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So smaointí sathairn is temp podcast series cumann out for
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My biggest tips, tricks, advice policies and methods for making
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significant progress in the irish language so you can speak
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Welcome to the welcome to number three of smaointí sathairn.
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Hope you enjoy the series until now there on the irish
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membership and if your listing over Gaeilge weekly, this is the
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last of the free app sods that's going out so have to pay for it.
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You want to check out the other arraing ipsos over the next
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seven stars? Tar éis a bhaineann speak little
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bit about the main difference between irish and european
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languages that have come into contact with over the last few
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years. Had to think about english lot
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because of explaining staff students in terms of irish words
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and they have to relate back to english in terms of okay, if you
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in this chance in english or be like this in irish when we use
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this for it to be like this in irish, so even the first
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language and some way first language you can be.
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To close to that language, understand if you understand the
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way english words quel i lyon spanish from scratch i learnt
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italian from scratch not as high level but on ok level i dtéarmaí
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scoil i can speak out now but i don't understand, remember quite
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well how the language structures and where the basis is atá mórán
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verbs it on more centred structure or news and so on.
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And after cartlann when i was living in barcelona so allow
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certainly have very good conversation in all of.
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Languages only two, three them. I don't understand how those
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work and now from my learners point of view, you need to focus
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on different things with one and this one big thing that makes
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irish stand out compared to those other languages that i
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wasted of. An bhfuil tú that day and spain?
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How you can really concentrate on that and.
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Beidh fós in this one thing i can give you measadh progress
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and a huge amount of confidence increase conference when
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speaking us when listing, especially when speaking and
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writing the language and i was think that languages ar bith
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like musical instruments. If you think about the pano, the
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giotár, an fidil alt of them make sounder.
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If you played well, they make music.
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But. Each has a different emphasis
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point, you know my land by the giotár maybe wait.
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Focus manage ann is dócha. I want to learn the six or at
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most common courts, and within that it can play one another.
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Unity percent of all songs every.
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Maywood fidil, i know, but that's what i feel.
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The thing is teicnic and you need to get the way walking and
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putting the bow through perfect allen.
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From that you think of figure out everything else or you can
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build everything else on that foundation.
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About the peanuts about understanding the actual music
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structure and the different notes and differences you can
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build everything on that whatever languages are the same
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languages, which language is different and structure, and if
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you can focus on one part of it, that kind of you, the
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fundamentals and covers a lot of ground to mention stuff before
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even the idea of in english. Five hundred words make up about
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seventy percent of our daily vocabulary.
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We can focus on the five hundred words i measc difference and
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gives foundation to get speaking confidently quickly and we can
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build over the top that bhuel with irish.
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The key thing is knowing the fundamentals really, really,
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really well and we really, really, really stress on the
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word really, really, really care, not them.
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Like you could liosta off in your sleep, especially stuff
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like the regular verbs in all the conditions and the big five
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propositions, which were ag ar do leth o obviously the change
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for each person. All of this sin fo is on the
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glance card and used by to learn irish.
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You don't need by anything this coming from someone WHO makes
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their living of selling courses and different content for the
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irish language and like to thank all courses and stuff that have
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made can help people, but they got absolutely necessary to
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learn irish, nursery class or any.
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Resource that you can by but the one thing i would say to
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students that you should absolutely should by is a glance
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card. People might remember it from
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what school if you want to school and study of irish ever
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last twenty years. A glance card is the kind of the
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three piece of cardboard for that had all the different
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colours and the verb conjugations blue red below for
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the differences, and it has all those fundamentals and the key
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part of the language. Ritheann an bun síos tú said it
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was five euro you can pick up in any school books Ireland or
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orders online if your level bród and from now till the last day
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never speak irish in your life will be useful.
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Regards with your complete beginner, you feel very
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conversational in the language to talk about the glance card
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leader á but. Lem explain before going to
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specifics againn like the big five propositions, the registers
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and stuff like that lem explain what i mean and again really
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imcis by doing something really, really well.
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I believe this two levels of doing something and try show
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that there were few questions that aren't irish related.
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An lios tá foireann question here and want to answer quickly
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came in your head ok? So first one was question, what
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is two plus six? Okay, probot that it eight the
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question dearfaí question, what is the capital of france?
