@Boyle360 no its Gaelic, the Irish word for Irish. because most of us speak english as a first language we attend Irish class not Gaelic class in school.
Sounds like elvish! And i mean no disrespect. I see a lot people are getting uptight! We all can't learn every language in the world! But Gaelic sounds very cool.
@LamaPaj the main inspiration for Tolkien was mostly old English (anglo-saxon not the Shakespearean English people usually think of being old English) considering he was a professor of old English. I'm sure there are similar words in Finish as well though considering it's interactions with early German
The ones pretending that English is the only language they need and all the others are useless, well, they are fools. You just won't be understanding a word as soon as you put your feet out of England or the countries where English was imposed by force or colonization. Here in Spain a few have learnt it in school and it is only used to communicate with foreign people with no Spanish. And that's like that in the rest of Europe. The English language was imposed on Wales, Ireland and the Highlands.
Fuck, I HATE people who are blaming England for things they did in the past when they don't know the full story. I REFUSE to let anyone of you people slag off my country when you don't live here yourselves.
For starters, did you know Welsh has over 750,000 speakers worldwide, some of which DON'T know English fluently?
Oh but wait, you're Spanish? Oh yeah, it's not like SPAIN ever tried to do that "language imposing" thing, right? *COUGH* THE MAYANS
@IAmCaptainMarvel The language imposing in the Americas was mostly done after independence of the colonies by the Criollo governants. During Spanish rule the natives and native languages were mostly unharmed, except for the Caribbean/Arawak languages of the first lands colonized. Anyway you can find indians/natives and halfbreeds and native languages everywhere in the former Spanish colonies, while they where almost anihilated in the first English colonies (North America)
What I'll never confidently understand, is how Spain managed to get ahead of its Iberian brother Portugal even though Portugal got a head start on the ocean waves. I always thought Spain and Portugal were on equal wavelengths when comparing one another to their power and dedication, yet Spain managed to get ahead.
@ExtremeBogom I do not know why you are crying. By the way, it seems Portugal was more focused in trade (mainly spices) with the Asian Far East and arrived late to colonize the Americas. Anyway they had Brazil...
my mom is from Ireland, and she can speak Gaelic, and i'm mad that she never actually taught me. i only know a few words like please, thank you, and for course, kiss my ass.
Young lady, you should have learned a few words of Gaelic before stepping foot on the arans--something---greetings, goodbye, what have you---that means you are respecting the culture. And have something to add to those 2 gentlemen's conversation.
Why can't these people speak English like normal human beings? The Irish are like the French full of themselves with their petty languages. Today the world speaks English and it's time these people get in trough their thick skulls.
At least in Ireland they speak English to you when you go there unlike the fucking French...Never going back to France, the Frogs couldn't speak English even if their life depended on it.
@hyurgy125 The world does not speak English, Manderin is the most universally spoken langauge in the world, and im pretty sure you couldnt speak manderin if your life depended on it
Try going to East Europe, Japan, African countries etc. Tell me how many people there would speak or even know English!! At least here I live, many people here still speak Cantonese as a first language.
@hyurgy125 He's speaking Irish because it's his first language, english is his second, and i'm sure he doesn't give 2 fucks if the "world speaks english"
I like the fact that these men still roll their 'r's and so on in true historic fashion, something which has been lost by many in the government's effort to make Irish easier to learn
i want to learn irish from an irish speaker not an english speaker that learned irish from a book .can any one help any gaels help me on any info at all i want to learn the irish speakers irish not the english speakers irish any help would be useful. go raibh maith agat
@Irishfianna you can take irish classes from irish teachers in Dubin there's alot of adds up and you can also learn from tutorials online irish is pretty easy once you get the hang of the gramádach, aimsir láithreach, aimsir chaite and aimsir fháisteanach. an takes an urú which is a letter you put at the start of a word like this an ngairdín and i takes a h. if you're talking about the past you put a h as the secound letter in the word and the pronouncation of that word changes.go n-éirigh leat!
I never got the chance to learn Gaelic because im a 4th generation Irish, My great grandparents we're from the Donegal country not sure which town though
@MiamiDolphinsClyde10 Thousands upon thousands of years ago, an extinct group whom the irish and basques share as a common ancestor settled there. "Aran" or something like it appears in nearly every language in the indo-european family - the persian word Iran and the sanskrit word Aryan being good examples. The original group did *not* speak anything even remotely like Irish; if anything, it may have been similar to Basque. They speak a european language today because celts culturally took over.
just want ot make sure that everyone is clear on one thing. Gaelic was outlawed by the english. to speak it was a crime and prison. that is why so few Irish know the language now. its making a rebirth. i wish i could speak it, any dialect.
@qwyzl Irish is a mandatory subject here for kids the entire way through school... However the main issue is that it's such a difficult language to learn, as it is composed of several main (hugely differing) dialects, each which is practically a language in it's own right! - for example, I've been learning/speaking Gaeilge for 14 years, and speak fluently with people from the east. However the gents in the vid are from the west, and I can understand no more of this video than you!
@SoftwareForFree i had thought gaelic was one language - hadn't realized there were several versions of it.. learn some thin' new every day, i guess...
@SoftwareForFree I am sorry but its lies.....no language is difficult its just you dont want to bother learning the dialects........english had lots of dialects before the schools tried to stamp it out with queens english.
ALL ABOUT THE MINDSET, ANY LANGUAGE CAN BE LEARNED
@3tangle3 I can speak 5 languages: Irish, English, German, Spanish and French. (getting there with French). I have spent a total of 3years learning German, 3 learning Spanish and 2+ on French.. All of which i can hold a conversation quite well. In comparison, It took 14 YEARS to become as skilled at Irish as the others.
What ridiculous things to say, that "no language is difficult", Do NOT call me lazy, a liar or claim to know my mindset. You have never met me, you don't even live in Ireland.
