conas atá sibh? / how are ye?

[stonethrower]

cúpla focail gaeilge (few words of Irish) to start off

aswell as having ambitions towards self-sufficiency (-ishness?) i would love to have a better command of our native tongue

have read quite a few threads on this forum over the past while, before getting around to actually posting . . . .

i live with my wife and daughter on a two-acre "inch" (narrow strip of land alongside a road, although it's only two acres,it measures 250 metres + from end-to-end) in the "sunny south-east" of Ireland. we built the house three years ago and were just moved in by the time Emily was born. there has been very little done since tbh, as we enjoyed the early years . . . . getting to work on the garden for next year. we do have a stream running through the place and i have posted in the alternative energy board a question about turbines . . . .

look forward to picking your brains as we set out to reduce our "footprint"

Conor

[ina]

Hiya Stonethrower - welcome to SSish"

Sorry, can't help you with your native tongue... Could help you with mine, if you ever need a translation from the German!

[shell]

hi,no gaelic i`m afraid,my kids are just learning it at school,but i have a young girl from the tec to come and do their homework with them 3 times a week,but anyway good to here from you,are you a native or like us blow-ins?

[stonethrower]

i'm a native alright . . . . there's only a few of us left

[stonethrower]

guten tag, ina, wie gehen Sie?

[Millymollymandy]

Je pense qu'elle va bien.

Hello and welcome Stonethrower!

[ina]

guten tag, ina, wie gehen Sie?

Not bad, not bad!

[stonethrower]

bonjour et bienvenue . . . .

[stonethrower]

let's call a halt now to these multi-lingual shenanigans before i'm out of my depth

[ina]

Mmhh... If I try really hard, I might find in the depth of my memory how to say hello in Spanish...

[kiwirach]

kia ora!!.

thats almost the extent of my native language!!.
as for your native language....what i know of it isnt printable for a family website!!....tooooo much time spent in irish pubs as a younger lady!!.

welcome to ish!

[MKG]

Ayup, Stornthrawer - th'arait?

[Annpan]

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???

[red]

welcome

[Rosendula]

Hi