{"id":8841,"date":"2013-07-01T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2013-07-01T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:17:57","slug":"focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8841","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;ll mainly be focusing on improving my Irish (Gaelic). This is mainly because I&#8217;m going to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oideas-gael.com\/en\/language-and-culture-summer-school\/\">summer school in Irish language and culture<\/a> at Oideas Gael in Donegal at the end of this month, as I&#8217;ve done every year for the past six years, plus two years going there in June. I plan to write something in Irish every day on my other blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/rywsut\/\">Multilingual Musings<\/a>, which I set up as a place to practise using my languages, and will make recordings of the posts. I will also listen to Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta (Irish language radio) every day and maybe find things in Irish to read as well.<\/p>\n<p>I think the writing practice will be most useful &#8211; I&#8217;ve been doing the listening and reading fairly regularly anyway, but rarely write in Irish and often have to check my spelling and grammar. Doing the recordings will be a good exercise as well. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of August I&#8217;ll be going to Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig, the Gaelic college on Skye, to do a course in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/en\/cursaichean\/cursaichean-goirid\/gaelic-song-with-mak-26-08-2013\">Skye Gaelic Songs and Traditions<\/a> with Mary Ann Kennedy, so will be focusing on improving my Scottish Gaelic in August.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be keeping my other languages ticking over and learning a bit more Breton and Russian every day.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any particular language projects or goals for this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month I&#8217;ll mainly be focusing on improving my Irish (Gaelic). This is mainly because I&#8217;m going to a summer school in Irish language and culture at Oideas Gael in Donegal at the end of this month, as I&#8217;ve done every year for the past six years, plus two years going there in June. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841","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=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}