@SoftwareForFree well please stop spreading the lie that celtic languages are hard.....because its english thats the odd one out........polish french etc they all have gender systems etc
@3tangle3 What is your problem? How much experience do YOU have learning Irish? Irish is known to be a very difficult language to learn, everyone here in Ireland learns both Irish as well as another language during high school and they all agree it's a much harder language to learn. And as I just told you (which you ignored), from my own experience learning FIVE languages, Irish WAS BY FAR THE MOST DIFFICULT. Therefore I am not lying. Go away.
@SoftwareForFree sorry but you are arrogant. just becuase you found it difficult it doesnt mean every other person must find it difficult.....being to anglo centric I am afraid
@3tangle3 I feel no need to bother trying to prove my point to you, as you are clearly disillusioned, calling me "anglo-centric"????? which could not be further from the truth! Do you believe it's unpatriotic to admit my language is a tough one to learn? On the contrary I take pride in having a difficult and complex national tongue.
Again: EVERYONE here agrees that Irish is difficult to learn. NOT just me. But yet, you probably do know more about our own language than us Irish...
@SoftwareForFree IT INS'T DIFFICULT!! There is a negative attitude towards it stemming from the way it has been taught in recent decades. A new curriculum would refresh the language and revitalize it completely. A new approach must be undertaken with Irish learning, a modern approach. It must be taught like French and German in our schools.
@3tangle3 The dialects aren't all that different. I am from the West, was taught by a woman from the North and go to University inn the South where I study Irish, Spanish, German and English and have no problem conversing in Irish with anyone. You're dead right, people don't give a shit about it and are too lazy to learn it.
@SoftwareForFree The 'East' has no dialect and is a plastic Gaeltacht. The language is far easier to learn than German of French both of which I study in College. The problem with Irish is that it needs to be modernised, be taught more like a modern EU language, much in the way French, German and Spanish are taught in Irish schools. The curriculum needs also to be revamped to eradicate the negative status the language has in the country.
@SoftwareForFree So do you mean you speak Irish Gaelic and the westerners you mentioned speak Scottish Gaelic? Or are there sub-dialects of Irish Gaelic?
It isn't a simple matter of just teaching it in school, most people who learn it through the Irish school system never use it and continue to speak english, those who come from Gaeltacht area are now turning towards english as well in huge numbers. While many posses the ability to speak Irish, it is not being spoken as a community language and will begin to 'die' out in a generation unless there is a huge attitude change. A visibly lower standard is spoken among the younger speakers nw
@125gortnac that's a real shame. no 1 should 4 get their native tongue nor their traditions. there were no traditions handed down in my family, & i never learned my mother's tongue (swedish). she was afraid we would get swedish & english mixed up if she taught it us as kids, & when we were older it was 2 late, be cause learning language is harder when you're older. your mind's not as elastic as when you're a child. hope fully the young ppl will be made 2 see the value of their heritage.
@jacksbacksucker Gee whizz what a nasty person you are !! And as for sticking to You Tube , I think you know your own tricks best !! You have not only being "sticking to YouTube" but you have been sticking to this one thread for months and months and months . You are just an amadán Albanach !!
@domnal Calm down. You have no need to resort to insulting language fellow. Everyone is wrong sometime, cope with it. I had no intention to be' nasty'. You misread my motivation. I genuinly meant it...your inability to accept when youre wrong, and do so gracefully, is a major charachter flaw, which only serves to undermine the points your trying to make. You should recitify it.
@jacksbacksucker Well there are Keltoi and then there are Quiltoi - You are definitely one of them.!!
Quiltoi - semi literate morons who make it up as they go along - You once said you attended one of the top Universities in Europe - Which one would let you in with poor spelling like yours ? Could it be that you are more than a little disingenuous in your posts on You Tube. If you did go to a University you are not a good advert !!
Amadán !! Albanach ,Sasanach agus Eireannach ? YEAH RIGHT !!
@domnal But to return to the point no I can not definently (sic)...prove the ancient greeks never used the term pejoratively. But unlike words such as 'negro' and 'sassenach' where plentiful evidence exists of a pejorative usage, none whatsoever exists for ancient greek usage of keltoi. You can theorize they may have, but that is not the same as having proof, and in history if you make statments of fact such as you made do require proof. Yes I'm being pedantic, but it IS important.
@domnal I'm only part 'Albanach' BTW, I'm also part English, part Irish. Born and raised in London. Not that it's any way relevent but if you must stoop to racial insults I'd prefer accuracy there too thanks. :) I wont ask where your from.
@jacksbacksucker You want a racial insult O.K - You 100 metre sprint !! Or how about a bigger one
You marathon Moron !! - you still can't spell . If you are part English part Irish and part Scottish does that mean you are made up of tree different turds. ??
@domnal I simply point out you are wrong in a single respect. A fact. So you throw racial insults, call me nasty, a moron (twice), and all my family turds? You see what I mean about you not being able to accept criticism? If your expecting me to respond in kind, your going to be dissapointed. I am in fact genuinly concerned about you and pity you. These issues are doubtless rooted in your childhood. I implore you to seek out help (medical). I'll leave it there and genuinly wish you well.
@jacksbacksucker Well that proves you haven't one Irish bone in your entire body !! Tree turds equals 1 in Ireland or you could have tree and a turd times tree = 10 - You still can't spell !! You really are quite stupid , and you are not Irish not one bit of you !! You don't even have an Irish sense of humour !! Muppet !!
@domnal Throwing around racial slurs, calling people stupid, morons, turds, and generally behaving like a child, that's the irish sense of humour? Not from my part of Ireland. I'm more Irish than I am English or Scot, my people are from Cork and Leitrim. But anyway..none of ya business ya crazy guy. I'm not interested in playground squabbles wit' ya. I corrected your mistake believing you were a serious scholar, and could handle it. I gave you credit there you did not deserve. Good day to you.
