Can Irish People Speak Irish?  

Yes! I am curious to see if a new generation has learned Irish.

would be interesting to watch a new video, I'm new beginner in irish and find any video good to watch

Ar ndóigh!! D'aistrigh a lán iompair ó na laethanta a rinne tú an chéad físeáin. 😄

Absolutely

Yes please

That is how irish grammar works

In Irish you say you have things pretty often. It's the same with emotions in Irish, you don't say you are sad you say you have sadness on you

So she’s translating it literally and not into proper English?

@@ishish8816 no it's correct. That's just the structure of the language. If you translated the proper English sentence of let's say "I am sad" you would get "ta bron orm". It's just that if you break that Irish sentence down based on the individual words it reads as " I have sadness on me"

That’s the way we talk. He could have had a lot of Irish on him and we would understand that, too!

Racist hate

the English- some Brits were also busy trying to keep their language alive in spite of them

And now it's being ruined by mass immigration

I’m feeling awfully attacked in this comment section 😂

@@Lili-fs5yr Try to ignore it. Anybody can comment. Just remember that. Always consider the source, and since you don’t know the source, try to ignore.

and the "pard'n?".

For some reason I thought he said 没有

Fitting he had a rugby jersey on

Níl**

It’s níl** akshully 🤓

I always said Dutch sounds like the Sims, but now that you mention it…..hahahah

That's because other languages are spoken with a different accent, but Irish nowadays is spoken with mostly the same accent as is used in Irish English so it sounds a bit like jiberish in your own accent rather than another language.

I left this comment years ago on a Tiktok video of Gaelic and I got ripped to shreds lol

@@jerusalem4492you think so? I’m Dutch so I can’t hear it in that way 😂😂 That’s so funny

​​@@jerusalem4492Nah the sims is Italian with an American accent 😂

Nah

@MaybeOrangeJuice. Yah.

Idk, but Irish sounds pretty hideous to me. Like someone with a mouthful of marbles, who can't enunciate consonants. It's like they speak with the vocal muscles of a toddler.

You experience food woth your ears?? Well now you know why they don't teach Irish cause you get statements like this dork.😅

Sounds Danish.

First guy too tho ❤

Nil is agam is kinda the fuck it don't care not interested but I have to show you I understand and have to answer kinda moment

Because it's funny, I mean you could spend some time learning it better, and then it wouldn't be a joke anymore.

@@livedandletdie I loved my Dad, but he was a lousy teacher. I tried!

Ur father is Irish, roflmao. Such a dad joke

​@@ywoulduchoosetousethisOnly for racists

Don't blame the English blame the English elites from decades ago

*Welsh elites. Dont forget the the Royals have a Prince of Wales, several prime ministers have been Welsh, the Tudor dynasty who happily continued legal discrimination and forced assimilation of Wales were literally Welsh and most of the industrial era Welsh elite were cross border land owners pushing the Empire along. You and I as ordinary people in the Isles have more in common than the rich bastards stamping their boots on us, but who were born in the manor around the corner

We Scots are trying to rebuild our amazing language

@@AlbannachEditz😂😂😂😂😂

Tbf to you guys Scotland has more diversity in language with Gaelic English and Scots

​@@quandaledingle7812 Scots is little more than a dialect.

That's really interesting. Thanks for explaining that lovely concept. From Uruguay 😊

I studied a bit of Russian years ago and they have a similar structure for the concept of "having". They don't have a specific verb so they say "next to me there is" (у меня есть). I wonder if it is a coincidence or an old Indo-European trait that has survived in these languages but not in the rest

​@@osasunaitorthat structure with the verb "to have" (using "at me" or "with me" and "there is") is found in all the Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. It is found in Welsh as well (another Celtic language like Gaelic). This led linguists to speculate whether the Celtic languages came in contact with Semitic speakers and developed a Semitic substrate for certain concepts. There are entire RU-vid videos about it but the theory is not universally accepted. The theory is based on the ancient Phoenicians originating in Lebanon but who had a presence in the Mediterranean as sea traders and had significant contact with the western side of the British Isles.

