Go hionntach ar fad, great stuff. Nice casual way of learning. Im Irish from origin , but let as a young man 50 years ago. Still love our language. Tir gan teanga ......... Anois agus aris, beidh me ag amhraniocht as gaeilge. Ta me i mo chonai anois san Isiltir. Sin e a chardai.
BEST VIDEO SO FAR. Jam packs vocabulary, grammar and how phrases are used all in one lesson. As there are often no direct translations from English to Irish, this is so helpful to start understanding how to express a particular meaning. More of the same please.
Dia dhuit Dane! That's great!I always wanted such a video cuz I can't speak Irish before first translating it Irish from English! This is a great video cuz you just didn't translate from Irish to English,but you explained every word which is a great way of explaining ! Mhínigh tú go han-mhaith! Thaitin an físeán alán! Go raibh míle maith agat agus slán go fóill!
What A GREAT CHANNEL! IM from the North..living in Chicago.. always taught myself bits of Irish here and there. I just found your channel today and plan to watch all videos. I wonder have you done a video on the National Anthem. Always wanted to learn it. Go raibh maith agat for your fine work
That's a good idea for a future video, glad to see that you found the videos useful and informative, this is a short one on amhrán na bhFiann... ru-vid.com9-uz7h22O10?feature=share
This was a great video to learn some handy short phrases. I only wish you could give it a title that mentions that, as I had trouble re-finding the video because of its name. I learned alot of new phrases here.
Thank you very much! It's a bit tricky naming videos because it can be hard to be concise and specific. Your best bet is to just search Learn Irish and go to my RU-vid channel and search in there.
Thanks, Dane. I’m practising all day with the first piece. There are a lot of useful phrases you point out, such as ‘dá bhrí sin’ and so on. I’m trying to fit them into the day. Just now I’ve been re-combining the phrases to make other little speeches. I’ve got a couple of sentences beginning with “dá bhrí sin” - can that phrase start a sentence? I wrote this piece down like taking dictation, trying not to look at the screen unless I was stuck. That helped putting sounds and spelling together. “Caithfidh mé a rá” has been coming up lots of times today! You’re right, it’s a great phrase! Thank you 💐
I have taken to listening to your videos as I go to sleep at night. Without the distractions of the day, it sinks in really well. You must have had training as a teacher - the order and clarity really help with my understanding. Thanks so much for doing this for us all. As soon as I can I'll be a patreon supporter of yours. Just getting through a rough patch. Sending very best wishes. J 💚☘
Could you offer help in pronouncing phonemes correctly? Like why does bhf = w in this place and not that. That's been my difficulty with Irish. Like, how does "caithfidh" sound like "kai"? How do you read these letters and know which ones to throw away????
i’m slowly learning the basics from your videos, others videos and ling, i tent to fall asleep to videos to this so i soak up as much as possible is that any good? go raibh maith agat
That sounds good, as long as you are not falling asleep due to boredom 🙂. Learning late at night can be beneficial. Take small regular steps and forget about becoming fluent, it's not going to happen.
@@LearnIrish my great granny was born in donegal and had to learn english, she passed a phew years ago but when she used to wake up she could only really speak irish until she was fully awake
Hello my name is melody, im 71% irish and i thought it would be great to learn the language. Do you have any tips or adice to where i can start or books through?
@Learn Irish what I found interesting and exciting my mom told me that her dad's mom was/is full blooded irish and when I was younger, on my dad's side of the family there's a family crest with a lion on it somewhere in ireland.
What does that mean, "does be"? That is not English, or at least not any English that I have learned after going through college and grad school. Please explain further, because I only hear this in studying Irish, and each time someone tries to explain it, I immediately zone out, because the words just don't make sense. Like someone describing the floor between this one and the next. There isn't one.
It's called the habbitual tense. That means something that you do as a habit. It is a tense in Irish, and so Irish people invented the tense in the English language. You will also hear it in African American and Afro Caribean English speakers. "That do be good man". The words make absolute perfect sense. If you play golf all the time, and someone asks me where you are "He does be playing golf". Does = something you do. If you wanted to change the sentence "He does his homework", and not use the word "does" you could say "He performs/partakes/executes his homework", sure its clunky but its the same thing. Be = exists, to take place, to occupy on an ongoing basis "be happy", is different to "is happy", different tense of the same word.. Be happy means you should exist on an ongoing basis in a state of happy. So what is a habit? You bite your nails, its a bad one. You perform nail biting on an ongoing basis. So "do/does be" describes a habitual action very well. Also, don't think this tense was brought to english by farmers or uneducated and makes zero sense. It was brought by the most educated people in Europe, the people who invented lots of things in English like the space, the full stop etc. They wanted to explain a missing tense, a very hard thing to do, and they came up with a good way. So when do you use it? Well anytime you can say "usually" or "Normally". "Always", is good "Hes normally playing golf", "He is always biting his nails", "He does be biting his nails". There is a slight difference in meaning, but its a good marker of *when* habitual can be used.
@@geroutathat excellent explanation. You deserve credit for being so generous with the effort you put into that explanation, especially given the unreceptive tone of the question and the likelihood of their “zoning out.” You are impressive in both your clarity and your equanimity. 👏
Go maith ar fad a mhúinteoir. Tá do chuid Gaeilge go lonrach. Go raibh míle maith agat.Rugadh agus tógadh i gContae Shligigh mé san am fadó nuair a bhí an Ghaeilge sa seanchló. Is aoibhinn liom an Ghaeilge.Táim i mo chónaí i gCeanada anois i bhfad 47 bliain. Chaill mé mo chuid Gaeilge leis na blianta. Mar sin, is aoibhinn liom do chúrsaí i nGaeilge ar You Tube. Tá siad i bhfad níos fearr ná Duolingo.Míníonn tú na habairtí go han-mhaith. Nár lagaí Dia thú!😉🎉
