Once again duilich! for the long delay in posting. It's been hard to keep up with Gàidhlig at the moment as so much is going on. Where to begin?
First of all, the classes aren't on any more so I don't have that regular weekly memory jog. I really ought to have gone back to the Cearcall Còmhraidh, but I couldn't be bothered going along to the other end of Sràid a' Phrionnsa. Leisg, I know, but that's the honest truth.
Secondly, Tormod and I don't talk and text nearly as much as we used to, and if I'm honest, this friendship was one of the main drivers behind learning Gaelic as I had to learn it on the spot. These things happen and it's sad, but that's the way things go.
Thirdly, I'm in the process of buying a taigh, which is starting to be a bit of a b**lache. That, coupled with the fact that...
Fourthly, I have a new job and I'm moving to A' Ghearmailt. Not great for learning Gaelic, but interestingly Scottish Gaelic seems to be unusually and surprisingly popular* there. Maybe I'll manage to continue learning.
In any case, I'll still try and carry on learning. I've been inspired by a good writer friend of mine who started her own blog (no longer existing) to track her progress in learning Polish. She's now been learning it for five years and seems pretty good, all because she was dogged in her desire to learn it. I too am very tenacious (to a fault, it turns out), so I'm sure I'll keep at it. Plus, to all those who think they're getting "too old" to learn a new language, she was in her late 30s** when she started, so there's no excuse! (Yes, I'm looking at you. You know who you are.)
* "popular" is always a very relative term when it comes to Gàidhlig
** I really don't consider late 30s or early 40s old at all, even though mid to late 40s used to be the world average life expectancy as recently as 1950!
