I speak Scottish Gaelic and it's amazing to see that some words are practically identical, with a slight change in pronunciation, but some words are completely different. Mòran taing.

I have a bit of a story of Irish in reverse if you will. My Leitrim uncle never said hello or good day or good morning. He always said “God be with you!”. I chalked it up to an elderly man using phrases from his youth. That is, until I took my first Irish class and the first phrase I learned was “Dia dhuit!”, loosely translated as “God be with you!” Love it.

Hi am from Sudan just moved to Ireland 20 days ago at county kerry now working as a doctor in UHK I cannot describe the feeling of how nice are the people here and so friendly you guys literally you are the best in the world and am learning from you everyday god bless you all. thanks for the hospitality

@andrewjennings7306

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you consider learning Irish!

@heffo67

Жыл бұрын

Wow, Sudan?!? The weather here must have been some shock to you. 😂 Delighted that people are being good to you. Enjoy your time in Ireland. Tá fáilte romhat!

@annedonnellan6876

Жыл бұрын

Anyone from any country who cones here legally to contribute to Ireland, and especially anyone who is appreciative and polite lije you, is most welcome

@1HiddenSecret

Жыл бұрын

@@annedonnellan6876 So if the whole world comes "legally" to Ireland it is ok that the lilly white Irish be displaced and replaced for ever?... do you have any respect for your ancestors or your history or your race? The English were genociding the Irish and that was not ok but it is ok to be "legally replaced"?.... funny logic.

@walshchloe8989

Жыл бұрын

Aww I’m from Kerry that’s so nice to here I’ve moved to the Uk now aha. But I fucking love Ireland I do this we’re such friendly people. Im glad your having good experience 😁😁

My mother was Welsh and my father from Wexford and, even though I live in and grew up in Australia, I use so many of those words all the time. I guess because they were the words I grew up with. I just thought everyone used them. Now I understand why half the people I talk to don't understand what I am talking about. Wonderful video. So well delivered and explained.

Love your presentation, clear, concise yet complete. Bualadh bos!

Siúcra is my favorite word now! I love it!

There's a scene in 'Braveheart' when the McGregor clan arrives to join Wallace's clan to fight the English, their leader says "We heard what was happening and we don't want you Amadans thinking you can have your fun without us".

I love this! My husband is from Cork and he says plamas ALL the time. He taught me so many phrases, but gra mo chroi is my favorite. Keep up the great work!

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Oh, I love gra mo chroi, I'll have to include that in the next part! 😀

@niiii_niiii

2 жыл бұрын

Does he ever say "mucky ah" meaning fake?!?!😍😍😍😍

@SaberToothGary

Жыл бұрын

Haha, it's CARK, baii!! =)

@anncanning4457

11 ай бұрын

Of all the words you shared “plasmas” is the one my grandparents used constantly - particularly after a conversation with someone else from Ireland where they both fell all over one another with compliments 😂 Amadon is another one they very often used. Gomel, shukran and oonshuk (spelling of those last two???) are other unflattering words describing people for different reasons. Not sure if any of those are still used today - all of them were from the west and I miss them. So I really enjoyed your presentation!!!! Bless you! ❤️🙏

OMG, thank you! Finally…someone who makes learning Irish possible for an adult American! Your phonetic spelling of the words, and your realistic approach (how to use, when to use, combining Irish & English) is so helpful! I subscribed to your channel immediately after watching this!

@FannomacritaireSuomi

Ай бұрын

It's not a phonetic spelling 😅 it's just a clarification for English speakers

My mother and grandparents used words I never hear now, like Pokey sool or stukawn. Love to know the origins. My folks were Cork and Kilkenny.

Outstanding! You are a delightful teacher. Interesting how cultures intermingle over time.

Long live the beautiful Irish language and let us never miss any opportunity to mention the free app Duolingo Irish, especially for all would be foreign learners

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh yeah I need to check out Duolingo for Irish! Thanks 😀

@robertswelch

Жыл бұрын

​@@WolfeMomma duolingo is awesome indeed to get back to it. it's really slow though

@cianwright212

Жыл бұрын

I feel Duolingo should be used as a tool but not exclusively, it doesn't really teach you about grammar and it's not great for actual conversational Irish. It should be supplemented with watching Irish shows, finding other learners/speakers, reading books/listening to podcasts and music, and learning vocab and grammar.

