve heard this Memrise course is quite good, but I haven’t tried it yet. It’s in the Connaught dialect, which is the most common/closest to ‘standard’ Irish.

TG4 and I think RTÉ have Irish-language programmes (not sure if they’re available outside Ireland), and there’s an Irish-language radio station, Raidió na Gaeltachta, but I’m nowhere near at that level lol

All the textbooks I’ve found are upwards of £35, unfortunately

does anybody speak irish? i’d make the thread but i’ve only recently started to learn it and i don’t even know how to say ‘practice thread’ haha

salut ! j’apprends le français depuis environ sept ans et je suis en train de l’étudier pour mes ‘A-levels’. mon français n’est pas du tout parfait, mais je crois que mon niveau est entre B1 et B2 donc je serais heureuse d’aider :)

j’utilisais languagesonline pour pratiquer la grammaire, c’est bon aussi d’écouter les informations en français (NewsInSlowFrench ou France24) car c’est plus facile de comprendre si on sait déjà ce qui se passe dans le monde. je vous conseille aussi de lire les journaux et pour ceux qui ne parlement pas assez courrament il y a un journal pour les enfants : 1jour1actu.com

i hate the concept of santa and the whole thing about ‘goodness’

i grew up in a very middle-class area and i remember a kid in my class crying when we were about six because we were talking about the gifts we got and most people got bikes and expensive toys and games consoles and stuff and he got crayons (i think) because his mum couldn’t afford anything else. and he thought it meant santa didn’t love him and he hadn’t been good enough

equal state distribution of christmas presents when

history, which kind of makes it worse i think

i saw it on tv ages ago but i found it on dailymotion here

holy shit nvm the best part is when riley says she’s a communist and he goes batshit and pulls out the us flag and says ‘look at this and choose your next words very very carefully’

you cannot make this shit up

this clip doesn’t even include the best part of the episode where the teacher tells them communism bad bc groucho marx funny and karl marx boring

in north korea, children are fed propaganda that teaches them not to question the system

one of these