Irish spelling is on crack. Or "craic," as they'd spell it. *facepalm*
*giggles and nods emphatically* That was my biggest problem with Scottish Gaelic (which has slightly different pronunciation - "th" in Irish at the beginning of a word is "t", while in Scottish it's "h"). At least in Russian, the letters LOOK different. Trying to reprogram my brain to see an English letter and pronounce it completely differently did *not* happen.
My favorite example - there's been a big push to simplify Gaelic orthography. For example, a word that sounds like "bee" is currently spelled "bithidh". They want to simplify it to "bidh". *g*
Even if that weren't a problem, I could never learn this language because I will never in a million years be able to wrap my brain around cases.
Ooooh, cases are evil. Although with a good teacher, I finally understood most of them for Croatian (there were 7, iirc).
Counting in Scottish was fun, too - they're base-20, so you say "20-and-8, 20-and-9, 20-and-10, 20-and-11.... two twenties." So 74 would be "three twenties and 14." Owwwwww.
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Date: 2006-08-22 03:51 am (UTC)*giggles and nods emphatically* That was my biggest problem with Scottish Gaelic (which has slightly different pronunciation - "th" in Irish at the beginning of a word is "t", while in Scottish it's "h"). At least in Russian, the letters LOOK different. Trying to reprogram my brain to see an English letter and pronounce it completely differently did *not* happen.
My favorite example - there's been a big push to simplify Gaelic orthography. For example, a word that sounds like "bee" is currently spelled "bithidh". They want to simplify it to "bidh". *g*
Even if that weren't a problem, I could never learn this language because I will never in a million years be able to wrap my brain around cases.
Ooooh, cases are evil. Although with a good teacher, I finally understood most of them for Croatian (there were 7, iirc).
Counting in Scottish was fun, too - they're base-20, so you say "20-and-8, 20-and-9, 20-and-10, 20-and-11.... two twenties." So 74 would be "three twenties and 14." Owwwwww.