{"id":15900,"date":"2018-07-27T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2018-07-27T19:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:57:27","slug":"time-flies-when-youre-learning-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15900","title":{"rendered":"Time flies when you&#8217;re learning Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish language and singing courses I&#8217;ve been doing this week finished today. Tonight there is a concert with a singer from Belfast, followed by a c\u00e9il\u00ed. The week seems to have gone by quickly when I look back at it, but as I was experiencing it, it seemed to last longer.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/29761897268\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Gleann Cholm Cille\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/855\/29761897268_674ea5cde1_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Gleann Cholm Cille\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I learnt some interesting things in the Irish language class, including proverbs, idioms, bits of grammar, and a few songs. In the sean-n\u00f3s class I learned some new songs, and re-learned some old ones. Our teacher also told us about the background to the songs and the people who wrote them, which was fasciniating.<\/p>\n<p>As well as speaking plenty of Irish this week, I&#8217;ve also spoke some Russian, French, Breton, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. I can understand most of the Irish I hear, though find songs in Irish more difficult to follow. I can sing them, but don&#8217;t necessarily know all the words. This is partly because songs, especially the sean-n\u00f3s ones, often include obscure words and dialect variations.<\/p>\n<p>Spot the sheep<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/28784822387\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Caora. Sheep. Dafad\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/839\/28784822387_5369377c7d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Caora. Sheep. Dafad\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to Dublin, then I&#8217;ll return to Bangor on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish language and singing courses I&#8217;ve been doing this week finished today. Tonight there is a concert with a singer from Belfast, followed by a c\u00e9il\u00ed. The week seems to have gone by quickly when I look back at it, but as I was experiencing it, it seemed to last longer. I learnt some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,104,111,10,52,56,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-travel","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}