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:|... not to overshare but it's... sad. knowing your grandmother wasn't white, she came from canada directly, she was running from persecution and hid everything just like her māori partner did. like... damn. i wish i could say where you came from. i wish i could find your heritage, the way i'm looking for my whakapapa. my entire "role" in the family is to find out where people are from. i just wish i knew anyone that i could ask about native history or tribal records. it's sad lol
#i'm māori#i'm welsh#i'm gaelic#and i'm... i don't know. not white american from canada. that's the most i feel comfortable claiming for various reasons.#i just want to find out what she had to run from. her family. it's so close to me.#and it's like. she married my grandfather who was hiding from aotearoa during the musket wars#her family put down they were white on the american census to not be killed#i just want to know who she was and who her family was outside of 'idk you're native but don't look into it lol'#i don't want to claim this part of me without knowing more because my grandmother was this. but god.#i know i'm native from canada basically but i don't wanna step on any toes. i just want to be proud of her and what she went through.#i guess you hid well enough grandma. your entire family did!#i'm glad you survived. i'd do it too. i don't blame you at all. i just wish i knew more about you lol
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Soap and ghost duolingo-ing together. They compete on who can do better.
Ghost is learning Gaelic so he can understand soap, and soap is learning dutch since ghost alredy knows it.
#inspred by me starting dutch duolingo with my sister#yes I'm also doing gaelic#the brainrot got to me#duolingo#languages#learning languages#el rambles#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#ghostsoap#soapghost#call of duty#cod#cod mw2
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Thinking about the complexities of a "losing your magic" story in a DnD (and similar) scenerio because what it means completly depends of your class. Because while not everyone is born with magic, everyone can have it.
How for a sorcerer losing their magic is genuinally about losing a part of themselfs, to suddently not being able to do something they always did. Losing your magic is like sudently losing a limb or one of your senses. And how besides being always theirs, their magic is ancestral how it can mean losing a connection with a part of their family history.
How for paladins is about morals. About breaking their vows whatever they are, dealing with the fact that they changed or maybe that morals were always way more complicated than they thought they were. (The Oathbreaker subclass changes things but I think it can work if Oathbreaker is one of the ways to embrace the emotional conflict that took your magic). Is almost phylosofical. Is the what makes Thor worthy?
How for druids, clerics and warlocks are different levels of losing a connection. For druids is with nature, with a force beyond their comprehension but that became a part of you for so long and who are you without this feeling? For warlocks is so many things, is losing a boss, a friend, is the price of freedom, is the loss of whatever you had with the sentient being that gave you powers. And for clerics is a mix, is about if their gods are feelings like nature or beings that talk to them, but whatever it is, for clerics, for clerics is a lack of faith. Is about what happens when you doubt your god, when you can't belive it or in it. Is also about what happens when your god doesn't belive in you.
For bards and mages is the loss of a skill. The bards might have the loss of their playing or voice but even if not, even if is just the magic that is gone, well they, just like the mages, studied hard to be abble to do magic. If for a sorcerer is like losing a limb, for them is like waking up in the morning and noticing your accent changed or that you don't speak a language you once did anymore, is trying to ride the same bicycle you used to go to work everyday and noticing you just doesn't know how.
#now since i'm listening to rqg#i need need to point out#that it started with me thinking aboug rqg wilde#and the differences between hamid's fear of losing magic and wilde's actual reality after losing his#and after getting it#thinking about how rq wilde speaks with a posh british accent#not a hint of the irish he had to have had#and thinking about how trying to do prestigiditagion and failing for him is actually similar to the day he realized it#the day he noticed his thoughts were not in irish gaelic anymore#also a thing hamid and him can totally bound about because hamid also lost his cairo accent#rqg#rusty quill gaming#dnd#pathfinder#ttrpg#loss of magic#in a less this specific podcast does degenerative disorders like dementia and Alzheimer affect bardic and mages magic?#does amnesia affect their spells?#are they muscle memory?#is some of them muscle memory and some not?
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SpeakGaelic: a guide!
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the national centre for Gaelic language and culture, recently worked with BBC Alba to produce videos, audio and a website called SpeakGaelic.
There’s videos, an online course, support for tutors, multiple new podcasts, Youtube, various things airing on TV. The actual self-taught online course is only one part of how much this resource has to offer! So here’s some of the things I’ve been looking at.
