Workshop on Irish Translation in October
Haigh, a chairde! Heads up that our monthly Free Workshop takes place on Sunday, Oct 1st – feel free to join us for some language practice, or to learn more about our online community of learners and mentors.
Speaking of workshops, we’re very excited to announce ‘Ó Bhéarla go Gaeilge: Irish Translation Workshop‘, for Sat, Oct 21st! This promises to be a great learning opportunity, and especially for intermediate and advanced learners. See below for details, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Dáta: Saturday, Oct 21st.
Am: 2 – 3:20pm ET (New York).
Afterwards, this workshop will be available for playback in our Cartlann/Archive.
Join Tomás Ó Maolalaidh, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, for an interactive, bilingual workshop on the process of Irish translation. Aspects of grammar and translation will be analysed in this session, as we focus on converting a short source text from English. We will discuss some of the challenges of translating such pieces into Irish in a natural way.
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Would you like to learn basic Irish phrases? If yes, then be sure to join us for our next Free Workshop on Sunday, Oct 1st.
See details and registration at LetsLearnIrish.com/freeworkshop/
Free Irish Workshop,
Sun, Oct 1st.
New 7-week courses begin Nov, 1st.
Ó Bhéarla go Gaeilge Workshop,
Sat, Oct 21st.
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