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  • why does this video exist?

  • Are Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages closer to eachother then either is to Manx Gaelic, because I have seen written Manx Gaelic and it looks very different from Irish and Scottish Gaelic, it looks alittle more Brythonic Celtic like Welsh and Cornish. Anyone else agree?

  • @xhemexx

    Manx, Irish and Scots Gaelic are all Gaelic, and are relatively unlike Welsh, Cornish, Breton or Cumbric. Manx is like the dialect of Scottish Gaelic that was spoken in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. Manx has an anglicised spelling which makes it look different from the two other Gaelic language.

  • is connely a irish last name?

  • @L2rsSwc Connolly is indeed Irish. It's from the Gaelic Ó'Conghaile

  • @Sportymike Okay but my name is spelled connely :(

  • @L2rsSwc like sportymike said.........it came from that name, it has since been anglicized(made to sound/look more english)

  • It should be taught in school!

  • @KenMacMillan It is , (in Ireland (DUH) )

  • @IrishStuff09 Then why is it a dying language? Maybe it should be taught to junior infants in primary school.

  • @KenMacMillan It is compulsory from when they start school in Junior Infants right up to when they leave in 6th year and is a compulsory exam subject for both Junior and Leaving Cert. The problem with the system is that in secondary school most of the marks go for stuff like essay writing poetry comprehension and not the oral. Most people I know myself included would love to be fluent in Irish but because of the system we aren't. The way the system is set up it drives people to hate it

  • Wow....Okay I learned something today. I sincerely apologize for being a naive American, but I didn't know people still spoke Gaelic in an official capacity like this. I just assumed that everyone in Ireland spoke English for everything. Thank you for sharing this video

  • @jedispy People still speak Irish and Scottish Gaelic in some parts of south eastern Canada too.

  • @jedispy Well actualy you where kind of right. Very few people in ireland can speak the language fluently. Except for small areas dotted along the west coast collectively known as the gaelteacht. But people who live here are bilingual so speak english anywhere outside these areas. This weather forecast was broadcast on TG4 wich is an irish language tv channel wich was set up in 1996 to promote speaking gaelic.

  • @ConbonJD With pretty weather ladies like her, I'd be willing to learn it.

  • Baiste agus a thuile baiste!

  • Hmmm....shit weather like always!

  • woah half way through I couldn't tell it was a foreign language for me O.O It made sense to me, but I was waiting for her to start speaking gaelic until I realized... "holy shit the whole thing is in gaelic..."

  • She can't speak a word of English, send her back home!

  • @HateFenians

    eh? i think youll find your the cunt that needs sending home. it would probably be your first time overseas too you little uncultured fuck.

  • This is my country!

  • @HateFenians Hey, why do you call yourself HateFenians? Whats that mean?

  • @stormin300 It's used in Scotland to describe weegies and damn dirty Irish :/

  • @CYMRUTUBE there was a time in Ireland when kids going to school were banned from speaking Irish and taught english only, which resulted in a generation of children being unable to converse with their parents at home... it was basically another Holocaust here in Ireland, please read ---- irishholocaust . o r g ----- no spaces

  • @CYMRUTUBE its because the welsh just accepted the english as there overlords. Whereas the scottish and Irish even more fought tooth and nail to keep their identities separate, as a result they actually became more anglicized due to the barbaric actions of the english law makers and enforced by their army... Ireland has been fighting them for over 800 years to fuck off back to england... makes you sick...

  • I tried watching s4c, couldn't make the fucks out.

  • @CYMRUTUBE irish was banned from being taught or spoken after ireland's colonisation by the british. there's been a concerted effort to try and revive it since the late 19th century (in the republic, anyway).. but it's difficult to revive a language that's been so severely subjugated.

  • @CYMRUTUBE politics.

  • Dude, seriously, how bored were u 2 record the weather forecast on TG4?

  • @MrIrishlogic thanks slappy

  • @MrIrishlogic lmao, i dont know irish people? half my damn family is irish.

  • @MrIrishlogic i fint it hilarious that you sit there and correct all my mistakes. is that supposed to make me feel bad or something? yea i made some typos, its called being human.

  • @MrIrishlogic lol but then agian who really cares. its youtube, there no special format to type on here. what is this high school?

  • most beautiful language ever!