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Personally got that again, treadway.
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And the last one. Which mount of the year is
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christmas day. December, right, so what to all
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those three have in common in terms of your answers?
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Bhuel, hopefully you got them within half a second or
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urramaicli without even thinking.
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Seo point would say to six, and even if you tried not to think
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of the answer, the answer will be there.
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Or what is the capital of france?
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Paris just comes around the way. I believe that's the second
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level of doing something and we can subscribe.
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That is not something really, really, really well like i said
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earlier. But it's another example where
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you something, but not just the first level of english.
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Now, these questions and answers depend for different people, but
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here are few for me. If i ask yourself what i have
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for bricfeasta studies. I could give you the answer, but
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i can't give the answer to say like it for the previous
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questions that i think it wendy's was monday.
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A bhaint muid san obair caithfidh that mórán den aibítir
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oghaim an. Yeah i had tost with dearmond
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iógart as well so not the difference there.
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But i ask yourself what for breakfast days ago?
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I don't know it. But it's not automatic.
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It comes to say it's not like thee plus three our times
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tables. It's not all drawn, ok?
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Under example was the taoiseach before bertie ahern get you back
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mind berney seven hill o send for that would.
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However, i can figured out and nós, but it's not automatic.
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Ok is not saying he's the president of the nitrates now,
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you know it's Trump. Last example was the last time
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was on a tran. And that's proudly one for all
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of us, and we can't find out the way, but we think about it for a
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few seconds. I was two weeks ago when i was
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up in the north space, whatever it might be.
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So not is there that highlighted the two levels of doing
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something and is really important with lot of staff with
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languages you on Twitter self, you don't try and full yourself,
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okay, so that you don't want to? The big five propositions, which
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ag ar do lego and of course how they change person to person.
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The example of letting lom leat leis léi linn libh leo, it was
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like verb congregation. So the big for positions ar
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massive in irish or so so important there was more
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important in irish than the translation would be in english,
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cause you for some things. Let's say, for example, she
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likes it, he likes it, ok in english that wouldn't use with
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in any way, but in irish that will be is maith leis é.
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And if you just shy like to be is maith léi.
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Aoibhinn fighting of the past and future.
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Normally i don't use is maith and use taithí.
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So i like to happen 6 liom so if i want a change that they like
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it happen 6 leo so that changing the made siad i would in the
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equivalent in english and changing the lom to low or to
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leat ár leis whatever. If IM saying i nó Seán know Seán
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ok friends know the names Seán i tá atá agam ar sheán i have
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raibh sí anseo. If you Seán ID say bhí aithne
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agat ar cheann so againn. Bhí mé ar ais i recognition was
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at you. That's where frysk if i need
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something, okay needed water bhí uisce ag teastáil uaim.
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Bhí 6 ag teastáil uaim so you don't have it from me in the
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sentence in english but you in irish that to come up again and
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again and again it's five minutes away, normally five
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minutes from me or from us. So those big five propositions
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ag ar do legin óg up again and again and again and again and
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again and so vital to the language, the office up every
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cent and every second sentence. Ansin fiú them to the second
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level of doing something. What i measc advanced should
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give you maidin how much mar conference will be think well in
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his own quick as i can come up with in english.
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So it's only a small things, only five different positions
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and how they change person we not talking about learning of
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fifty one hundred different forms or news here, but it
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covers so much of the language and comes up so often.
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So it's obvious that you should focus on that and notes the
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second level of doing something there will back to the point i
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said earlier not to was sound in my two thart, but unfortunately
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students dúchan na ballstáit themselves from seeds in the
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sense that they think they know, but they don't really got the
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first level of you say so. What was doing to one classes
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would do this would say to some, okay west will test of the big
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prepositions, how it from him and will go from that on which
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what uaidh depending on how you want it.
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So why? So they got rat DE nuas, but
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again, the news in the same know what was the last time was on a
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tran or what for breakfast oscail, they have to figure out
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that kind of put together in the head, which against me your city
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back to the example cupán mentioned in the woods of my
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lover caife. We're not speaking irish, that's
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just be tricky. If you will, of course will you
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know it's gradual? Lena very beginning our first
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few months of learning relating to language completely normal
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that you have to do that kind of figured out and it's not be out.
