Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone :) I hope you enjoy this very Irish video!! This entire video is based on the "9 Reasons to learn..." series that Lindsay has over on her channel. Thanks so much to Lindsay for the great collaboration! This video was recorded at the KZread Space in London. Check out Lindsay here: lindsaydoeslanguages.com kzread.info Otherwise, some resources that came up in the video worth checking out include the following: TG4 for streamed Irish TV: www.tg4.ie/en/ Ros na Rún: www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/ros-na-run/ Streamed Irish radio: www.rte.ie/rnag/ www.raidiofailte.com/ www.raidionalife.ie/en/ I was actually on that last one myself (Raidió na Life) and I have the video of the experience (subtitled of course) right here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqKImbuaY9C0Zso.html Go raibh maith agaibh (Thank you)!!

@finnlathir7470

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Benny congratulations. Might you help me please? I want to learn a celtic language but i don´t know which of them: welsh, irish or scottish gaelic what they existing today and there are books for learning as far as I know. I feel more attraction for G. scottish but i have not seen books about. I saw irish and welsh on hippocrene's webpage. Well my doubt is which one do you reccomend me, I can see irsh, but which one is easier, "beauty"? has a "plus" like direct heir?. Is gaelic scottish really irish? old, middle, irish is gaelic too; what about welsh? if I learn scottish gaelic I learned really original irish? What do you think about this books: Hipocrene's begginer's series, teach yourself, Goethe Verlag book2. Altought I did not find a celtic one on book2. Thank you very much and Slán. Mostrar menos RESPONDER

@AAA-fh5kd

Жыл бұрын

CRACK/CRAK is ULSTER SCOTS+ ENGLISH its not "craic" (the irish borrow) if you are writing in ENGLISH. its CRACK.

Reason 10 - You can sing Irish songs in the original language without butchering the pronunciation and forgetting everything, like I'm currently doing. Won't stop me from learning them though!

@irishpolyglot

7 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be so sure - I am immensely talented in being able to butcher any song, regardless of how good my pronunciation is :D But for people with a nice voice, that definitely applies :)

@KeithDunnFernandez

7 жыл бұрын

I know it's an original song (I THINK) but probably my favorite Kila song is An Tiomání and THAT is hard but so fun!

@PanglossDr

5 жыл бұрын

Learning to speak a language does not mean you can pronounce it properly. I can pass as French but ask any german, Italian, Russian or Japanese what I sound like when I speak their languages and they would laugh.

@bbbsmith2644

3 жыл бұрын

11. You can catch lucky, he always has lucky charms

@RamblingMan.

2 жыл бұрын

Yes....the struggle is real...

I am fluent in Irish and I am sad to see this language die. It is a unique language and I wish it is used more, but it is not because anyone who can speak Irish can speak English. It is considered 'useless' by lot of people and I wish it was not because it is part of the culture.

@luckiestpixel7160

6 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to learn Irish now and I don't care if not a lot of people use it. If just one more person learns it, it adds a further chance of protecting the language. :D

@SGHaeghe24

6 жыл бұрын

래질불 I'm trying to learn Irish right now! Is there anyway you could help me practice

@user-ip5lk9kt8c

6 жыл бұрын

SG Haeghe the best thing to do when learning any language in general is lot of practice. for me I learned it in school so I don't have a lot of experience with independent learning. but like any language, lots of practice! and maybe try out the duolingo Irish course and NEVER use google translate. for Irish especially it is very very very wrong

@AmbersBuzzball

5 жыл бұрын

I'm American with Irish blood and Celtic religious influences and am starting to learn! Would love to visit and even move away to Ireland some day

@Karl_with_a_K

5 жыл бұрын

@@AmbersBuzzball Maith an cailín!

I've been learning Irish on Duolingo for two months coz I've been planning to go on a working holiday to Ireland for years since I love Celtic music. I know ppl in Ireland mostly use English to communicate nowadays but I still wonder how Irish language sounds like. The grammar is very different to English but I'm working hard on learning it coz some country is now killing my mother language in anyway possible, and I don't want Irish ppl to abandon their very own and unique language too coz every language has its own way in helping ppl to express themselves. I'm a Hongkonger and Cantonese is my mother language. I thank all foreigners who'd decided to learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin when they came here. Bless anyone who's trying their best in preserving any language.