  • irish = gaelic. gaelic = irish

  • Used to hear my mum speak a few words when I was a kid! Strangely attractive language for English people. Gonna go see if my mums remembers any now.....!

  • ya tbh the weather report is a waste of time....... it always rains......

    lol

  • Ba maith liom an daoine ag feiceint an telefies galige

  • @ZKY2 no not every one does..u go to the gaeltacht areas all the speak is gaeilge

  • @sistamary2k6 thats cool, i dont remember that when i went to ireland. but thats a tour for you. i dont like tours because you only really experience a country when you visit the rural areas, and walk around and absorb as much as possible around you. tours dont do this, you stay someplace for and hour, get back on the bus and drive around more. i did love ireland alot when i last went years ago. next time im going to scotland, and england. i wont take a tour this time around.

  • Great! It's really heartening to see what the Irish (and Welsh) have done to preserve their national speech. Thumbs up.

  • Do alot of people speak English in Ireland?

  • @Dangerplan77 Everyone does.

  • @ZKY2 not everyone

  • @Dangerplan77 english is pretty much the official language of britain and ireland.

  • @seamuspowers

    A shame, considering English isn't native to Wales, Scotland, or Ireland.

  • @JonnyLightning ... or Canada. hell, our articles of confederation's first 4 drafts were written in gaelic until the french got angry needing to have it translated (at the time, English was not a common first language, but everyone had a good handle on it as a second language. it's sad to see our language die out like it did, but there are 8,000 people who have some handle on gaelic and for the first time since we arrived from the highlands our language is actually gaining numbers...

  • @JonnyLightning ...Scottish Gaelic is being taught again in primary schools in the maritimes with government funded courses, you can even choose it as an elective in secondary school. finally the highlanders are allowed to speak their language without being beaten in class, score one for the highlanders.

  • @JonnyLightning or england

  • @258mickey

    English is native to England, more or less.

    It's Low Saxon forebears were not, however.

  • @JonnyLightning england in race is more norman that saxon so we are more invade of the invades

  • Oh look!  its raining!!!! Imagine that!

  • havent heard any1 speak gaeilge since i was in school you miss it when you dont have it anymore im sick and tired of hearing polish everyday wish they would all just pack up and go home

  • Its like she is speaking Simlish!

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  • I luled so hard...

  • its almost like icelandic but with a suiss twist or like suiss-icelandic (and that throat sound)

  • Is that a Cathode Ray Tube tv......oh the lol's

  • LOL

  • She speaks very strongly accented Connacht Irish. I'm fluent in Irish, but I speak Munster/Leinster Irish which is much less throaty and gargle-y than that and so I find it hard to properly understand her ...

  • I thought they spoke English.

  • we do. but the native language is gaelic.

  • @TrueColours044 dont want to sound rude or cause any offence... but so you speak english, native is gaelic.. are all your news broadcasts radios etc in gaelic? or english..?

  • Irish sounds really beautiful!

  • @ylcncn

    DO YOU SPEAK IT!

    *( for all of u that dont get it read his comment first)* then watch pulp fiction XD

  • wtf is she speaking?

  • the TG4 weather girls...

  • My Irish consists of a few names, places, and "Éireann go Brách"

  • Translation: "Rainy, shit, what did you expect? Get that fucking camera out of my face."

  • IlStudioso : ha well atleast ya no one word lol,.. bu if ya wanna no how to say hello which is always nice its dia duit!!! its pernouced deeya gwitch lol,.. and good bye is slan lait(slawn lat)!! or ya can just say bye which is slan(slawn) ha hope that helps :D!!!!xX

  • Irish weather report???? Raining - what else?

  • lol!

  • @HesseJamez Haha - it doesn't rain half as much as people make out! God just makes it rain when ya want to do something outside and when one is working he makes it sunny. Ireland is where God has fun playing with people! :)

  • @HesseJamez It's not all rain :L I hear Summer is on a thursday in 2012

  • hahaha up da irish ;),.. i love my culture ang language,.. i can speak it but not that great just from skool but i wanna becum fluent,... slan do chara ciara ni bhrion tiocaidh ar la,..xX

  • All I know in Irish is "fáilte"

  • she's hot :O

  • ta gro ma a shocct a reeh agus tamoi an a fatha eg phoilam na erractch /

  • the American Celtophile, seeking anycontact with our roots... this is where we find ourselves,

    what the heck day is the forcast for? and how likely will i be in the area anyway? my god, what was i thinking?

