Any Scots Gaelic speakers here?

[Paul]

Halo a' Eric, Tha mi gu math tapadh leat. Tha do Ghaidlig sgoinneil.

That was good advice from Dall piobaire (Blind piper, unless his name is Dall?)
Listen to the sounds, thats important. Piping too? I am impressed...One wee thing, a Garda is an Irish Policeman, Poileasman or fear poilis (policeman)
or perhaps oifigear poilis (police officer) is Scottish - the more modern useage is Poileasman - sounds like it looks pole aish man
Tom....

I really need to attach pronunciations to words more. I can speak things I can't write and write things I can't speak!

[Eric Schutte]

Urchurdan and Paul,

Thoir mathanas mo caraid.....Is mise a Siorram, nach Garda. Tapadh leat ri do foighidinn.

Is mise miannaich sibh slan leat! Toilich, gleidh an comhradh siuthad!!

Slainte!

Eric

[Urchurdan]

'se do beatha mo charaid, siorram? Gle mhath.....

I have never met a Sheriff before, do you know how difficult it is to find a pic of one not wearing a gun....LoL....

[Urchurdan]

Well done Eric, grammar for today:-

Is mise siorram.... My name is sheriff...or I am sheriff....

When saying what you do (occupation) you say 'se siorram a th'annam.. literally 'it is a sheriff in me...The gaelic construction takes a bit of getting used to, as it is such an archaic language, for instance Dall piobaire, Dall is using that as a name, which is fine - but in Gaelic, the construction is noun then adjective so if you were saying blind piper, it would be piobaire dall.
You are doing so well for an absolute beginner, keep it up....it gets harder as you go along - sorry, I wish I could say it gets easier, but......

Mar sin leat an drasta.....Tomas Macanta Urchurdan...See if you can work out my middle name, It describes me quite well, I would never make a siorram....

[Eric Schutte]

Halo Urchurdan,

Macanta = Meek one? Am I correct? Also thanks for straightening me out on my grammar. I'll keep trying to keep proper sentence structure in mind.

Sincerely,

Eric

[Urchurdan]

Meek, tha sin ceart, sgoinneil.....

Aye, its not easy, remember, in the sentence, the verb comes first, then the noun then adjectives.
Tha sin ceart. (ha shin kersht) Literally - is-that-right. Remember the verb comes first but putting it into engish, it translates as 'that is right'.
Don't panic lol it will start coming together, start at the beginning with pronunciations and sentence structure, don't try to be too ambitious and it will start to make sense.
Try to translate these.
Tha mi duilich. Tha e sgith. Tha iad blath. Tha sinn fluich. Tha teant agam. Tha feileadh agat. Tha seacaid aige. Tha cu agam. Tha mo c(h)u dubh. Tha seacht sgiannan d(h)ubh aga.
A tip, watch the lention ie an 'h' is added after the first letter of some words, i have bracketted them above so as hopefully not to confuse you.
My first name for instance in Gaelic is Tomas, in English this is spelt Thomas. This really isn't correct, as when you put the 'H' in, the 'T' becomes silent, so Thomas should be said as 'Homas. (Hoe-mash) If I say my name I say Is mise Tomas ( I am Tomas) However, if you address a man who has a Gaelic name, you lenit it - add the 'H' after the first letter, so then you would say - Halo a' 'Homas. The 'A' is the equivalent of the olde English 'O' so you are literally saying Hallo O Tomas.
Anyway, Tha mi duillich - your head will be reeling by now, I will leave you to digest this and go and get ready to go to work,
Feasgar mhath.... Tom.....

[Eric Schutte]

Urchurdan - Halo!!!

Tha mi duilich - I am sorry
Tha e sgith - He is tired
Tha iad blath - They are warm
Tha sinn fluich - We are wet
Tha teant agam - This my tent
Tha feileadh agat - This is your kilt
Tha seacaid aige - This is your jacket
Tha cu agam - This is my dog
Tha mo chu dubh - This is my black dog
Tha seacht sgiannan dubh agam - I have seven black knives

Tha mi duilich, mo caraid....latha fada an diugh. Tha mi sgith. Tapadh leat seo foighidinn.
Oidhche mhath!!

Eric

[Urchurdan]

Bha sin gle math Eric,

The most used verb is the verb 'TO BE' You used it to say Tha cu agam, I have a dog.

Translate these phrases and try to put them into the PAST tense. I used the past tense at the top of the post to say 'that was very good Eric'.

Tha e fluich
Tha mi blath
Tha iad a' dannsa
tha sinn tinn
tha thu sgith
tha i breagha

Now try on your own to find out how to put them into the FUTURE tense.
(Note - 'e' and ''i' can have two meanings 'e' can be him or it. Also 'i' can mean her or it.

Fortan math, Mar sin leibh an drasta siorram......

[wvpiper]

Could I get the Gaelic pronunciation of,
MacDhubhsithe

Here's a link to an audio sample, I just need to know if it's correct. If you click the Gaelic MacDhubhsithe at the top of the page, it will play a sample

http://www.scotclans.com/scottish_clans/clans/macphee/

thanks

[Urchurdan]

Mac is son of as you will know. Out of interest, a woman isn't MacDubhsithe, but is NicDubhsithe, or daughter of. So it is Mr. MacDubhsithe and Mrs. NicDubhsithe.

The pronunciation on the web site is a native speaker, so he can say it way better than me, he is speaking in real time, so it is hard to follow.

I will break it down as best as I can phonetically.

Mac - is not Mac as in MacDonald, in Gaelic that is MACHK the ch as in loch finishing with a hard K. M-A-CH-K

Dubh as in sgian dubh = DOO

sithe = seeye SEE-YE (Ye like??? Yea maybe?

So, all together it is MACHK-DOO SEE-YE.....