Multi - Gaeilge

[linguoboy]

Before I left the house I put on my clothes.
Sular fhág mé an teach, chaith mé mo chuid éadaí.

Wouldn't "chaith" mean "I wore my clothes"? I expected "chuir mé mo chuid éadaí orm".

Good catch!

I feel like no matter how many times I read these over, I always miss something glaring. (It doesn't help that the variety Multi is learning is nothing like the one I know, so I end up wasting a lot of time double-checking usages that are perfectly valid but sound odd to me.)

She told us to do the homework before tomorrow morning.
D'inis sí an obair bhaile a dhéanamh dúinn roimh mhaidin amárach.

Here, I would have preferred "dúirt sí linn" rather than "inis", though I'm not sure if "inis" is strictly wrong.

I think of inis as meaning "tell" mainly in the sense of "relate" (e.g. Inis dom scéal! "Tell me a story!"), but it can also mean "inform", e.g. D'inseas dó faoin taisme. "I told him about the accident". So I think it works here.

Traditional Irish doesn't allow you to freely front sentence elements without altering the syntax of the sentence. Most frequently what you have is a cleft sentence formed with the help of the copula, i.e.: [...]

Wouldn't you only do that to emphasise the timing, though? ("It was before the breakfast that I took a shower") So wouldn't it be the better solution to just put "roimh bhricfeasta" last in the sentence?

Pretty much. (I tend to focus primarily on spelling and syntax in my corrections, figuring once you've got those down, then we can talk more about semantics and pragmatics. But it's worth keeping in mind that topicalisation works significantly different in Irish and (non-Hiberno-)English.

Roimh bhricfeasta a thógaim mé cith.

You forgot to remove the pronoun after the synthetic verb here.

Tiubaist!

[kevin]

She told us to do the homework before tomorrow morning.
D'inis sí an obair bhaile a dhéanamh dúinn roimh mhaidin amárach.

Here, I would have preferred "dúirt sí linn" rather than "inis", though I'm not sure if "inis" is strictly wrong.

I think of inis as meaning "tell" mainly in the sense of "relate" (e.g. Inis dom scéal! "Tell me a story!"), but it can also mean "inform", e.g. D'inseas dó faoin taisme. "I told him about the accident". So I think it works here.

Yes, I see that "inis" works for both of these cases. But the sentence in question doesn't just inform, but actually instruct/order to do something, and that's where I'm not sure if "inis" works. The usual suspect dictionaries don't seem to mention this meaning for "inis", but only for "abair".

[linguoboy]

Here, I would have preferred "dúirt sí linn" rather than "inis", though I'm not sure if "inis" is strictly wrong.

I think of inis as meaning "tell" mainly in the sense of "relate" (e.g. Inis dom scéal! "Tell me a story!"), but it can also mean "inform", e.g. D'inseas dó faoin taisme. "I told him about the accident". So I think it works here.

Yes, I see that "inis" works for both of these cases. But the sentence in question doesn't just inform, but actually instruct/order to do something, and that's where I'm not sure if "inis" works. The usual suspect dictionaries don't seem to mention this meaning for "inis", but only for "abair".

Géillim duit ar an bpointe. Abair is definitely preferable here.

Still, maith an duine, a Mhuilti! Very good work overall.

[Multiturquoise]

Dia daoibh!

I tried to translate
"You don't need to sound like a native speaker in order to be understood."
into Irish.

I struggled a lot translating this, sorry.

Níl ort labhairt mar chainteoir dúchais le go dtuigfear tú.

GRMMA
Bora.

[kevin]

I think your sentence is technically correct, though I'm not entirely sure how natural it is.

Depending on how free the translation may be, my first thought was phrasing it the other way around, like: Is féidir thú a thuiscint agus gan tú ag labhairt mar a bheadh cainteoir dúchais ann.

[linguoboy]

Níl ort labhairt mar chainteoir dúchais lechun go dtuigfear thú.

Remember that tú is grammatically an object here and so should appear in the form thú.

Depending on how free the translation may be, my first thought was phrasing it the other way around, like: Is féidir thú a thuiscint agus gan tú ag labhairt mar a bheadh cainteoir dúchais ann.

I'm not really sure what the ann is doing there. Did you mean ionat? (I'd probably go with "mar a labhródh cainteoir dúchais" in this construction.)