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Maidir le difference suite ar think tank.
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Agus tráthnóna dé haoine need help.
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Bhí cabhair ag teastáil. Do dual mhaith versus bhí
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cabhair ag teastáil uaidh anonn at the second level nó in those
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things the big five propositions in the same way you two plus
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six, the capital of france and which montpelier is christmas
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and that is just over again. Aige, i was suggested pepper
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litir yout again with a glance cards on the things but glance
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card you have them all there open top left of the glance card
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prepositions you could send that you can not be able to see if
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you don't look at them. Baytown, you have to make sure
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you can do it without logging and to okay ag is agam agat an
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not sure but them that aici againn not sure but you plural
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an acu perfect levy siopa leabhar right down at him and
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dhíth ort you plural and those two of the member ill go back to
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do an leath eile compact ag covers if you anything to know
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albam yes i do and go back to back to basket.
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An tuilleadh is like to play six capall france and which month of
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the year is christmas? Knowing those things to second
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level and grant you that make such difference?
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But again, we want to this for everything the language wyoming
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having to use for every word, every single party of language,
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but specifically the big five prepositions.
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And if you get them down, you move on to make some of the
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other prepositions just chuig an free.
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And it was probably six, seven and eight in terms of
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importance, which also na glancecard.
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Bhuel, your big thing would be the regular verbs, so a lot of
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irish to realise this. But most languages have two
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hundred and fifty three hundred irregular verbs, such as
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english, spanish, french, italian, irish only has even one
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of those. Bayer your baby use up to much
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so you say téann really only the young use of.
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Just a gcuid seans you the verb to from day one of my heart in
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her your level in the language, but you know bhí mé ní raibh mé
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tá mé níl mé an suain SO for a lot of people eliminate only of
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by that they only five or six. Even if you completely need to
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language or you struggle with some forms and you need help at
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all times, or even if you can't include bare that, it's still
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not that many compared to other languages.
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Look at the verb that are closed in the reforms of 100 is only
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level of them, but the words to go to come to see, to do to be.
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You don't have to be expected. Wessex know that those to be the
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most common words in any language is only one of them,
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but they really important you, such as an open goal to give
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sporting alee in terms of taking up all the time the only legally
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ones in the language. So maidin, if you need them
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really, really well, i won't have a huge worked.
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Get him down like that again. If you actually down again with
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a glance card, you can visualize wish you can see the
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differences. You might say, will actually
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four of these forms know all he's really wel seven others
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that kind for now, very well know past and present that
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future, and you actually circle the party.
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Don't know my future of the verb get past negative of the verb to
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the mind. Only seven out actually
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different one's weeki for past negative of dhó gheobhaidh for
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future to get my only to six seven of those that i don't
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know, but even if it's. Is mó sa dom.
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It's not that work to get down and i think how often there came
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up that sense, the english use of them, how often they have
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come up to come of the regular forms.
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It's so import ok its again and again and again on the event you
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helped in irish or book that in irish and reading and see how
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you get without running in to register or one of the big five
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okay cup again and again and again.
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So even fad a quick test and his right to give you an india of
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where you are with them is the big five propositions in the
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name on to them. They actually in total and the
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name in english and so quickly get translation irish example
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before that would be even say at them and would say acu ok.
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If you say it in your head before it to say it loud.
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But two seconds after saying the translation, english or go atom.
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Acu. If you can say it before you
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say, that means you know the second level of town and i know
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it really well, okay, this just give you the idea of what you
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are. So first one.
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Tú ar fuar AS tú a fuair as. Dúinn.
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Ok x one after after. Aici.
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Nuair 3 from them. Uathu.
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So if you weren't able to figure out before you said translation
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of irish, you don't know at the second level of not now again,
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there may be some there that you think you could give me all day
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was on the translation. Know the first level and its ok
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by the way to get the first novel first and then the second
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level button, all those in need them to the second level you
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like six is to the capital of france.
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What difference will make these things are come up every single
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sentence, so make some sense to learn more.
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What about the regulators? Leat do the same thing rudaí
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first one you will get you will get gheobhaidh tú.
