Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone :) I hope you enjoy this very Irish video!! This entire video is based on the "9 Reasons to learn..." series that Lindsay has over on her channel. Thanks so much to Lindsay for the great collaboration! This video was recorded at the RU-vid Space in London. Check out Lindsay here: lindsaydoeslanguages.com ru-vid.com Otherwise, some resources that came up in the video worth checking out include the following: TG4 for streamed Irish TV: www.tg4.ie/en/ Ros na Rún: www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/ros-na-run/ Streamed Irish radio: www.rte.ie/rnag/ www.raidiofailte.com/ www.raidionalife.ie/en/ I was actually on that last one myself (Raidió na Life) and I have the video of the experience (subtitled of course) right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xnT7Ya3mN6g.html Go raibh maith agaibh (Thank you)!!
Hi Benny congratulations. Might you help me please? I want to learn a celtic language but i don´t know which of them: welsh, irish or scottish gaelic what they existing today and there are books for learning as far as I know. I feel more attraction for G. scottish but i have not seen books about. I saw irish and welsh on hippocrene's webpage. Well my doubt is which one do you reccomend me, I can see irsh, but which one is easier, "beauty"? has a "plus" like direct heir?. Is gaelic scottish really irish? old, middle, irish is gaelic too; what about welsh? if I learn scottish gaelic I learned really original irish? What do you think about this books: Hipocrene's begginer's series, teach yourself, Goethe Verlag book2. Altought I did not find a celtic one on book2. Thank you very much and Slán. Mostrar menos RESPONDER
I am fluent in Irish and I am sad to see this language die. It is a unique language and I wish it is used more, but it is not because anyone who can speak Irish can speak English. It is considered 'useless' by lot of people and I wish it was not because it is part of the culture.
I'm starting to learn Irish now and I don't care if not a lot of people use it. If just one more person learns it, it adds a further chance of protecting the language. :D
SG Haeghe the best thing to do when learning any language in general is lot of practice. for me I learned it in school so I don't have a lot of experience with independent learning. but like any language, lots of practice! and maybe try out the duolingo Irish course and NEVER use google translate. for Irish especially it is very very very wrong
Reason 10 - You can sing Irish songs in the original language without butchering the pronunciation and forgetting everything, like I'm currently doing. Won't stop me from learning them though!
I wouldn't be so sure - I am immensely talented in being able to butcher any song, regardless of how good my pronunciation is :D But for people with a nice voice, that definitely applies :)
Learning to speak a language does not mean you can pronounce it properly. I can pass as French but ask any german, Italian, Russian or Japanese what I sound like when I speak their languages and they would laugh.
I've been learning Irish on Duolingo for two months coz I've been planning to go on a working holiday to Ireland for years since I love Celtic music. I know ppl in Ireland mostly use English to communicate nowadays but I still wonder how Irish language sounds like. The grammar is very different to English but I'm working hard on learning it coz some country is now killing my mother language in anyway possible, and I don't want Irish ppl to abandon their very own and unique language too coz every language has its own way in helping ppl to express themselves. I'm a Hongkonger and Cantonese is my mother language. I thank all foreigners who'd decided to learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin when they came here. Bless anyone who's trying their best in preserving any language.
i cant believe a part of my irish Lineage is fading....this is why i embrace my lineages not just by learning the history and the food but as well as the language. I shall Learn Irish to help it stay alive
I'm Indonesian and now trying to learn Irish and Welsh but what so difficult to me is I can't find material or books that provide enough information and lessons about Irish. I find that Irish is quite rare and yet so beautiful to listen and not many people speak it. And as Indonesian myself I'll be so lucky if I can do study about this one of the ancient language
Quick correction - There's more than 50,000 native speakers of Irish. In the last census - 73.8k reported speaking it daily outside of school and 111.4k more reported speaking it on a weekly basis outside of school. That's 185k people who speak it on a daily or weekly basis, not including the north - which probably has another 40k to 50k speakers. At a very conservative estimate, we have about 200k speakers of Irish on the entire island who are conversational to fluent. There's also a decent number of speakers outside of Ireland.
