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Brush up on your brogue: Free language lessons!
Are you a wee bit o’ Irish? Will you be pulling out the once-a-year “Kiss Me I’m Irish” T-shirt and cooking corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day at your house? We sure will.
But Rosetta Stone, the language-learning software company, wants us to go a step further: They’re offering a chance to celebrate our Irish heritage (many of us have one!) and learn a few key phrases in Gaelic.
The company is making their Irish software available for free for one week.
Starting on March 12, Rosetta Stone is inviting consumers to “brush up on their brogue” by offering one week of free Irish language tutorials online.
You can access the free Rosetta Stone Irish program trial by logging onto www.rosettastone.com and clicking on the registration link (link will be live beginning March 12, according to a company press release). Free access to the lessons will be available until March 19.
On a personal note, being of the monolingual persuasion has always bothered me: Many of my friends speak several languages — French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Chinese, Russian, Bulgarian. One friend who works for Finnair speaks eight! Frankly, I feel culturally stunted, and I hope my children don’t have to endure the same fate.
I’ve always wondered if Rosetta Stone or a similar system would work, but I was too cheap to invest hundreds of dollars to find out. Maybe this is my ticket.
Has anyone else out there learned a language as an adult? Or taught your child a second (or third) language? Please share your stories.
At Ireland-information.com, I found a phrase you may want to try out on your kids post-St. Paddy’s Day:
“Bi ciuin! Ta tinneas cinn orm.” (PRONOUNCED: bee quewn! Taw tinniss kinn urm.)
MEANING: “Be quiet! I have a headache.”
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