@CaptainTurkeyGiblets Harmles fun? The guy was a rude idiot who responded to a simple correction of one mistake with a barrage of abuse, some of it racist. I'd never dream of behaving that way. Thankfully he now seems to have fucked off and found somewhere else to troll. BTW no need to explain that CTG I am aware being from Irish background myself, but thanks anyway.
Here is a post from Mr Jack Sbacksucker Dear me. You don't like it being pointed out that you are wrong do you. That is a major charachter flaw. You stated Keltoi was a pejorative term. Where is your evidence for that staement? History requires evidence, there is zero evidence that Keltoi was ever used pejoratively by the ancient Greeks, and in fact the sources that exist point against it. You'd be laughed out of any serious academic setting so I'd stick to you tube if I were you.
@IHatePeopleWithViews I once stopped the show in a Chinese Chip shop by thanking them in Cantonese.
They nearly crapped themselves !! They started to behave in a very apologetic fashion in case I had taken offence.Offence at what ? I did not understand a word of what they said because I only know Please and Thank you. But it let them know that Cantonese is not a private language - millions speak it !! Instinct is a wonderful thing and body language is almost universal !!
I'm an American of Irish descent. I don't understand Irish, but think it's cool that some folks speak it over there. I understand they all spoke it until 1500 or so when the English made them quit. Sounds like something the English would do.
@guyfihi Actually the first English settlers, the Anglo-Normans, 1180-1500, embraced Gaelige, so much so they were 'branded more Irish than the Irish'. The later planters, mostly Protestant Scots, not English, (sent under Scottish King James Stuart) changed things in as much as they disenfranchised both the native Gaelic Irish and the Anglo-Irish ruling classes (both Catholic) and created a society where law, education and government were in the hands of themselves, and were Anglophone.
@guyfihi This meant to get on in life you had to be Protestant and speak English language, so Gaelige became confined to the poor masses. It is a myth the language was ever 'banned', though certainly the education system brutally discouraged its usage in children because of it's link to poverty, but until the great famine 1840's, the vast majority still spoke it in Ireland nevertheless, especially in the west of the country.
@guyfihi The sharp decline in the speaking of Gaelic has been specifically linked to the late 1840’s. There was little use speaking Gaelic in England, Scotland or America. Between 1815 and 1845, nearly a million Irish, including a large number of unemployed Catholics, came to the United States. The men went to work providing the backbreaking labor needed to build canals, roads and railways in the rapidly expanding country.
Has a softer quality than Welsh. From what I understand Irish and Scots Gaelic are nearly identical when written, but different when spoken. As befits, Scots G. is a bit harsher than the softer land to the south (from which it derived). I encourage all Irish Am.'s to find a Gaelic class. By the way, anyone want to translate what was said?? Irish G. lesson: Dia dit? Dia smur dit! (how are you? well, thankyou!) Everybody knows "Slainte"
Hmmm, I'd imagine there will be. The Scottish Highlands (Lewis and Haris down to Barra, Ross, Sutherland and Inverness) were under Norwegian control for some time and this has influenced our accents (eeen instead ing, so workeen not working and ofter instead of after) - I think Ireland was under similar control for a while? Then once again became the dominant language in the late middle ages, so makes sense! :)
@ScotsmanTillDeath that is an irish accent its theres a few irish that talk like him they talk really fast he sounds like a mixture of mayo and limerick you have to realize mate theres 30 different irish accents.
@JordoF6 Well, you have to realize mate i didn't know that. I thought it was the happy "top o' the mornin" accent and the "i love my life so much" monotone accent.
@001Dixie Hopefully people will move on from all this animosity and realise that the people on the British Isles share more things than divide. This is not only culture but also genetics. Hopefully the beautiful Irish language will survive.
Bhi Me ag caint as gaeilge gach la sa scoil ..... Ta se beagainnin Deachar ach ta se alainn ..... If any one understood that sorry about the fadas !!! Is Gaeilgoire me agus is brea liom e ...... Suas na gaeilgoire =D
@shmad1 Someone should also point out that it's spelt "Gaeilge" and that that is the equivalent of saying a German doesn't speak German, he speaks Deutsch. We're mainly an English-speaking country and we call it Irish, so tell people that.
@beamish72 I love that because the Germans don't call themselves German either !! I always have a problem when someone says Gallic which can mean either Scots Gaeilige or French . ( as in Gallic shrug ).
Get out of that and stay fashionable !! You should be able to pronounce my name though !!
Germans do speak German they just don't call it that - it's what we say to make it easier !! There are lots of other countries that are similar in that respect.
@domnal I think you've confused my meaning. I'm saying that Germans only say they're speaking "Deutsch" while actually speaking the language. If they're speaking in English, they'll call it "German". So when speaking in English, we should say "Irish".
Is your name a variation of Domhnall or Donal? I'd say it DOWE-nul anyway, hopefully that's right :)
learn something new every day, didnt know the Irish had their own language, I want to learn.
hjaimeg 1 week ago
@hjaimeg so do they... the language is dying
metabolife 1 week ago
@metabolife well hopefully it doesnt that would suck
hjaimeg 1 week ago
Correction: Irish people speaking Irish! We call it Irish here, not Gaelic!
Boyle360 1 week ago
@Boyle360
But didn't that Irish guy at the end ask if she could speak "Gaelic"? lol
Tokeupbro 1 week ago
@Tokeupbro Yeah and I found that very strange. He must have known she was American and that Americans call it Gaelic, which is why he said it.
The Irish word for the Irish language is "Gaeilge" which is pronounced either "Gwail-ga" or "Gail-ga".
