Give it a go ;)

Still very interesting, and good for strengthening the mind -- and for having a “well-stocked” mind to help one when lonely or bored. Anyway, that’s why I am here.

LOL Same here. I'll stick with learning Norwegian. When I hear some Scots talking I can pick up traces of Norse, usually in the cadence. Same with some Danish speakers, I can hear German influence.

Ditto lol, but it's so fascinating and exotic.

أحمد أشقر me too 😂😂

That's true... never noticed that before.

That is crazy

@@TheLeemz Geographically, they're pointing towards each other.

What a sweet thought 😊

They’re doing finger guns at eachother

Last name Kennedy maby

@@Irish780 🤣 got eem!

@Accra Ababa There's also Manx Gaelic (from the Isle of Man).

Because learning about languages is fun and awesome no matter where one comes from! 😁

Because we love you 😁💚

Technically it's called a síneadh fada

An Práta Draíochtúil we dont call it that, too much effort.

@@isabelleharte889 No, it is usually shortened to just fada, but An Práta is correct: it is a síneadh fada. This is Gaeilge (An Caighdeán Oifigiúil) 101.

Noah Solomon I hope you know Im fluent in irish and I know exactly what its called, what i said was a joke and that we only call it fada, Stop acting as if Im some foreigner who hasnt a clue about ireland.

@@isabelleharte889 Very nice! My fluency left with the end of my teens. Your joke was hysterical!

Thank you xx

I like arabs worriers like us Irish good history

Sameee ههه I love their celtic culture since my childhood and me being in love with Disney's brave made it even more intense 👀✨

Thank you

But England still have northern Ireland I'm also a bit Welsh I think up ireland

Slàinte mhath mo charaid

Your banner is grammatically incorrect, it should be pointing rightward

All the best to our Irish brothers and sisters, we'll soon be a proud republic soon hopefully

sexist

@@Gerald0613 how?

Hey, I wanted to send a message in GAELIC language to a girl I like saying "This book is to remind you the first person you kissed." can you help me? She loves Scotland

Maith thú!

I hope Gaelic and Gàidhlig make a come back as a form of traditional revival. It's always sad hearing about a language from an old culture dying out. Being that I am Native American, I hope something similar happens to us.

Chan e ach gum feumadh tu fàs cleachdte ris an litreachadh "ùr" a th' aig na h-Èireannaich o chionn trì fichead bliadhna a-nist, tha e neònach dhuinne is chuir iad às do iomadh litir air a bheil feum againn fhathast an Gàidhlig na h-Alba. Ach chan eil air ach a bhith ga dhèanamh, is thig thu air adhart... Dùrachdan bho Uibhist!

I can understand my mates from Islay across the channel but I can't understand a word of my Mother's Munster Irish.

That's a good trick actually - after a while you start to hear the differences as well.

TheAnthraxBiology Scottish seems way more jumbled as well. I’m looking at the Scottish text while listening to it and it’s like I’m concentrating on two different languages.

This has always been my trick as a native Gaelic speaker who studied Gaelige in Galway.

I think Scottish Gaelic sounds more beautiful than Irish.

100geemo78 Outlander fan are you? Yawn...

That's so cool you got taught that our teachers in Scotland just complained for one week in English classes about our dying language but never bothered to teach us any but they did teach Scots but most speak that anyway

Hello! I know it has been a year but when you say Irish is your native language do you mean you speak it as much or more than English where you live? If so fascinating! -David, Arizona USA

David Tan hi david well where I’m from in Ireland Co Kildare Irish is not spoken much as English but in other areas like Connemara in Co Galway it is spoken by nearly every one in the area areas like that are called gaeltachts and there are a couple of them around the country mainly in the west of Ireland where the language was allowed to be spoken as much of the native Irish people move to the west during the plantations hope this answer your question

@Dylan Stewart they actually teach French and german her pretty well to be honest

@@davidtanphilosophy the dynamics of where you can speak Irish is pretty interesting, it's more a language you use when you're in company that'll understand it than when you're just out and about per se

Daithí McBuan Conús atá tú, is Maith liom do h'ainm. Should put a fada over the a in Dáithí and call yourself "Dáithí Mc, at lease people can't say I know that name ?!?!? You're Irish , I got the 6 easily👻☘✌️Árd mór ort 🇮🇪.

the only reason i know that word is because of Outlander

OP doesn't sound English to me?

