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Do You Find this Surprising?

27 November, 2012
Posted in: Ireland, Reading etc.

From a review of “Gonta” by Alex Hijmans in the Irish Times – “This first collection of short stories in Irish by the multilingual Dutchman Alex Hijmans is set in Salvador, in Brazil, where he lives.”

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  1. Eimear says

    1 December, 2012 at 00:45

    No, because I have heard of this chap before, and I know a few people from other countries who have learned Irish as adults and became rapidly fluent. I know a Czech programmer whose Irish is essentially perfect and who now makes his living working in Irish (on focal.ie). Apparently Czech grammar makes Irish grammar look laughably simple.

  2. belgianwaffle says

    2 December, 2012 at 23:04

    Eimear, I am quite astounded. Your Czech programmer must be a little unusual all the same…

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