I'm Italian. I love Ireland, I love the Irish language and I'm trying by myself to learn it.. but it's sooo difficult for me! Pronunciation's laws drive me crazy 😅
Anch'io sono italiana ed ho iniziato ad imparare l'irlandese da sola, con il solo aiuto di Duolingo. Non è affatto semplice!! Ho imparato qualcosina ma non abbastanza ancora da poter comunicare!! 😅
It's easier than it seems. Unfortunately understanding Irish spelling and how it relates to pronunciation (and grammar) means throwing out everything you know about most languages. It's actually quite a shallow system: if you see a word and know the rules, you can pronounce it, and it's almost the same going from pronunciation to spelling. One of the problems Irish has is that its not really well suited to the Latin alphabet, so a whole bunch of hacks were put in place to account for the fact we have twice the number of spoken consonants as we've written ones. But the spoken language is mostly easy, and there's only one hard sound, which is the slender "r" and if you take the short cut of pronouncing it like a "j" in French you're already doing better than people who pronounce it like an "r" in English.
I recommend going to the Aran Islands if you want to find native speakers of Irish. I met some native speakers there & had fun trying out some Scottish Gaelic with them which they were able to understand due to the similarities with Irish.
I'm starting to learn it using Duolingo. But I have a couple of issues with the website, mainly that they seem to want to push homosexual relationships and "otherkin" (or is the proper term furries?)
I started with RU-vid videos, Jesjes1 was my first intro into the Irish language but sadly she deleted all of her videos (but I saved them). I then got Rosetta Stone but I also used other resources such as Buntús Cainte and the BBC's Giota beag, which is Ulster Irish. But Ulster Irish is diiferent slightly than the rest of Ireland, it helps to know the difference though.
Just started learning Irish via Duolingo, and found this video in my hunt for more resources and information: just wanted to say thank you for it, and to let you know how wonderfully helpful it is to someone still 6+ years from originally posting!
Another reason: I used to live in Ireland by my mom didn't want me to learn Irish because she said you wanted to move to America so she taught me English until I moved there. Or a shorter version of this reason ; I'm irish
I will learn the Irish language as my daily language, and then spread it to my friends, I live in Turkey, I'm bored of learning "most powerful languages in the world", I don't even like them, I like the Irish language and culture
I'm Irish and honestly school wasn't that helpful when it came to learning irish. It was more about passing the exams. Áfach, labhraím as gaeilge gach lá. Mar a deir an seanfhocal "beatha teanga í a labhairt" agus ba mhaith liom mo chuid scileanna teanga a fheabhsú.
Sorry that I didn't give the example that the diminutive is based on. A word with '-ín' would have helped, but my point is that English doesn't have that concept that can be applied so globally (how would you apply it to 'house'? "Housy"?) so Irish/Scottish people speaking English work around that by using the word 'wee' as an adjective to imply the diminutive (instead of 'small', which English already has). English's diminutives are way more restrictive. Otherwise, I know the origin of 'craic' isn't Gaelic, but that doesn't change from the fact that its only modern use is in Irish or Hiberno English.
I'd like to learn Irish so much but I don't really know where to start from, I think I need to give me lessons and exercises to improve what I'm studying just like if I was at school!
I love the Irish language. I am currently studying it. some day I hope to be fluent in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic. I really like some of the Scottish pronunciation, which is a little different than the Irish. my first exposure was through music. I think that both of them sound better than English(my native tongue) for saying the same thing. like the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, in English, my father sent me to the house of sorrow. in Gaelic chuir m'athair mise dhan taigh chariteach. I apologize if I messed up the spelling. I have only seen it written a couple of times, a few years ago.
I like the music in this video. I live in the UK, and am British. I have Irish ancestors. I'm currently learning Welsh as there are around 450,000 speakers. It feels like the most sustainable Celtic language - and it's simpler than Irish!?
You should! You're relatively close to North Wales and that should make it easier for you to get your hands on material and find people to practice with. Also, Cumbrian, a close relative to Welsh, used to be spoken where you are. Much as I'd love more people learning and using Irish, the main thing is minority language preservation. As well as Welsh is doing, it's still a minority language, and the fact you're making an effort to preserve it is heartening!