Boyle360 1 week ago
@Boyle360 no its Gaelic, the Irish word for Irish. because most of us speak english as a first language we attend Irish class not Gaelic class in school.
silentjebus 1 week ago
wonder did she know they were talking about her?? haha so handy to be fluent when travllers come round haha
curely009 2 weeks ago
damn irish even their language sounds drunk
818Kushism 2 weeks ago
@818Kushism your name implies your high, so you can hardly talk. now get chopping them bell peppers!
animalnt 2 weeks ago
@animalnt yes sir right away sir didnt mean to offend you sir .
818Kushism 2 weeks ago
@818Kushism it's pronounced "yes chef"
animalnt 2 weeks ago
And you gotta love the Yankees hat!!!
herbalnedtv 4 weeks ago
Sounds like elvish! And i mean no disrespect. I see a lot people are getting uptight! We all can't learn every language in the world! But Gaelic sounds very cool.
WhoaKaela 1 month ago
@WhoaKaela elvish was derived from mostly Gaelic :D
purplelamprox 3 weeks ago
@purplelamprox Elvish is derived from Welsh.
StrangeIsMyWorld 3 weeks ago
@StrangeIsMyWorld If you are talking about tolkiens elvish you are wrong. The main inspiration for Tolkien was finnish.
LamaPaj 3 weeks ago
@LamaPaj the main inspiration for Tolkien was mostly old English (anglo-saxon not the Shakespearean English people usually think of being old English) considering he was a professor of old English. I'm sure there are similar words in Finish as well though considering it's interactions with early German
chitsey92 3 weeks ago
@chitsey92 Not for elvish, sorry. ;P And Finnish is quite different from the germanic languages.
LamaPaj 3 weeks ago
The ones pretending that English is the only language they need and all the others are useless, well, they are fools. You just won't be understanding a word as soon as you put your feet out of England or the countries where English was imposed by force or colonization. Here in Spain a few have learnt it in school and it is only used to communicate with foreign people with no Spanish. And that's like that in the rest of Europe. The English language was imposed on Wales, Ireland and the Highlands.
ec5aca 1 month ago 8
@ec5aca
Fuck, I HATE people who are blaming England for things they did in the past when they don't know the full story. I REFUSE to let anyone of you people slag off my country when you don't live here yourselves.
For starters, did you know Welsh has over 750,000 speakers worldwide, some of which DON'T know English fluently?
Oh but wait, you're Spanish? Oh yeah, it's not like SPAIN ever tried to do that "language imposing" thing, right? *COUGH* THE MAYANS
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 days ago
@IAmCaptainMarvel The language imposing in the Americas was mostly done after independence of the colonies by the Criollo governants. During Spanish rule the natives and native languages were mostly unharmed, except for the Caribbean/Arawak languages of the first lands colonized. Anyway you can find indians/natives and halfbreeds and native languages everywhere in the former Spanish colonies, while they where almost anihilated in the first English colonies (North America)
ec5aca 2 days ago
@ec5aca
What I'll never confidently understand, is how Spain managed to get ahead of its Iberian brother Portugal even though Portugal got a head start on the ocean waves. I always thought Spain and Portugal were on equal wavelengths when comparing one another to their power and dedication, yet Spain managed to get ahead.
IAmCaptainMarvel 2 days ago
@ec5aca
Ooh really? I had no idea...
How terrible. Excuse me while I cry...
ExtremeBogom 1 day ago
@ExtremeBogom I do not know why you are crying. By the way, it seems Portugal was more focused in trade (mainly spices) with the Asian Far East and arrived late to colonize the Americas. Anyway they had Brazil...
ec5aca 1 day ago
@ec5aca
I was being sar.
ExtremeBogom 1 day ago
sounds cool!
sord1989 1 month ago
my mom is from Ireland, and she can speak Gaelic, and i'm mad that she never actually taught me. i only know a few words like please, thank you, and for course, kiss my ass.
MollyXD124 1 month ago
A question has come up in pronunciation which is the sound of [bh] in "bhfuil". Is the sound [bh] silent or [v]?
jwmulligan1 1 month ago
@jwmulligan1 its v
diarmuid850 1 month ago
@jwmulligan1 Go raibh maith agat.
jwmulligan1 1 month ago
@jwmulligan1 the bh is silent, you say it "fuil"
purplelamprox 3 weeks ago
And i thought the leprechaun in The Simpsons was exaggerated
KeaBesnard 1 month ago
Young lady, you should have learned a few words of Gaelic before stepping foot on the arans--something---greetings, goodbye, what have you---that means you are respecting the culture. And have something to add to those 2 gentlemen's conversation.
windstorm1000 1 month ago
it sounds like sweedish
Mollarooza 1 month ago
Why can't these people speak English like normal human beings? The Irish are like the French full of themselves with their petty languages. Today the world speaks English and it's time these people get in trough their thick skulls.
At least in Ireland they speak English to you when you go there unlike the fucking French...Never going back to France, the Frogs couldn't speak English even if their life depended on it.
hyurgy125 1 month ago
@hyurgy125
ugh please don't compare Irish people to the disgusting French.. eww.!!
Zewuot 1 month ago
@Zewuot
Well it's true that the Irish women are known for their beauty unlike French women.
Have you ever seen a beautiful French woman? Don't think so.
The Irish are fine as long as they stop this Gaelic shit nonsense and speak English.
hyurgy125 1 month ago
@hyurgy125 you do realise that english is not the most spoken language in the world right?
unclebreezybum 1 month ago
@unclebreezybum
What language are we speaking in now son? Fucking French or fucking Gaelic perhaps?
hyurgy125 1 month ago
@hyurgy125 The world does not speak English, Manderin is the most universally spoken langauge in the world, and im pretty sure you couldnt speak manderin if your life depended on it
unclebreezybum 1 month ago
@unclebreezybum
What are you a typically fucking arrogant Frog?
hyurgy125 1 month ago
@hyurgy125 Ha no Im Irish
unclebreezybum 1 month ago
@unclebreezybum
So at least you hate the French. Nobody likes the fucking frog lol.
hyurgy125 1 month ago
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@hyurgy125 :
Try going to East Europe, Japan, African countries etc. Tell me how many people there would speak or even know English!! At least here I live, many people here still speak Cantonese as a first language.