1. The website itself
https://speakgaelic.scot/all-online-courses/
This is just the whole website: explore at your leisure! At the moment they have finished up to around A2 level, and are working on producing higher level content.
Each topic has a series of 8-10 mini-lessons that are sometimes more duolingo style, and sometimes with videos.
I...actually prefer to use the teaching resources for tutors (linked below) than this course for a few reasons. My main problem is that the vocabulary they present to you is far too fast (in one lesson they might give you 20 words for different Scottish towns), which is fine if you just need to choose the relevant words for where you are from, but in order to pass the quiz to get to the next level you have to get ALL of them right. And Gaelic spelling takes a while to get used to...
There’s also no writing / spelling practice, but to pass the level requires you to write things. Which. Feels counterintuitive! You can learn any level without passing the tests, but it’s annoying because it means your progress isn’t saved to an accurate place. I emailed them about it and got a friendly response back, but this isn’t something they are planning to change.
2. The classroom materials
https://speakgaelic.scot/classroom-materials/
Now THIS is where it gets exciting. These are materials designed in theory for tutors - full lesson plans, worksheets, everything - but they are accessible to learners too. In fact, I think they’re much better than the online course.
Why? Because everything is STRUCTURED. You are given practice, and told what to do, and there are grammatical explanations. (NB: all of these exist in the online course, but not in one handy document for you to look over in one place.)
You have all of the learner content....
...and you ALSO have teacher content:
‘If learners need more time and practice with the vocative case’ > that’s me! And it shows you then exactly what you should do next. Whereas the online course doesn’t have that option for customisation at all. Most of the worksheets are included in the lesson plan, and some are on the main page. Absolute bliss.
3. The SpeakGaelic learner podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6x5b901Zj8ky0UsMM4SzZM?si=00c361fe5ffc4f0d
(If you don’t have Spotify, you can just search ‘SpeakGaelic’)
This is an audio version of the lessons above, and goes into more detail - with information from three different native speakers - into some of the grammar things that the course doesn’t really cover in that much depth. There’s conversations you can listen to, and it’s all targeted at complete beginners. If you listen to any other Gaelic podcasts you’ll recognise the presenter, John Urquhart!
After each episode, there’s also a special episode - scroll down to the bottom - with conversation about different topics relevant to the day’s lesson with two of the presenters. Great for providing extra information!
4. The Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppoHU_ece7o&list=PL_U7jPRkbJZtFegaqKKT8MrZnV7ugwHAG&index=1
Ok, so there’s a LOT of content here. First you have the A1-A2 lessons, around 30 minutes each. Despite what the name suggests, these are not the same as the audio podcasts. They have Joy (who presents the online course) but they also give some extra video clips and information about cultural things too!
They’re a little slow, but a good supplement to the material given above. As far as I can tell, there are only 13 of this particular series (and 13 for A2) but the YouTube channel SpeakGaelic itself has hundreds of episodes of everything that goes into the online course. All the videos can be found there.
This includes all audio and conversations, as well as snapshots on individual learners and some cultural information.
They also seemingly have started marking some grammar videos! Check out this playlist for more grammar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9_0ht4L3Y&list=PL_U7jPRkbJZu0uq_6wpzCgZcpddGDU76D
5. The intermediate podcast: Beag air Bheag
https://open.spotify.com/show/34wGOU9sDTE7Vzg0qMexfv?si=314cbbb294b648ec
Once you’re a little further on in your journey (I...can’t understand these yet), there are a few other podcasts on Spotify also by the BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. This is one! This is totally in Gaelic, but spoken fairly slowly and designed for intermediate learners.
6. The old site: learngaelic.scot
https://learngaelic.scot
Check it out! I...actually prefer this site and the way it teaches. It has some bonuses over the old one - good vocabulary sections, plus a really great directory of Gaelic courses online and in person, as well as a dictionary, and so on.
It goes all the way up to B2, so is a better choice if you have more than a little Gaelic.
It’s also a brilliant directory of media in Gaelic - you can watch lots of videos with transcripts in Gaelic with a dictionary, as well as finding native-level material. You can sign up to their newsletter and get weekly Gaelic information too.
