Irish New Year's Resolutions or Gaeilge Goals

Five good resolutions for Irish learning in 2026, or any time at all! Please tell me your resolutions too.    • Irish language learning (Gaelic, Gaeilge)  

00:10 The Irish copula and especially use of proleptic pronouns
02:46 Verbal nouns, especially with direct object pronouns
04:28 Broad and slender, what I find tricky, sites I use for sounds
05:22 Lenition, which one troubles me most?
07:18 Prepositional pronouns and a new (to me) book!

Though I'm qualified as a teacher of French & English, in Irish I am a learner, and I welcome friendly input from advanced or native speakers. Please consult sites with native speakers for best pronunciation. I am also not trained in linguistics, only in language learning, which I have been doing for a very long time, and teaching!

[Note: the Irish verb "buail" (verbal noun = bualadh) means both to hit and to beat, hence those are both mentioned in this video — it also has many other meanings.]

Resources used or mentioned:
abair.ie
https://www.celtic-languages.org/Guid...
fuaimeanna.ie
Gramadach na Gaeilge (in German & Irish) https://www.braesicke.de/gram.htm
O Dónaill, Irish grammar you really need to know (Hodder/Teach Yourself,2010)
O Sé & Sheils, Teach Yourself Irish (Hodder, 2003)
O Siadhail, Learning Irish
Rosenstock, Beginner's Irish (NY, Hippocrene, 2005)
Stenson, Modern Irish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2020)

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