As Gaeilge (In Irish): Saying Hello

[KiyraRVNS]

I'm American, and I've always wanted to learn Irish. Pretty much everyone I know finds that idea completely ridiculous, but I'm determined to at least try to learn a little. Of course I would pick one of the most difficult languages to learn. And one that I will not be able to speak with anyone that I know. I suppose I should meet some different people.

[GwIRE94]

'' Duit '' is pronounced '' Ditch '' u clown lol

[MokongX3M]

@GwIRE94 it can be pronouced slighty different in parts of the country

[dracolupus]

@GwIRE94 My grandmother, a Connemaran, pronounced it gwitch. My father, also a Connemaran, pronounces it gutch.

[regisor94]

Oh, I forgot to comment on this one. LOVING THIS SERIES. Hehe, @yugoban is so hilarious! Great idea to add him to this. Funny acting from both of you.

Interesting question about how the greeting before Christian times. We may never know.

[dracolupus]

I think the problem with trying to figure out what the pre-Christian version of hello is stretches back too far in time. Prior to that I think there are just a few ogham stones here and there, and you wouldn't really carry out a conversation like that. I imagine the best way to figure out is to compare how people greet each other in some of the old myths. Personally, I'd just say "ce chaoi bhfuil tu, a (name)?" I tend to say "how's it going" unless I'm on the phone in English anyway.

[katae86]

An-mhaith, ar fheabhas, go hiontach etc :D

[mshypersinger]

LOLLLL

now i can talk to Westlife in Irish haha!

thanks for this funny tutorial hahahhahahhahahhahaha

[MokongX3M]

@mshypersinger haha, you'd have to find Westlife first though ;)

[mariazhei06]

Wow so cool! I get to learn irish! Two thumbs up! Wuhoo! so informative ;)

[MokongX3M]

@mariazhei06 Thank you Maria :)

[3lhugo]

great video man hope to see more videos more frecuently and i think you should totally do a vlog yolog about the next manny pacquiao figth

[MokongX3M]

@3lhugo Oh yeah the fight is this weekend.... we'll see if I have time

[LeoVallo]

If you are interested in the old irish language and litterature I'd suggest you to consider the book Sengoidelc by David Stifter, an austrian celtologist, which is quite good both grammatically and historically.

[MokongX3M]

@LeoVallo I shall do the appropriate google search soon so, haha, cheers

[THEBIGKELESHOW]

superb! hahaha!

[MokongX3M]

@THEBIGKELESHOW Cheers Kel :)

[iphonekidsgames007]

awesome.... 

[MokongX3M]

@iphonekidsgames007 thank you

[rallypacific]

Interesting video, and quite amusing too. I think even 'modern' English is tainted (?) with religious greeting. "Hello" is probably a derivation of "hallowed", as in 'sacred'. For a possible earlier greeting, minus the religious aspect, one might look at Dutch, in which "dag" is used a lot, and that means 'day', as in "good day". Strangely enough, the same "dag" is used to say 'good-bye' as well.

[MokongX3M]

@rallypacific really? didn't know that about "hello"... haha I guess whichever way you say it then it's got some sort of religious background :P

[bobomcgraw]

I have been wondering for ages, and I may have mentioned this before, but what is the proper response to "Go raibh maith agat"?

Someone told me it is "Failte romhat", but while that does mean "You are welcome", it doesn't mean it in the same way.

I was looking at an Old Irish dictionary online there, typical Irish, you search for an English word in Old Irish, you get an error message AS GAEILGE!

How does that make sense?

[MokongX3M]

@bobomcgraw ah I'd say "Failte Romhat" too, in what way do you think it means it in a different way? Unless maybe you are confusing it with "cead mile failte"?

[bobomcgraw]

@MokongX3M Because "Fáilte romhat" means "You are welcome", as in a greeting, doesn't it?

If you look at the French, their equivalent is "ne rien", which we might translate as "you're welcome", but that is not literally what it means, it's actually closer to "it's nothing".

The French for welcome is bienvenu, it is not used in reply to "Thank you".

I think what we are doing is finding the literal translation in Irish, instead of looking for the proper equivalent.

[Jagamp]

Nice video Franklin, always very informative. Extra special with Ivan in it, who always makes me laugh with his humor and funny face hahaha LOL

Hope you do some more like this :-)

[MokongX3M]

@Jagamp Yeah when I got the idea for the video Ivan was my first choice to collab with cause I wanted his facial expressions, haha, glad he was abe to do it

[chinaeyes22]

Whoa!!! COOLness! Another Irish language lesson and this time with Ivan! Hahaha! So funny how you apparently forgot you sent @yugoban a script. Great acting and script. Oooh... So you say "hello" differently to a single person as oppose to a group of people. Also appreciated the history lesson of how things were before Christianity came to Ireland. I'm enjoying and learning a lot from these Irish language lessons very much, Franklin. I hope you make this a regular thing in your channel. :-)

[chinaeyes22]

@chinaeyes22 - OH! And you're now an expert in shooting and keying in green screen, Franklin. Great job! Thumbs Up for the whole new look in your videos! :-)

[MokongX3M]

@chinaeyes22 Cheers Jason, yeah I laid down some cash for some new software so that I can make proper use of this green screen instead of just using it for collabs, haha Corel VideoStudio Pro X4 is what I'm using

[trebornoican]

nice one.. very informative mokz..

with the participation of ivan.. double nice?

keep this kind of video coming :)

[MokongX3M]

@trebornoican Cheers Robert

[nxji]

nice

[MokongX3M]

@nxji Thanks :)