Irish English: How we actually talk 🇮🇪☘️💚 

i'm also freaked out rn

lol what the heck Irish people have such mild accents. You’ll be grand

As an Irish person meself, I can confirm that we are understandable.

Those are my go-to words for when I don't want to swear

We also have a difference between the present habitual and the present (happening now) like 'estar' vs 'ser in Spanish. "I do be" = present habitual (like 'yo soy'), "I'm" = present happening now (like 'yo estoy'). A lot of these differences from British English have roots in the Irish (Gaelic) language. Glad you're enjoying our dialect!

@@seanfroudistwalsh3870 I need an Irish man. This seems attatgive if I have learn other simian I can learn this

It's bang on the money me old flower.

Depends wat part ur in like but it doesn't change dat much

Lol same

This is just Irish-English. Every place that speaks English has their own dialects and they can sound like different languages compared to one another.

I MAKE IRISH ENGLISH ACCENT

No... No no... Don't 'learn' from this... Please.

aye means yes as an Irish folk i hear it a lot i talk it like it's my language

Ciao amico/a, se fai fatica a capire l'inglese parlato ti consiglio di seguire questo metodo: prendi un video non troppo lungo (una puntata di una sit com, un video su yt da 15 minuti, o l'episodio di un cartone animato) e guardatelo tutto senza sottotitoli. Probabilmente, capirai circa il 50/65% delle parole (a meno che chiaramente non sia un cartone per bambini o un video fatto con il fine di insegnare la lingua). Riguardati il video per 2-3 settimane, finché non sarai in grado di capire un buon 80 - 85 %) una volta arrivato a questo punto, prendi un'altro video e fai la stessa cosa, ma senza abbandonare il video precedente, quello lo devi abbandonare pian piano una volta che sei arrivata allo stesso punto con il secondo, e così via. Se preferisci puoi utilizzare un film per fare questa cosa, e dividerlo in parti da 15/30 minuti, ma ricordati che coi film di solito la faccenda diventa più complessa. Questo metodo mi è stato suggerito a suo tempo da una mia prof. Delle superiori, e devo dire che mi ci sono trovato piuttosto bene.

Il tuo inglese e molto bene! Mio italiano e... Cosi cosi lol.

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*laughs in spanish*

what's the story

prober English? I have never been to Prober. Is it a nice place?

Yay! A new subscriber - thanks Girley! :)

Maith an fear.

It's actually 'what about ye?' rather than 'how's about ye?'

When I say I speak Irish and some may think I mean Irish-English (rather than *Gaeilge*), then I tell them they haven't been hearing me speak actual Irish English since I have to intentionally water down everything I say :-D Just because I pronounce it 'tomahto' doesn't mean I'm speaking the way I'd naturally speak if others could understand me when I would. It's ironic because I'm told I have an advantage speaking the most widely understood language in the world (English), but I'm constantly translating it from what's more natural to me when I'm not in Ireland. The world needs to cop on :D

I'm Texan, and I find myself having similar problems. When I travel overseas, I have to try to strike certain phrases from my vocabulary so that people will understand me. Also, I've spent a lot of time learning words and phrases from my Canadian and British friends so that I can translate my dialect into theirs. :-)

As an American I even get annoyed at how people make fun of my friend's Irish accent, lol. He's from Northern Ireland and his accent is not harsh at all, or difficult to understand, but invariably whenever people try to mimic him they do the stupid Lucky Charms leprechaun voice. He's been here over 20 years. I can't imagine how tiring it must be by now.

But didn't I hear that 'top o' the morning to ya' is just what the Irish radio DJ says?? [well, and pretty much only him, or her!] Afraid that when I try the accent, I mostways sound like an old yin (veering Scottish am I? Sorry!) from Cork!

Hi there Fury. Do you have your Irish passport?.

This is not British English. It’s Hiberno English.

Fight fire with fire. If an American ever asks me about my lucky charms, I tell them to go play baseball with a bald eagle. ⚾️🦅

That's just general stereotyping, which we Americans probably do more than others but we're certainly not alone. Some day we'll get our collective heads out of our collective asses and stop leaning on stereotypes as a way to understand the world around us. It would help if more of us would at least leave the US on occasion! I am, by the way, an American who has never left the country. Yet. Looking to change that in summer 2018! I'll be visiting England, Scotland, and Ireland. While I promise not to say "to o' the mornin'" even once, I do plan to drink a few pints of Guinness. Then again, that's what I usually drink anyway.

thehalokidster: I agree, it definitely does get old.

If it helps I am American and I've been asked everything from, "Do you know how to River Dance?" to "Where's your lucky charms Lassie?" . It gets old after awhile. I can only imagine what you go through. Mehhhh. The scorn of being a redhead. 😒

@@irishpolyglot You should say Football, it's more popular

Yep! Dinner is lunch and "tea" (or supper) is dinner. (Incidentally, this is one reason why I love Quebec so much! *Le déjeuner* is breakfast, *le dîner* is lunch and *le souper* is dinner!) Although it mostly applies to the weekend when you'd be eating it at home. At school etc. you'd have "lunch", but that's more because school & businesses would encourage standard English usage rather than natural local usage. I can only imagine how even more true this is now compared to when I was growing up, since Ireland has many more cultures living in it now than before. You have to remember that I'm a culchie :D Glad you liked it!

Ah that makes sense I'm from Dublin and dinner is dinner sometimes tea but not that much anymore.

The same is true in Louisiana French, and in English in much of the southern part of the US (midday meal = dinner; evening meal = supper).

Basically yes- I am old enough to remember when loads of people, the English working class as well as the Irish country people, called the mid-day meal " dinner" and the Evening meal " tea",in fact, me and my English friends quite often still call the evening meal " tea" as in " Do you wanna have tea round ours tonight, Mate?" or such like.I sometimes think of " dinner" being a cooked meal as opposed to bread and butter and cheese and ham and cake and a cup of tea, which is the way it used to be in those far off days of my childhood,lol,on both sides of the Irish Sea.People often had their cooked meal at mid-day and cold stuff in the evening and my father did this until he died aged 82- he wouldn't ever have used the word "lunch" and yes,he was an Irish country person!

Yeah people in the north of England will still say 'tea' for the evening meal. I've noticed since the celtic tiger years, we don't say it as much as we used to in Ireland. Now it's more lunch and dinner.@@notamused3715

you'd get laughed at for saying gas like that here, lad

In english please, the Irish people don't have idea about other languages 🤣🤣🤣

@@DgeminisM no digas eso que hay mucho irlandeses que sii pueden hablar otros idiomaa

@@dubmait Gaelic in their majority xdd

I have to stop myself when people ask what languages I speak to count English twice: "Generic boring international watered down business English, and good aul proper Hiberno English"

Same but girl lol

Im scared to talk with her now

Agreed so much!

Did he say something else that sounded like Irish?

FS ugh tell me about it!!! 🥴

chondrinenigma could you translate that for the rest of us, homosapienses.