Is Meiricanach me! I am trying to learn Irish and have been here and there since I found out 10 years ago that the Irish had their own language and that my great grandfather spoke it before coming to the US. I love the language and have been trying to find ways to use it in my daily life, so I love this video! I learned a lot more too!
Lovemypirates11211 im from the us aswell. I have successfully learned the language. Keep on going. Very proud and thankful. An bródúil, go raibh maith agat.
I am a German and a learner of Irish. It is right that there are not that many native speakers. Native speakers in the Gaeltacht and those who were raised there might make up about 50.000. However, you have to take into account the Gaelscoil movement and children raised through Irish all over the island. This number is hard to make out exactly. I myself would estimate the number of persons with Irish from birth at 100.000 - 150.000. However, there are furthermore a few 100.000 of fluent speakers on the island to speak the language. As to dialects, it depends on your life circumstances which of them is best to learn. The differences between Munster and Connacht Irish are not that great deal. Ulster Irish proper is markedly different. I would not advice to learn Ulster Irish unless dealing mostly with Ulster people. Ulster Irish seems as strange speach to many people outside Ulster. It does not matter to choose Connacht or Munster Irish in my point of view, unless you have strong links to the west or south of Ireland. Connacht Irish is the speech of the west, while Munster Irish is the speech of the south. The east does not have a dialect of their own. Both are common, with Munster Irish being a bit more common. Around Dublin, the strong accent from local English translates to the Irish spoken. As soon as there are some locals to have it as native language, it will be a new dialect.
Lá fheile Pádraig shona daoibh. Bhí mé i Londain an seachtain seo caite agus thosaigh mé ag caint as Gaeilge le mo mhathair ar an tréin. Chonaic mé daoine ag féacaint orainn. Tá seans go cheap siad go chlois an teanga suimiúl. Tá Gaeilge an-dhifriúl ná teangaí eile.
A bit of an old video, but I'll note that "v" and "w" aren't really distinguished in Irish. That might not be super obvious. You can use either and anything in-between. So, for a Spanish speaker, you can pronounce "bh" and "mh" in Irish like the second "b" in "bebo", and you'll sound just fine. You'll just sounds like you're from Mayo. You can pronounce them as a [v] all the time or a [w] all the time, and that's fine. You can prefer [w] between two vowels and [v] beside a consonant, and that's fine. Just as long as you're using something approximately between a "w" and a "v" and you're consistent, you're fine. If you're a more serious learner and are learning a dialect, things get a bit more precise, but for the language as a whole, both "bh" and "mh" can be treated as [w~v].
The Irish language channel (TnaG originally, now TG4) is relatively recent. It was established in the late '90s as the country's third channel. TV3 (now called Virgin One) came later and was wholly commercial. The numbering has to do with repeated efforts to get a commercial TV station up and running. TBH, TG4 has better programming than both RTÉ 1 and 2, and on a fraction of the budget.
In my opinion, the best reason to learn a language is having a love for the language. Any other reason and you will lose motivation quickly, but if you love it you will learn it eventually
I started learning gealige recently to get in touch with my heritage. My little sisters name is "Ciara", my family have been pronouncing is "sea-ah-ruh" all her 15 years 😂 i had to tell my whole family her name authentically sounds like "Key-rah". She does indeed have dark hair though so the name at least holds true to meaning 😂
@@asbest2092 I have Irish ancestors... Therefore I am descended of Irish people lol my ancestors don't just cease to exist just because we live in America now😂 And btw, why are you judging me when you legit have an anime profile picture? 😂😂
Dia duit go léir!!! Ireland is a beautiful country, full of magic crack and amazing people, all of a sudden the emerald isle became home for me, where I lived for almos 4 years, with new adventures, culture and language, I am from Brazil myself, and I want to state clear here that my experience living in this great county was unique, not only for me, but for my wife too. Ireland is a" bilingual "country, official papers are written in Irish and English, sings, street names and many other thing, however very few people speak irish in the many cities I've had the chance to visit, children learn it at school, but they are not able to speak it in the capital city, Dublin. A few villages in the country side of the country maintain their tradition of speaking it, which is amazing, a way to keep their identity! So, fair play to you sir for the good video, your intention to spread the Irish langue and your struggle to keep it alive.
