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Faroar, Ioraic bocht! Bhí aithne agam air, a Horatio: fear grinn éigríochta, fear samhlaíochta is sárfhearr: d’fhulaing sé ar a dhro im míle uair; agus anois atá gráin ag mo chuimhne air! Cuireann mo phíobán thar maoil leis.
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Cheist = quest = question? If it sounds that similar, I can remember it.
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Not only do they sound similar, both ceist and quest/question come from the same Latin word, quaestiō.
Out of interest, why is there a h inserted after the c? I believed that when saying 'an' no h was added in... :/
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You add a -h (lenition) to the start of all female nouns after "an". Bean = woman, an bhean = the women.
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How is this pronounced? Maybe I just haven't gotten to the one where they pronounce it.
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Sort of like "an hyesht". I've had it twice with audio so far.
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Yeah, that tip doesn't help too much if you don't speak German! But it is indeed same as the "ich-Laut" in German. German has two versions of "ch" depending on the vowels around it.
A more helpful tip for English speakers is, that the soft "ch" is basically the same as the sound we make in English at the start of words like "huge", or "humongous". This is how I teach my students that sound when they start German.