Irish is the most beautiful language. So much more beautiful then French of something else

i cant believe a part of my irish Lineage is fading....this is why i embrace my lineages not just by learning the history and the food but as well as the language. I shall Learn Irish to help it stay alive

Quick correction - There's more than 50,000 native speakers of Irish. In the last census - 73.8k reported speaking it daily outside of school and 111.4k more reported speaking it on a weekly basis outside of school. That's 185k people who speak it on a daily or weekly basis, not including the north - which probably has another 40k to 50k speakers. At a very conservative estimate, we have about 200k speakers of Irish on the entire island who are conversational to fluent. There's also a decent number of speakers outside of Ireland.

@pongop

2 жыл бұрын

DuoLingo says there are more people learning Irish on DuoLingo than there are native speakers. Is that true?

I'm Indonesian and now trying to learn Irish and Welsh but what so difficult to me is I can't find material or books that provide enough information and lessons about Irish. I find that Irish is quite rare and yet so beautiful to listen and not many people speak it. And as Indonesian myself I'll be so lucky if I can do study about this one of the ancient language

I'm trying to relearn it when I'm not busy cause I was really bad at it in school. I want to try keep it alive :)

I'm Italian. I love Ireland, I love the Irish language and I'm trying by myself to learn it.. but it's sooo difficult for me! Pronunciation's laws drive me crazy 😅

@jojodagostino7806

4 жыл бұрын

Anch'io sono italiana ed ho iniziato ad imparare l'irlandese da sola, con il solo aiuto di Duolingo. Non è affatto semplice!! Ho imparato qualcosina ma non abbastanza ancora da poter comunicare!! 😅

@talideon

Ай бұрын

It's easier than it seems. Unfortunately understanding Irish spelling and how it relates to pronunciation (and grammar) means throwing out everything you know about most languages. It's actually quite a shallow system: if you see a word and know the rules, you can pronounce it, and it's almost the same going from pronunciation to spelling. One of the problems Irish has is that its not really well suited to the Latin alphabet, so a whole bunch of hacks were put in place to account for the fact we have twice the number of spoken consonants as we've written ones. But the spoken language is mostly easy, and there's only one hard sound, which is the slender "r" and if you take the short cut of pronouncing it like a "j" in French you're already doing better than people who pronounce it like an "r" in English.

I need to learn this Great Language

@daithio.7378

5 жыл бұрын

Mundo de Sofia When do you want to start honey 😍 I'll fix my bedroom up and we get started very soon 😇📸👍.

@EverlastingHobnocker

4 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to learn it using Duolingo. But I have a couple of issues with the website, mainly that they seem to want to push homosexual relationships and "otherkin" (or is the proper term furries?)

@jimogrady1131

4 жыл бұрын

Mundo de Sofia You don't have to be IRISH & SCOTTISH to get Freckles or Red Hair. 1 thing bugs me most people think all IRISH are Drunks.

@phillipmeeks2391

3 жыл бұрын

I started with KZread videos, Jesjes1 was my first intro into the Irish language but sadly she deleted all of her videos (but I saved them). I then got Rosetta Stone but I also used other resources such as Buntús Cainte and the BBC's Giota beag, which is Ulster Irish. But Ulster Irish is diiferent slightly than the rest of Ireland, it helps to know the difference though.

Just started learning Irish via Duolingo, and found this video in my hunt for more resources and information: just wanted to say thank you for it, and to let you know how wonderfully helpful it is to someone still 6+ years from originally posting!

I recommend going to the Aran Islands if you want to find native speakers of Irish. I met some native speakers there & had fun trying out some Scottish Gaelic with them which they were able to understand due to the similarities with Irish.

I'm Irish and honestly school wasn't that helpful when it came to learning irish. It was more about passing the exams. Áfach, labhraím as gaeilge gach lá. Mar a deir an seanfhocal "beatha teanga í a labhairt" agus ba mhaith liom mo chuid scileanna teanga a fheabhsú.