    I'm going to go look for some more songs to try and learn. I almost had calab lan down once.

  • I used to think that Welsh was the most beautiful Gaelic language (I still think it's beautiful), but by far Irish is much more elegant because it doesn't have any of those throaty gargling sounds, like in Welsh.

  • I agree. Welsh isn't Gaelic, but is Celtic too though.

  • Oh did I say it was Gaelic? Whoops. Thanks for the correction, I meant to say Celtic.

  • No problem. Where are you from?

  • California. My grandpa moved here from County Donegal.

  • well Irish actually does have that throaty gargling sound but because Irish is more syllabic it is more difficult to hear. But to me I think that that sound is very distinguished in a language. All Celtic languages are beautiful in my opinion though.

  • Totally agree. Regardless of country, the Celtic languages are quite possibly the most beautiful in the world.

  • @theFriendlyHughes Even Scottish?

  • @theFriendlyHughes eh with all due respect, they are fucking ugly, I am all for the speaking of Irish but beutiful would not be a word to describe it.

    French or Italian are beutiful perhaps.

  • @AX6153 How the fuck would french or italian be more beautiful? Fuck off back to northern Ireland u orange cunt..

  • @SuperTinkerhell

    Perhaps because the general consensus in the world is that they areromantic languages don't know why you take that personally, and seeing as that has nothing at all to do with Northern Ireland and neither do I for that matter could you please cut out political bullshit you spastic culchie.

  • Remember the ceasefire, SuperTinkerhell

  • Sounds quite a lot like elvish from LordoftheRings, theFriendlyHughes

  • Oke.... I didn't understand any of it :(

  • somehow scots understand this perfectly?

  • If they speak Scots Gaelic they probably have a fair grasp.

  • Tá mé i mo chonaí i gCorcaigh!

  • Nil raibh aon scamall sa speir. Bhi an ghrian ag taitneamh, nil se ag cur baisti.

    Is brea liom milsean mar bhi se an-fheabhas!

    Ca bhfuil do coipleabhair?

    An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti an leathras?

    Ceil leis e?

    Is liomsa e!

    Bhi me i mo leaba anois, ta se go hiontach. Ni dheanfaidh me dearmad.

    See? I'm fluent =].

  • Must be a fake, should be fully covered by clouds to be a real irish forecast...

  • Do we really need a weather show in Ireland? All it would ever say is -

    "Inniu tá sé ag cur báistí, tá scamall sa spéir agus tá an grian marbh. Amach, beidh sé ag cur báistí, beidh scamall sa spéir agus beidh an grian marbh fós."

  • lol yeah. at least we got some snow this year though!

  • lol so veyr true:P

  • Damn i don't understand anything at all

  • what's her name?

  • Its a wonder we even have weather reports, its nearly always overcast and/or raining

  • lol..

  • Póg Mo Thóin

  • What language is this? I never heard it before...

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  • I'm sorry, I have never been to Ireland, so I wouldn't know. I'm acutally fluent in Spanish and Italian, so I am an avid language person.

  • Irish

  • Its an Irish weather report, take a guess.

  • It's Gaelic (Gaeilge), more commonly refered to as the Irish langauge. In recent centuries it has lost it's usage but in the past hundred years it has gained huge strength. It is thought in all schools in Ireland, and is spoken widely in western parts of the country (in areas known as "Gaeltacht")

  • and ring

  • "Shite as usual, with people here, here, and everywhere being fucked over and raped violently by the weather".

  • Shes sayin its gona rain throughout Ireland today..Its not that I understand Irish..Its because thats all it ever does here in Ireland!!

  • LOL! Ta ceart agat! :)

  • Yeeo! Lol.

  • Shed wanta get off ta telly an come feel balls.

  • oh no!!! i´m german and listen to it and was wondering why I don´t understand......

    (and now I hope nothing is english, otherwise it will be really embarrassing *g*)

  • This is awesome!.. And she's hot.. If she can speak this langage I must be able to master it at some point in the distant future...

  • Always nice to hear this language.

  • LMAO!

    You just recorded TG4! I see this everday.

