Rinne mé na briathra go léir ar duolingo. 🙂
Go maith leisceal
What a crazy couple of months. Thanks #covid19. Been swamped with managing a shift to online teaching for our 4k students. No longer working 80 hours a week, but still super busy. Happily Aotearoa's led the world in terms of a lockdown and we seem to have eliminated community transmission of the virus. Much of … An chuid eile de Go maith leisceal
St Plastic Paddy’s Day 2020
We've less than an hour left in our Feile Phádraic here in Aotearoa. It's been an unusual one for me. I'm home here in Tāmaki Makaurau waiting for results of an #covid19 assay. If I have the virus it's one of the 80% of people for whom it's very mild. But on a recent work … An chuid eile de St Plastic Paddy’s Day 2020
Votáil!
On Saturday there was an election for the Irish Dáil. For the first time a left party topped the poll: under the Irish STV system, some form of coalition or confidence and supply arrangement is required. Exciting! Māori Things are progressing with my reo too. I've booked in my last assessment for Papa Reo (week … An chuid eile de Votáil!
Level 2 plus kete 4 = :)
Earlier this week I returned to the topic in Duolingo Irish that's vexed me the most: Verbal nouns. It was only slightly vexatious this time: I had only stumbled through two early lessons when I'd lost the will to live. So this represents finishing most of level 1 and all of level 2 on verbal … An chuid eile de Level 2 plus kete 4 = 🙂
Nollaig shona duit agus meri kerihimete
This last fornight has been crunch-time, work-wise. It's been something of a shite year work-wise too. So last week I decided to pull the plug a couple of days early: the 18th was my last working date for 2019. W00t! Aotearoa does some things really well and some things less so. Christmas here is awesome. … An chuid eile de Nollaig shona duit agus meri kerihimete
mahi-ā-kainga
ka pai 🙂
enrolled
I have enrolled in Level 2 te reo Māori at te Wānanga o Aotearoa, commencing in March 2020.
done and dusted; will continue
Yesterday I presented my paper at the World Conference on Online Learning here in Dublin/i mBaile Átha Cliath. Te Whakapaipai, Dílárúchán: Towards Decolonisation via the Digital Self-Directed Study of Indigenous Languages Here's the abstract: In this paper I reflect on the praxis of being a self-directed (Knowles, 1975) second language learner in two Indigenous languages—one … An chuid eile de done and dusted; will continue
Tá mé san Eoraip!
Cen chaoi bhfuil tú? Kei te pehea koe? Tá mé tuirseach Kei te ngenge ahau. And I have every right to be tired! Greetings from Vienna Airport. I left Auckland around 21h on Saturday night. It is now 05h41 in Auckland on Monday morning. Yup, 37 hours en route, and still have one more (shortish) … An chuid eile de Tá mé san Eoraip!
Gaelige mo scéal 