I Tried to Play an Irish Language Version of Pokemon 

This is genuinely one of the more ambitious videos we've made, purely because of the subtitle and translation work required. A massive thanks to my editor Cloé as ever for working on this. You can check out the Irish fan translation here: www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/13iikd7/after_6_months_of_work_my_first_attempt_at_a/

Shoutout to that one guy who kept trying to send the Vaporeon copypasta translated to Irish in chat

Even the unofficial Irish translation gets localized names for the Pokémon. Spanish and Italian just get rekt

Cloch being Irish for rock and them just naming him BCLOCH is hilarious to me

I have no idea how much of this is actually Daniel knowing his native language and translating it live and how much of this is Daniel just reading what he thinks the letters look like they’d say and then half-remembering Pokémon quotes at us.

As a Gaelscoil graduate, this is mildly infuriating. Not because Dan's Irish is bad but because mine is the exact same level

I played alongside Dan to make sure I was accurate with the translation in places... Just so you know Dan, I caught two Pikachu's in the process and killed a third.

Cloé is legitimately one of the most dedicated RU-vid editors I think I've witnessed. She sets the bar really high, and we love her for it. Thank you, Cloé!

Such a mindfuck to hear just how localized the pronunciation of this language gets. My great-grandparents spoke and taught a version that looked the same yet sounded completely different. Gramma Lalor used so much flourish and throat when she spoke it. I feel so bad that barely understand any Irish whatsoever.

As an Irish person, watching dan talk about different parts of the Irish education system brought back so many memories I forgot I had lmao, like hearing him go "oh, speaking of cáca milis" instantly gave me 'nam flashbacks to that fucking video, if you haven't seen it, while the blind guy is eating his cake it keeps zooming right into his open mouth while he's chewing and it's so fucking gross

I love how RT is just reading all of it, and it randomly goes to in English “Pokémon” same energy as Toby Fox talking in perfect Japanese and then says the Project part of Touhou Project in English

Having the live translation is a really cool addition!

Tuif Tuif (Tuifteaf) is the Irish for the Common Chiffchaff, a small brown bird found in Ireland.

My smooth monolingual brain that only knows English really appreciates Dan's attempts at translating and Cloé's edits to have the actual translated script present

Cloé is such an integral part to this channel, im glad we as a community praise her work as much as we do, because it's invaluable and she deserves it. Bravo for this, and the recent minecraft videos especially

12:44 I'm from the south of America, and that happens a lot here, too. I've seen so many interactions that went "You look familiar" "Do you know so-and-so, that's my *relative* " "Oooh, how have you been?"

Arceus christ, huge props to Chloe for the subtitling, that must have been hell to do, thank you for your awesome work!

Thank you cloé

Tá mé iontach bródúil asat! Dhein tú sár-iarracht ❤️ (I'm very proud of you, you made a great effort)

I'm Irish but moved away quite young, and i'm really disappointed that i never learnt irish, and also get even more sad when my cousins who live in ireland barely speak it. Irish is a foreign language in its own country, i really do hope they improve it in schools. Also yeah somehow everyone in ireland has some form of friend or persone that both now.

Thank you Editor for adding the English version under the gameplay so I don’t have to learn Irish ( but I might)

I’m also Irish, and I genuinely love to see anything like this. Even when books get Irish translations, it always made me happy as a kid. I remember reading Matilda as gaeilge and being thrilled that someone even thought to translate it! 🇮🇪

I'm currently learning an ancestral language for me (Welsh) and it makes me super happy to see some media being put out by a content creator I respect in another Celtic language. Dwi'n hoffi Iwerddon a Gwyddeleg :)

As an Irish-speaking Canadian, I cannot understate my excitement at seeing this video pop up in my notifications. I'm the only person I know who can speak Gaeilge, and being able to play Pokémon like this and use my knowledge of the language is a dream come true. Thank you so much for exposing the Irish language to a wider audience! I hope this encourages more non-native Irish people to learn. Go raibh míle maith agaibh beirt!