  • It's a great language until it's rammed down your throat and taught horribly wrong in school.

  • gailic is so beautiful! i've heard of it but never actually heard people speak it!! huh wow it's ironic how im calling a waether report beautiful,...

  • Irish, like S. Gaelic- beautiful! Use it in schools. offices, should be Ireland's language.

    Don't worry about English- it's increasingly useless as England, N. America plummet into debt (and I'm an American).

    I work internationally, the two main global languages of future are Chinese and German- low debt/high-tech, German a Euro hub. (With Japanese, Spanish, Hindi in a 2nd group.)

    So Ireland could have Irish as main language, and German for inter-European use- less cost, much more useful!

  • wtf????????

    Why are you posting this on every video with gaelic in it??

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  • This dislact sounds more southern than the northern ulster dialect. scottish gaelic speaker wouldnt understand a lot of it. How would the Ulster dialects get on wth it?

  • Ulster Irish speakers would understand this fine. Hers is Connacht Irish. The 3 dialects aren't that different at all. I understand all 3 no probs. Just diff accent and some words/grammar slightly different but no big deal. It's all Irish and the one and same language. For example, they're no more different from each other than US English, British English and Australian English, etc and even less so perhaps.

  • Is the Langauge been taught in The Irish and Scotish Schools...

  • Don't know about Scotland but yeah it's mandatory in Schools in Ireland, there are schools that teach all subjects in Irish too.

  • Ta si mahogony gaspipe

  • I want to move to Ireland !  <3

  • TG4 weather girls mmm... Hahahaha theyre known for being hot seriously i think the weather is whats keeping that station alive

  • lol, they just recorded Tg4 lol... it must be interesting for OUTSIDERS! =-)))

  • Scots and Irish Gaelic need continued support, don't let these great languages die!

  • What a great language!

  • What? Does she have marbles in her mouth or something? is the audio being played backwards? I can't understand a word she's saying.

    :D :D :D <--- mean's I'm being factitious

  • Táim i ngrá leis an gcailín seo!!

  • Who is this woman?

  • Cen fath??

  • emmmm....well yes the irish speak english....but they also speak Irish.....which is the language native to ireland...which is what she is speaking.

  • I am not 100% positive but its also called Gaelic..

  • Gaeilge to be exact. (pronounced Gwale-ga)

  • no irish people speak irish funnily enough in irish, irish = gaeilge not gaelic

  • She probably didn't take her Beer IV yet.

  • Ahhh, TG4. Níl sé ach soir an bóthar uaim! Tá sé go deas go bhfuil daoine ag baint taitnimh as an teanga álainn ata againn arís! (Níl mo chuid litriú Gaeilge iontach, go mo leithscéal ; ) )

  • Bhí sé arfad go maith! Ná bac le do "go mo leithscéil! Ach carbh as duit? Is as Rathcairn i contae na Mí mé féin ach an ó Gaillimh thú?

  • Is as Gaillimh mé! Tá me inann an Ghaeilge a labhairt ach níl mé iontach ag scríobh.....!

  • only about half us irish speak the language. Its a shame, but great for laughs with me best friend. My other friends dont know what were saying.

  • look im irish and i have lived in Ireland my whole life and can speak perfect Irish and it sounds nothing like english. some names sound similar and thats it

  • It really doesn't! She uses some English words like "celsius" but that's it

  • Um...Not really...If it sounds like English, then you could understand it could you not? And, why do you call Irish Gaeilge, Gaeilge is only used when speaking in Irish, so If you wish to use that word, please learn the language first, because YOU are speaking Irish, yet are not..if you get where I am coming from.

  • Im Khmer and your Thai. Im not Irish and you made that point, thank you.

  • Gaeilge? Gaelic? Irish? Technicalities aside, all of these words have relevance in the minds of some people. And, allow me to point out that, for every time an Irishman's delicate cultural sensibilities are ruffled by an American's improper use of the word "Gaelic," I could show you DOZENS of instances in which Europeans claim that citizens of The United States speak "American." If we're going to quibble about such picayune details, let us be fair and inclusive in our criticisms.

