Re: Irish Gaelic is evil!

Carsten Becker wrote:

> Hey!
>
> Yesterday, we talked about the "Gaeltacht" and the Irish
> language, which is according to our teacher "very difficult
> to learn as for pronounciation. Imagine, every consonant
> letter exists twice in pronounciation, there's a so-called
> slender and a broad version. The grammar is a good deal
> different as well, but still there are people who want to
> learn this language" (Obligatory question: "Why?").

Well, because it's dying.  Dying languages desperately need learners.

The pronunciation isn't hard as long as you unlearn things.  Unlearning
is the most useful skill for language, I guess.  'Slender' means
palatalised, and 'broad' velarised, as a rule.  Welsh is easier, though.
Once you've got the grammar of Welsh, you're well on the way to Irish.