@bbbblinq Nope, no target date.
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I’m ready to buy a subscription to learn Irish whenever you can add it (please).
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When can you introduce Irish?
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Irish is not yet close, and won’t be released anytime soon.
I think it must be sometime this year because Steve mentions in his 2025 goal video that he’s going to Ireland this year and may take a quick look at Irish on LingQ before he goes.
I may well be speaking out of turn here, but I would caution against trying to push for the release of any new language before it is properly ready, if my experience with Vietnamese is anything to go by.
A more nuanced position is that it depends on two factors. First, are you a complete beginner in the new language or have you already achieved say A2 skills? Second, how different is the new language from your first language. And AIUI Irish would be fairly different from English say. (And actually a third factor is how readily available genuinely entry-level content in the new language might be that is suitable for importing into LingQ from eg YouTube.)
So if you are a complete beginner then you may well struggle and LingQ can be a constant source of frustration, whereas someone at A2 who is already familiar with the writing system and can read words in the new language will probably be able to make excellent use of vanilla LingQ to expand their vocabulary by leaps and bounds.
The problem is that a newly minted LingQ language probably will have no courses yet and will be limited to the translation of the ministories, translations that may well have been made with a focus on an accurate translation rather than consciously selecting high frequency words in the new language. And sometimes LingQ will need ‘tuning’ to the new language which probably hasn’t been done yet with a beta language.
None of this is intended to knock LingQ at all - I think it is an excellent app for language learning. But IMHO it does need an on-ramp for complete beginners in a new language, especially if launched before it is properly ready.
I studied Irish in school; decades ago but I’m not a beginner and can tell basic pronunciation. I would like software to count my words (which Lingq is good at) and to offer text to speech like ABAIR does.
For me, if it can do that, it’s worthwhile.
Prolonging the periond where I’m racking up over 200 streak days on unsuitable software isn’t great.
I don’t need mini stories. The serve a purpose and I’d use them, but they are not worth as delay.
I don’t need lingq to provide content; I do that already.
I’ve suggested several times that Lingq put Irish in the beta category as soon as they will let people import content and ideally have a text to speech engine.
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I am really excited for Irish to be available on LingQ. I have been using LingQ consistently for Spanish and Portuguese for quite sometime and LingQ is by far my favorite language learning platform. With the addition of Irish, I am sure I will be a lifetime member of LingQ since I love what can be done with it. The transcriptions of audiofiles will be key for me. I am sure I will be filling my library with music and shows from TG4 channels on YouTube for my daily input.
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Might Irish come in March?
We are planning to launch Irish Gaelic on St. Patrick’s Day!
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A quick google tells me this is the 17th of March. 
Excellent. Ceart go leor.
(I’d like) Ba mhaith liom lifetime access.
I have lifetime access for Greek and French.
I’ve just found this. I can’t really use it yet so let me know how to get lifetime access when you can please (or maybe a little free access until then).
It’s my birthday tomorrow so it’s rather nice.
I have a small Facebook group for ling and Irish. If you have any promotions, let me know.
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Hope yr GCSE is going well. There are three dialects of Irish as well as the version taught in schools which is heavily urbanised and often not taught correctly in terms of pronunciation but it’s doable. The lingq version (recorded by a native Irish speaker) is the official standard closely related to Connaught and Munster Irish
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It sounds great to me.
Yea agree, it’s great because it’s a native speaker… in contrast school Irish often doesn’t sound like this because most folks in the system aren’t taught correct phonics to support their language acquisition.
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Thanks. I hadn’t really thought that it might be better than what I learned ar scoil.