As Gaeilge (In Irish): Saying Hello

Something new I want to try going forward with my videos. I keep getting requests for more videos in Irish so here is one. I hope to make more like this in the future with the aim of both "trying" to be informative in some way and also to help myself re-learn and improve my own Irish as I haven't really used it properly since leaving school over 10 years ago.

As always I apologise for any and all grammatical errors :)

Big cheers to my mate Ivan aka Yugoban for collaborating with me in this video check out his videos at
http://www.youtube.com/yugoban

Background Music is
Welcome to the Show
by Kevin MacLeod
http://www.incompetech.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• as
• gaeilge
• in
• irish
• ireland
• eire
• éire
• Hello
• Dia
• Dhuit
• Gaelic
• Celtic
• God
• be
• with
• you
• language
• subtitles
• Republic Of Ireland
• Talk

[GwIRE94]

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

[MokongX3M]

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

[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 :)

[dracolupus]

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

[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.

[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

[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.