not with that, I guess. For instance, learners might say *"is maith liom ag ól tae" (from English "I like drinking tea"). I don't think a Gaeltacht speaker would say that (just as you wouldn't say "good is with me tea to drinking" or something like that in English )

Anyway when native speakers make mistakes in their dialect it's more like they said something they didn't mean to say (and that they wouldn't say twice in a row). Like if they heard themselves saying it, they'd notice it's wrong. While learners may make mistakes also because they don't know how to say something properly, and until someone tells them or until they learn the rule, they'd make the mistake again and again. And that's normal because you can't learn a language without making mistakes

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

I am glad you pointed this out, a Lughaidh. I almost certainly would have made that very mistake.

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Táim ag foghlaim Gaelainn na Mumhan

Tá fáilte roim nach aon cheartú!
I am a learner. Any translations offered are practice and should not be used unless confirmed.

Is it correct that cleaning the windows is: 'ag glanadh na fuinneog'? It's all a bit bun os cionn, isn't it?

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if the verb "to be" is somewhere before:

tá mé ag glanadh na fuinneoige (I'm at the cleaning of the window)

"ag glanadh" means "in the process of cleaning" (or something like that), that's why you have to use the verb "to be" with it (normally)

but if you want to say "I like cleaning the window" then it would be:
Is maith liom an fhuinneog a ghlanadh.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

So, instead of saying "I like riding my unicorn", it would just be change to the form of "I like to ride my unicorn" in Irish?

This is a weak area for me in which I am need of much help. Are there any 90% of the time rules concerning construction of a genetive, and I don't know the pronunciation differences of such things as lón and lóin. Anybody want to take a crack at informing me?

ag glanadh na bhfuinneog

'Weak' plurals look singular in the genitive, but they all take an urú where possible after na.

I think I messed up my question. I wanted to include the plural of window, which I managed to do, but then forgot the 'to be' part. Basically, I wanted the genetive plural of windows used as it seems to be fuinneog which obviosuly sounds strange unless you know what you are at.

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Nominative plural: fuinneoga (Connachta and Ulster: fuinneogaí)

Genitive plural: fuinneog, and with the article, as Scooby wrote: na bhfuinneog


Féabar> you can listen to the pronunciation of "lón" and "lóin" in Forvo:
http://fr.forvo.com/word/l%C3%B3n/#ga
http://fr.forvo.com/word/l%C3%B3in/

(and ask other pronunciations if you like )

In "lón" the n is "dark", while in "lóin" it is "clear" or "light".

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Yes...and no. In Irish the likes of Is maith liom bheith ag marcaíocht ar m' "unicorn" (I like to be riding my unicorn. ) is very common - indicating habitualness and/or duration ("progressive" or "continuous" form in English).

I have no idea what "unicorn" is in Irish. And I only have a teeny-weeny dictionary.