Turas Siar 305 - Agallamh suimiúil a rinne Caitlín Nic Conghóile leis an Dochtúir Séamus Ó Catháin, a chaith blianta fada ag bailiú béaloidis i gceantar Dhún Chaocháin.

Is dóigh liom.

I think..

Is minic a déarfadh Sorcha rud liomsa agus

Sorcha would often say something to me and.

Ní do chuirfinn ceist air an bhfuil a fhios agat cén fáth go n-abraíonn tú sin.

I wouldn't ask him if you know why you say that.

Agus adeir sí: "Níl agus mhíniú daoithe tuige go raibh sé mar seo i gcás amháin, agus mar seo óh tuigim anois é," adeir sí.

And she says: "No, and I have no explanation for you as to why it was like this in one case, and like this—oh, now I understand it," she says.

Agus a déarfadh sí agus

And she would say and.

Cúrsaí gramadaí a bhí iontu.

They were grammar courses.

Is cluiche contúirteach go maith é gan go leor den bhunstruchtúr ó thaobh gramadaí agus eile a chur ar fáil agus ag an am chéanna go leor.

It is quite a dangerous game not to provide enough of the basic structure in terms of grammar and other things and at the same time a lot...

Taithí ar labhairt na Gaeilge a chur ar fáil dó agus ar feadh seal ansin bhí i bhfad níos mó níos lú béim.

To provide him with experience in speaking Irish and for a while then there was much less emphasis...

Béim ar chúrsaí gramadaí, rud a fhágann anois go bhfuil na ranna Gaeilge go gcaithfidh siad

Emphasis on grammar matters, which now means that the Irish departments have to.

An rud ar a dtugtar Remedial Teating a dhéanamh i nGaeilge le

To do what is called Remedial Teaching in Irish.

Sea, do na mic léinn.

Yes, for the students..

Tá sé mar an gcéanna sa mBéarla, tá an Béarla tá Béarla ag titim as a chéile chomh maith.

It is the same in English, English is falling apart as well.

le Gaeilge agus mórán teangacha eile. Ní chreidfeá anois, cuir i gcás, teangacha móra cosúil le

with Irish and many other languages. You wouldn’t believe now, for example, big languages like.

Is an tSualainn mo bheansa, mo bheansa, agus tá an tSualainn anois.

Sweden is my wife, my wife, and Sweden is now...

Insa tSualainn níl sí chomh ceart nó chomh maith is a bhí sí.

In Sweden it is not as right or as good as it was.