I’m on a virtual tour of my ancestors homeland. Ireland being one, I’m following the (Thomas) Chestnut or Chesnut family line. My gg grandfather went to Glasgow for his bride Barbara Adam. Thank you for sharing your videos. I did find it quite interesting. I visited Wales also. Now onto Scotland.
An interesting example of the diminutive is 'Bóín Dé' which is a ladybird but directly translates to 'Gods little cow' in English. Bó = Cow, Bóín = little cow. Adding 'ín' is the equivalent of 'wee' as Benny described it.
9a - Irish could date to the early Bronze Age. New multidisciplinary research suggests the Celtic languages started in the Islands between in the early Bronze Age, if not before and spread east, rather than having arrived here in the Iron Age. Throws a whole new light on the evolution of the language and its antiquity. @
We actually have two diminutives in german. The other one is "-lein". If I wans't a native speaker, I think that would be something to drive me crazy. I can't even explain which to use in which case . 🤣
Sadly my link to the Irish is through the norman invaders, my family name is Fitzgibbons, which is son of Gibbon? and my ansestors came from County Cork and County Mayo. Stumbling across this because I want to observe St. Patty's Day and figuring out ways of doing so (no real traditions thanks to American family, just have heard stories of St. Patrick going to Ireland) and I've --since I was a wee child :P --wanted to learn Irish but never have. Glad I ran into this video ^___^ I know some German and some of the numbers sound German! Like ein for one
Lovely video! My aunt and stepmom are Irish, therefore Irish English and Gaelic are really interesting to me. On a sidenote: In German we have the diminutives -chen (not -chein) and -lein. E.g. Mann (man) can become Männlein or Männchen, Baum (tree) can become Bäumchen or Bäumlein, and so on.
It was always my dream to go to Ireland, so I traveled from the U.S. to Dublin and to Limerick in 2013 for my birthday. I had so much fun there and it didn't even seem like I was in another country. Last year I found out through Ancestry.com that I am part Irish. I have Irish ancestors as well as French and Scandinavian. So, I'm learning Gaeilge to add to my cultural heritage. One day I will proudly say "Ta Gaeilge agam".
The hard part of learning a language is the social connection; even if you want to learn with the culture included and a holistic approach, people taking you serious as well and speaking to you only in that language....THAT seems to be the wall I hit. Your interview is really facinating when you have no idea what's being said, but listening to the rhythm and sounds :D
What I did was make a conlang based on Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic because I love all the languages. I just didn't have enough time to learn all three, especially after Norwegian and Icelandic. Heck, I can't remember things half the time, my brain just blanks.
This video is helpful and interesting! I'm learning Irish and it's really cool but it's difficult! The spelling, pronunciation, lenition, and eclipsis are driving me nuts! This helped a little. Thank you.
I know Scots Gaelic.I tried learning Irish but I just found it really confusing.I found that it was very different although I recognised a lot of the words.
It's different enough to be just about a different language. English, Dutch and Norwegian are all 'Germanic' languages but not mutually intelligible. Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic are similarly all 'Gaelic' languages but not necessarily mutually intelligible (though they are closer than the three Germanic languages I mentioned).
"my name in Irish..." your name is the same in every language! Your name is the sounds your parents gave you. If your name is "Benny" so in Irish it is "Benny"! Everything is easy!
I note that some Arabic names has "Ibn" for the same reason as "son of" the same for Scandinavian names having "-son" at the end like "Erikson" like "Mac". It's very interesting. In Portuguese some consonants followed by an "h" change them into having become consonant followed by an "i" or "y" when they are pronounced; piranha = pi + ra + nya, carvalho = kar + va + yo, etc..
Lovely video and thanks for making this! Side note: German diminutive spelling here is incorrect, needs to be -chen ; not -chein. You also have -lein as a diminutive in German (Ex. Schwesterchen; Schwesterlein).