It also has links to Speaking Our Language!! Which is an absolutely wonderful resource from the 90s teaching Gaelic one conversation at a time, and also goes up to a fairly high level. These are all updated for The Modern Age: i.e., they all have PDFs and transcripts, as well as links to the grammar points for whatever lesson you’re listening to. Far more advanced than anything the new site currently has.
I might do another post once I’ve explored this website a little more!
7. Bonus: Gaelic with Jason
Finally, one extra! The other main resource I’m using is Gaelic with Jason (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rAE_iLRh4g for example).
He has a whole bunch of free Youtube videos, but I’m actually doing his paid online course - it’s by the best value for money I know from any course, Gaelic or otherwise. If you have the money for it and like immersive learning with a board and just being chatted to, I’d highly recommend you give it a go. He also has loads of Gaelic books for learners, which are wonderful too, and a folktales and traditions course for intermediate learners. Can’t talk about this man enough. (https://gaelicwithjason.thinkific.com)
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Once again, I’d really encourage you to check out the teaching materials: I personally find them way more useful than the online course for learners specifically. I’m looking at the teaching materials in conjunction with the audio on YouTube and then the podcasts on Spotify.
All the best!
- Melissa
#gàidhlig#gaelic#scottish gaelic#langblr#studyblr#learn gaelic#seriously guys there are SO MANY resources out there#mainly these two sites though lmao but the amount of ancillary content is insane#anyway. once again. anyone learning: hmu!#I'm very much learning casually but it's great fun when I don't want to think about korean or chinese lmao
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In my headcanon Jonathan and Mina's mothers died at childbirth, hence my Mina says she never knew a mother and Jonathan makes no comments to "for your mother's sake". And it was not an uncommon cause of death, especially to lower class people, which their parents must have been given they had no inheritance and came from "humble beginnings" according to Mina.
Yeah, it definitely could easily fit! I personally like to imagine Irish Mina who lived in Ireland with at least one of her parents for a few years before moving to London when she was still pretty young and then subsequently getting orphaned fully. There's nothing contradicting that from going along with both mothers dying in childbirth either, of course; could be her dad who lived a bit longer.
But definitely Jonathan, I imagine him never knowing either of his birth parents really, or at least not beyond vague memories from early early childhood. I'm kind of attached to the idea of Mr. Hawkins being the only parental figure he's ever really known/can remember clearly.
#dracula daily#dracula daily spoilers#mina murray#jonathan harker#i know it's not necessarily realistic given the time but i like the idea of mina initially speaking at least a bit of gaelic#plus it would be neat if her early childhood echoed stoker's a little bit#but i've still gotta get her to london in time to grow up with lucy#and she's gotta be orphaned. so that's kinda how i like to imagine it#but i'm always flexible#anonymous#replies
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The alessian order is clearly based on (a really stupid romeaboo/idiot new atheist coalition take on) the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire, but I remain convinced that most of the characterisation is specifically islamophobic. The whole "zealously monotheistic religious order who puts in really stupid rules for no reason and hates fun and also sucks in all ways is led by a prophet who separated himself until that he wss spoken to by God. That prophet guy is also a rapist. Oh, and literally a monkey, by the way. Just in case we weren't being clear enough with just how racist we're being here" to me screams your average Sam Harris reader, ca. 2004.
#this is a post about lore in the elder scrolls universe#reading fantasy universe lore with any knowledge of history is just like. oh anti-Gaelic caricature rooted in plantation (reachmen)#islamophobic caricature (marukh)#anti-semitic caricature (don't know enoigh about elder scrolls lore tbh but I'm sure they're there - let's say Draenei and Goblins in WoW fn
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the last two posts have been brought to you by the fact that a) I just realized that bilingual duetting is now a Theme in my fic-writing and also that b) I went into the basement and hit my head So hard on a ceiling beam.
#em is posting about sharpe#ow. anyway. results show you can Definitely sing johnny has gone for a soldier in two languages simultaneously.#two sisters/de två systrarna in english and swedish simultaneously is a little trickier but I'm convinced it's also possible#now to find something you can duet in english and gaelic. presumably they exist but nothing comes instantly to mind...
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Does Gàidhlig have the caol le caol leathan le leathan rule?
#Gàidhlig#Scottish Gaelic#Language#Gonna tag#Gaeilge#Because it is an Irish rule#I'm really curious and google isn't telling me anything 💔
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【 KID'S BIRTHDAY 2024. 】
It is his birthday.
