Listen to Vanessa who has never been to Ireland (yet), but has made the Irish language part of her daily life. Living in Australia, she talks about her upcoming trip to Ireland. Discussion podcast about learning to speak Irish Gaelic (in English).

What you’ll hear:

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* Recent flooding in Ireland, including in Carrick-on-Shannon. We’ve have five storms (so far!) this winter

* The Facebook groups and pages Vanessa uses to be part of a community online of Irish language speakers. It’s a “global community”.

* It’s a lifestyle thing. You make the choice to make Irish Gaelic part of your daily life. It’s not about sitting down in front of a book. It’s about interacting through the language, even in the tiniest of bites.

Mentioned in the show

* Carrick-on-Shannon town

* Irish Language Learners group on Facebook

* Duolingo

* Duolingo Irish Learners group (seems to be a fan-started page, perhaps Vanessa is part of this one, or a separate related group)

* Take a Bitesize Irish Gaelic free trial – join Vanessa in the program

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Eoin reads out the poem by Patrick Kavanagh, “A Christmas Childhood”. It rings of simple Irish Christmases. This Christmas poem isn’t in Irish Gaelic, but surely it’s just the thing to hear as we reach Christmas, the time when we reconnect with friends and family. What you’ll hear: Click the audio player above, and you’ll …

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Eoin reads out the poem by Patrick Kavanagh, “A Christmas Childhood”. It rings of simple Irish Christmases. This Christmas poem isn’t in Irish Gaelic, but surely it’s just the thing to hear as we reach Christmas, the time when we reconnect with friends and family.

What you’ll hear:

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* “A Christmas Childhood“, by Patrick Kavanagh

Mentioned in the show

* Nollaig Shona! /Nullig Hunnah/ (Happy Christmas in Irish Gaelic)

* Take your Bitesize Irish Gaelic free trial over the Christmas period. Aim to simply open a lesson once per day, and see how far you get. When you’re a member, then take our Bitesize Lesson: Christmas, full of audio an phonetics in Irish Gaelic.

And more Christmasy goodness on Bitesize Irish Gaelic:

* Phrases for an Irish Christmas

* A Gaelic Christmas

* Irish Christmas Carols

Want to know how to wish someone a Happy Christmas in Irish? Check out the following pronunciation video.

How To Say – Happy Christmas in Irish Gaelic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3Mb5nwJPs

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Do you feel like you “should” be learning the Irish language, but never get around to it? This podcast episode (in English) is about breaking down your daily Irish language habit into such small pieces that they should be easy to do. These ideas come from the excellent blog AJATT: All Japanese All The Time. …

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Do you feel like you “should” be learning the Irish language, but never get around to it? This podcast episode (in English) is about breaking down your daily Irish language habit into such small pieces that they should be easy to do. These ideas come from the excellent blog AJATT: All Japanese All The Time.

What you’ll hear:

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* Language immersion: Nope, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know Irish language speakers right now. It’s not enough of an excuse! Use our modern Irish Gaelic media online to immerse yourself in the language, and in Ireland’s culture. You don’t need to understand Irish Gaelic to immerse yourself, rather you’ll understand because you immerse yourself.

* Show up: doing something right now is completely different to doing nothing. Do something. If that something feels too hard, break down that “something” into something smaller. At Bitesize Irish Gaelic, we’re changing our Bitesize Method to suggest you open a Bitesize lesson each day. That’s way easier than getting you to complete a lesson each day.

* Make it fun. Search YouTube for Irish language songs. Watch one for five minutes. That’s all you needed to do right now. It’s not always about studying new concepts.

Mentioned in the show

* All Japanese All The Time: “You don’t learn a language, you live it.”

* TG4

* Raidió na Gaeltachta

* Litríocht.com where you can buy books, even if you can’t read them yet.

* Take the obligation-free trial of Bitesize Irish Gaelic, and open a single lesson a day (and see where it takes you).

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David White has a great interest in his Irish heritage. He got sucked into the challenge of speaking some Irish Gaelic! Hear this interview with him, where he shares his positive attitude that makes it possible for him to keep learning a new language. What you’ll hear: Click the audio player above, and you’ll get …

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David White has a great interest in his Irish heritage. He got sucked into the challenge of speaking some Irish Gaelic! Hear this interview with him, where he shares his positive attitude that makes it possible for him to keep learning a new language.

What you’ll hear:

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* David’s story with Irish heritage, and looking to make a connection with that heritage

* How David started wanting to learn to speak the Irish language

* The resources that have helped David most in learning to speak Irish Gaelic

Mentioned in the show

* Learn Irish With Eoin – Audio crash-course with Eoin. It has a 5-star rating on Amazon.com. Choose the option to get PDFs with the lessons so that you can read along.

* Pronunciation Cheat Sheets for Irish Gaelic product. Our 4-step method in breaking down any written Irish Gaelic word to have an idea at how it’s pronounced.

* Try Bitesize Irish Gaelic for free today, to learn to speak Irish Gaelic in easy Bitesize lessons.

* Foclóir.ie is an English-Irish dictionary online.

* TG4 television.

* Raidió na Gaeltachta radio. Listen passively, and then tune in to concentrate to catch some words.

* Irish vs Gaelic video by Eoin.

* Irish Word a Day by our competitors

Susan of Vibrant Ireland joins Eoin for a chat on the Bitesize Irish Gaelic Podcast. She has lived in Ireland for the best part of twenty years. She’s from the United States, but ended up moving to Ireland. Listen to her great Irish accent! She now lives in rural east County Clare – a beautiful …

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Susan of Vibrant Ireland joins Eoin for a chat on the Bitesize Irish Gaelic Podcast. She has lived in Ireland for the best part of twenty years. She’s from the United States, but ended up moving to Ireland. Listen to her great Irish accent! She now lives in rural east County Clare – a beautiful part of Ireland that doesn’t get so many tourists.

What you’ll hear:

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* How hard it was for Susan to decide to move to Ireland, which we did in the end, in the late 1990s.

* The best times of the year to visit Ireland for your next trip.

* Life for Susan in rural Ireland.

Mentioned in the show

* Vibrant Ireland – Susan’s travel blog. Look for her Thanksgiving 2015 post about spending Thanksgiving in Ireland.

* Feakle and Scariff in County Clare, Ireland. Susan lives around Feakle.

* Feakle traditional Irish music festival

* The Burren – a rocky landscape in County Clare. It’s the result of early farming in this area, which lead to the stripping of the land’s shallow soil.

* The Wild Atlantic Way is a marked driving route along the west coast of Ireland. Beware, some of the roads included are what we might call “quaint”. And Limerick city should be included!

* Savour Kilkenny – festival of food in October

* Burren Winterage festival in October

* Start to learn Irish Gaelic today to make a real connection with your Irish heritage. The Bitesize Irish Gaelic program lets you learn to speak some Irish Gaelic, in easy Bitesize lessons. Our free trial is no-obligation.

This episode is 20 minutes, compared to our previous episodes of around 30 minutes. What do you think about this format we’re experimenting with? Leave a comment below (comments are open for the first couple of weeks after the episode has been published).

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As we head into a dark winter in Ireland, Eoin shares with you two relevant phrases to say in Irish Gaelic. He explains what each part of the phrase means. Discussion podcast about learning to speak Irish Gaelic (in English). What you’ll hear: Click the audio player above, and you’ll get to hear: How to …

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