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You explain things so clearly, I'm surprised at how quickly it makes sense! I hope that because I have been able to understand your explanations so easily, I will be able to learn Irish more efficiently in general. I'm so glad to have found your channel! Thank you for your hard work!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

It's a pleasure, glad to see that you have found the videos useful and informative, one word at a time 😀

Thank you so much for this video. I struggled with understanding all of this at school and you are clarifying it for me!

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Glad to be able to help you and others 😊

I'm finding your channel so helpful in understanding all the spelling changes. You make learning Irish fun

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that knowledge is power.

first time I have heard irish explained through English. I did Irish from Junior Infants until the Leaving Cert. Irish was taught through Irish. That was the main problem for most pupils. The didnt explain the Present, The Past, The Past Continuous, the Future, The Composed Future. The Pluperfect, the Indicative, The Impeative, The Interrogative. All those words were taught in Irish. I think the teachers thought we knew. Most primary teachers were native speakers and couldn't understand how we couldn't excel. It is the one subject I never failed. I learned spanish over six months before being immersed into it in South America. Why can't Irish be taught in Six months. Four hours a day? This man is a natural teacher. I never heard of Uru. I never knew what defined Gender. I could go on and on. Thank you so much for making this beautiful language intelligble.

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience with me, glad to see that you are finding the videos useful and informative 😊

Hey man thanks for the videos! Helped me through out the junior cert mocks and hopefully the junior cert in a couple weeks 👌

@McKMagic

2 жыл бұрын

Adh mór

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck with your Junior Cert 😊 glad you like the videos.

Thank you very much for sharing 😊

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Sharing is caring

Very helpful, thanks!

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Best wishes

Great video. Thank you

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Best wishes

I do love your lessons. Very well articulated and easy to follow. Please keep them coming

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

I will certainly try, best wishes.

The best video I have seen on this topic. It has helped me so much thanks.

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that, best wishes.

Excellent video. Very helpful, even for a rank beginner like myself. Much appreciated !!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, we're all learners to some extent

Thank you

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Best wishes

Hi Dane, I just wathced the video you made with Molly. Thank you so much! I truly enjoyed that video, and I even picked up a couple of words! So lovely to see you two together. I am really going to be putting a lot of effort into my learning of Irish this next few months. I am excited. Both sets of my grandparents came to America one set from Ireland and one from Sweden. I LOVE IRISH!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

You know what they say, the harder you work the luckier you'll be. Best of luck with your journey. It was great to talk to Molly, she's actually quite inspirational.

THANK YOU. I was have a wicked hard time with this in duolingo! Thank you for breaking it down!,,,,,,,❤

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Duolingo is not really ideal for getting to know the language deeply but it's not the worst way to dip your toe in the water.

Fantastic teacher! I watched your videos on how to take the drivers exam. Needless to say I passed! I'm so very glad you also present Gaeilge lessons!

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that you found the videos useful, I'm a man of many talents 😊

Great video with clear examples that reinforce the basics to understand possessive pronouns

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian, glad to see that you found the video useful 👍

im trying to learn scottish gaelic in nova scotia and this guy is one of my best resources. thanks dude :) and bliadha mhath ur

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome 😁 Irish is not dissimilar from Scottish Gàidhlig.

So happy to see you refer to the ‘seimhiú’ rather than ‘h’. Makes more sense grammatically. Sean lead anseo a raibh taithí ar ghramadach na Gaeilge aige sa bhunscoil sna caogaidí!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

you're so much better than school

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

😅 Thank you! Sometimes so called teachers are not the best educators.

Míniú deas! Míle Buíochas!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Míle fáilte, fan slán

A "tumb's up" from me!

@LearnIrish

9 ай бұрын

As they say in London "Fanks"

Hi, Great content. Is it correct to say that you cannot tell the difference between "his dog - a madra" VS "Their dog - a madra", because S and M do not ellipse. How do we approach this? or is it a matter of context GRMA

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

His dog would be a mhadra, her dog a madra. Tricky enough, depends on the context.

