any irish speakers or learners?

wanna chat as gaeilge? taim ag staidear an gaeilge ach tá mé uafasach faoi (im studyin irish but im terrible at it.)

Omd tá mé ag déanamh staidéar ar an Ghaeilge ag an ard leibheal agus bitheolaíocht, Béarla agus ceol sa Thuisceart

i am starting the duolingo course of irish

Duolingo irish is fine, not the best imo (I learned Ulster Irish so as a result I have no idea what tf they're saying)
but I'd genuinely try and seek out online courses and videos instead
For learning words in irish, I'd use potafocal

I have learned 3 words so far:
caife - coffee
agus - and
siucra - sugar

Im only doing this for fun. I have no intention of acc speaking irish at all

Nice!

Ah fair, I'm actually doing duolingo irish occasionally because I am fairly certain I'm forgetting my irish

add tae = tea to the mix
im not a fan of the way they teach it. Id rather learn the alphabet and grammar rules etc first instead of jumping straight into words

It seems to be the same way for a lot of duolingo languages, i could tell you how to ask where my passport is in French but not how many members are in my family etc
Irish grammar rules are fine for the most part, then you get to past present and future tense and it gets.
so confusing

are you irish?

yep!
not republic of ireland irish though, so I didn't learn irish from primary school onwards
But luckily the Northern Irish exam board offers it as a GCSE and my school offered it from junior school to a-level, so I spent the last 5 years learning it

nice
le do thoil = thank you

actually le do thoil means please, but I'd see the confusion
thank you is:
go raibh maith agat
(gu-roy my agat)
(with accents I certainly can't remember where to place)

of course lol. I wrote thank you i meant please