Bitesize Irish Podcast

We got a tonne of interest from Podcast 088: Music to Connect with Ireland. Singing in the Irish language is a fantastic way to share your love for the Irish language with others, and to get to know the language deeper. That’s why we made videos for three traditional Irish Gaelic songs (plus a full …

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Music is a personal thing. There are some contemporary artists in Ireland and further on producing fantastic music that help you connect with Ireland. Mentioned in this show: Three traditional Irish language songs available from Bitesize Irish Fionn – The Opera – go support them: Song featured: Silvery Dew by Nissim Khalifa On Facebook Playlist …

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After the honeymoon of starting off with learning the Irish language, how do you keep going? How do you make it sustainable for yourself? In this episode, we focus on how to enjoy the everyday moment of it. [T]he ultimate goals of these activities … are also important but true enjoyment comes from the steps …

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Eoin lays out a case for using a simplified form of the Irish language. The alternative is to never speak it because you don’t think you’re grammatically accurate enough. In reality, many speakers of Irish Gaelic already don’t speak accurately. There is certainly a tension there: the spoken fluent accurate Irish language is beautiful to …

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Following on from last week’s announcement of our €500 donation to Feachtas, here is an interview with Loretta at Feachtas to help us understand what they do. Feachtas is an Irish language youth organisation. We believe this is a fantastic way to support the Irish language into the future. Thanks to our Bitesize Irish members …

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Listen to this Bitesize Irish Podcast episode for a “What if” of a Bitesize Irish community. We’ve had two forums previously with Bitesize Irish, and both failed miserably. But that was only the first part of the puzzle of giving a community a place, one where you can get to know others who are on …

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You’re already good enough to be able to speak the Irish language. It could be that you’re comparing yourself to others, and living with regret of not learning, rather than following your curiosity with the Irish language, culture, music and history. In addition to the podcast above, here’s a little treat from our Bitesize lessons: …

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A small cultural practice gives us insight into underlying culture in Ireland: that is that a good number of people in Ireland use the Irish language of their name on Facebook, even though the Irish language is not part of their everyday lives. But that still gives us an insight into the culture, and people’s …

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Listen to Episode 081 of the Bitesize Irish Podcast above. If you have limited time, should you show up, or give up? Should you keep chipping away at that journey that fulfills your heart, or keep putting it off until you regret never doing it? Should you pluck up the energy to work five minutes …

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A few weeks ago we had a Podcast listener question where a member of the Irish learning community wanted to know more about the Bitesize Irish team. Coincidence or not, we recently had our first live team meeting in Limerick, Ireland a few weeks ago. Over the next weeks you’ll get a chance to meet …

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