My paternal grandmother is Korean, and my maternal grandmother was Breton! That's why I'm learning Bretoned and Korean... the Japanese wanted to erase Korean, and the French wanted to erase Bretoned... the French almost succeeded, but it's having a resurgence like the other celtic languages. 만세!

​@@gwenethp511TIL Breton is not just a Skyrim race haha

truly hope there will be a day where the irish language is as widely spoken in ireland as korean is now in korea

That's what ruzzia did to Ukraine

​@@gwenethp511frankly I live in bretagne and no one speak breton anymore but really old people (and they struggle). I sincerely doubt it will come back , the bretonnant are struggling to even agree on how to speak it while everyone is moving around for work and getting more and more mixed. But it's the same for every regional language here. The only ones having a future are corsican and overseas languages considering on how they insist having tv show in their languages and hosting assembly where they speak it😅

Not unless you went to a gealscoil did you really learn Irish

⁠​⁠@@mikeyyiannaki5786Even in Gaelscoils you don’t learn real Irish, the standard of Irish in the schools is so bad that people joke about it calling it Gaelscoilis instead of Gaeilge. That’s also ignoring how all the Irish in the school system is a watered down simplified version with English sounds.

​@@cygnusmir1627 Ireland needs to get its shit together

Dwi'n cytuno. Caru yr iaith Iwerddon

Are Welsh and Irish Gaelic mutually comprehensible languages?

@@no_more_spamplease5121 Yes and no. It's a closer language than between Welsh and English, but you wouldn't be able to have a proper conversation between the two. Breton in France is a closer language to Welsh than Gaelic is

I can relate to this! I am of a mixed race which is Brazilian/American and I can immediately tell the difference between Brazilian Portuguese and other races’ pronunciations and slang in Portuguese. The uncanniness is REAL and it’s wild to me how different they sound in comparison to what I’m familiar with.

It’s on Duolingo, though I can’t speak as to the quality of the course

​@@beesforbreakfastIt's better than most other resources....most likely.

Drops has an Irish course too

@@beesforbreakfast I struggle to commit to Duolingo due to the nature of the courses. Although, if not many resources are available then Duolingo might be your only reasonable option. It can maybe teach you the language but it has a very weird ordering system and it is hard to take it super seriously. I would recommend it to anyone seriously trying to learn a language to order a textbook, and create a strict regiment. This is especially important if your goal is to learn more than just a couple basic words. Keep in mind I do not speak Gaelic I am currently trying to learn German this is more just basic language knowledge which I believe would apply to any language but bear with me please.

​@@beesforbreakfast I can only speak from the perspective of someone attempting to learn it through Duolingo, but I have very little faith in the accuracy of the pronunciations demonstrated. From what I understand though, Gaeilge is quite regional. I suspect that the "correct" way to speak it varies quite heavily depending on where you currently are, much like how German does. It is an incredibly fascinating language to learn, however!

As a fully Spanish speaking dude from Latin America, I’d love to learn Irish. After listening to Clannad and Enya nothing was the same.

Sounds like a skill issue.

Spanish is easier. Also you are probably more interested in it than in Irish, or your teacher is just bad.

Kinda ironic hearing this from russian, don't you think so?

​@@pipuslapsus🤡

​@@pipuslapsusPeople are not their nations, no matter how convenient it is for us to box them in.

@@pipuslapsuswhy?

​@@pipuslapsusikr😅 they've been destroying Ukrainian language for centuries

Learn it please. Teach it to your kids if you have any. There is a revival of Irish traditions, culture, language, spiritual teachings happening now. Be part of it or we will loose it with the colonisation of foreign nationals being pushed by the replacement agenda in our little country as we speak. Go raibh maith agat 💚🙂

@@tubbyrainbow111 🥸

That’s already more Goidelic language to grow up with than most of us Scottish/Irish Canadians/Americans would have. I urge you to learn it 💖 Trust me, if you want to know the Irish language you have resources to learn. Where I come from, there are endangered languages with individuals from local communities trying very hard to get to that point where they can have resources, courses and books for their youth to re-introduce themselves to their indigenous languages. We are lucky that we are finally seeing more language resources for both Brythonic and Goidelic branches. And especially for Irish/Gaeilge, you have a lot of music of both contemporary and traditional natures to explore. Guím gach rath ort ar do thuras foghlama teanga🍀

