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Hi - I'm wondering if there's any good books or resources with very short texts that go from extreme beginner to advanced. I'm learning Gaelic and would love a short text to translate every so often, almost like comprehension in primary school.

Hi, I am an Irish speaker and I am trying to translate the waulking song 'Dheanainn Sùgradh' into Donegal Irish. The last two verses are giving me trouble as they don't seem to translate as naturally and I can't get a proper sense of their meaning from online translations which contradict each other. The verses are:

Dh'fheumadh pòrsan thigh'n a búth dhith
Ged a bhiodh e crún an cairteal

Ged a bhiodh e crún an óirleach
Dh'fheumadh pòrsan dheth thigh'n dhachaidh

Would anyone be able to give a sense of what is being conveyed in the context of the song.

Hey. Asking here as my knowledge of the language is still extremely limited, I keep dragging my feet on properly learning it.

As I'm sure most here will be aware, BBC ALBA has now officially made available the Gaelic version of SpongeBob Squarepants. However, the official title is just "Spongebob (ALBA)", and the song only repeats the words "SpongeBob SpongeBob". This is interesting as Welsh got a full name translation (SpynjBob Pantsgwâr), but the much more closely related Irish got the full English title. Any reason for this? Is there no good translation or does it just not sound good in Gaelic? It could be a length thing, but Albanian got the very long title Bob Sfungjeri Pantallona Katrori.

Was just curious haha, take care