I’m today years old when I learned that Irish is a language 😊

Another reason: I used to live in Ireland by my mom didn't want me to learn Irish because she said you wanted to move to America so she taught me English until I moved there. Or a shorter version of this reason ; I'm irish

You inspired me to learn irish language even I m Turkish :)) love you ❤️❤️

Been using Duolingo, and every source I can get is helpful and appreciated. My grandmother's folks are from CO. Cork

I will learn the Irish language as my daily language, and then spread it to my friends, I live in Turkey, I'm bored of learning "most powerful languages in the world", I don't even like them, I like the Irish language and culture

Thank you guys so much for this, truly

I like the language and the people.

I'd like to learn Irish so much but I don't really know where to start from, I think I need to give me lessons and exercises to improve what I'm studying just like if I was at school!

Sorry that I didn't give the example that the diminutive is based on. A word with '-ín' would have helped, but my point is that English doesn't have that concept that can be applied so globally (how would you apply it to 'house'? "Housy"?) so Irish/Scottish people speaking English work around that by using the word 'wee' as an adjective to imply the diminutive (instead of 'small', which English already has). English's diminutives are way more restrictive. Otherwise, I know the origin of 'craic' isn't Gaelic, but that doesn't change from the fact that its only modern use is in Irish or Hiberno English.

To the two commenters, (you know who you are...) you are welcome to write a comment here to share your feedback on the video, but please do it in ONE comment each, if you want to cover multiple points. I came back to a wall of text that the two of you had dominated repeating things over and over (mostly really small nitpicking, which is fine as long as it's listed in a single comment), taking over the entire discussion thread between the two of you. I'm sorry but I had to delete them. Feel free to write another comment, but please be concise and only write a single main comment and then reply to someone else's comment if your point is mentioned already, rather than repeating the point in comment replies. The point of this video is to encourage people to learn Irish, so seeing over a dozen comments nitpicking things that don't need to be (as I mentioned before, I don't claim that 'craic' is of Gaelic origin - the point is that the word isn't in modern usage in any language except Irish or Hiberno English) - takes away from that and makes people think that Irish speakers may all be that pedantic. Please don't give people that first impression... But feel free to offer feedback, if you absolutely think it's necessary... if you can be more concise! Edit: lol, you left so many comments that KZread had already decided it was getting spammy and left a bunch as waiting for approval under "spam"... Come on! :D Thanks!

@wallacepearse

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry about that, I was too lazy to back up my points with references at once, which is why I went back give links and copy and paste. Again, sorry about that. Just another few points I would like to say about the word 'wee' and the Irish and Scottish use of the word. Would the Gaelic adjectives 'beag' meaning small and 'òg' meaning young have had an influence on the use 'wee'? When the Lowlands were switching over from Gaelic to English in the Middle Ages, the word 'wee' would have been used to translate those words which would have been common to distinguish sons from their fathers like Iain Beag or Iain Òg. Iain Beag or Iain Òg became wee Ian in Lallans Scots. 'Wee' was then brought over to the North of Ireland by the Scottish settlers. 'Wee' isn't used that much in Hiberno-English south of Cavan I would say. We have an infamous Lol, sorry famous country and western singer from County Donegal, I'm sure you know known as 'Wee Daniel'.

My late husband was Irish. Greetings from Spokane, Washington, United States.

"The" Irish tv station. Dying. I legitimately would have thought there would be more than one.

@talideon

Ай бұрын

The Irish language channel (TnaG originally, now TG4) is relatively recent. It was established in the late '90s as the country's third channel. TV3 (now called Virgin One) came later and was wholly commercial. The numbering has to do with repeated efforts to get a commercial TV station up and running. TBH, TG4 has better programming than both RTÉ 1 and 2, and on a fraction of the budget.

I'm in love with Irish Language!

Ros n rún! !!!!! Omg it's my life in love it so much

Beatiful languages. Please protect its

One of my reasons is that I have ancestors from Ireland and so it's one way I can practice my connection to and Honor the the Land my Ancestors.