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Feicim i didn't here. Níor chuala mé.
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There was one you didn't go. Ní dheachaigh tú.
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So can you didn't get before that there and then most people
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want to put them within that time.
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You don't know the words to the second level, so think how to
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advantage every sent every second sentence leat say these
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words are come up to main house of difference if you the wall
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and covers so much ground would not really the work you get off
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glance card or just right in down to, you know, cover the
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matter and look up in the other key liosta amach ok tá go breagh
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do something else for two minutes, come back to know them
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now and again by using the language every day.
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Beidh baictéir foclóir ie method then this is gonna be even
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easier because IM not be able to that much myself before running
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to the reforms in the difference, negative, positive
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whatever. I don't know it and to seek i
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don't know what you want to be important it here that okay and
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running ourselves into the for using all the time.
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Saghas ag lance is really useful for this could be the only thing
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that were absolutely highly recommend getting for your irish
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learning, regardless of whether it's your first day.
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You were duit an slán, or rather you should have a conversation,
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my country in irish. It will keep an cumann in so you
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will and not just for positions and regulations for other stuff.
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It will also see the big five and the terms and the only to
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fundamentals of the language you can learn of the other stuff.
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It was the question words that's not irish specific thing that.
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Any language, so many learners and to again there will that way
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go leibhéal an huge road, but it's kind of under my slightly
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the fact that they get confused between came and cén fáth ansin
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cad and may an cathain so you need them off by heart was big
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difference between listen to interviewer having someone asks
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question in between cad a rinne tú.
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Cén fáth a rinne tú XYZ cath na rinne tú?
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So what do you do what you get when you this big difference
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between all those on them off by heart as well as keggin,
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kentucky, what you don't know. And i was in my language
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learning have moved myself through the city of god, you
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know that i know that better. The question words italian
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winona learn how to remove that kind of feeling of god that
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somebody. Sa disregard that you that
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negative feeling if you're in such a way in cles like i would
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be to remove the city to actually the weekend XYZ off and
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on not now as i hope you pick up from the first to top SOSOS word
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sathairn am not whether to suggest learning loads off for
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language is not in exams are not school.
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The main way to improve is by using the language every way we
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talked about. Tú beidh ag cent in eitleán one
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and two of the series, but as i said the specific things, if you
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can't just learns them off all times.
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Tables and school and insert user way through methods we
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talked about. It is one two to such offence
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and covers so much ground in the language.
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K leader and fisheries in the talking about the golden rule,
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modh coinníollach and the four categories of is the three
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versions of the verb nó and these things you can remember
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one headline, one big room for them.
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Simple, what we talked about the day i made everything so much
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easier. Tiocfaidh for the golden rule
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modh coinníollach is gurb EE fhein marbh éisteann state of
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you to that of an nós against the second level of not so not
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to the point of it, but something which will have to
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change one thing at the start working no initial start and
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medication if i know that will really well.
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When he thought of Ireland sutton later on in this series.
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Then i figure it out, know any change on thing that one thing
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at the end and by it in put that together but need to, what's the
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headline? What's the man thing that what's
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the base of the permit and can build everything on top of that?
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Okay, so irish, more so than any other language encountered and
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contact with is all about on the basics on the main structure of
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the language, but really, really, really well, ok, like
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six is to like the capital of france.
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Bhlais never really seen as students make significant
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progress language without getting these things down to a
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really good level because. Instead of.
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That's when they get to present chance, for example.
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Not even irregular just eagla. Ar bun something to get it
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doesn't get out n thinking you're trying to learn of all
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these words individually. Why not just lean off in the
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presence? Every single word part of the
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members always end with n in the present labhraíonn mé.
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Foghlaimíonn mé críochnaíonn mé ritheann mé scríobhann mé dáil
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went with dublin west of that's one rúl litir just remember
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president in that present n but really really well that covers
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you for every single out in the language in the present
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inspiration, think to day to learn the finish.
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Tuairim go lebron tomorrow the right to learning the headline
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ról anything from there are not many people made significant
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progress in the language. To take the form approach of
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learning things of individually a supposed to learning the one
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general really well and figures everything else out from there,
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so hopefully that makes sense. Gas hope you enjoy smaointe
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