Saesneg in Welsh :)

@@justaperson7938 he sounds geordie

I'm Irish part welsh a bit part I think but horrible at each language not accent

same here

Cé as sibh? Is as conamara mise. Ar fhoghlaim sibh bhur gcuid gaeilge nó ar cainteoirí dúchasacha sibh?

Don't say that. A lot Irish get mad. LOL

Port Láirge, d'fhoghlaim mé go crua é.....

Tha Gàidhlig agam. Chan eil Gaeilge ceart cho furasta dhomsa ach, uaireannan, 's urrainn dhomh ga tuigsinn is 's e cànan breàgha a th' innte!

Fíor an ráitis sin

I gave my Northern Irish friend a rubber bracelet band thing with that written on it. I think I got it during seachtaine na gaeilge

An bhfuil tu cinnte

Ach tá mo chuid Gaeilge agus Béarla briste?

Dia diut. conas ata tu?

It hasn’t died! We still speak it.

Not dead yet. Although if things keep going the way they're going. I'd give it a handful of decades left.

It’s alive in Scotland a Charaid. The Scots are just as Celtic as the Irish, and vice versa, but the difference is Ireland is an an independent country, and Scotland is a colony, for now

I reckon if Scotland gains independence (while giving it all back to the EU straight after :) that could be a good catalyst.

@@OnlineRadioSchool when Scotland gains its rightful place as a nation, we will be in a democratic union, where we actually get a seat at the table. The EU encourages all languages. I know older people who were beaten at school for talking in Gaelic. Also, Scotland will get to keep its revenues, unlike just now, where most of it ends up in the tax havens of the Brit Establishment ‘investors’. You need to ask yourself where £12 trillion of Scottish oil revenue has gone? The greatest heist in history?

Mmm, i dont get the point in culture.

@@cokemilk6141You must be a brick wall

So a creole

@@oscarosullivan4513 LMAO that's funny!

Thats so precious! I wonder if you would allow yourself to be interviewed by accademics in the language, to record what your learned down family lines, it could be really really valuable to them. I dont know anyone personally, I just know if you volunteer it will be well received

@@elspethfougere9683 that would be interesting

It's Connacht, with a guttural chi-sound! Just pretend you're hacking up a hairball.

As I said; "impeccable."

@@historywithhilbert146 I forgave you once I heard you note your potential mispronunciations but it will sadly too late. My obsequiousness to my linguistic heritage got the better of me again. Nice use of a semicolon too, it's a lovely sight indeed.

Edwin Cheesecake not in Irish it isn't.

the thr (fr ) in three is Norman-French. Not Insular Celtic. Same goes for (th) le as in THE. English is the love child of the Pope, Jean Claude Van Damme (he spoke Walloon French in spite of his surname) and Frisia (I can't think of any famous Frisians). English is just weird. Even Scots and Lallans are more logical than English (due to their influence being Norwegian with a bit of Danish i.e. Kirk) Less hybridisation

martin okelly put it this way, in the leaving cert, during the listening part of the exam, you're praying to Dagda that you don't get a Donegal speaker.

martin okelly You guys just need to make Irish a little more widespread. The progress you’ve made so far is impressive. I don’t want to see that progress hindered.

DustyO'Rusty I think we have to ask the Polish people here how they have made Polish Ireland's second language. One thing they seem to be doing is actually Speaking it outside school- on the street and on the trains etc. Imagine speaking a language in such places.