The party hasn't even started and he is already drinking.
He's ready to get wrecked and remember absolutely none of it tomorrow.
If you catch him when he's pissed enough, he might even be a little bit less horrible to you. Or maybe he'll be even more aggressive. Depends on how the night goes.
#【 ⚙ ˊˎ | BLOOD AND IRON-WILLED | open. 】#【 ⚙ ˊˎ | RECKLESS TONGUE | ic. 】#tw alcohol#tw drinking#// hello i am here!!!#// i just got home and i am getting ready to party. i have a few things to do before the night starts but then i'm good!#// this is the single drunkest day of the year for him.#// i will warn you that heavy scottish accents are inevitable. probably also badly translated gaelic.#// he will remember absolutely none of this tomorrow so say anything you want to him.#// also heads up that i will be spreading this event out over the course of the next few days#// because i don't think i can reply to everything in one night i'm sorry;;;;#// it might end up being a week long event depending on what happens.#// anyway hello and happy birthday to all the other kids on my dash!#// i am tagging all these posts as kid's birthday 2024 just in case any of the subject matter is uncomfortable for you#// and you want to blacklist#// okay love you all see you in a bit!#kid's birthday 2024
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I downloaded duolingo on a whim and now I'm two lessons into "learning" gaelic
#i always see the memes about the owl coming to murder you but realised i never tried duolingo. not even when i had spanish in school#wanted to try and this is actually fun? like you gotta focus. i haven't focused on anything in 18 years#the sentence structure of gaelic is interesting. and i like the way it sounds!#i'm not gonna learn gaelic obviously but i like doing the lessons :)#rayrambles
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A Mhaighdean Bhàn Uasal
"Little baby, hear my voice / I’m beside you, O maiden fair / Our young Lady, grow and see / Your land, your own faithful land / Sun and moon, guide us / To the hour of our glory and honour / Little baby, our young Lady / Noble maiden fair"
-"A Mhaighdean Bhàn Uasal (Noble Maiden Fair)" translated
"And what if I can't be like Thancred's Minfilia or Siberite? I knew nothing of the world or even how to live until just a few years ago, how could I ever be as heroic or capable as them?"
"You know there was a time when those two wondered how they would ever live up to those that came before them, Siberite especially. I don't know the full story but I have a feeling she, much like you, hadn't known much of the world or how to live until just a few years ago." Demos holds out his hand, Minfilia taking it gently and cautiously, "And like her you're not alone in this."
He's slow to start the lullaby in a tongue lost to the ages of the Shroud, but one of the few who's meaning was passed down. Minfilia looks up at him curiously, attempting to mouth the words finding some feel the same as that of the pixies' language. When he finishes, he gives the young woman's hand a reassuring squeeze and smile. "It's a beautiful song, but why sing it to me? What does it even mean?"
"Same thing I sang to Sib once upon a time. Just something meant to calm the mind and a reminder that you're still coming into your own, Mhaighdean. You'll figure out the heroic stuff, just give it time and look to those around you."
#Thank you for sending this in! Sorry it took me a minute to finish it!#Anyway have the two moments Demos sings this song!#and yes feo ul did pop out to translate the song when Ryne asked once more because i hc that there's some old elezen languages#that are similar to that of the pixies but because i'm not creative its just things in gaelic both irish and scottish#demos reyes oc#siberite akagane oc#brotp: anam cara#ryne waters#shadowbringers vibes#heavens blood vibes#ffxiv#ffxiv gpose#my screenshots
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Hi fellas, Be honest and reasonable, Do I still need more improving my art? Is my art's too cringey? Is my art style is too edgy or bad? Why am I asking this? Well, it's just unlike some people "thinks" or at least they thought they knew that my art is too poorly or bad It felt like as an artist, I've been drawing in bad, edgy, cringe art style and people started to hate my art or me.... :'c
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learning chinese like
and then learning scottish gaelic like
this word guga ‘young gannet’ is on lesson 3 of duolingo. if there is any better way to exemplify the difference between these languages than these two screenshots, I’ll wait
#chinese#gaelic#scottish gaelic#on a more serious note however#the deep sense of ROOTED in place that gaelic has#of knowing - yes I know what a gannet is!#I've seen them! I know where they live and nest and I know the sound of their cry!!#and knowing too all that happened to make this language nearly extinct and that it may still die yet#and still I'm here. lying on my side at 10pm in South Korea across the other side of the world#looking at a tiny electronic box and learning on an app#the word for a young wild bird#and the harsh beauty of the cliffs#I'm thinking about that post that talks about how learning a - I can't say indigenous#because it doesn't mean quite the same thing in a European context#but learning a minority local oppressed language and the way it may have of talking about the hills#and that yes English has these words too (or used to) and yes I'm maybe over-romanticising#but I still feel a deep DEEP sense of kinship to my family who also loved the cliffs and the hills like I do#and maybe talked about them like this#I don't know
