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Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words
Most of my language acquisitions over the last few months have been more turns of phrase or colloquial sayings rather than new vocabulary. However, I did fill an embarassing gap in my vocabulary - Tha an t-acras orm - I'm hungry.
I haven't been doing a lot of work on my Gaelic recently - as I was on holiday so focused on learning useful vocabulary in Latvian and Finnish for that! - but I have acquired a few new words.
an cianalas - homesick
(Also Bha an cianalas orm/Chan robh an cianalas orm/An robh an cianalas ort? I was/wasn't/Were you homesick?)
banachdach - vaccination
biadh sraide - street food
ag obair thall-tharis - working abroad
ag obair gu saor-thoilich - voluntary work
bliadhna a-mach - gap year (lit. year out)
Also last week I learned a new colloquialism and I've been endeavouring to use it as it's been an apt expression this week. Tha mo cheann na bhrochan - My head is porridge.
an cianalas - homesick
(Also Bha an cianalas orm/Chan robh an cianalas orm/An robh an cianalas ort? I was/wasn't/Were you homesick?)
banachdach - vaccination
biadh sraide - street food
ag obair thall-tharis - working abroad
ag obair gu saor-thoilich - voluntary work
bliadhna a-mach - gap year (lit. year out)
Also last week I learned a new colloquialism and I've been endeavouring to use it as it's been an apt expression this week. Tha mo cheann na bhrochan - My head is porridge.
This month I've been doing a new unit in memrise. It says I've learned 31 words, in terms of words I can recall cold and use in general conversation (I recognised ailtire in the wild at work yesterday) the number is closer to 11.
amar - bath
fras - shower
deuchainn (pl. deuchainnean) - test, trial
ailtire - architect
ailtireachd - architecture
feamainn - seaweed
eacarsaich - exercise
tuarastal - wages, payment
riatanach - compulsary
leithid - the likes, kind, equal of
uiread - many, quantity
amar - bath
fras - shower
deuchainn (pl. deuchainnean) - test, trial
ailtire - architect
ailtireachd - architecture
feamainn - seaweed
eacarsaich - exercise
tuarastal - wages, payment
riatanach - compulsary
leithid - the likes, kind, equal of
uiread - many, quantity
Over the election campaign I was having a 'word of the week' challenge with my colleagues where I would hunt out words in news pieces that I didn't know and try to absorb them into my vocabulary. The ones that stuck were:
flinne - sleet
creachan - cockles
cuach - cup (in the sense of a sports (...more)
flinne - sleet
creachan - cockles
cuach - cup (in the sense of a sports (...more)
The app on my phone reckons I've learned about 40 words in the last week. I tested myself (pen and paper, just writing down all the new words I could remember) and its more like 20 new words. I've only used one new word in an actual conversation so far (a' dortadh - spilling) after I spil (...more)
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