I'm trying to learn it though I don't live in ireland. Many of my family members spoke it, and I would love to go to Donegal some day

Thanks!

I love this video!! Great job!!

In my opinion, the best reason to learn a language is having a love for the language. Any other reason and you will lose motivation quickly, but if you love it you will learn it eventually

Is Meiricanach me! I am trying to learn Irish and have been here and there since I found out 10 years ago that the Irish had their own language and that my great grandfather spoke it before coming to the US. I love the language and have been trying to find ways to use it in my daily life, so I love this video! I learned a lot more too!

@SGHaeghe24

6 жыл бұрын

Lovemypirates11211 I'm also trying to learn! Is there anyway we could communicate so that I could practice with yoy

@darthvader5830

6 жыл бұрын

Lovemypirates11211 im from the us aswell. I have successfully learned the language. Keep on going. Very proud and thankful. An bródúil, go raibh maith agat.

@adhamhmacconchobhair7565

3 жыл бұрын

Mé* :) Grmma

I'm trying to lear Irish! This has helped me. Thanks!

I love the Irish language. I am currently studying it. some day I hope to be fluent in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic. I really like some of the Scottish pronunciation, which is a little different than the Irish. my first exposure was through music. I think that both of them sound better than English(my native tongue) for saying the same thing. like the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, in English, my father sent me to the house of sorrow. in Gaelic chuir m'athair mise dhan taigh chariteach. I apologize if I messed up the spelling. I have only seen it written a couple of times, a few years ago.

I started learning gealige recently to get in touch with my heritage. My little sisters name is "Ciara", my family have been pronouncing is "sea-ah-ruh" all her 15 years 😂 i had to tell my whole family her name authentically sounds like "Key-rah". She does indeed have dark hair though so the name at least holds true to meaning 😂

Great! thanks for making this video.

Dia duit go léir!!! Ireland is a beautiful country, full of magic crack and amazing people, all of a sudden the emerald isle became home for me, where I lived for almos 4 years, with new adventures, culture and language, I am from Brazil myself, and I want to state clear here that my experience living in this great county was unique, not only for me, but for my wife too. Ireland is a" bilingual "country, official papers are written in Irish and English, sings, street names and many other thing, however very few people speak irish in the many cities I've had the chance to visit, children learn it at school, but they are not able to speak it in the capital city, Dublin. A few villages in the country side of the country maintain their tradition of speaking it, which is amazing, a way to keep their identity! So, fair play to you sir for the good video, your intention to spread the Irish langue and your struggle to keep it alive.

This video is really interesting and I love the music :)

@marcelostoner5810

5 жыл бұрын

what's name of the music?

@combatedosgamers1786

Жыл бұрын

@@marcelostoner5810 Spiritual Renewal - Quiet Waterfall

Just really enjoying the background music. Good video as well.

What I did was make a conlang based on Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic because I love all the languages. I just didn't have enough time to learn all three, especially after Norwegian and Icelandic. Heck, I can't remember things half the time, my brain just blanks.

reason #10 - cool party trick

A bit of an old video, but I'll note that "v" and "w" aren't really distinguished in Irish. That might not be super obvious. You can use either and anything in-between. So, for a Spanish speaker, you can pronounce "bh" and "mh" in Irish like the second "b" in "bebo", and you'll sound just fine. You'll just sounds like you're from Mayo. You can pronounce them as a [v] all the time or a [w] all the time, and that's fine. You can prefer [w] between two vowels and [v] beside a consonant, and that's fine. Just as long as you're using something approximately between a "w" and a "v" and you're consistent, you're fine. If you're a more serious learner and are learning a dialect, things get a bit more precise, but for the language as a whole, both "bh" and "mh" can be treated as [w~v].

