conas atá sibh? / how are ye?

[JulieSherris]

Awright mate, from a ex-londoner... blown-in to the west of ireland...

Nice to meet you!

We very nearly ended up in Cork ourselves, but the best job hubby found was at galway, so here we are!

Wind turbines are quite popular over here, huh? Let's know how you get on!
Julie.

[ina]

y'aw right 'n that naw...

Thats Glaswegian
I can say it in Gallic (Scots Gaelic) as well but I get flumoxed by the spelling...

cymiru hashiif???

Well, of course, I should have said it in Aberdonian...

Fit like?

[stonethrower]

Je pense qu'elle va bien.

Hello and welcome Stonethrower!

wait . . . . it's coming back to me . . . .

bonjour et merci Millymollymandy,

j'espére que vous vaisez(?) bien aussi . . . . (verbs were always an issue )

[ina]

j'espére que vous vaisez(?) bien aussi . . . . (verbs were always an issue )

Guess why I gave up on learning French!

As my boss in France once said - I could say merci fluently...

[stonethrower]

[Millymollymandy]

Je pense qu'elle va bien.

Hello and welcome Stonethrower!

wait . . . . it's coming back to me . . . .

bonjour et merci Millymollymandy,

j'espére que vous vaisez(?) bien aussi . . . . (verbs were always an issue )

aller is the verb you want but it goes like this!

j'espere que vous allez bien!

except here we would say 'tu' to each other so ...... tu vas bien!

Actually this is quite a coincidence because on another forum we have just been having a language lesson in Irish Gaelic - or rather, the alphabet and pronounciation, because we were discussing Irish names and how they're not pronounced anything like they are spelt!

All I have managed to get my head around is the fact that most consonants are followed by a H.

[stonethrower]

d'oh . . . . aller . . . . now i remember

je vais . . tu vas . . il/elle va . . nous allons . . vous allez . . ils/elles vont (je pense )


on the Irish i dunno would i say it's as straightforward as throwing a "h" in behind a consonant