Irish Solitaire / Solo Irish

Dia dhuit.

This is a journey of new arenas for me.

I am following the threads that seem relevant to me currently. The field of language is one that I consecrate to those who teach us to communicate even when we are miles apart from one another. This is more or less a solitary journey, because I will not enroll in a class or communicate with others versed in the language as of yet. I gravitate to hobbies and keeping them, so I asked myself, why not languages as a hobby?

This blog will also be a dedication to poets that are world - wide and to song artists as well.

(To Ronan Keating today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJrEBtmM1Q)
I also heard his song, "Heal me."

To: the blog's readers: "Love in Any Language"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guOVywRvD2k&feature=related

This version has the music with the lyrics flashing on screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknJtAMQMRE&feature=related


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Yesterday, I joined a newsletter that sends me a word a day and its history and meaning. So I will file those under "English Solitaire" when I can.


Solo English / English Solitaire
Solo Irish / Irish Solitaire
Solo Spanish / Spanish Solitaire (also at: www.spanishsolitaire.blogspot.com)
(www.solospanish.blogspot.com)

Solo Portuguese / Portuguese Solitaire (through the medium of a telenovela)

There will possibly be a minimal interest in other languages along the way.

Hindi, Italian, French, even obscure or dead languages, if I can give them the time they deserve...

Mostly, it will be a journey of discovery, while I am solitary. The "silent skills" we all take for granted are necessary for certain tasks.

Reading
Research
Collecting
Spelling
Grammar
An alert attention to detail
And to broad implications
Watching telenovelas (lol) (Gracias a los escritores en la America Sur, y los escritores de romanza y the medium: Cable Channels 4 y 6 (Chicago)
My mistakes and errors, because when I make them, I find editors. (lol)
The really "slow" painstaking learning
The writing out of the words
The desire to pronounce
The desire for response and correction
The desire to simply communicate

Yes, we are "solo" and, we are also global.

That is the beauty of the human tongue.


IRISH

I remember when I first started taking the language, the easiest word to remember was:

"cat"

Why?

Because it was "cat."


Introductory Link(s): possibly many are out there, but I will start here.


http://www.transparent.com/learn-irish/phrases.html

http://www.irishlanguage.net/irish/words.asp


What to do except start at the very beginning?!

I prefer words to actual phrases and conversation,
although I can learn phrases simultaneously.

A word is a breath or many breaths depending on the syllables it contains.

It is many breaths.
It is a pause.

An expenditure of energy that counts to me but to no one else.

It is also a fusion when you get better at a language and speak and pronounce
it properly.

Leonardo da Vinci inspired this within me. (via Michael Gelb's books)
His word lexicon was truly inspiring, and I want to keep one also. If I ever conduct the "Solo Italian / Italian Solitaire journey, that will be in honor of him.

Today, I think of Brigid of Ireland, as I start this journey. I think of some internet newsgroup friends from Ireland.

I think of a new friend I made from Singapore. (She is in Sri Lanka now.)

A friend I lost somewhere in Florida who liked the concept of finding messages in bottles. He was to write a book on this subject.

To those who send "Dr. Who" to the U.S.A via England and Wales.
To David Tennant and Freema Ageyman
To the new series, not yet arrived...T.B.A.

All of this goes out to these people and to all the linguists and language enthusiasts (hobbyists) everywhere!

Go raibh maith agat! (thank you)

I wish you the best as you go solo in your many, many projects!!!
Don't forget to go solo at least some of the time.
It is a luxury, more than we know.

~ Jo


Caife
Cupan

P.S.

Monday: Dé Luain

I am going to drink a cupan (stress on letter "a") of caife.


***(Okay, fine! Thanks to the Arabic for our word, "coffee" too!)

Solo Arabic/ Arabic Solitaire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!