My Gaeilge is not as good as when leaving secondary school in 2009 but I can still stumble my way through a basic conversation. I appreciate having cúpla focal more than I did when I was learning it. I suppose it's a nice part of our identity. When I go home to Ireland it's good to see signs etc in Irish and my parents would still say a few phrases in Irish.
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Ya the identity piece was exactly what got me back into it. I'm an engineer and liked Science subjects, Maths, Applied Maths, Technical Graphics and funnily enough English at school. Irish was by far my worst subject and the one I dedicated the least time to. I'm really enjoying getting back into though and it's such an integral and important part of our identity.
It was really handy for my two J1 summers in California too 😀