@edwardthomas6956

Жыл бұрын

@@cianwright212 Yes but as I live in Oxford and only able to do the occasional visit to the family cottage near the Moy Cullen gaeltacht in Co Galway, Duolingo is the nearest I can get to lessons... it is slowly getting me the grounding I need as a foreign based learner from scratch... it was and is the ONLY way... I am half way through the over 40 unit course... Irish is hard and only Duolingo has encouraged me to keep going slowly and systematically forward as an adult learner who never did Irish at school

@edwardthomas6956

Жыл бұрын

@@WolfeMomma I am now on Unit 23 of the 42 unit long Duolingo course after a couple of years of stop start - each time I was tempted to give up, because I never did any Irish at school, the Duolingo people sent me polite reminders during lockdown to keep going. The best way to promote the Irish language is to encourage people to use Duolingo with its inbuilt mentorship and bitesize approach... I am only starting to get the belief that I could actually speak Irish properly one day, notwithstanding the excellent videos on KZread

Love this! I’ve been slowly learning Irish using Duolingo and I was so excited when I’d see words I know. Your pronunciation help and explanations are much better than the Duolingo app! Bfhuil in particular is hard to see and then pronounce. My brain wants it to be something like bue fill. Ha!

@mimi_j

Жыл бұрын

I tried a few years ago and was wow, nothing sounds the way it’s spelled 😭

@BecLovesU2

Жыл бұрын

I’m also learning Irish on Duolingo so, this is really helpful

@cianwright212

Жыл бұрын

Id recommend watching a few videos on grammar and pronunciation of prefixes/aspirations and combinations of letters as it will really help with reading. Once you learn the sounds that different combinations of letters make and the rules behind them you start to actually read them without your English speaking mind playing tricks on you.

@SamsungGalaxy-vz6kh

Жыл бұрын

Phil

@ATLmodK

Жыл бұрын

I started with duolingo but found the various KZread phrases much easier such as One Minute Irish or Bite size Irish.

Loved this video! Very insightful, and love the thoroughness to each word. Lookin forward to more insight on living in 🇮🇪! I want to visit 😀.

@johnoshea4683

8 ай бұрын

i go for a walk every day and take my bata madra with me.

I'm a Brit I used to live in Eire and my kids are Irish from Co. Wexford. I loved this vid. Granted a lot of the words/phrases I didn't know but I will still use bainne, madra, slán, slán lat, slán abhaile, sláinte, craic, siúcra, geansaí. Now that I'm back in Wales I quite often get funny looks. My daughter uses a few more and I'm happy to say that I still understand. I also still use some colours, but here in Wales glas = blue. Confusing! Go raibh maith agat

I lived in Kerry for a number of years and picked a few Irish words while I was living there. I even started studying Irish, but gave up after a few lessons because it was very difficult. The fact that even the locals in Co. Kerry did not speak this beautiful language (only a few smatterings they're taught in school) discouraged me a little, since I had nobody to practice with. In fact, if you really wanted to hear spoken Irish, you had to go to one of the "Gaeltacht", which the closest one to where I lived was in the Dingle Peninsula. Pity... Now that I am back in my home country, I try to learn new words and brush up on my Irish this way. Thank you for your highly valuable lessons, Wolfe Momma.

@johnsomerville7619

Жыл бұрын

Tog e bog e

Definitely looking forward to part 2.

Amadan ! I have not heard that since my grandmother passed away, she loved using that word and may have called me that once or twice.

@aleanbh3808

27 күн бұрын

The headmaster calls the pupils that a lot in The Dead School (Patrick McCabe), it’s where I first heard it

My late grandmother and her late sisters used to use a few Irish words. Créatúr - "the poor créatúr", (kray-toor) which means creature. Ciotach (kit-oogh) - left handed person. Gasún (gos-oon) - young boy.

I've been watching language lesson videos for years and this is the absolute best I have ever seen for any language, no contest. Bualadh bos!

Since I’ve started learning Irish it’s the pronunciation I’ve struggled with most. This video has helped out hugely

I'm a Yank from an Irish family in an Irish neighborhood of San Francisco and I didn't know that the rest of the American world didn't say geansai until I was in my 20s.

@DerekTJ

19 күн бұрын

😂😂

From a Irish Canadian family that is among the only families who kept up the language (Ontario)

@WhitSomething

Ай бұрын

I am a Dwyre btw, and yes most of us are still dark!

Looking forward to Part 2!

THANK YOU !!!! GREAT LESSON FROM A GREAT TEACHER!!!☘️

Cupan Tae agus bainne, le do thoil. I am learning Irish with Duolingo. I just started. I can also say "ta sé fuar agus goafer inniu." Or, "it's cold and windy today."

My mother (God rest her sould) was 100% Irish (from Cork) but she never used the mother tongue at our house. This has helped a lot! Thank you! I've subscribed!

Thanks for this video ❤️❤️👍👍🎉🎉

I don’t know if I will ever get to Ireland, but if nothing else it is fun to learn words from my heritage - thank you for your easy teachings 💕

Great Videos to learn from.

Thanks For Sharing Useful World's 💚♥️☘️🍀

You are fantastic!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and videos 🌻🍀🇨🇦

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 💗

Thank you!

