American families raising children in Irish

[TjOC]

It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have access to native speakers.

Theoretically she can create her own dialect of Irish.

That’s a really interesting point. We put a lot of effort into copying how people on TG4 and the radio sound, but I suppose it’s inevitable we’ll do our own thing in the end.

The nearest city with a decent Irish language scene is Portland, Oregon. I’m definitely planning on making regular family trips up there for Irish weekends, once the children are a little older. We’ll see what influence that has, what kind of speakers are there.

I recently did a blog post about my daughter’s bilingualism and documenting the words she uses. I meant to post it here and kept forgetting to: http://www.occomix.com/blog/2014/01/my-daughters-bilingualism-at-20-months/

[Seosamh 2012]

I recently did a blog post about my daughter’s bilingualism and documenting the words she uses. I meant to post it here and kept forgetting to: http://www.occomix.com/blog/2014/01/my-daughters-bilingualism-at-20-months/

Great job. In 2 generations your descendants will set the standard for a new dialect.

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