@@kieranfitz just did my leaving this year. That was definitely the hardest part of the exam for me

I can attest to the N.Irish/Scottish more or less mutual intelligibility. I really like the twang of the Irish spoken up north, though I think Connemara Irish (close enough to what I learned, and what I've tried to lean towards since) is the most mellifluous. Sorry to say that Dubliners tend to sound like shite in whatever language they're speaking, I always hang my head when I hear Bus Eireann making a balls of announcements bilingually. Nice contrast shown here watch?v=PIIAjTEvhIM between the presenter and those interviewed. I think the presenter might be western, but using a sort of Gaeilge 'RP', with the ridiculous vowels.

To further confuse things, up in Letterkenny they'd use some cognate to Hilbert's, being 'yizz'. "Where'r'yizz-gwooan?"

Parts of Ireland, anyway. Certainly here in the midlands. I believe that Dublin says "yous".

kungfuasgaeilge In the Southern half of the island and is probably slowly losing ground over time. Ulster and some accents in Dublin use "yous/youse"(-your yizz being some version of these).

Youse in Ulster Hiberno-English too.

James O'Neill Dubliners also pluralize your to yizer which is hilarious...”bring down yizer homework and I’ll look at it”

Ciarán Kelly in sweden we refer to irish gaelic as ”iriska” or ”irländska” wich both mean just ”irish” or ”irelandish”

In Scotland we just use the different pronunciations of Gaelic to distinguish from the two

Ciarán Kelly or Gaeilge

He said that in the video.

@@johanfagerstromjarlenfors iriska in hindi would mean "of Ireland" or "of irish". But it would be spelled as iris-ka as both being separate words.

same. multiple strokes.

SAME THO

It is actually the correct received pronunciation of the English word Connaught. The province is now spelt "Connacht" and pronounced differently since the foundation of the Irish State and the re-introduction of Irish placenames and usages for institutions and titles such as Dáil for our parliament and Taoiseach for our Prime Minister etc..... Both spellings remain in use chiefly in street names and company names, examples being Connaught Telegraph and Connacht Tribune, both local papers and Connaught Street in Athlone.

Connacht not Connaught

Thank you!

That's down to spelling reforms on the Irish side, though.

@Ollie O' Brien, yes and no. The various Gaelic languages were effectively a single languages up until the Early Modern Irish period, but diverged with the loss of the common standard of Classical Irish and the fracturing of the dialect continuum caused by the Ulster Plantations. No one language can in any way be said to be derived from one is the others; all three are siblings.

No point no one talks Irish in Ireland u just need to know the slang

If you're still learning Irish, try Mango Languages as well. If your local library is partnered with Mango and you have a card with your library, you may be able to get a free premium membership so you'll have access to all of the language chapters. It's far more in depth than DuoLingo is and explains what you're learning as opposed to DuoLingo just teaching what are basically nonsense phrases. (I still haven't figured out what the woman is doing in the fridge.) Also, I hope the lasso commenter didn't put you off learning. There's still plenty of places in Ireland where you will hear Irish used on a fairly regular basis and even in the places where it's mostly English speakers, the road signs are also in Irish. It's a beautiful, surprisingly easy language to learn. One thing that helped me was finding out once I learn the vowel sounds, and the combination sounds (bh, ch, dh etc), no matter what word I see them in -- even if I've never seen the word before I'll still be able to pronounce it. That took a lot of the stress of trying to learn a different language off my mind.

Learned from Duolingo just tonight that there are more people in the world using Duolingo to learn Irish than there are native speakers of Irish.

Thanks.

I’m from Belgium can I come?

@@shrekwithawillsmithface465 you're a year late😭

@@lauraenright3667 😭

Why Ireland's nice

I am from the scottish highlands and think it would be good if they could amalgamate the two languages so that they have a stronger chance of survival.

@@johnmccaughey2722I’m from England and would love that ❤

They were both the same.