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jonathan19960804 2 weeks ago
@hyurgy125 He's speaking Irish because it's his first language, english is his second, and i'm sure he doesn't give 2 fucks if the "world speaks english"
okee9 1 month ago
@okee9
Gaelic is as useless as French in the world mate.
Why don't us descendants of the English and the English have to learn other languages?
Because we don't fucking have to.
hyurgy125 1 month ago
@hyurgy125 Go away.
windstorm1000 1 month ago
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jonathan19960804 2 weeks ago
most awesome language ever besides finnish
29iceskater 1 month ago
I wanna learn bloody gaelic
TheIandian 2 months ago
wow it sounds so different to any language i've ever heard, pretty cool though
babyboosabz 2 months ago
@babyboosabz Welsh kinda sounds like Gaelic.
DaddyOD13 1 month ago
@DaddyOD13 You mean Gaelic kinda sounds like Welsh.
CymroGoch 1 month ago
@CymroGoch Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod.
DaddyOD13 1 month ago
@DaddyOD13 You mean 'mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod'.
CymroGoch 1 month ago
@CymroGoch I stand corrected ...Twice!
DaddyOD13 1 month ago
Funny how beautiful the language looks on paper, and how harsh it sounds when spoken.
DefeatedElitist 2 months ago
this s not english my friend oh i m sorry
bantalhahamodii 2 months ago
I like the fact that these men still roll their 'r's and so on in true historic fashion, something which has been lost by many in the government's effort to make Irish easier to learn
sutmae1 2 months ago
i want to learn irish from an irish speaker not an english speaker that learned irish from a book .can any one help any gaels help me on any info at all i want to learn the irish speakers irish not the english speakers irish any help would be useful. go raibh maith agat
Irishfianna 2 months ago
@Irishfianna you can take irish classes from irish teachers in Dubin there's alot of adds up and you can also learn from tutorials online irish is pretty easy once you get the hang of the gramádach, aimsir láithreach, aimsir chaite and aimsir fháisteanach. an takes an urú which is a letter you put at the start of a word like this an ngairdín and i takes a h. if you're talking about the past you put a h as the secound letter in the word and the pronouncation of that word changes.go n-éirigh leat!
irishspeaker1 2 months ago
conas atá tú
goDzz1001 2 months ago
Looks like Chinese !
Arabova159 2 months ago
LOL "where you from"
SparklyyMegan 2 months ago
I had the same tour guide!!! TOM
Bhoysingreen8493 2 months ago
Sounds like northwales people, honest they sound the same
funguysmall 2 months ago
Fuck learning French, I wanna learn GAELIC :D
theyatemahlaser 3 months ago 6
I never got the chance to learn Gaelic because im a 4th generation Irish, My great grandparents we're from the Donegal country not sure which town though
KJT922010T 3 months ago
aran is a basque word the basques settled those islands
MiamiDolphinsClyde10 3 months ago
@MiamiDolphinsClyde10 Thousands upon thousands of years ago, an extinct group whom the irish and basques share as a common ancestor settled there. "Aran" or something like it appears in nearly every language in the indo-european family - the persian word Iran and the sanskrit word Aryan being good examples. The original group did *not* speak anything even remotely like Irish; if anything, it may have been similar to Basque. They speak a european language today because celts culturally took over.
sirwootalot 3 months ago
@sirwootalot u got that right...many believe languages are made-up out of basque n it makes sense cos basque is the oldest language.
MiamiDolphinsClyde10 3 months ago
They sound like Pikeys trying to speak English.
JollyRodders 3 months ago
they should also teach scottish gaelic just for the hell of it
halodudeh117 3 months ago
THEY SHOULD TEACH IT IN AMERICA CONSIDERING IT HAS THE SECOND LARGEST POPULATION OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE IRISH IN THEM THE FIRST BEING IRELAND
halodudeh117 3 months ago
Why, Patrick "Oliver" Faherty, as I live and breathe! We will not soon forget ye!
madhatmike 3 months ago
just want ot make sure that everyone is clear on one thing. Gaelic was outlawed by the english. to speak it was a crime and prison. that is why so few Irish know the language now. its making a rebirth. i wish i could speak it, any dialect.
tmccloughy 3 months ago
Some Burren action going on there.
TulkorHAOMARUSH 4 months ago
Driver looks like my grandad (r.i.p) nice to hear him speak tho - brings back memories of him - he was irish too
MrRandom1978 4 months ago
CAN YA SPEAK GAELIC ? WHERE YA FROM... Gotta love us like :D
Avziee 4 months ago
the irish community should make a point of teaching gaelic to the younger generation so it doesn't disappear as the older generation passes on...
qwyzl 4 months ago 63
@qwyzl It`s already part of all irish school childrens lessons from the age of 4 upwards, and always has been as far as i know.
CaptainTurkeyGiblets 4 months ago
@CaptainTurkeyGiblets that's good. by the way, i like your screen name.
qwyzl 4 months ago
@qwyzl Irish is a mandatory subject here for kids the entire way through school... However the main issue is that it's such a difficult language to learn, as it is composed of several main (hugely differing) dialects, each which is practically a language in it's own right! - for example, I've been learning/speaking Gaeilge for 14 years, and speak fluently with people from the east. However the gents in the vid are from the west, and I can understand no more of this video than you!
SoftwareForFree 4 months ago 23
@SoftwareForFree i had thought gaelic was one language - hadn't realized there were several versions of it.. learn some thin' new every day, i guess...
qwyzl 4 months ago
@SoftwareForFree I didn't think anyone from the east spoke Gaelige.
yurismir1 4 months ago
@SoftwareForFree I am sorry but its lies.....no language is difficult its just you dont want to bother learning the dialects........english had lots of dialects before the schools tried to stamp it out with queens english.
