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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
btw. irish is one of the languages, where i dare not to make any guesses on the spelling based on the transcription  |
Perhaps it looks much harder to you than it really is, Freeshadow. But Gaelic (of which Irish is one version) is fairly straightforward once you understand the sounds the letters represent; for English speakers that can be a stumble at the first, because they expect the letters to behave and sound the way they do in English, and they simply don't. (Think "Loch Ness" -- you don't pronounce the "ch" the way you do in an English "church".) But the spelling is quite straightforward, and much much closer to being phonetic than English is, at least!
(In case you didn't realise, I speak and teach and sing in Gaelic -- in my case, the Scottish version.)