
Master the Irish present-tense copula, exploring categorization and identification, with positive es, negative ne, and indirect speech using gr and nac.
Explore the copula of identification and past tense in Irish, mastering pronoun placement, strong pronouns, and the rules for categorization and identification of nouns.
Explore the Irish verbal noun 'egg' form to express continuous action across tenses, using the genitive and verb conjugations to form phrases like 'eating' and 'driving'.
Explore the first conjugation conditional mood in Irish, focusing on the third person singular and the I form, and how future endings become conditional.
Master second conjugation conditional mood for the third person singular in Irish, using a two-step process: add a shaven h or a d apostrophe and change final d to n.
Master 11 irregular Irish verbs in the conditional mood for 3rd person singular by adding a shadow h or d apostrophe and dropping the i, with broad versus slender endings.
Explore the Irish genitive case through a three-step process for masculine and feminine nouns. Learn how weak versus strong endings and the plural na affect nominative, genitive, and plural forms.
Irish Language Absolute Accuracy is for those students who want to be fully conversant with the Copula in all its forms, including reported/indirect speech, who want to have such a strong command of the language that they start to think and dream through it. It takes everything that we have covered thus far in all the courses leading up to this to the NEXT LEVEL. The tests accompanying each lecture are more complex and students are advised to repeat them as many times as necessary until they can answer the questions automatically and without thinking. Students are encouraged to pause the lecture, make notes of their own and to supplement their learning by watching Irish language television and reading appropriate books. This course dives more deeply into the Genitive Case and the Conditional Mood. As always, students are building their vocabulary, practising and finetuning their pronunciation and growing in confidence. Now is the ideal time for students to put the Irish they have learned to good use by joining a Conversational Irish class or a Ciorcal Comhrá. As the proverb goes Beatha teanga í a labhairt, for a language to survive it must be spoken! I hope that you enjoy this course as much as I enjoyed making it!