ALL ABOUT THE MINDSET, ANY LANGUAGE CAN BE LEARNED
3tangle3 4 months ago
@3tangle3 I can speak 5 languages: Irish, English, German, Spanish and French. (getting there with French). I have spent a total of 3years learning German, 3 learning Spanish and 2+ on French.. All of which i can hold a conversation quite well. In comparison, It took 14 YEARS to become as skilled at Irish as the others.
What ridiculous things to say, that "no language is difficult", Do NOT call me lazy, a liar or claim to know my mindset. You have never met me, you don't even live in Ireland.
SoftwareForFree 4 months ago
@SoftwareForFree well please stop spreading the lie that celtic languages are hard.....because its english thats the odd one out........polish french etc they all have gender systems etc
3tangle3 4 months ago
@3tangle3 What is your problem? How much experience do YOU have learning Irish? Irish is known to be a very difficult language to learn, everyone here in Ireland learns both Irish as well as another language during high school and they all agree it's a much harder language to learn. And as I just told you (which you ignored), from my own experience learning FIVE languages, Irish WAS BY FAR THE MOST DIFFICULT. Therefore I am not lying. Go away.
SoftwareForFree 4 months ago
@SoftwareForFree sorry but you are arrogant. just becuase you found it difficult it doesnt mean every other person must find it difficult.....being to anglo centric I am afraid
"go away" yes a lovely way to win over your point
3tangle3 4 months ago
@3tangle3 I feel no need to bother trying to prove my point to you, as you are clearly disillusioned, calling me "anglo-centric"????? which could not be further from the truth! Do you believe it's unpatriotic to admit my language is a tough one to learn? On the contrary I take pride in having a difficult and complex national tongue.
Again: EVERYONE here agrees that Irish is difficult to learn. NOT just me. But yet, you probably do know more about our own language than us Irish...
SoftwareForFree 4 months ago
@SoftwareForFree IT INS'T DIFFICULT!! There is a negative attitude towards it stemming from the way it has been taught in recent decades. A new curriculum would refresh the language and revitalize it completely. A new approach must be undertaken with Irish learning, a modern approach. It must be taught like French and German in our schools.
MrNuzzyFipples 3 months ago
@3tangle3 The dialects aren't all that different. I am from the West, was taught by a woman from the North and go to University inn the South where I study Irish, Spanish, German and English and have no problem conversing in Irish with anyone. You're dead right, people don't give a shit about it and are too lazy to learn it.
MrNuzzyFipples 3 months ago
@SoftwareForFree The 'East' has no dialect and is a plastic Gaeltacht. The language is far easier to learn than German of French both of which I study in College. The problem with Irish is that it needs to be modernised, be taught more like a modern EU language, much in the way French, German and Spanish are taught in Irish schools. The curriculum needs also to be revamped to eradicate the negative status the language has in the country.
MrNuzzyFipples 3 months ago
@SoftwareForFree Then maybe someone should develop a common language between the dialects like MSA for Arabic. Good idea?
cccEngineer 2 months ago
@SoftwareForFree So do you mean you speak Irish Gaelic and the westerners you mentioned speak Scottish Gaelic? Or are there sub-dialects of Irish Gaelic?
rumbler227 2 months ago
@qwyzl
It isn't a simple matter of just teaching it in school, most people who learn it through the Irish school system never use it and continue to speak english, those who come from Gaeltacht area are now turning towards english as well in huge numbers. While many posses the ability to speak Irish, it is not being spoken as a community language and will begin to 'die' out in a generation unless there is a huge attitude change. A visibly lower standard is spoken among the younger speakers nw
125gortnac 4 months ago
@125gortnac that's a real shame. no 1 should 4 get their native tongue nor their traditions. there were no traditions handed down in my family, & i never learned my mother's tongue (swedish). she was afraid we would get swedish & english mixed up if she taught it us as kids, & when we were older it was 2 late, be cause learning language is harder when you're older. your mind's not as elastic as when you're a child. hope fully the young ppl will be made 2 see the value of their heritage.
qwyzl 4 months ago
@jacksbacksucker Gee whizz what a nasty person you are !! And as for sticking to You Tube , I think you know your own tricks best !! You have not only being "sticking to YouTube" but you have been sticking to this one thread for months and months and months . You are just an amadán Albanach !!
domnal 5 months ago
@domnal Calm down. You have no need to resort to insulting language fellow. Everyone is wrong sometime, cope with it. I had no intention to be' nasty'. You misread my motivation. I genuinly meant it...your inability to accept when youre wrong, and do so gracefully, is a major charachter flaw, which only serves to undermine the points your trying to make. You should recitify it.
jacksbacksucker 5 months ago
@jacksbacksucker Well there are Keltoi and then there are Quiltoi - You are definitely one of them.!!
Quiltoi - semi literate morons who make it up as they go along - You once said you attended one of the top Universities in Europe - Which one would let you in with poor spelling like yours ? Could it be that you are more than a little disingenuous in your posts on You Tube. If you did go to a University you are not a good advert !!