Pokemon games can legit be good resources for language studies, since the language tends to be simple and understandable by children as well. Plus in some languages like Japanese it also shows the reading of a kanji and not just the symbol itself so you can also recognize them by sound / learn their pronunciation. Extremely cool to see it done with Irish as well!

Not to double-comment but fun Cáca Milis fact for anyone who hasn't seen it: the lady in it is reading straight-up smut on the train to destress, and occasionally the camera would focus in on several pages where the book characters are railing each other :3 Unrelated fun fact, Hatsune Miku was on the Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Irish paper one year, meaning some people's ability to go to college was in the hands of Hatsune Miku

Cloé is a good lass. Editing videos are rarely as fun as recording the raw footage.

This translation is so genuinely impressive. I'm not even joking, playing this should be part of Irish classes

As someone who understands not a single lick of Irish, Thank You IMMENSELY Cloé

RT’s cadence with Irish makes the very beautiful language sound like simlish. Jk, cool video keeping the language from disappearing

Holy fuck Cloe. To be honest, I feel like Cloe is more and more the editor I aspire to be. Her work ethic for these videos feels like its second to none.

Gotta say, I had a smile the literal entire time. Idk there's just something really wholesome to the whole thing, the work of translation, RT reading Irish and translating, the personal anecdotes, the accent kinda becoming stronger and stronger the more the video goes on... Loved it !

As a Jamaican, I relate to the struggle of deciphering and pronouncing archaic words in your native tounge

They may have called him the Irish Language King back in college but I wouldn't know I don't speak Irish

The Killer Ice Cream poem sound like it makes the whole concept of ice cream trucks rather terrifying. It's like an angler fish for school children.

Thank you Dan and Cloé for such a cool video, those subtitles couldn't have been an easy task. It was interesting to hear Irish spoken aloud in full sentences and to learn more about the Irish education for it was like. You can tell the translator was super passionate about the project and the language by how they included all those resources so people could even use it as a fun way to learn/practice the language.

Ancient celts in heaven:

The Cáca Milis bit made me think of a short film we watched in French lessons: in it, an old woman takes a bus or tram (been a while, can't remember which one). She sits in one of those seats where you have two double-seats facing each other, making it a 4-person space. A black man sits down across from her at the next stop. She gets really arsey with him, insulting him for not speaking perfectly fluent French and a bunch of racist stuff. At the next stop, a ticket inspector comes aboard. The woman gets hers out. She again insults the black man for not having a ticket. So having had enough, in a moment where the inspector isn't watching, the black man does the only reasonable thing in that situation: he fucking *eats the granny's ticket*. Just snatches it from her hand and eats it. So the inspector reaches them, she complains about the man. He speaks up for the first time and in perfect French and supreme calm tells the inspector he doesn't know what the woman is talking about, then gets his own ticket from his pocket. She gets in trouble, he doesn't. And the short film ends. I did not expect that to happen at all while watching it, so it was very funny at the time (this was about 10 years ago). Moral of the story: don't be a RU-vid like that old woman was.

Gonna teach myself Irish via this stream, the "Let's build Ireland in Minecraft" stream from a few years back, and the Hozier song that has him singing half of it in Irish. I think that's enough material to self-teach a new language :)

It makes me so happy to see efforts like this to revitalise the Irish language. I'm not Irish but I live in a place with A LOT of Irish heritage so I was able to learn a bit in University. I'm pretty sure we watched 'Yu Ming is ainm dom' too. It sounds very familiar

This might be more sappy than a Pokémon video deserves, but I think projects like this are really special. Language and culture are so deeply connected, and to see the survival of the Irish language after centuries of the Br*tish trying to eradicate it is amazing.