Now I’m about to find a video of Spongebob speaking in Irish tongue 👍🏼

@EverlastingHobnocker

4 жыл бұрын

Let me know when you find it. my favorite ep is "dumb old stupid Texas"

I am a German and a learner of Irish. It is right that there are not that many native speakers. Native speakers in the Gaeltacht and those who were raised there might make up about 50.000. However, you have to take into account the Gaelscoil movement and children raised through Irish all over the island. This number is hard to make out exactly. I myself would estimate the number of persons with Irish from birth at 100.000 - 150.000. However, there are furthermore a few 100.000 of fluent speakers on the island to speak the language. As to dialects, it depends on your life circumstances which of them is best to learn. The differences between Munster and Connacht Irish are not that great deal. Ulster Irish proper is markedly different. I would not advice to learn Ulster Irish unless dealing mostly with Ulster people. Ulster Irish seems as strange speach to many people outside Ulster. It does not matter to choose Connacht or Munster Irish in my point of view, unless you have strong links to the west or south of Ireland. Connacht Irish is the speech of the west, while Munster Irish is the speech of the south. The east does not have a dialect of their own. Both are common, with Munster Irish being a bit more common. Around Dublin, the strong accent from local English translates to the Irish spoken. As soon as there are some locals to have it as native language, it will be a new dialect.

@be6273

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, wo/womit lernst du Irisch? :)

I like the music in this video. I live in the UK, and am British. I have Irish ancestors. I'm currently learning Welsh as there are around 450,000 speakers. It feels like the most sustainable Celtic language - and it's simpler than Irish!?

@talideon

Ай бұрын

You should! You're relatively close to North Wales and that should make it easier for you to get your hands on material and find people to practice with. Also, Cumbrian, a close relative to Welsh, used to be spoken where you are. Much as I'd love more people learning and using Irish, the main thing is minority language preservation. As well as Welsh is doing, it's still a minority language, and the fact you're making an effort to preserve it is heartening!

I’m directly related to the O’Sullivan clan. I’m learning Gaelige for when I go to Ireland.

An interesting example of the diminutive is 'Bóín Dé' which is a ladybird but directly translates to 'Gods little cow' in English. Bó = Cow, Bóín = little cow. Adding 'ín' is the equivalent of 'wee' as Benny described it.

American here of Irish ancestry 💪 I want to learn this lovely language and visit the Emerald Island one day

@asbest2092

3 жыл бұрын

you are an american, not a descendant of Irish people... Don't sound ridiculous

@raymondsaint4156

3 жыл бұрын

@@asbest2092 you're saying I don't have Irish ancestry? Don't sound ridiculous.

@asbest2092

3 жыл бұрын

@@raymondsaint4156 You are just an american. It's like to call Pushkin a negro. You are not a descendant of Irish people.

@raymondsaint4156

3 жыл бұрын

@@asbest2092 I have Irish ancestors... Therefore I am descended of Irish people lol my ancestors don't just cease to exist just because we live in America now😂 And btw, why are you judging me when you legit have an anime profile picture? 😂😂

@asbest2092

3 жыл бұрын

@@raymondsaint4156 I don't read your comment. I have already said everything

great production!

@irishpolyglot

7 жыл бұрын

+Libor Supcik Thank you / Go raibh míle maith agat!

Loved when you got to the names since my dad is Sean, his sister is Siobhan, and my mum is Erina

my favorite irish tv show is aifric

I’m on a virtual tour of my ancestors homeland. Ireland being one, I’m following the (Thomas) Chestnut or Chesnut family line. My gg grandfather went to Glasgow for his bride Barbara Adam. Thank you for sharing your videos. I did find it quite interesting. I visited Wales also. Now onto Scotland.

Very good. Congrats. Slante

I wish i went to a Gaelscoil. Im horrible at languages and ive been trying to learn it for ages

