Q&A Le Siobhán Agus Gabrielle – 5th December 2019

This month Niall and Ben answered questions about nouns. Topics covered included gender, cases, declensions and the vocative form of names. Here’s a flavour of the discussion.. Does the gender of nouns matter Ben explained that in Irish all nouns are either feminine or masculine. Niall explains that the gender of a noun is important

Niall and Siobhán discussed Irish language words, phrases, and customs related to fauna, flora, and the weather. I imagine there are some very poetic names for flowers and plants in Irish. Could you give some examples? [01:42] There are many plant names beginning with the word lus (plant, herb) that have very evocative meanings. lus

In this month’s Bitesize Live Q&A Ben and Niall welcomed you to submit your questions on how to pronounce words and sounds in the Irish Language. Topics covered included dialects, broad and slender consonants, and how and why the form of surnames in Irish can change. The boys also answered questions on adding ‘t’ to

In this month’s Bitesize Live Q&A Ben and Eoin welcomed you to submit your beginner learners’ questions about the Irish language. Topics covered included blended approaches to learning, learning from poetry and song, prepositions, initial mutations, the Irish primary school system and preserving the linguistic and cultural richness of the language. Here’s a taste of

In this month’s Bitesize Live Q&A Ben and Niall answered your questions about how the beginnings of words change (or “mutate”) in Irish depending on context. They also shared some handy tips for learning grammar and pronunciation in Irish! The questions that Bitesize subscribers asked Ben and Niall this month raised some very interesting topics.

On this November’s live Q&A, Ben and Siobhán from Bitesize Irish answered your questions on the Genitive Clause (‘An Tuiseal Ginideach’). Watch back to hear them demystify this intricate feature of Irish language grammar. Here are links to resources that were mentioned during the livestream: Conceptualising the Genitive So, as you may be aware, the