Unit 31 - How you spend your free time
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- Mairead: Dè na cur-seachadan a th’ agad?
- What are your pastimes/hobbies?
- Iain: Tha dà chur-seachad agam – fear a-muigh is fear a-staigh.
- I have two hobbies – one outside and one inside.
- Mairead: Dè bhios tu a’ dèanamh a-muigh?
- What do you do outside?
- Iain: Bidh mi a’ cluich goilf
- I play golf.
- Mairead: A bheil thu math air?
- Are you good at it?
- Iain: Chan eil ro mhath. Ach tha e a’ còrdadh rium.
- Not too good. But I enjoy it.
- Mairead: Agus dè bhios tu a’ dèanamh a-staigh?
- And what do you do inside?
- Iain: Bidh mi a’ dèanamh modalan de longan.
- I make models of ships.
- Mairead: Tha sin inntinneach. De fhiodh?
- That’s interesting. Of wood?
- Iain: ’S ann. De fhiodh aotrom.
- Yes. Of light wood.
- Mairead: Am bi a’ cur nan longan ann am botail?
- Do you put the ships in bottles?
- Iain: Bithidh – agus bidh mi gan reic.
- Yes – and I sell them.
- Mairead: Inntinneach, gu dearbh.
- Interesting, indeed.
- Iain: Co-dhiù, sin gu leòr mu mo dheidhinn-sa. Dè mu do dheidhinn-sa?
- Anyway, that’s enough about me. What about you?
- Mairead: Tha dìreach aon chur-seachad agam. Samhradh is geamhradh.
- I only have one pastime. Summer and winter.
- Iain: Dè th’ ann? Fighe?
- What is it? Knitting?
- Mairead: Chan e no fighe!
- Certainly not!
- Iain: Còcaireachd? Dèanamh chuibhrigean?
- Cooking? Making quilts?
- Mairead: Chan e sin nas motha.
- Not that either.
- Iain: Uill, dè an cur-seachad a th’ agad?
- Well, what is your pastime?
- Mairead: Tha sreap nam beann!
- Climbing [the] mountains!
