“Irish Speakers” is a deceptive metric.

When we consider the gap between the number of people who speak Irish, and the number of people who can, it seems that the effort to teach Irish in school has not really been a failure. It’s just that we live in a mostly English speaking country and one cannot think in Irish, in English. If that’s the case, the barrier to fluency isn’t educational, it’s contextual. What if there is a way to “switch on” thinking in Irish? If Irish as a first language of cognition could be activated at the touch of a button; wouldn’t that be worth exploring?

na ring gael is open source software for mobile devices. (landscape mode only. Tested on Android Chrome) I believe it has potential. Would anybody like to get involved?

  • nubuntus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Thanks very much. May I ask, in what way does it fail? Is it the case that the landing page loads but the spinning button doesn’t respond to clicks? And, are you using Safari?

    • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.worldM
      11·
      6 days ago

      Sorry about that. Not only was a lacking specifics, but I also didn’t really say it right at all. I get the intro text on the vertical scroll until the text “Is mise” Comes up.

      Before then, I can actually use the controls to adjust or toggle the translations. But once it hits that point, I can’t progress.

      I tried to Safari and Firefox on desktop. I tried Safari on mobile.

      • nubuntus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Aha! That’s supposed to be a wheel. Swipe it to give it a spin. Thanks for the feedback. (also - did it go full-screen for you on mobile? It’s supposed to - but earlier it didn’t on Safari. Haven’t tried recently.)

        • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.worldM
          21·
          6 days ago

          On iOS I just see the title screen. It doesn’t go full screen and my tapping doesn’t cause any response.

          But it’s working in Safari desktop! I really like the style! I had no idea that you could interact with the “wheel”. In fact, even when you said it, I was interacting with the little navigator on the bottom right At first. That could definitely be made clear to the user.

          Also while I’m clicking around trying to figure things out the script in the top left is going backwards to earlier parts of the text. It’s a bit confusing. I would disable any parts of the navigation that should not be used in a given scene.

          I really like what I see so far though. It’s absolutely beautiful.