Another great video, Dane. The colours, groupings, animations, it's all stuff I wish I could do and want to learn. You put it to excellent use in finding an outlet framing it with helping us to learn Irish. It really is a great thing you do. For this lesson, I think you should not have used the -s forms for the English. We only use those when we don't refer to the associated nouns directly (i.e. it's never 'It's mine bag') and you say it means one thing but all your examples then use the other form (i.e. "my" instead of "mine"). When we use the longer independent forms, you typically use things like "Is liomsa é" or "Is linne é" (or whatever) in Irish and those would be better treated separately. It might be a small point but I always think it's best to remove all unnecessary ambiguity when grammar topics are already a bit tricky, with séimhiú and urú going on and all that. That's just a bit of a constructive tip I have. I've just subscribed to support you on Patreon :) Looking forward to your future stuff 🍀🤟

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

I was just explaining it that way to make it easier to digest, mine as in belongs to me is what I meant. You appear to be falling into the trap of directly comparing Irish with English word for word. I'm afraid that's not how it works. Thank you for your support by Patreon, much appreciated. As for the video editing, I learned it mostly from KZread.

@Murphyalex

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to support! But I don't think I explained my point very well in terms of what was supposed to be some constructive criticism. It wasn't a direct comparison of Irish and English that I made. Basically, "mo", "do", "ár" etc. are best introduced to English speakers learning Irish as "my", "your", "our" etc. Not as "mine, yours, ours". Because then you have a situation where you have written that "mo" means "mine" but the example you give is "mo mhála / my bag". That discrepancy could cause someone to think, "does 'mo' mean 'my' or 'mine'? Because he wrote one thing but gave an example using a different word". The entire correct and exactly the same info would have just been a little bit easier to write "my, your, his, her, our, your, their". That would then match all the grammar books, all the other descriptions. It was only a small point based on my experience teaching languages on how surprisingly sensitive learners can be to very subtle things that teachers (myself included) would not be aware of. It just adds a finer polish so that great content becomes even better :)

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

I think you might be over thinking this, this was just the way I articulated it but every translation was explained. I didn't say mine bag, I said my bag. I would have enough faith in Irish language learners to work this out based on the examples in the video. We must have different grammar books because my one says exactly what I said in the video.

As someone who moved to England, I want to learn Irish

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good plan, go for it!

Very well but how do you just say "It is Sean's car."??

I love it. Can't write it fast enough

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Best wishes

Hi Dane, thank you for that video. But i would like to point out that as far as i know there are no possessive pronouns in Irish, they are called possessive adjectives. Mar shampla, my book=mo leabhar, you are describing that the book is yours. So it is an adjective, a possessive adjective. Regarding possessive pronouns, they stand alone and replace the noun. Mar shampla, who owns this book?...It's mine, mine being the possessive pronoun in English. As far as i know one has to us a prepositional pronoun construction in Irish like "is liomsa é. = it's mine, to express the possessive pronoun. I hope this long winded comment helps!

I read the thumbnail in an Indian accent for some reason and I was so confused why it didn’t sound right until I saw it was for Irish 😂

Dia duit! I'm just learning Irish via Duolingo. It's great, but it doesn't give such a great information as you in your video's. It was always strange to see (for example) 'cat' and 'gcat' always ment the same, a cat. Thanks to this video, I know it's different depending if we use different things aka mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours (multiple people) and theirs. Thanks for the great information!

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

It's my pleasure to be able to help point you in the right direction, duolingo is a good app but very limited.

Bhí forainmneacha sealbhach deacair dom ach tuigim é anois :D Go raibh míle maith agat!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Go n-éirí leat de réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.

Dia duit, Dane! Go raibh maith agat as a roinnt! Slán!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Fáilte romhat agus bíodh tráthnóna deas agat 👍

Hi, I was wondering which regional dialect you are using? I feel like it's Connacht but of course I am not sure. I lived 6 months as a child right outside of Galway, went to school there and remember taking the Irish courses (I was around 10 but they gave me the first year material, haha). I want to take it back up, so naturally I want to start with the Connacht dialect

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

I don't really do a dialect, I probably lean towards Munster Irish but I like to think of it as one language.

@sydm1073

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish oh absolutely, but from what I've read online (yes I know...) there are 3 distinct pronunciations (what they call dialects but in my opinion it's more akin to accents) for many words. The only reason I wish to learn the Connacht "Dialect" is nostalgia from having lived in county galway as a child for 6 months

@sydm1073

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish it was much like an exchange programme but it was my father that went to work for Galway university during 6 months. I was in 6th year and my father insisted that I take the same subjects as my peers albeit a lower level for Irish. I actually have a natural knack for accents and he would often ask me how to pronounce Irish words. My most distinct memory was being able to pronounce Siolotár (the ball in hurling, I can’t remember how it’s spelled but can still say it) and him being amazed

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I used to play hurling.