Amadán !! Albanach ,Sasanach agus Eireannach ? YEAH RIGHT !!
domnal 5 months ago
@domnal But to return to the point no I can not definently (sic)...prove the ancient greeks never used the term pejoratively. But unlike words such as 'negro' and 'sassenach' where plentiful evidence exists of a pejorative usage, none whatsoever exists for ancient greek usage of keltoi. You can theorize they may have, but that is not the same as having proof, and in history if you make statments of fact such as you made do require proof. Yes I'm being pedantic, but it IS important.
jacksbacksucker 5 months ago
@domnal I'm only part 'Albanach' BTW, I'm also part English, part Irish. Born and raised in London. Not that it's any way relevent but if you must stoop to racial insults I'd prefer accuracy there too thanks. :) I wont ask where your from.
jacksbacksucker 5 months ago
@jacksbacksucker You want a racial insult O.K - You 100 metre sprint !! Or how about a bigger one
You marathon Moron !! - you still can't spell . If you are part English part Irish and part Scottish does that mean you are made up of tree different turds. ??
domnal 5 months ago
@domnal I simply point out you are wrong in a single respect. A fact. So you throw racial insults, call me nasty, a moron (twice), and all my family turds? You see what I mean about you not being able to accept criticism? If your expecting me to respond in kind, your going to be dissapointed. I am in fact genuinly concerned about you and pity you. These issues are doubtless rooted in your childhood. I implore you to seek out help (medical). I'll leave it there and genuinly wish you well.
jacksbacksucker 4 months ago
@jacksbacksucker Well that proves you haven't one Irish bone in your entire body !! Tree turds equals 1 in Ireland or you could have tree and a turd times tree = 10 - You still can't spell !! You really are quite stupid , and you are not Irish not one bit of you !! You don't even have an Irish sense of humour !! Muppet !!
domnal 4 months ago
@domnal Throwing around racial slurs, calling people stupid, morons, turds, and generally behaving like a child, that's the irish sense of humour? Not from my part of Ireland. I'm more Irish than I am English or Scot, my people are from Cork and Leitrim. But anyway..none of ya business ya crazy guy. I'm not interested in playground squabbles wit' ya. I corrected your mistake believing you were a serious scholar, and could handle it. I gave you credit there you did not deserve. Good day to you.
jacksbacksucker 4 months ago
@jacksbacksucker Tree turds is three thirds..three thirds=one whole.
The guy`s only messing about with the way some counties in ireland pronounce their words.Bit of harmless fun on his part.
CaptainTurkeyGiblets 4 months ago
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jacksbacksucker 4 months ago
@CaptainTurkeyGiblets Harmles fun? The guy was a rude idiot who responded to a simple correction of one mistake with a barrage of abuse, some of it racist. I'd never dream of behaving that way. Thankfully he now seems to have fucked off and found somewhere else to troll. BTW no need to explain that CTG I am aware being from Irish background myself, but thanks anyway.
jacksbacksucker 4 months ago
Here is a post from Mr Jack Sbacksucker Dear me. You don't like it being pointed out that you are wrong do you. That is a major charachter flaw. You stated Keltoi was a pejorative term. Where is your evidence for that staement? History requires evidence, there is zero evidence that Keltoi was ever used pejoratively by the ancient Greeks, and in fact the sources that exist point against it. You'd be laughed out of any serious academic setting so I'd stick to you tube if I were you.
domnal 5 months ago
Domal< I think you are referring to the folks from the Deep South. I am from New York. They still speak the King's English there.
guyfihi 5 months ago
@guyfihi Which King would that be - James I perhaps ?? ( England doesn't have a King dear boy !! )
domnal 5 months ago
lol guys
Zak793 5 months ago
The recorder sounds cute.
dibuk123 5 months ago
They only put it on for the tourists, Even in the Gaelic regions here hey speak alot of english
IHatePeopleWithViews 5 months ago
@IHatePeopleWithViews I once stopped the show in a Chinese Chip shop by thanking them in Cantonese.
They nearly crapped themselves !! They started to behave in a very apologetic fashion in case I had taken offence.Offence at what ? I did not understand a word of what they said because I only know Please and Thank you. But it let them know that Cantonese is not a private language - millions speak it !! Instinct is a wonderful thing and body language is almost universal !!
domnal 5 months ago
@IHatePeopleWithViews Thats bull they do not put it on i'm from the gaeltach area i always spoke irish and only learned english when i was 12.
JordoF6 5 months ago
@JordoF6 Hmmm judging from grants they (ye) get alot of people learn basic irish just to get houses built there... ALOT of people do
IHatePeopleWithViews 3 months ago
I love the fact that the guy is wearing a Yankees cap.
mixxy5alive 6 months ago
@mixxy5alive The effects of American Imperialism... just kidding.
agormanvideos 6 months ago
@shmad1 The language is Gaelic, when you speak it you are ag caint as Gaeilge.
mixxy5alive 6 months ago
ah sure irish is easy to speak
hetalism 6 months ago
I'm an American of Irish descent. I don't understand Irish, but think it's cool that some folks speak it over there. I understand they all spoke it until 1500 or so when the English made them quit. Sounds like something the English would do.
guyfihi 6 months ago
@guyfihi Actually the first English settlers, the Anglo-Normans, 1180-1500, embraced Gaelige, so much so they were 'branded more Irish than the Irish'. The later planters, mostly Protestant Scots, not English, (sent under Scottish King James Stuart) changed things in as much as they disenfranchised both the native Gaelic Irish and the Anglo-Irish ruling classes (both Catholic) and created a society where law, education and government were in the hands of themselves, and were Anglophone.
jacksbacksucker 6 months ago
@guyfihi This meant to get on in life you had to be Protestant and speak English language, so Gaelige became confined to the poor masses. It is a myth the language was ever 'banned', though certainly the education system brutally discouraged its usage in children because of it's link to poverty, but until the great famine 1840's, the vast majority still spoke it in Ireland nevertheless, especially in the west of the country.
jacksbacksucker 6 months ago
@jacksbacksucker It was actually forbidden in the national schools in the 1800's for about 30 years.
SeanOBriain 5 months ago
@guyfihi The sharp decline in the speaking of Gaelic has been specifically linked to the late 1840’s. There was little use speaking Gaelic in England, Scotland or America. Between 1815 and 1845, nearly a million Irish, including a large number of unemployed Catholics, came to the United States. The men went to work providing the backbreaking labor needed to build canals, roads and railways in the rapidly expanding country.