You know Cakejumper would be all over this game with her expertise in the Irish language after she told us the Irish definitions of Santa Claus and Giant Squid. Also, it would be pretty cool if GameFreak decided to make a region based on Ireland and include Irish animals and mythological creatures as new Pokemon!

as someone who's been learning Scottish Gaelic for a little bit, it's so interesting to see the similarities between Gaeilge and Gàidhlig!

Props to the people behind this and props to you to for playing this w/ translations. Definitely a way to expose people to Irish, and it's helping me wrap my mind around Irish pronunciation and seimhu and uru

THANK YOU CLOÉ my scottish gaelic is terrible so i feel you dan

the little dan on the side is really cute

I cant believe it took me this long to notice that dan is a PNG tuber now Anyways its a cute avatar. Also shout out to Cloé for the subtitles

i’m half irish and tried to learn some irish on duolingo with the help of my dad… yet this video makes me feel like i’m having a stroke.

Thank you RT for showing the Irish language! Is it too much to hope that this becomes a St Patrick's Day tradition on the channel? Irish deserves to be heard

Now when I hear St. Patrick I think of Brennan Lee Mulligan's "Ghost of St. Patrick's Day's Past" bit. "He's murdering Pagans, Ebenezer Scrooge."

The zoom in cartoon Daniel's cute little face when he's saying really youtube stuff is so ominous

My Welsh brain is like “yeah, this makes sense” IDK WHY 😂😅

This is Ireland irl, I will not be convinced otherwise. .

I think this video will singlehandedly increases rates of people learning Irish

I live in northern Germany and I think this would be just as surreal as if someone translated the entirety of Pokemon into Plattdeutsch(low German) Except absolutely no person under 70 now knows this language, But I still wish this was a thing. It'd really prove the theory that randomized strings(AI) are just gonna spread culture

i was very surprised he didn't name the rival "Caoimhín" honestly

As an Irish person, seeing this video genuinely excited me. Getting to watch this game in my language is so nice to see, and I’m happy with myself that I could understand a few words an pronunciations despite not using Irish vocally since I was 16

Honestly this feels just how it felt like when I played my original Pokemon Red on my GBA, which for some reason, was in german.

ofc this comes out 3 days after my irish orals. Could have used this to study

This is SO COOL! I would love to see more stuff like this. And huge shoutout to Cloé for the subtitles. Barely five minutes in and I immediately understood how much effort that must've taken.

Thank you 1) the fans who made the translation!! holy shit, the WORK that has been put into it 2) RT for a great video 3) CLOÉ FOR THE SUBTITLES AND FOR THE EDITING AS ALWAYS 🙏

local Irishman tries to talk about pokemon in confused gaeilig to you for 30 mintues asmr is my favprite type of videos

Oh this is a delight and a half. Having flashbacks to the summer I lost myself in Irish-language covers of pop songs. I’m already elbow deep in two other languages…but maybe I could do Gaeilge too, as a little treat.

RumbleTumbleGame the Irishman playing Irish Pokémon It can only go well

I think this is the first time I've caught a video before a minute passed since it was uploaded.

This is a really good showcase of how useful video games are for learning and improving at a language. Any time Dan's fluency in Irish fails him, his fluency in Pokemon is there to back him up.

Thank you Chloe! I am a stupid english-speaking person, and having the subtitles there really helped make the video enjoyable for me!

Uploaded just in time for the Irish orals, thanks RT

Thank you Chloe! That's very impressive work!

Big ups to Chloe for her awesome subtitle work

Thank you Cloe for the subtitle work! I’m studying Irish right now so having the translation along with the irish text makes this a legitimate study aid

I've been interested in Irish and would genuinely like to see more content like this, despite not knowing anything much more complicated than dia duit.

