It hurts me that people dont care about irish, its our language and what will we have left after irish dies out because Ireland doesn’t have much unique culture left aside from language.
I do rlly agree w the idea that we need to speak more Irish and life in Ireland should be more accessible for Irish speakers but I have to say, choosing places like temple bar, the tourist office and a Chinese to try to find people w Irish is a little bad faith. Kilmainham was a better shout but I’m sure the cobblestone was open in the naughties, there are places in Dublin where Irish is (and was) very much alive, I’m just not sure it’s in the chipper
The fact that the Irish-language sections have English subtitles and English-language sections do not have Irish subtitles says more than anything else.
Go Raibh maith! I am learning Gaelic on Duolingo 😂. I will be coming to live in Cork City in about a year or so. What you want is to come and see the journey Afrikaans has traveled here in South Africa . I have joint citizenship and am very proud of my mixed origins. Why not drop me an email?😅
Not to ‘um actually 🤓’ you, but if you’re referring to the Irish language in English it’s called Irish! And in Irish you’d say ‘as gaeilge’. Gaelic refers to the language group so saying “I speak Gaelic” sounds more like “I speak Germanic” when really you mean the particular language (Irish or german in this case). Easy and common mistake to make, but an important distinction! Best of luck with your studies ❤️
Hello from Finland! We have pretty much the same problem with obscure Fenno-Ugric languages. There's just not enough tape. Russian offensive of pure conquest (cough cough) causes its own problems.
A shame to call Dublin the "capital" of Irland if they do not even speak irish there. At least some phrases and words should be known, even I understand some when he speaks slowly and I am sitting in Germany and learning with Duolingo 😂
As a Catalan. I really hope, hand on heart, that this isn’t where we’re headed with our language. But it’s not looking good. Sorry this has happened to you Irish people
Irish is an official EU language, Luxembourgish is not, but Luxembourgish is far more alive, unfortunately I will say, but it is also under threat. Luxembourgish is used in the school system, with a special class at 4 years old for pupils entering the system, primarily aimed at non-Luxembourgish speakers. It is also used as an access point for prestigious and remunerative jobs. Luxembourgish competes with French, German and now English, but these languages have not worked their way into the brains of people in the way that English has in Ireland. It looks like the Irish want to recognise Gaelic as part of their heritage, but don't want to make the effort to learn it, and I can say it is a difficult language, difficult from the point of view that assimiliation of grammatical issues like lenition and eclipsis are not particularly complicated as such, but you need discipline and repetition to master them, it's not like a simple sentence of English that doesn't change so much in terms of endings. So you've got to be committed to learn Irish. The issue is getting people to be motivated to this point of commitment. I have a great hope for Irish, it is a beautiful language and a unique preserver of unique experience. It would be a huge loss for it to fade from peoples' consciousness
The future of the Irish language looks good, now that Ireland is in post-colonial mode, and a lot of other countries are rediscovering themselves, there's a fervor for Irish culture and language in Ireland with many new Gaelic speakers it's not perfect but it's a start
Amusing, ironic, Shankill sectarian stronghold - Seanchill, meaning 'old church in Irish! Doesn't get more Irish! I think the situation is more promising now - Irish kids peeved, envious our New Irish flooding Gaelscoileanna, maybe making them think twice. EU recognition, brilliant TG4...
This man be disturbing the peace. I didn't have much more luck with my English in the baile atha cliath. And he's walkin" around like a great bloody Aussie, with that hat on, looking like he's about to pull a cricket bat out of his britches. And he needs to improve his Xhosa, if he wants to get music by Miriam Makeba
The correspondence between, on the one hand, the musical lilt of spoken Gaelic, and on the other hand, the ornamentation in Irish music, becomes so apparent in videos like this one.
French Canadians think this will happen like France didin't colonize half the world. smh. I'm so thrilled for all the folks who fought to have Gaeilge recognized officially.
Republicans using the Irish language as a battering ram?! What the hell has England been doing with English, in every single place they've gone, over how many centuries?! Bloody imperialists!
I don't think he was necessarily the last Irish person to speak only their native tongue. The Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, and Cornish all had isolated pockets of people who were never cowed by the English and held on to their traditions and language. It's why there are still various dialects in the Celtic languages despite there being standardized forms that are being revived. And from what I know all the Celtic cultures are doing their utmost now that they're free to revive and preserve their culture (except the Bretons, their language has been mostly lost with over 40% of their lexicon now being derived from French and the French government still refusing to recognize any other language as even existing within their borders).
2:46 reminds me of Arabic. If you regularly consume Arabic videos with English subtitles, you'll probably notice how often the person speaking Arabic would use 3 or 4 different adjectives, only for it to be translated into 1 word in English. The reason is that Arabic is a very poetic language, so using many different similar adjectives with slight differences in meaning is seen as the norm, and if you don't do that your language will sound weak and lackluster.
Manx isnt a dead language there hasnt been significant changes since 1974 Although we dont have people who speak manx as their only language it doesnt make it dead people who say otherwise havent met manx speakers They speak fluently and with manx accents some are better than others but there are hundreds who speak it and there is a community of them keeping it alive thought i would say this as a manx person Also for those who disagree Im a Clague which is traditional manx surname and my family can trace there ancestors back several generations on the isle of man disagreing with a manx person on manx is bazaar.
Teagaim ar ais ag an bhfideo seo go hiondúil chun éisteacht leis a fháil amach cé mhéad dhe a bhfuil mé in Ann a thiscint. Ní thuigim rud ar bith fós… lol
Irish is my strongest bloodline. I have never been there, but the country and the language still have a place in my heart. It is so sad that the Celtic languages have so few speakers. If I ever move there, I will definitely learn one of them.
You don't have to wait you can learn them. Right now im trying to find the best sources to learn scottish gaelic how it sounded back then. Dualingo has gaelic but I don't totally trust them. What I'm saying is it's a small language so we have to find the proper trusted place to learn it, but you can do it where you are now, if only a little
And to think that Canada nearly made Irish a recognized 2nd official language because it used to have so many speakers, there. What a different world that could have been.
