I'm starting Modern Irish lessons again next week! Very excited, I've forgotten most of it. I tried learning the Cois Fhairrge dialect for a while years ago. It wd be great to be conversational in Irish as well as in [my slightly broken, very Southern] Welsh.
And we're doing Breton this term!! Yay! And one of my students is a druid, and the other an odinist. (No surprises on the druid - I spent the summer shoe-horning her into Oxford by teaching her Middle Welsh for two hours a week which was tremendous fun, and she has done amazingly well.)
On a sad note, two friends of mine have just come back from a week on Skye - one's a natuve irish speaker. She said she'd heard no Gaelic at all, except once from a teacher at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic college. Everyone was speaking English in the street, and Skye is supposed to be the last stronghold of the language.
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