@sydm1073

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish I miss it, I would love to play again but not many Hurling teams around me.

Hi, I love your videos and learn a lot from them. One thing though about this one, these aren't possessive pronouns they are possessive adjectives (or better, possessive determiners). Possessive pronouns are something else. Best regards.

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your opinion but I like to think of them as possessive pronouns. Think of it as my way to describe them. 😉

@zePOINTofzeDAY

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish The pronouns are when the nouns are not expressed, mo chathaoir = possessive determiner (/adjective) vs. mo cheannsa = mine (possessive pronoun). the "chair" is not expressed anymore. It's not an opinion. It's the accepted terminology ;-)

@zePOINTofzeDAY

2 жыл бұрын

And I'd love to watch a video on the possessive pronouns by way, just to know how to pronounce do cheannsa, mo chuidse, etc. and hear good samples.

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully I'll be able to do that type of video in the future, but you should check out www.focloir.ie for a wonderful online dictionary with pronunciation guides.

Is it spoken? Nowadays?

Tá sé seo físeán iontach eile!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Go raibh maith agat 😁

GRMMA arís Dane. One question ; In Irish is there no difference between Possessive Adjectives : my, your ,his, her ....and Possessive Pronouns : mine, yours ,his, hers.... ? This is essential in English as you certainly can´t say¨ mine book ¨ , nor `` This is my `` ( with no qualifying noun ).

@conorburke9428

2 жыл бұрын

that is my book: sin mo leabhar that book is mine: tá leabhar sin liomsa

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

This was just the way I explained it for someone who is in possession of something, like a bag or a cat.

Do male & female nouns matter when it comes to his & her items. When do male & female nouns actually matter? GRMA a Dane

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the context, what examples do you mean?

Hi Dane, can you please make a video to explain the original accent of the US? (it's basically from irish)

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting idea but the American accent has more than Irish roots. Check out Langfocus.

@tungxeng3846

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish nope, because your english sounds really american 🤣

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

First time to hear that 😊 Maybe the Boston accent could be compared to the Irish accent

(Yeah), "a" means his, hers, or theirs And the seimhu is the indication of which it is ,his, hers, or theirs. No problem .🍷more fion dearg 🍷 le do thoil 🍷

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Like a jigsaw puzzle each piece has a place

LOl - interesting that you spell it yee I always write ye or occasionally you'se (being a Dub :)

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Might be just my unique way of doing it 😊

Are you teaching a particular dialect of Irish? An Scoil Ghaeilge Ghearóid Tóibín uses Connemara and teaches that "bh" has a "w" sound before a broad vowel and a "v" sound before a slender vowel. This does not seem to be consistent with your pronunciation of, for example, "bhur" which in this presentation is distinctly pronounced "vur" rather than "wur". Or am I missing something?

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to lean towards Munster Irish where v sounds are more normal. But it's all the same language so I wouldn't be worried about it.

@frankkirwin-hall6295

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish go raibh maith agat as do fhreagar. Duirt sé mo mhúinteoir Geilge much the same. Séamas advised that he also says "vur" despite the broad vowel. It would seem that Irish is often a matter of style. I'm still getting used to pronouncing "tú féin" as "tú héin". Irish is clearly not a language to be taken up by the faint of heart.

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

You're not wrong, it has lots of little intricacies and very much based on local accents and dialects.

Dia duit, Dane!Físeán den scoth! Fuair mé an-úsáideach! Go raibh míle maith agat agus slán go fóill!

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Bhain mé taitneamh as agus fáilte romhat, de réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.

mo thuismitheoirí, do thuismitheoirí, a thuismitheoirí, a tuismitheoirí, ár dtuismitheoirí, bhur dtuismitheoirí, a dtuismitheoirí

When your saying apple his apple a úll. But her apple is a húll.

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@deirdremarie76

Жыл бұрын

@@LearnIrish which one is the other video mentioned dealing with the vowels ? Grmma

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

I probably haven't gotten round to it yet

@michaelbriggs8940

Жыл бұрын

This is what I came here to try and understand.

@LearnIrish

Жыл бұрын

Knowledge is power

mo chótaí, do chótaí, a chótaí, a cótaí, ár gcótaí, bhur gcótaí, a gcótaí

So it would be... mo bhróga, do bhróga, a bhróga, a bróga, ár mbróga, bhur mbróga, a mbróga

Go raibh maith agat.

@LearnIrish

2 жыл бұрын

Fáilte romhat 🙏

Where is the video with possissive pronoun with vowels