  • Irish people call the language Irish, if anyone tries to correct you otherwise they clearly don't live here, I have noticed it's mainly Americans that discuss things on Irish vids on here and not actual Irish people, this obviously leads to a lot of confusion as they usually make assumptions without knowing much (or anything) about Ireland. Nobody here calls it Gaelic either, that doesn't make sense for various reasons, and the Irish word for the language is Gaeilge

  • Gentleman3, Europeans often display an ignorance about the "real" American culture, too, yet they continue to make false assumptions. Understand, please, that Americans regard Ireland with great reverence and affection and that a great many Americans proudly claim Irish blood. If they occasionally display a lack of knowledge of the "real" Ireland and the Irish people, it is not done with a spirit of malice. Americans' fondness for all things Irish should encourage, rather than offend, you.

  • From my perspective at least, it is usually the ones that claim "Irish roots" that buy into and perpetuate stereotypes and falsehoods, that is something I find ironic and unacceptable just cause it's labeled as "Irish pride" or whatever, if someone is talking bullshit I think I should be able to correct them without being called anti-American.

    Also, it's hard to really feel a bond or get some spiritual encouragement from people that have little or no real connection to Ireland in most cases.

  • Gentl3man, Americans with "Irish roots" are too quick to adopt stereotypes and falsehoods about their ancestral homeland because those stereotypes are displayed in ways that sentimentalize Ireland and fail to present a realistic portrait of the modern Irish people. What I find sad about your heard-hearted attitude is that you are unable to embrace the positive feelings most Americans have toward Ireland, and instead choose to focus negative energy on misperceptions that are not malicious.

  • A beautiful girl speaking a beautiful musical language!!

    You Irishemen, ought be more proud and ought care of your own language.

    Believe me: The only way to make your language to survive is by talking Irish to your children at home from birth. If Irish become their mother tongue they' ll talk each other while playing , at sports, etc... and will not become just a hard subject that they hate at school.

  • Agree, Frisco21. I find it irksome that some cocksure backward natives here in Ireland like to castigate Irish Americans from some lofty position of "Irishness". If it weren't for the Irish in America and all they achieved Irish culture would not be as world famous as it is today.

    It certainly isn't the backward native clowns criticising Irish Americans that has won it world renown and affection, particularly in America.

  • Irish culture?, America?

    Would that be green beer, four leafed clovers or Lucky charms?, cause im afraid none of those things are Irish never mind cultural, dont talk out yer arse

    Go to Italy and tell a native you're a fan of Tony Soprano so now you know all about Italian culture, see what kinda looks you get

    American gimmicky materialism sold to the plastic paddys isn't Irish culture...

    I have no problem with Americans btw but Irish culture and America in the same sentence makes me cringe.

  • I have to say as a Gael "agus is mise Albannach", with Irish descent I do tend to cringe at the American interpritation. The Australians have it down to a tee and call anything like that as plastic paddy. I think some of them try too hard dressing up as little green men. Thats not Ireland and it never will be.

  • Whoa there, man. I, for one, happen to love green beer, four leafed clovers, and Lucky Charms... and if that makes me wrong, then I don't want to be right.

  • Irish and American culture is entwined man. If you look at the early wars in American history (the Revolutionary and Civil wars specifically) you see a lot of Irish men fighting those wars. Thats how my family got established in America.

    Éire go brách

  • Where was Irish music and the idea of an Irish nation preserved in the 19th century and into the 20th? I have seen some of the most sublime manifestations of Irish culture in rural and urban America. And Plastic Paddys? Ever been to a St. Patrick's Day Parade in any Irish town.

    Reminds me of the seventies when the trendoids were always Yank Bashing. Fast Forward to the eighties and the very same groovies were over begging the IrishAmerican community for help in obtaining their Green Cards

  • It's not dying. Irish is alive and well.

  • Is this Video Made to Show How Bad Our Weather is?

  • Actually Irish is one of the six Gaelic languages

  • OMG ITS NOT GAELIC ITS FUCKING IRISH!

    IM SO SICK OF HEARING 'omg i want to be able to speak Gaelic' (well go find a language and call it gaelic cuz this one surely isnt it!)

    i LOVE irish and speaking it and yes its a terrible pity that its dying out because it sounds so beautiful! its also very fun to speak!

  • I don't think it's that shocking that some people would refer to what is spoken here as "Gaelic". Technically incorrect, but not the worst faux pas either.

  • well i know its not that shocking i just find it annoying......really.....