Eu falo português e já é difícil de entender inglês às vezes, imagine então irlandês. É um alívio ter a transcrição na tela para acompanhar. Obrigado pelo trabalho duro Cloé, todos os brasileiros que assistem o Dan agradecem! ❤ (TRANSLATION) I speak portuguese and is hard already to understand english sometimes, so imagine trying to understand irish. It's a relief to have the transcription on the screen to follow up. Thank you for the hard work Cloé, all the Brazilians who watch Dan are greatful! ❤

It's wild to learn that schools just assume children come into class with the basics of Irish. We don't really even teach English that way, to the point of annoyance. No child wants to go through proper sentence structure or spelling or root words in school, but we do anyway despite speaking English for years. I really hope at some point you guys can bully the system into fixing that shit so kids can actually learn the language. It seems really cool sounding and interestingly structured from what I could pick up from the video. Also Cloé is a fucking goddess and saint for adding the subtitles. Thank you Cloé, they sincerely helped me keep up at times!

"There was a surprising amount of death in the Irish education system." Made me think of the history book for toots I had when I was young, every page from about the middle of the dark ages to the modern day had a violent death drawn on it. So that's the reason it took me a long while to learn Irish history. At least it was much more cheerful then the Irish fairytales, you don't want to know how bad those were.

Cloé does GOD'S work on this channel, she deserves all the love she can get jesus.

Really awesome to see the linguistic syntax here! I've always gotten scared away from Irish just based on pronunciation alone

Thank Cloé that I didn't have to learn Irish for one 28 minute video.

As a half-Irish lad it actually felt weirdly half-comforting hearing about how Irish is thought in Ireland. I've recently been starting to try and learn Irish, but I've been having a rough time with it due to not being thaught the basics of the language. To hear that even a full-blooded Irish guy who grew up in Ireland with Irish eductation struggled with that was both weirdly comforting and slightly sad at the same time. Sad because, obviously. But comforting because it lessened the feeling I think all people of different cultures have of neither being here nor there. It means that my troubles so for is not a problem unique to me.

Projects like this or Among Us' official Irish translation make me so happy frrrrrrr, I gotta try this out

As a student currently studying irish at university, this video both game me great joy (yu ming is ainm dom and just language and general) and terrible flashbacks (caca milis)

Thank you Cloe!!! your editing is always amazing and adds such a special touch to all of these videos

watched the vod already but watching this too because of all the effort put into the editing

Just got out of a shower. What a lovely gift, thank you Cloé!

Thank you for editing this, Cloé! Thank you for playing this too, Mr. RumbleTumbleGame!

Genuinely curious to see more of this. And of course, Thank You Cloe for the editing! You rockstar!

Thank you for highlighting how much work and thought goes into fan translations of media!

Best thing ive seen so far in the irish language was vida la vida by colm mcguinesse such a great cover

Thank you, Cloé! Much apprechiated!

love seeing/hearing Irish being read aloud because my english speaking brain cannot comprehend any of these spellings. Also thank you Cloé!

I’m only a few minutes in and this is just making me smile. I don’t speak Irish, nor am I an Irish person, but it just makes me happy to see people celebrate their native languages, and even seeing how Dan’s name is spelled in Irish was awesome. Thank you for the translations Cloé, and happy St Patrick’s day!

Thanks for the translations Cloe

Thanks Cloe for doing RT's work

Favourite non-English Pokémon name has to be either "Bissbark" (Stoutland in German; from "Bite", "Bark" and Otto Von Bismark, a 19th century German statesman with a very defining mustache) or "Momowaro" (Pecharunt in Japanese; from "Momotaro", meaning Peach Boy, and "Wa-" like in Wario/Waluigi)

i actually learned a lot from this video! thank you cloe for working so hard to provide subtitles!!

This is my first exposure to the Irish language. Why does it sounds like a fictional language from a Tolkien book? This is so cool Also, thank you Chloé!

Really amazing work! I’d love to see Irish be a language option in more games

Thank you so much for your time and effort Cloé! Wonderful, wonderful job. Perfectly placed, too, and used smartly.

Thank you chloe!! This video is amazing to even struggle through hearing but it's amazing to see the subtitles to help!!

Thank you Cloe. Take a nap now.