I wish I was better at irish :( I think I might fail irish in my junior cert , I’m finding it very difficult to learn it at school but I want to put more effort into it
There is a lot of history to cover. My mother was born in Kildare and migrated to Britain to get work . The Irish people they worked hard just like the Chinese in B.C. Canada building the railroads. I worked in daycare here in Ontario and when I wanted attention from my co- worker I would say the following word to her "Korkymillish". i would get her attention. I believe that word means cake ( ? )I hope so. She was french Canadian. My granddaughters name is Kiera now I know another way of spelling it. As kids we would go to Roscommon. I remember the movie Cat Ballo which the kids went sent off to watch while the grown ups had a meeting and a dram. I would love to explore this language. Thank You or Shuran (Arabic )
Where can I learn Gaelige? I want to be fluent because my family has a strong Irish tradition, and because I actually come across other Irish speakers in the US
Is maith liom Ros na Rún, ach is fearr liom Scúp. Series 1 of Scúp is available on RU-vid, with English captions, for the interested. Series 2 will probably be available to watch again at TG4's site eventually, though it's been rotated back off the site for now. Is maith liom EIPIC, freisin, ar fáil ag TG4 anois.
Ná habair é! And, not sure if you're still in the UK at the moment, but if you'll be back on US shores at any point today, I wish you much patience with the green-beer-drinking, everybody's-a-little-bit-Irish kind of Yanks. I'm sure you know this, but some of us Americans-of-Irish-descent know how to behave ourselves and stay well away from the garbage stereotypes. St. Patrick's means Mass (optional) and a meal, at my house... and no booze at all. :)
lol, I tend to spend this day at home and online if I'm in America. Even when there are pretty impressive parades near me, I just can't take hearing and seeing the words "St. Patty's Day" :D :D :D
I've always thought that "galore" was a word of Latin origin or something. But the thing is the Irish numbers show the characteristics of general Indo-European naming. 4 seemed interesting among them, because to my ear it kinda seemed like the French word "quatre" for 4, and the oddest one out IMHO.
@Ricardo Torres. You may have an additional motive to learn Irish. Los San Patricios, who fought and died for Mexico in the USA 1840s invasion, were practically all native Irish speakers. One of the many monuments to their memory in Mexico is the newly erected Mexican/Irish Government one in El Angel suburb of DF - near the massive statue of President Obregon - said to be a corruption of the original common Irish surname O'Brien. Yo mismo - tengo hijo quien se caso en Guadalajara, y por eso, tres nietos irlandeses-mexicanos - y por supuesto, una querida famila politica mexicana. Hablo "Gaeilge" - ellos non, excepto unas palabras. "Cifidh me thu"(phoneticamente en ingles: "Kee-Hee may hoo" = "nos vemos." Saludos, desde Irlanda. Michael Murray.
I am so mindblown! That's why Saoirse Ronan's name is pronounced as Sir-sha BOOM! actually i did not intend to study Irish in Duolingo but K find it interesting so I added it to my list...althoughh I am struggling with 1) pronunciation and 2) sentence structure. 😂 I hope I will be able to learn it.
You may have an additional motive to learn Irish. Los San Patricios, who fought and died for Mexico in the USA 1840s invasion, were practically all native Irish speakers. One of the many monuments to their memory in Mexico is the newly erected Mexican/Irish Government one in El Angel suburb of DF - near the massive statue of President Obregon - said to be a corruption of the original common Irish surname O'Brien. Yo mismo - tengo hijo quien se caso en Guadalajara, y por eso, tres nietos irlandeses-mexicanos - y por supuesto, una querida famila politica mexicana. Hablo "Gaeilge" - ellos non, excepto unas palabras. "Cifidh me thu"(phoneticamente en ingles: "Kee-Hee may hoo" = "nos vemos." Saludos, desde Irlanda.
Also words in as gaeilge will differ, depending on what part of Ireland you are in IE. Connacht Irish, Munster Irish and Ulster Irish all pronaunce práta (potato)
