Gnathchaint an lae - Everyday phrases

[torchwood18x]

thank u so much i can hear u perfectly i like ur vids

[Emox991]

I wanna speak irish ;/ so hard to pronounce the word not like they way they written :(

help

[marsmannix]

thank you very nice. i'm struck by the sound...some of them are very similar to spoken Hebrew!

[JohnKnowledge8]

love this blog...since I love your voice

[AMason8634]

Very good.

[steaphris]

Ok right. I got myself a book recently which has the Cois Fhairge dialect. It has a nice sound to it. If you're looking for a Scottish dialect that is closest to Irish, then it would have to be Islay. They say for example "Gun robh math agad" for "thank you" like Irish, whereas everywhere else it tends to be "Tapadh leat."

[dratsab1980]

Have to say, a brilliant range of videos u have here, a language which should be taught in the interests of cultural revival, and these are all very helpful, Cheers!

[CelticVision]

This reminds me eerily of german mixed with spanish and a bit of Latin- not bad though!

[pelerin7772002]

Beautiful, thanks. Out of curiosity, which dialect are we hearing on these videos? The choice of dialect to learn is difficult. I have perused Learning Irish by Mihail O'Siadhail, which is different, I think.

[gaeltalk]

that's Munster Irish on most of these videos. I don't know much about O'Siadhail except that he's a Dublin man so I can't help you much there. The best way to choose a dialect is to listen to them all and choose which ever one sounds most familiar to you - as in, being able to recognise sounds and words.

[steaphris]

Hi, I speak Scottish Gaelic, and I can understand quite a lot of Irish. I want to learn to speak it however. I found the phrases on this video were not so different at all from the pronunciation in Scots.

Failte romhat....almost the same

Dun an doras etc

Gabh mo lethsgeul

However, when I listen to TG4 sometimes I find it very difficult to understand fully, and I'm wondering if there are dialects used there that are quite a bit different from Scots Gaelic. Do you know?

[bacabu30]

Yes, the two languages are very similar. Irish Gaelic used to be written even more like the way Scot's Gaelic is written, but in the 1960's, they changed much of the Irish spelling in Ireland in the name of modernisation. For example, ceilí used to be spelt ceilidh (as in Scot's Gaelic). It is said that the pronunciation of some of the Ulster variety of Irish is closest to Scot's Gaelic. And Manx Gaelic is also very similar to the other two too!

[bacabu30]

There's actually not that much difference between the dialects at all. There's just a like difference in pronunciation sometimes or occasionally a different word used, etc. But the point of dialects shouldn't be exaggerated. Nowadays, speakers of the 3 dialects intermix and understand each other perfectly. The standard Irish (Caighdéan oifigiúil) is the best one to learn if you're a beginner. That's the one taught in schools and the one most learner books use. Beir bua!