Unit 3 - Explaining where you live and where you belong to
Cò às a tha sibh? "Where are you from?"
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- Cò às a tha sibh?
- Where are you from?
In Gaelic, we say tha Gàidhlig agaibh - "Gaelic is at you", meaning "you have Gaelic", if you speak the language.
agaibh = aig + sibh
If you are using the thu form for you in a conversation, you would say tha Gàidhlig agad.
In this conversation between James and Catherine, the conversation finally gets on to learning Gaelic. They have just met and are using sibh rather than thu as they don't know each other very well.
Listen out for the differences from the first conversation here as James and Catherine use the more informal thu instead of sibh.
If you would like to learn how to tell somebody what you have been doing and what you are going to do, you can find out in Unit 4 - Làithean na seachdain.
