"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?
It sounds like a great idea! It could be worth also trying https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/ if you haven’t already.
I would urge against including bad Irish even as a placeholder.
I don’t have android so the game doesn’t seem to work for me, which is fair enough.
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?
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.
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.)
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.
Thank you so much! I'll try to fix it for iOS, will msg back here then. Will also add some kind of prompt for the wheel UI.
Any time :-)
I think it should be working now.
It’s a lot better. This is a screenshot from my phone in portrait mode (iPhone 12 mini). Don’t worry about supporting my device specifically though. I’ll try it on desktop too.
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Maith agat an ais eolas. Sin an cruth atá ar i ndíadh
Browsáilí Epiphany a usáid i gcomhair tástál, (teip)
An tionscanamh a bhogadh go riomhaire Mac;
ceartú agus aithraithe a dheanamh, a tástál ar safari logánta (teip)
agus a tastál le 2 seiribhísí eagsúla aithriseoir iphone ar líne. (teip i ndiadh teip)
scrios ar!
Na bí buartha. Caithfidh me a rá: is break liom Epiphany. Glan agus tapa. Úsáidim é ar Linux.
Tá an rud is tábhachtaí déanta agat: an plean, an stíl agus neart cód. Beir bua!
maith agat.
Tá fón iOS faighte ar íosacht agam. (Níl cábla agam go fóil cadhnra ídaithe)
Seans go mbaidh mé inánn na rudaí sin a reiteach go luaith.