Hello everyone,

I am going to work independently to study Irish and I am going to take all of my
own lessons and work them into EasyReader (to be called "Irish for Life" this
spring).

As of yet I do not know about the transportability of lessons written in Irish
for Life and I am hoping that, maybe, someone out there can work with me so that
I can learn how to do all of this and then to pass it on to others.

Páric and I have been talking about my own frustrations with learning Irish
as it has been more than difficult to collate materials from one place to
another. The MAJOR obstacle is the dialects! One program uses Manx in their
recordings, another Connemara and another Ulster and so on. There is absolutely
NO continuity at all. Most other languages at least have what one would call a
"broadcast" standard, a sort of one size fits all in order to more efficiently
facilitate the learning of their language by other language speakers/learners.
However, this is not so for Irish at all. I have even been told that on RTE, in
the same news program, one can run into all dialects of Irish throughout the
program. How can I, in learning Irish, try to have some continuity in my own
learning as to dialects if I am learning from a broadcast different words in
different dialects. We would never allow someone to learn English with 5
different regional dialects mixed in a single sentence; however, those learning
Irish and gaining new vocabulary are doomed to this same type of dialect
"mixing." If Irish is ever going to be "saved," it also has to have internationa
appeal as well and, of course, with this lack of centralization of the Irish
language, it would seem to be a problem even for those who are natives! How do
they handle this in the schools and what happens when someone moves from Donegal
to Ulster?

Just throwing this out there in the hopes that someone may know of a station on
the internet that has "standard" Irish or only one dialect upon which I may
depend.

To be honest, this has set back my learning of Irish over 9 months. I need to
know sources that I can use that will be "consistent." Any ideas are welcome!

Thank you all so much.

Anyse

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