I am trying to learn Irish and your approach in explaining and pronouncing is so helpful! Thank you!

Really love this. Great to hear how you use these words and how you add English suffixes

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@mylena3086

2 жыл бұрын

It's so cute!

I learnt many Irish words from this video, Many thanks.

Been slowly making my way through the Irish lessons on Duolingo for over a year now and I'm so pleased I understood most of these and also to learn that so many words are still used nowadays, I'll try to use them next time I travel to Ireland ! As a foreign learner what I struggle most with is pronunciation and the way you explained each words is really useful so thank you ! (Watched this video with a cupán tae of course 😌)

@thomasmurphy7847

Жыл бұрын

Hi Just watched this video for the fist time. Absolutely loved it. Thank you so much from an Irishman living in Australia for the past 50+years

So interesting!

Was waiting for your video ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much! I'm planning a trip to Ireland this year!!!! (1st time out of US)

So lovely.

So fun! Thank you!

Enjoyed this.

I moved to the US from Ireland when I was 5. My mom was born and raised in Ireland. We used slan leat all the time! Maybe it was used by the older generation more? We also used geansai, cupan tae, and craic. Thanks for the video!

Lovely❤

Oh..i love irish slang 😊 Thank You! Greetings from Slovakia 🙂

This was great! Thanks.

you are amazing, please keep on going and thanks a lot.

Go raibh Mhaith agat. At present learning with the belief that ( why say thank you in English when we can say it in Irish. Useing one word a day will change everything and people will get back into it. After all we learned English. I believe we are so spiritual hurt from loosing our language in the first place , that many can’t even accept or look in at the pain. Anyhow bless you and bless your world and passion Go nire an bothair leat Is tu gach La ata O Dean

Absolutely do a part two.

Thank you, Ed Thomas 😁

Garda Síochána would've been a good one to add!! :)

@StreetMachine18

2 жыл бұрын

+1 on that suggestion

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I'll definitely include that in the next one, thanks! 😀

Irish must learn our language

Fantastic 🇮🇪🇦🇺

Hey! this was a great video. I'm currently living with two girls from the uk and jamaica and wanted to share a cúpla focail with them and this is perfect! Another few that I would use every now and again would be: mise freisin, cé leis é?, foirfe and go tobann!

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Thanks for the suggestions, I'll definitely use them for part 2! 😀

Raise a glass to the Wolfe Tone lass.

Outstanding! Irish phonetics are quite difficult. Thanks for your good teaching.

@Iscoileachme

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, but most Irish speakers speak Gaelic the English way. They literally pronounce Irish words as if they were English words. This definitely makes learning the correct pronunciation even more difficult and confusing. I know how random this might sound but you may actually consider learning something about the phonetics of the Slavic languages. It is remarkably similar to Irish/Scottish Gaelic in many basic aspects, though still obviously being quite distinct.

Muito bom.

Plámás does have a similar English equivalent: Cajole, which is to use flattery to get something from someone. Another fun fact: A person who uses flattery to win someone over is a called a sycophant. Thanks for the list, it's always nice to learn new words from my heritage.

@aaronhinkle1270

11 ай бұрын

I think the definition of a sycophant is a little more complicated than just using flattery to win someone over because that doesn't sound creepy enough. I'd say that a sycophant is someone who uses false or insincere flattery to gain advantage or position with someone who has power over you. I also call sycophants brown-nosers or ass-kissers. I think you're right, or at least close enough with cajole being synonymical to plamas though. Slainte.

Pleasure to listen to :)))

Dia duit ! I just found this video and it is fantastic! Go raibh maith agat ❤️

@WolfeMomma

17 күн бұрын

Aw thank you! 😊 💗

You are amazing!

😆 I had to look up “jumper.” 🇨🇦 here.

@gerardacronin334

2 жыл бұрын

A jumper is a sweater!

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

lol oops! I should have mentioned that jumper is a sweater! 🙈😅

@bkw2378

2 жыл бұрын

@@WolfeMomma The channel islands, Jersey and Guernsey both gave their names to jumpers. Gansaí comes fro the latter

Wonderful job here!

@WolfeMomma

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊💓

Love your video. I'm American but have used plamas as long as I can remember, how funny. I'm going to write all this down and start using some in my daily conversation and see who picks it up LOL...Slan

@michaelennis5090

Жыл бұрын

Plamas is to me an expression of someone trying to cover up the real truth or in a nutshell bullshit

This is the first day I hear that the existence of language called Irish! Will definitely learn some words.

love these kind of viedeos...learning a lot :-)

I'm leaving for Ireland tomorrow! Brushing up on my Irish. I didn't know some of these. Go raibh maith agat! They think I'm a local over there and speak Irish at me all the time. I'm learning as fast as I can! LOL

@WolfeMomma

7 ай бұрын

Hope you have a great time!