What a beautiful language Irish is: we can feel timeless magic in the air when hearing it! English might be useful for some things but is very limited to express one’s feelings and emotions. Also, the usual “OK” reply, once asked if we are well, stops many human conversations that might be vital for mental health! Plus, because of Brexit (even if I understand why) and many millions of Trumpists being extreme in the USA (although I love the USA, where I lived for many years before, still, for they may be very good at), people now, since 2021, more and more, use English only per merit, not as a 1990's forced to learn it at school reflex. Irish is a powerful language for community binding, some historical wisdom and a sense of human identity and choice of lifestyle as a nation as well as resilience against past invaders through the times that is to be applauded. I am French, lived 23 years in England (my wife and kids and grandson are English) , 12 in the USA and speak French, Mexican Spanish (as I learned quite some then) whenever I can use it for opening many cultural, commercial and social doors that English cannot do in countries that do not have English as an official language or has other languages also as official ones. Irish positively intrigues me and I am going to learn some! Now translated online as I am only a very beginner in Irish: Teanga álainn í an Ghaeilge: is féidir linn draíocht gan teorainn a mhothú san aer nuair a chloisimid í! D’fhéadfadh an Béarla a bheith úsáideach do roinnt rudaí ach tá sé an-teoranta chun mothúcháin agus mothúcháin an duine a chur in iúl. Chomh maith leis sin, cuireann an gnáthfhreagra "ceart go leor", a fiafraíodh aon uair amháin an bhfuilimid go maith, stop le go leor comhráite daonna a d'fhéadfadh a bheith ríthábhachtach do shláinte mheabhrach! Ina theannta sin, mar gheall ar Brexit (fiú má thuigim cén fáth) agus na milliúin Trumpists an-mhór i SAM (cé go bhfuil grá agam do SAM, áit a raibh cónaí orm le blianta fada roimhe sin, fós, mar b'fhéidir go bhfuil siad an-mhaith ag), daoine anois. , ó 2021, níos mó agus níos mó, Béarla amháin a úsáid de réir tuillteanais, ní mar 1990idí iachall chun é a fhoghlaim ar scoil athfhillteach. Is teanga chumhachtach í an Ghaeilge do cheangal pobail, roinnt eagna stairiúil agus braistint féiniúlachta daonna agus rogha stíl mhaireachtála mar náisiún chomh maith le hathléimneacht in aghaidh ionróirí san am atá caite le linn na tréimhse atá le moladh. Is Francach mé, tá cónaí orm 23 bliain i Sasana (tá Béarla ag mo bhean chéile agus mo pháistí agus garmhac), 12 i SAM agus tá Fraincis agam, Spáinnis Mheicsiceo (mar a d’fhoghlaim mé go leor ansin) aon uair is féidir liom é a úsáid chun go leor cultúrtha, tráchtála agus tráchtála a oscailt. doirse sóisialta nach féidir leis an mBéarla a dhéanamh i dtíortha nach bhfuil Béarla mar theanga oifigiúil acu nó a bhfuil teangacha eile mar theanga oifigiúla acu freisin. Cuireann an Ghaeilge in iúl dom go dearfach agus táim chun roinnt a fhoghlaim! tinyurl.com/enirlandais

9a - Irish could date to the early Bronze Age. New multidisciplinary research suggests the Celtic languages started in the Islands between in the early Bronze Age, if not before and spread east, rather than having arrived here in the Iron Age. Throws a whole new light on the evolution of the language and its antiquity. @

Lá fheile Pádraig shona daoibh. Bhí mé i Londain an seachtain seo caite agus thosaigh mé ag caint as Gaeilge le mo mhathair ar an tréin. Chonaic mé daoine ag féacaint orainn. Tá seans go cheap siad go chlois an teanga suimiúl. Tá Gaeilge an-dhifriúl ná teangaí eile.

@chickhicks6208

7 жыл бұрын

Tá gaeilge a mhaith agat!!!

@djd6943

7 жыл бұрын

mrbenBR Go raibh maith agat

@Gaeilgeoir

6 жыл бұрын

Maith thú go dhéanann tú do dhícheall an Ghaeilge í gcónaí a úsáid. 👍🇮🇪🍀☘

@darthvader5830

6 жыл бұрын

DJD an fíor

@isaac_aren

5 жыл бұрын

Tá sé ar fheabhas chun níos mó ná cúpla focail Gaeilge a fheiscint anseo. Maith thú agus coiméid é suas

It was always my dream to go to Ireland, so I traveled from the U.S. to Dublin and to Limerick in 2013 for my birthday. I had so much fun there and it didn't even seem like I was in another country. Last year I found out through Ancestry.com that I am part Irish. I have Irish ancestors as well as French and Scandinavian. So, I'm learning Gaeilge to add to my cultural heritage. One day I will proudly say "Ta Gaeilge agam".

