Talking Books Irish AudioBooks on CD , Tape and mp3

About Talking Books

Kinsfolk have long had an oral custom. We used to be placed all-around the camp fire listening to tales. Children fancy having tales read to them. Talking Books are in that oral tradition. More than that you can listen to talking books while you are doing something else. Countless people get appallingly car sick (well car sick, bus sick, plane sick...any kind of motion sick), and for them there is no approach to study a book while in a car or a bus (or anything moving). A talking book is brilliant on a long car/bus/plane/boat journey. The time flies as you are taken away on an fantastic journey that is just like reading (except you can continue you eyes closed)

Talking Books are excellent when you are doing tedious things. When you do the vacuuming, washing the house .... Take a talking book at the same time as you do the gardening, taking a walk ..

Talking Books are excellent for children on extended car trips, kids (its usually boys) who don't like to read - get them to pay attention to an adventure Talking Book and they will be hooked. - Good for older people with worsening eyes. Sitting in sickbay, or recovering from an sickness can be a good deal more gratifying listening to a Talking Book.

Truck Drivers and other long distance drivers often use Talking Books for exhaustion management. Its a magnificent way to keep you alert and attentive on a lengthy drive.

Talking Books can give you a different perspective.

For example listening to an Talking Book Bible can be completely distinctive to reading the Bible. Some Bible Talking Books are voiced with several actors voices giving the Bible a theatrical ambiance. Some other Talking Books have been recorded with various voices - BBC Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars Trilogy, the New "Dune" Audiobooks. These Talking Books develop into more like movie variations of books than customary Audio Books.

Learning new things with Talking Books

There are many Commerce Talking Books , talking books that permit you listen to terrific business thoughts while you are driving around to appointments. Talking Books like Psychology of Selling, Freakonomics and Buffetology. There are some great History Talking Books titles as well. Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers , John M Barry The Great Influenza, Bill Bryson - A Short History of nearly Everything.

 

About the Irish Language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken natively by a small minority of the Irish population – mostly in Gaeltacht areas – but also plays an important symbolic role in the life of the Irish state, and is used across the country in a variety of media, personal contexts and social situations. It enjoys constitutional status as the national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland and it is an official language of the European Union. Irish is also an officially recognised minority language in Northern Ireland.

Irish is the main community and household language of 3% of the Republic's population Estimates of fully native speakers range from under 20,000 up to 80,000 people. The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs estimated in 2007 that about 17,000 people lived in strongly Irish-speaking communities, about 10,000 people lived in areas where there was substantial use of the language, and 17,000 people lived in "weak" Gaeltacht communities; Irish was no longer the main community language in the remaining parts of the official Gaeltacht. However, since Irish is an obligatory subject in schools, many more are reasonably fluent second-language speakers. Furthermore, a much larger number regard themselves as competent in the language to some degree: 1,656,790 (41.9% of the total population aged three years and over) regard themselves as competent Irish speakers.audiobook

On 13 June 2005, EU foreign ministers unanimously decided to make Irish an official language of the European Union. The new arrangements came into effect on 1 January 2007, and Irish was first used at a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers, by Minister Noel Treacy, T.D., on 22 January 2007.

Many English-speaking Irish people use small and simple phrases (known as cúpla focal, "a few words") in their everyday speech, e.g. Slán ("goodbye"), Slán abhaile ("get home safely"), Sláinte ("good health"; used when drinking like "bottoms up" or "cheers"), Go raibh maith agat ("thank you"), Céad míle fáilte ("a hundred thousand welcomes", a tourist board saying, also used by President Hillery to welcome Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979) and Conas atá tú? ("How are you?"). There are many more small sayings that have crept into Hiberno-English. The term craic has been popularised outside Ireland in this Gaelicized spelling: "How's the craic?" or "What's the craic'?" ("how's the fun?"/"how is it going?"), though the word is not Irish in origin, and the expression "How's the crack?" was widely used in Ireland since at least the 1960s before the Irish-language spelling "craic" became the common journalistic style.
Bilingual sign in English and Irish in Tesco store, Ballyfermot, Dublin.

Many public bodies have Irish language or bilingual names, but some have downgraded the language. An Post, the Republic's postal service, displays Irish place names in both Irish and English is equal prominence outside its offices and continues to have place names in Irish on its postmarks as well as recognising addresses (as does the Royal Mail in Northern Ireland). Traditionally, the private sector has been less supportive, although support for the language has come from some private companies. For example, Irish supermarket chain Superquinn introduced bilingual signs in its stores in the 1980s, a move which was followed more recently by the British chain Tesco for its stores in the Republic. Woodies DIY now also have bilingual signs in their chain of stores. In contrast, the "100% Irish" SuperValu has few if any Irish signs, and the German retailers Aldi and Lidl have none at all.

In an effort to increase the use of the Irish language by the State, the Official Languages Act was passed in 2003. This act ensures that most publications made by a governmental body must be published in both official languages, Irish and English. In addition, the office of Language Commissioner has been set up to act as an ombudsman with regard to equal treatment for both languages. A major factor in the decline of natively-spoken Irish has been the movement of English speakers into the Gaeltacht (predominantly Irish speaking areas) and the return of native Irish-speakers who have returned with English-speaking partners. This has been stimulated by government grants and infrastructure projects: "only about half Gaeltacht children learn Irish in the home... this is related to the high level of in-migration and return migration which has accompanied the economic restructuring of the Gaeltacht in recent decades". In a last-ditch effort to stop the demise of Irish-speaking in Connemara in Galway, planning controls have been introduced on the building of new homes in Irish speaking areas. Thanks in large part to Gael-Taca and Gaillimh Le Gaeilge and two local groups a significant number of new residential developments are named in Irish today in most of the Republic of Ireland. In several counties there are a large number being named in Irish.

 

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