@@tubbyrainbow111 ofc the great replacement xD this is so 2014

My grandfather grew up in Ireland but never spoke it

west is best

Last summer, on holiday in the north and west, I wore t-shirts with "Labhair liom!" and "Tá Cúpla Focal Agam". A few actually noticed them and spoke to me in Irish, but they usually quickly shifted to English to ask me where I was learning (mostly online). I did get a few conversations out of folks, though, and they were kind enough to not laugh at my accent. I even stayed at a B&B in County Antrim where the owner spoke Irish and taught Irish! (Teach an Cheoil in Ballyvoy)

That was what my mum used to say every time she raised a glass!

It means 'Good Health' in the Irish @@FunkeeDrewster

I’ve a load of friends in Galway raising their kids with only Irish. There’s a proper movement in the west.

The three guys on the video are quite handsome

All of them 👍👍👍

Ireland is beautiful

@@user-jg9wd2oc7c thank you!!

Which language you speak in Ireland

@@user-em6ff6lv5z English but some people know Irish

@@Jkayy.1997 i mean in university

They do.

@@JSGRanks well 700 years of systematic oppression by a rapacious neighbour tends to have a somewhat negative effect. But laugh away by all means.

We do but its not practical for most people and its taught terribly by dullards

They are now. Just like in Scotland. Hundreds of years of the language being illegal made it a bit difficult to preserve and yet, unlike many other English speaking countries, we've still held tight enough on to our heritage that we're able to bring these ancient traditions back.

@@pixiesouter9461 happy to hear that

We get that a lot 😂

It's also my first time. And I know a lot of Irish people lol. Maybe they speak it amongst each other but not when they're with other people?

​@@NwabisaRadebemost Irish people these days do not speak it. They learn it in school but aren't fluent in it by any means. But street signs are in both languages and they do try to keep it alive as much as possible.

@@TheKillahKyla It must be a huge flex when you can have a full conversation in Irish 😁

@@NwabisaRadebeHello Nwabisa how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Irish is a lovely language - I can speak it. I wish you a lovely day 👍🙏 Slán = goodbye for now, Michael

I’ve been sneaking it back in lately 😆

As a Ukrainian born in America, we learned the modern version of the language which is very heavily integrated from the Russian language. I can hardly understand when people speak actual Ukrainian. It's sad.

As a Russian, I'm truly sorry for what your country has to go through right now because of my government, and what your people had to go through for centuries because of Russian imperialism. Ukrainian culture and language are beautiful.

Чувак, підтримую, але Слава Богу мої завжди спілкувалися українською в Києві, тому знаю і повністю перейшла вже як 2 роки майже, і дійсно бачу паралель з Ірландцями❤

The Soviet Union actually encouraged Ukrainian during most of its existence, even in areas where it was never spoken. They made a move about Taras Shevchenko is 1951, while Stalin was alive, for Pete's sake. While it is mostly in Russian it includes a long speech in the Borderlandish dialect called 'Ukrainian'.

@@mitchyoung93 піся попа

Hi, greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 to Germany 🇩🇪. I know a few German people, I have been to Aachen, the Harz region, Halberstadt. Beautiful places there.

They prefer it if you call the language Irish

Eh I don’t think any can 😂😂

@@Clisare lol believe me they can, especially people from Dublin. Scouse accent is pure Irish and pure Dublin. Please please do it 😁😁😁✌🏻🇮🇪

Scouse is Scotland so the answer is no, they can’t 😂

@@Clisare Scouse is Liverpool 😂😂😂😂😂lol Clare how could don’t know that. It is Liverpool accent which is pure Irish

This seems like a common thought in the comments. Even I didn't realize they have an actual language..I..don't know what I thought to be honnest

The result of 800 years of oppression by UK governments 😢.

Did u watch the video?

Hi Ireen how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Irish has a nice lyrical sound to it. Wishing you a lovely day 👍🙏 Michael

@@Michael-bf1dt thanks 👍 nice to know 😊

english is much, much closer to scandinavian languages than irish is...

Irish (gaelige). Celtic is a cultural group encompassing brythonic (like welsh), and gaelic (scottish, irish and manx)