I love Seo Linn! "Oro" is very fun to sing. Some of the guys in the band started a program for young people where they translate pop songs into Gaeilge and the kids cover them. Those can be pretty fun, too.

Everybody does that my friend. You're definitely one of us!

This is Sinead o Conor singing it very moving

The letter combinations BH and MH in Irish and Gaelic are pronounced like a V sound and sometimes like a W (u) sound when there are before another consonant like n or sometimes when at the beginning of the word, and most other letter combinations with h after the first consonant are pronounced H, for example, th and ch and sh etc are pronounced like an h sound - I am beginner level in Irish and Gaelic and Breton and Cornish and total beginner in Manx and mid intermediate level in Welsh and advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and German, and am also learning many other languages, and I know most Irish and Gaelic pronunciation rules and still learning the others, but I am pretty familiar with the mh and bh sounds tho, and I know that sometimes there are extra H sounds in pronunciation that aren’t included in spelling at all, tho I am not sure about the dh and tg yet, but the th is not like in English at all, as the th sounds in English are approximants of T and D aka the thorn þ sound and eth ð sound that are also in Icelandic and Norse and that are less obvious T / D sounds, whereas the TH in Irish and Gaelic is pronounced H, so the T sound is completely ignored when the H is added after the T, at least in the words that have the consonant changes, like, I am not sure if the two languages also have some words where the th is naturally pronounced like the thorn sound that is not due to the consonant change, but so far I have only heard the th pronounced h in both Irish and Gaelic!

Conas a bhfuil sé ag dul ar aghaidh?

i agree! she's super helpful in all her irish-speaking based videos especially as a begginer and i get super excited when i recognise words :D

Thank you!! 😭 they have their good and bad days but I loved them this day!

@@Clisare yw! With the lashes, I'm getting the "cat's eye" vibe (don't know if you guys got the Looney Tunes cartoons, but it's the one where the bulldog guarding the construction site finds and adopts a kitten, and the kitten falls into the mixing bowl 😄)

That would be brilliant. I recall a series by Manchan Mangan where he spoke only Irish as he traveled around the country, to see how well he could get on. That might be a great series for you to try!

I love this podcast. I was so sad to hear him finish it up :(

But if you don't tell us each statement, we won't know 🙂

That’s a different one! I still have the original coat but I got a jumper too 😂

What’s fat rolling and what’s a halbard? Pls let me know and I’ll remove it! Is it the big long sword thing?

@@Clisare yes, that's the Halberd. Notice how when you roll using circle, how your character is slamming into the ground? Your equipment weight is high (heavy load). Everything you equip onto your character adds weight, from armor to weapons etc. Decreasing total weight improves stamina and speed. Leveling up stamina improves how much you can carry

More so that two certain letters together make a specific sound eg bh makes an F sound in Irish

And also there are different dialects where the different letters are pronounced. Like 'mhaith' is different in Ulster than in Munster.

The core idea is coming into contact with something or someone.

Haven’t done it yet! Seems to be some interest so will try it this weekend (after Paddy’s Day) if you follow on twitch you’ll get a notification!

That’s why we have Seachtain Na Gaeilge every year (Irish week) to help revive it.

@@Clisare Cool!

It _is_ on the increase. In the last few years a regular English-speaking primary school in Synge Street (in the heart of Dublin!) decided to become a Gaelscoil (Irish-speaking school) in order to boost numbers, because there is a great demand for Gaelscoileanna. Also, as Irish is now fully an official language of the EU there are real prospects for working in the language.

@@Clodaghbob That's so interesting to know! Thank you.

It's cuz there's 100 in total and i guess they didnt put a clause in there to grade based on q's answered.

I get so many comments from people not understanding why we do that!

'Níl a fhios agam' :D

I read that Spanish is now the most spoken language in the US?

@@Clisare English is still the primary language throughout the country with Spanish being the second most spoken language (as both a secondary language and primary language). The U.S. does not have an official language. Many people here assume that it is English, but there is nothing on the books making it the official language. All signage on roads and highways is in English. If you travel in parts of Canada, both English and French Canadian are official languages. Roadway signage is in both languages from Ontario to the East. The Western Provinces of Canada only sign their roads in English.

And secondary!

There are people whose job it is to create new words in Irish for new terms created in English. When approved, they’re added to the English-Irish dictionary

@@Clisare That Makes sense Didn't know that Otherwise it would be mash up of Irish and English

I’m not a teacher though - I’m an entertainer who learned Irish in school. So my videos about Irish are never going to be super serious! I am planning on some advice videos though.

Yup!

Stoppp 😂😂😂😂

@@Clisare I imagined Peewee Herman saying this.

Probably!

And yet all Americans seem to say it?

I don’t think it does 🤔 especially when you consider “is cuma liom” is “I don’t care”. It’s definitely about the attitude of someone

@@Clisare well that's a very good point I must say but it must be our way of speaking where we use 'cuma' as both to care and for appearance

Maybe that’s where there are séimhiús?

@@Clisare Sorry, I just meant the ‘h’ sound at the beginning. I know the séimhiú lengthens the vowel but I have only ever heard ‘Súile’ pronounced as ‘Soola’ and ‘Tú’ pronounced as ‘Too’. However, I’m not familiar with all dialects or colloquial pronunciation. When I was in school, way back in the last century, we were taught a very formal pronunciation which didn’t include any ‘local colour’. Hence, it was quite difficult to understand native speakers from some parts of the country particularly when they were speaking very quickly and running one word into the next. So it’s helpful to know how people actually speak rather than how they’re _supposed_ to speak according to a formal set of rules.

Don't know about. It looks related to English and German, with tú like thou and du and mé like me and mich.

😂

Thanks for the heart btw :o