2409chris 5 months ago
@guyfihi It is a bit like the Americans who quit speaking English about 200 years ago !!
domnal 5 months ago
Where you from? The way he said that didn't sound to Irish and my last name is McFiniganO'MallyVitzPatrick
TheLittleIrishFeller 6 months ago
@TheLittleIrishFeller
The fuck? he sounded super Irish, you a yank?
TheRecommended 6 months ago
@TheRecommended Calm yourself there, I'm only kiddin, he sounds pretty gaelic but he's wearing a yankees cap
TheLittleIrishFeller 6 months ago
@TheLittleIrishFeller didn't sound irish? wow, how stereotypical
Kigorusan 6 months ago
@Kigorusan cool story bro,I was kidding
TheLittleIrishFeller 6 months ago
Sounds shit
CRUClO 6 months ago
Has a softer quality than Welsh. From what I understand Irish and Scots Gaelic are nearly identical when written, but different when spoken. As befits, Scots G. is a bit harsher than the softer land to the south (from which it derived). I encourage all Irish Am.'s to find a Gaelic class. By the way, anyone want to translate what was said?? Irish G. lesson: Dia dit? Dia smur dit! (how are you? well, thankyou!) Everybody knows "Slainte"
windstorm1000 6 months ago
@windstorm1000 No, it doesn't have a 'softer' quality than Welsh.
CymroGoch 1 month ago
We call Gaelige Gaelic for short
500glowsticks 7 months ago
Why the fuck would someone from Ireland speak Gaelic? The Scots speak Gaelic, the Irish speak Gaelige!
Gaelic - (Gal-lik)
Gaelige - (Gail-ig)
Pmag86 7 months ago
@Pmag86 In Donegal and parts of Mayo, they refer to the language as "Gaeilg" pronounced "Gaelic".
zorbo77 6 months ago
@Pmag86 No, the Scots speak Gàidhlig.
yrhyngrwyd 4 months ago
I'm going to Ireland next week, and we may do the Aran Islands. I'm looking forward to listening to the language!
priestpilot 7 months ago
great video! bravo!
yagkini2 7 months ago
The man at the end speaking English doesn't have an Irish accent at all.
Is their any chance theirs a large Scandinavian influence on these islands?
ScotsmanTillDeath 7 months ago
@ScotsmanTillDeath
Hmmm, I'd imagine there will be. The Scottish Highlands (Lewis and Haris down to Barra, Ross, Sutherland and Inverness) were under Norwegian control for some time and this has influenced our accents (eeen instead ing, so workeen not working and ofter instead of after) - I think Ireland was under similar control for a while? Then once again became the dominant language in the late middle ages, so makes sense! :)
NorthLimitation 7 months ago
@ScotsmanTillDeath that is an irish accent its theres a few irish that talk like him they talk really fast he sounds like a mixture of mayo and limerick you have to realize mate theres 30 different irish accents.
JordoF6 7 months ago
@JordoF6 Well, you have to realize mate i didn't know that. I thought it was the happy "top o' the mornin" accent and the "i love my life so much" monotone accent.
ScotsmanTillDeath 7 months ago
@JordoF6 At least 30 !!
domnal 5 months ago
@ScotsmanTillDeath
Um, yes he does. We don't all sound the same you know.
TheRecommended 6 months ago
@jme008 your an idiot
breta9 7 months ago
God bless the Irish for keeping the old language alive. May they and it live on forever.
repairdroid77 7 months ago
@repairdroid77 AMEN!!
breta9 7 months ago
Suas na Gaeilgoirí ! Is mise amháin.
Eiensteinstheory 7 months ago
Definitely the west, all ye need to see is a fucking field of mossy looking grass, piles of rocks & not a tree in site to know its out west
TheTvrulesthenation 7 months ago
The man with the cap drove us around Inishmore two years ago. Nice Man. Tá mé foghlaim gaeilge.
jldisme 7 months ago
what is this yahoo speak? they speak english very badly
andresrojas22 7 months ago
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@andresrojas22 your an idiot
breta9 7 months ago
@001Dixie Hopefully people will move on from all this animosity and realise that the people on the British Isles share more things than divide. This is not only culture but also genetics. Hopefully the beautiful Irish language will survive.
JuanPowerball 8 months ago
Bhi Me ag caint as gaeilge gach la sa scoil ..... Ta se beagainnin Deachar ach ta se alainn ..... If any one understood that sorry about the fadas !!! Is Gaeilgoire me agus is brea liom e ...... Suas na gaeilgoire =D
MsLIghtbulb91 8 months ago
....uh... WIN
Naosmee10 8 months ago
Both are cute, but especially the "NYY"-guy. :-)
youngaustrian 8 months ago
when u look at the Gaelic text it looks similar to portugesse
tractorkid223 8 months ago
The 3 of them then had a gang bang in the back of jeep
Ducksexbody 8 months ago
some one should point out that gaelic the scottish and welsh celti language not irelands irelands is gailge remember school as gailge not as gaelic
shmad1 8 months ago
@shmad1 Someone should also point out that it's spelt "Gaeilge" and that that is the equivalent of saying a German doesn't speak German, he speaks Deutsch. We're mainly an English-speaking country and we call it Irish, so tell people that.
beamish72 8 months ago 10
@beamish72 I love that because the Germans don't call themselves German either !! I always have a problem when someone says Gallic which can mean either Scots Gaeilige or French . ( as in Gallic shrug ).
Get out of that and stay fashionable !! You should be able to pronounce my name though !!
Germans do speak German they just don't call it that - it's what we say to make it easier !! There are lots of other countries that are similar in that respect.
domnal 5 months ago
@domnal I think you've confused my meaning. I'm saying that Germans only say they're speaking "Deutsch" while actually speaking the language. If they're speaking in English, they'll call it "German". So when speaking in English, we should say "Irish".
Is your name a variation of Domhnall or Donal? I'd say it DOWE-nul anyway, hopefully that's right :)
beamish72 4 months ago