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Marathi speakers learning Irish
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (मराठी) quietly pushes you into specific Irish errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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from your first language

"माझ्याकडे पुस्तक आहे" is "Tá leabhar agam"

Marathi keeps the book AT you with a postposition; Irish does it with a preposition. Neither language owns anything with a have-verb.

from your first language

Three genders down to two

Marathi has masculine, feminine and neuter; Irish keeps only two and shows them by softening after "an" — "an bhean", "an ghrian", but "an fear" stays hard.

from your first language

From sentence-end to sentence-start

Marathi closes with the verb; Irish opens with it — "मी चहा पितो" becomes "Ólaim tae".

from your first language

No retroflex — broad and slender instead

Irish never contrasts ट with त. It contrasts broad and slender versions of the same letter: "bó" against "beo". Retrain the ear onto that axis.

core challenge

Verb first (VSO word order)

Irish opens the sentence with the verb: "Ólaim tae" = I drink tea, "Itheann Seán arán" = Seán eats bread. Action, then who, then what.

core challenge

Two verbs "to be": tá vs is

tá describes a state or a place ("Tá mé tuirseach", "Tá mé sa bhaile"); is classifies or identifies ("Is dochtúir mé", "Is mise Seán"). "Tá mé dochtúir" is always wrong.

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