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Thank you One Piece and Eustass Kidd brainrot in particular I just downloaded five books on Scottish Gaelic and Scots dialect for fucking. AU fanfic purposes
#zombie thoughts#writing fanfic like...#one piece#eustass kidd#i mean i'm a linguist i've been playing with learning scottish gaelic since i was 12#kidd speaks scottish gaelic in my au and will speak english if he has to but fucking hates it. killer does too#it IS a plot device#i really don't need much prodding to learn a random ass language but like. ancient greek; portuguese; basque; and icelandic already have#folders in my library i need to stop collecting languages like this. i need to put scottish gaelic on the soupy - crunchy gradient of langs#i will NOT be attempting to write accents in the fic because that annoys the piss out of me but like... i saw a book about dialect#and i couldn't just not download it like... of course i needed it
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just found out apparently there is a song in hozier's new album abt language! wanted to rec it to you both because. it sounds very beautiful and also obviously because lyrics: butchered tongue
Oh, really? Cool! I've seen that Hozier songs have been coming out, but I haven't kept close track and didn't know there was a whole new album now.
I'm listening to it now and ough. Okay wow yeah that hurts. Especially that "Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever / And what can still be known" line, that's incredibly reminiscent of several of the convos we've been having about trying to reclaim what we can, but how it will never be quite the same as what it could've been. And trying to reconcile and be okay with who we are while still feeling the righteous anger at what was taken from us culturally and linguistically.
And then "A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground". I don't even know how to explain it, but you get it, right? We are butchered tongues, we're alive but with this piece cut from us. But we're still singing, we're still trying, we're teaching ourselves as many sounds and words as these butchered tongues will accept because we're not letting our language passively go. And despite our difficulties and how it's never be quite the same, we're still persevering.
I love this language...partnership? Camaraderie? Connection? Solidarity? we've accidentally discovered--thank you for sharing this song with me <3
#hozier#quil's queries#soryasongsaa#ough the guilt and grief and everything wrapped up in having a butchered tongue#that song just punched me in the chest#and also reminded me. gaelic is another language I'd like to learn#there's irish ancestry on my dad's side. I don't know how much but they're very loudly proud about it#so regardless of the amount because of that I understand that part of my family (and therefore myself) as irish#though I don't think...they speak the language?#idk I'm not close with them#but anyway!#just thought of that since. the song
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Descendants CYOA: Caisleán Bagairt, Part 1
Before the castle’s name had been bastardized by the centuries, the people had called it mostly as their fear defined it: Caisleán Bagairt (Threatening Castle). It seemed a silly thing to Mal, when she was a child, to think the castle itself—with its crumbling, mossy walls and spindly tower rooftops, dropping shingles down on passers-by—could be in any way more notable than the threat that lived within.
Now, though, at fifteen, standing there in the threshold of a place that—if she tried to call it home, she would choke on the word—she is struck by the threat of the castle itself. She is struck by the feeling that her mother isn’t here, but the threat of her is present. Embodied in the stone, in the shadows, in the noises—
A/N: I was possessed by the need to use the new poll feature for a fun CYOA-inspired creative writing exercise. To participate, all you have to do is pick one of the lines above. I will write the next part based on whichever line gets the most votes within one (1) day.
#descendants#descendants fanfiction#mal bertha#polls#descendants CYOA#my writing#my fanfiction#descendants fandom#WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR BELOVED HERO#VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES#DAJGKDSJKGDJKS#oh disclaimer: I don't speak gaelic so I am relying on my friendly neighbourhood google search#I was just sitting here thinking to myself#Bargain Castle is a stupid name#I'm ignoring canon and pretending it's a bastardization#just roll with me on this okay#dajkgjdskgjkds#<3
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