Indeed, one of my grandma was Irish (never knew her and she probably only spoke English, but still). It's on my "to learn" list.

Thank you Breandan

The diminutive in German is -chen, not -chein :) such a nice Videöchen ;)

@rockabillylady5678

5 жыл бұрын

We actually have two diminutives in german. The other one is "-lein". If I wans't a native speaker, I think that would be something to drive me crazy. I can't even explain which to use in which case . 🤣

@jakerowsell8752

4 жыл бұрын

@@rockabillylady5678 In Dutch we have quite a few extensions, applicable to different words: ­-kje, -je, -tje, -etje, -pje..

@mariaamaideach3567

4 жыл бұрын

How about “Videoleinchen“? :)

The hard part of learning a language is the social connection; even if you want to learn with the culture included and a holistic approach, people taking you serious as well and speaking to you only in that language....THAT seems to be the wall I hit. Your interview is really facinating when you have no idea what's being said, but listening to the rhythm and sounds :D

not sure most of these are actual upsides of learning Irish! But enjoying it anyway.

Sadly my link to the Irish is through the norman invaders, my family name is Fitzgibbons, which is son of Gibbon? and my ansestors came from County Cork and County Mayo. Stumbling across this because I want to observe St. Patty's Day and figuring out ways of doing so (no real traditions thanks to American family, just have heard stories of St. Patrick going to Ireland) and I've --since I was a wee child :P --wanted to learn Irish but never have. Glad I ran into this video ^___^ I know some German and some of the numbers sound German! Like ein for one

This video is helpful and interesting! I'm learning Irish and it's really cool but it's difficult! The spelling, pronunciation, lenition, and eclipsis are driving me nuts! This helped a little. Thank you.

Lovely video! My aunt and stepmom are Irish, therefore Irish English and Gaelic are really interesting to me. On a sidenote: In German we have the diminutives -chen (not -chein) and -lein. E.g. Mann (man) can become Männlein or Männchen, Baum (tree) can become Bäumchen or Bäumlein, and so on.

Wow this was a great video . I really want to learn this Im 50% irish and Id like to return.

Que bien, que pones la traducción en español. La música del fundo es bella Gracias

I start Gal8c this September. I was born in Liverpool (England)

"my name in Irish..." your name is the same in every language! Your name is the sounds your parents gave you. If your name is "Benny" so in Irish it is "Benny"! Everything is easy!

Great! My name in Gaeilge is Erin!

I note that some Arabic names has "Ibn" for the same reason as "son of" the same for Scandinavian names having "-son" at the end like "Erikson" like "Mac". It's very interesting. In Portuguese some consonants followed by an "h" change them into having become consonant followed by an "i" or "y" when they are pronounced; piranha = pi + ra + nya, carvalho = kar + va + yo, etc..

I miss so so so much my Esmerald Isle 💚

My grandma’s family was Irish and I think it’s so interesting. I wanna reconnect to our Irish roots. She’s eligible for citizenship but I’m not

I’m currently trying to learn Irish, I’m finding it so difficult.

@irishpolyglot

3 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work! You can do it :)

I love the Irish language but am having a terrible time learning. I will keep trying.

@preasail

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Two of the best are Buntús Cainte (sold with CDs) and A Grammar of Modern Irish, sold all over Ireland.

Lovely video and thanks for making this! Side note: German diminutive spelling here is incorrect, needs to be -chen ; not -chein. You also have -lein as a diminutive in German (Ex. Schwesterchen; Schwesterlein).

#10 You'll be able to communicate with monolingual Irish speakers.

There is a lot of history to cover. My mother was born in Kildare and migrated to Britain to get work . The Irish people they worked hard just like the Chinese in B.C. Canada building the railroads. I worked in daycare here in Ontario and when I wanted attention from my co- worker I would say the following word to her "Korkymillish". i would get her attention. I believe that word means cake ( ? )I hope so. She was french Canadian. My granddaughters name is Kiera now I know another way of spelling it. As kids we would go to Roscommon. I remember the movie Cat Ballo which the kids went sent off to watch while the grown ups had a meeting and a dram. I would love to explore this language. Thank You or Shuran (Arabic )

thanx

Brilliant!! I have a dude , is the same the irish with gaelic in Scotland?