Hi, I m from Brasil I love the irish sound

Hi i am new subscriber to you and thanks for sharing your video

More of this please. All your videos are excellent. My Grandama use to use Cupan tae

Thanks, that was very interesting! I always wondered where 'so long' might come from Greetings from a German language geek 😁

Your video is gorgous! Go raibh maith agat.

Great video! Nice production value. I enjoy your nonchalant demeanor and presentation. Love having the words spelled out and the phonetic pronunciations. It really helps! Where can I find a hard copy list of these?💌🍀

I've been learning Irish with Duolingo, and lately I keep saying cén fath to myself. Maybe it's echolalia, or maybe I just question myself a lot haha. Either way I think it is a sign the learning is working and some words are sticking.

You have an ocean of charm.

@WolfeMomma

2 жыл бұрын

💗💗💗

@seanlaoch1678

2 жыл бұрын

@@WolfeMomma ❤️❤️❤️💎💎💎🌼🌼🌼🌺🌺🌺🌷🌷🌷 You're the best of the best of the best! Ádh mór agus slán go fóill ☘️🇮🇪

Gaelic is so cool.

my dad's side of the family is irish, and my granda was an Irish teacher (was as in he's retired, he's still kicking) but I grue up in Sweden with my mom's side of the family (mom and dad met at ucc were my mom studied old Irish and Irish folk history ironecly enough) so I never got to learn Irish in school, but id love to speak it well enough to have a conversation in It at some point!

My Mother used to call me an Amadan.Was never sure exactly what it meant.Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers.

Life is learning & searching natures new things.

Nice video!!

We’re Americans and we have directly across the street from our house for over 20 years a great Irish family. Of course, we have especially backyard parties. I’m bringing this video to the next party. Thank you I’m sorry I’ve forgotten your name.

If you find something you normally say "oh thank you St Anthony!"😂

I do know the name Amadan. My Mom's dad used that one, and we use Slainte. I enjoyed your video. Thank you!

Féachann tú go hálainn! Go hálainn mar i gcónaí ❤️

Well, I'm quite sásta at the moment! I've been trying to learn Gaeilge for two years and knew almost all those words and phrases.

@niiii_niiii

2 жыл бұрын

Go hiontach a Lorraine!!!!😍😍😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍

@lorrainethomas8797

2 жыл бұрын

@@niiii_niiii Go raibh maith agat. 😁

I learned bainne from The Juice Of The Barley by The Clancy Brothers. 😄 "Bainne na mbó ar na gamhna" meaning "cow's milk for the calves".

Irish maidens are beautiful and lovely to behold and hear..

I'm part Irish and proud

You can see the shared root with "slan" meaning safety and "slainté" meaning your health -- and yes, I know I put the accent on wrong letter, but that's how I was taught. Nice video! I think mixing in English suffixes to Irish words in a few hundred years will lead to irregular verbs, and I think that's how it goes with other languages.

@preasail

7 ай бұрын

Whoever taught you to put the accent over the e in Sláinte is a joker

Wow. I’d never use Sasta. But I’d use plasmasing all the time. !

I'm taking my beoir to the shebeen. I'm second generation English, ancestral family from County Clare and County Limerick and we always beoir for a woman and shebeen for a pub.

I've been recently studying my family tree and I've learnt that on the 1800s my family migrated from Ireland to Yorkshire England I'm part of the McCarthy family

Damn this was fun to watch as a Irish living in NZ

Sásta is so a nice word, I'm german and we have the word "zufrieden" for the meaning of sásta and I searched for a good english word that describes it, but there is no. And now I can use sásta in english perfekt!

I'm sure you'll appreciate the one about the young lady of the night who didn't start work until 8:00. She was called 'leath uair tar éis a h-oct'.

If you say it’s Baltic outside in Ireland other people won’t know what your on about! Also love the video 🥰

I am from Michigan I love your videos and I wish we meet in person for one on one teaching. I am of Irish descent and want to learn to speak and understand Irish...

@preasail

7 ай бұрын

Get A Grammar of Modern Irish. Nicholas Williams, translator of The Hobbit into Irish, said it was the best book on the language on the market.

Hello. I really enjoy your videos. My name is Bob and I live in the US. My Father is Irish and my Mother is Cuban. One of my favorite Irish songs my Father taught me is called "Spanish Lady". My Father married a Spanish Lady (well...Cuban but a Spanish-speaking lady). This song has the following in the chorus: Whack fol the toora, toora laddy Whack fol the foora loora lay I was wondering if you know what this meant. I have seen different spellings of these phrases. Thank you and Bye, bye, bye..... :)