Alistair Games he isn’t writing the quotes properly for example, the first on he says ‘sann a an...’ where as it should be ‘ sann as an’

Also the second one is Scots Gaelic

I should know as I speak it fluently

Not really , Scottish and Irish culture is very different

Do you speak it? It's important for the youngest generations to start speaking endangered languages.im from India. My mother tongue is a dying indian language and the only people who speak it are the people from my grandparents' generation. When I speak to them I speak to them in our dying language but otherwise even when I speak to people in my own family I speak in English or the more widely spoken Indian languages like Kannada and hindi. It's sad that in this generation no one speaks our mother tongue regularly. My siblings and I decided to speak to each other only in our mother tongue. We kept it up for a day because we are more fluent in English, hindi.etc than we are in our mother tongue and we couldn't express ourselves very well. It's really sad to see languages die out

@@griffinb4458 nice☺🇮🇪

@@heathenfire I'm welsh Irish I was born in wales and I'm learning cymraeg however I will learn Gaelic after I've learned cymraeg I'm only 15 so there's plenty of time and I'm rapidly improving at Welsh and it's important to speak your own language I hate that most of my kin speak a foreign language (English) because we were forced to however there is a big rise in terms of Welsh speakers.

@@josephfriel6597 good to hear. I can relate with what's going on. Hope the garlic languages ( and my mother tongue and other languages)survive. If a language dies, its like a whole culture dying

good job

Ahaha, tá mo chuid Gaeilge agus Bearla briste

Nah I still prefer english. Its more useful

@@l5098 sad.

@@l5098 moron

Bat Taz In Scotland we say “nas fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig na ciste” - better broken Gaelic than Gaelic in its coffin.

There's actually more redheads in Ireland

Tried that out .... she slapped me. Tesco checkout queue ! She looked Irish ... I was counting her hair

Axegammeray Most schools teach Gaelic in Scotland, and there are more Gaelic Pupils than English in the Highlands

Innes MacNeil That's good to hear. No one should ever let go of their native tongue if they can help it.

Thanks for all the replies, I never thought Scotland taught gaelic! It's great to know tradition is still respected in our ancient countries

Alba* tá'n tuiseal chúisitheach fágtha i gcúpla focail Gaeilge mar Alba, is í alban an fhoirm chúisitheach agus is í alba an fhoirm ainmneach, tá súil agam gur chabhair leatsa le do Ghaeilge shloinnte agus tuiscint Gaeilge é seo :)

@@croatianwarmaster7872 Is Albania named after scotland ?

@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 No.

Irish was spoken in parts of Scotland when the Romans were still in England/Wales.

@@IRISHATLANTIC look up the origins of the scots and irish on irish origenes for a more accurate account. gaelic was already in scotland

it seems like theres the mountains between west and east scotland making a natural divide between q-celtic and p-celtic

Do you think it would be a good idea to try and amalgamate the languages in order to help them survive.

@@johnmccaughey2722 don’t think so to be honest we would be better off trying to promote the language in young people in my opinion to preserve the language

@@benlowen9262 well that should be getting done anyway but if both scots and irish were learning the same language they would have a larger population to converse with. The bigger the numbers speaking a combined language would surely help with survival. Both languages are severly in danger of dying.

@@johnmccaughey2722 well from my experience here in Ireland it is actually quite the opposite more and more people are speaking the language in every day life which is great to see. I can’t speak about Scottish Gaelic in the same respect but If it is anything similar to our situation in Ireland I’m sure the language will be just fine!

@@benlowen9262 the stats dont back that up. From most sources online there is less than 80k daily speakers of the language in ireland. In Scotland its less than 60k, thats dangerously low numbers who use it as a day to day language. I know that a large amount of irish know phrases and words but personally i think its delusional to think its not dangerously close to dying in ireland and scotland. The more unity amongst the speakers of these languages would give it a better chance of survival. Instead many gaels in ireland and scotland dont want to build bridges between the languages which imo will lead to its downfall.