I would like to learn it well because its important to keep it alive in case anything should happen to western europe.

Can anyone tell me which song is that? It's beautiful.

wondurful

I wish I was better at irish :( I think I might fail irish in my junior cert , I’m finding it very difficult to learn it at school but I want to put more effort into it

Is aoibhinn liom Ros na Rún!

Tengo ganas de aprender este idioma :O

Another reason is when you are at a pub and you ask for a finger or pich of Lafroagh the barkeep knows exactly what you want.😉

Very nice video, guys! You succeeded in merging the things I like of both channels (Lindsay's and Benny's) and I must say you are very inspiring! I'm sure many viewers will seriously consider to learn this beautiful language! Take care!

@irishpolyglot

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Luca! It's so funny because in one of my first visits to the KZreadSpace in NY, I wanted to do a video about reasons to learn Esperanto, but after a quick Google I saw Lindsay had just beat me to it :D So rather than try to improve on an already solid concept that she does so well (which let's face it, I'd never do it better than Lindsay does it!), I'm all about the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" outlook on life and made sure to invite her to do one about Irish together :). This was so much fun because I got to show her around the KZread Space in London, as if I ran the place (it was my first time there - I arrived an hour before her :P ). I do think this video has the best that both of us have to offer. I even made sure we followed her style of "Reason number...[say number in that language]!" ;) Glad this video is making people consider Irish!

I know Scots Gaelic.I tried learning Irish but I just found it really confusing.I found that it was very different although I recognised a lot of the words.

@MikeB-rr5hh

3 жыл бұрын

It's different enough to be just about a different language. English, Dutch and Norwegian are all 'Germanic' languages but not mutually intelligible. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are similarly all 'Gaelic' languages but not necessarily mutually intelligible (though they are closer than the three Germanic languages I mentioned).

I am so mindblown! That's why Saoirse Ronan's name is pronounced as Sir-sha BOOM! actually i did not intend to study Irish in Duolingo but K find it interesting so I added it to my list...althoughh I am struggling with 1) pronunciation and 2) sentence structure. 😂 I hope I will be able to learn it.

I've always thought that "galore" was a word of Latin origin or something. But the thing is the Irish numbers show the characteristics of general Indo-European naming. 4 seemed interesting among them, because to my ear it kinda seemed like the French word "quatre" for 4, and the oddest one out IMHO.

was that cartoon richard ayoade?

Hi Benny congratulations. Might you help me please? I want to learn a celtic language but i don´t know which of them: welsh, irish or scottish gaelic what they existing today and there are books for learning as far as I know. I feel more attraction for G. scottish but i have not seen books about. I saw irish and welsh on hippocrene's webpage. Well my doubt is which one do you reccomend me, I can see irsh, but which one is easier, "beauty"? has a "plus" like direct heir?. Is gaelic scottish really irish? old, middle, irish is gaelic too; what about welsh? if I learn scottish gaelic I learned really original irish? What do you think about this books: Hipocrene's begginer's series, teach yourself, Goethe Verlag book2. Altought I did not find a celtic one on book2. Thank you very much and Slán.

I should speak Irish but I don't. It's a shame so few People speak the Irish language. This was an excellent video, very well done.

I'm Spanish and I want to learn Irish so haaard

@siven8471

4 жыл бұрын

Soul Dafne I am half Irish and half Spanish.. I live in Ireland and I speak irish.. I would so love to learn Spanish for the other side of my family... Irish isn’t that hard when you know what á,ó,í,é, mh, bh, dh. And so on.. if u need any help with Geailge I can help you! Basic- Dia Duit = Hello

@g.h7657

4 жыл бұрын

@@siven8471 dude same here half irish and spanish except im stuck in a messed up area and want to move to ireland to escape and learn the language. I don't know it yet.

Where can I learn Gaelige? I want to be fluent because my family has a strong Irish tradition, and because I actually come across other Irish speakers in the US

@uesuauos

4 жыл бұрын

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