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I raised two children in a Tri-lingual household. English, Russian, and Armenian. I had read somewhere that the way to ensure that children learn all three languages was to have one grownup speak exclusively one of the languages with the children. We did that mostly and - it worked!! I spoke English, mom spoke Russian, and grandma spoke Armenian. They learned all three languages without interference. One day when my elder daughter was about four years old she started speaking Russian with me. I said (as I had a million times before) "speak English with daddy." She would always get frustrated when I said that. This time she got frustrated and then I could see the lightbulb turning on over her head. She said "Daddy, if I say it like this that's English?" I said yes. And then she said in perfect Russian "and if I say it like this that's Russian?" I nearly fainted. I mean, think of the genius of that! She didn't even know she was speaking different languages. To her, there was "language" and for some reason these silly grownups wanted her to say "it" in a certain way. She saw no difference! The simple fact is that little children are language acquisition super-geniuses. The way to save the Irish language is to ensure that every Irish child attends an Irish-immersion play school. If you get them by the age of two (better even earlier) they learn the language effortlessly and perfectly. This is the trick. Learning a language like Irish beyond the "critical age" is fine, but it's not going to save the language. Only getting every Irish child into an immersion play school is the only for the Irish language to triumph. But if the Irish people do that, I promise you that you will save your language.

The people working hard to popularise and teach the wonderful Irish language deserve a huge amount of credit. Languages are dying out, all over the world, and it's refreshing to see that there are people dedicated to preserving their native languages. Irish needs all hands on deck: videos like this reassure us that there are people who devote themselves to keeping the Irish language alive. 😼

Is mise Seán O'hAodha, O Seán Chíuin, dar tanm. Go raibh mile maith agat, Mollie. I won my share of Gaelic sitting with my grandparents, listening to songs, old tales, proverbs, eavesdropping on secrets, reading old family documents about the loss of ár ducthas, the years fighting everybody else's stupid wars. . I know of no other language with so many living metaphors, so many nuamced words denoting emotions. Japanese comes close. Gaelige fills my soul! Sin é mo sceal.

Is mise Wayne! Tame go maith!! I’m in Missouri. I gra Ireland, been 7x!!! I’m learning Gaeilge!!!

I’m in America learning Irish and I plan to pass it on when I’m older

I'm half Irish/English but identify as Irish. I have an English accent but I'm learning my other native language of Irish. It's wonderful to be able to reply to someone in Irish (Gaelige) "Is Éireannach mé, go raibh maith agat" when you get the odd comment of "you don't sound very Irish!"

Her mentioning the Japanese reminded me of a fun fact. In the land of the rising sun the verb typically goes at the end of the sentence, while in the land of the setting sun the verb usually goes at the start of the sentence.

I wish the Irish government did more to promote free events for adult learners. Sports/classes/socials/dances etc all through beginner friendly Irish. As an adult learner it's so expensive doing classes. The pop-up Gaeltachts are also daunting because their is alot of fluent speakers.

Learn Irish and pass it on to your children. Blessings and investing in your culture's future.

Tá Mollie go h-iontach. Effort Can’t be underestimated. I have put a lot of effort into learning Spanish and it has paid off, my trips to Spain have been transformed. Anois tá mé ag fholaimh an Gaeilge. Muchísimas gracias, go raibh maith agaibh

I learned the basics of the irish language with Buntus Cainte, over 20 years ago. Since I don't live in Ireland and there was a lack of irish content online I put it on hold. I'm back at it again now though.

She is excellent. Mollie is an exceptional teacher. It’s a shame more Irish isn’t spoken as a first language in Ireland as well as in the Diaspora.

Good for you, Molly. Keep an endangered language alive. It's as important as saving endangered species. I'm Hungarian and we too need to keep our language. Altho I can't say it's in danger. Even under Russian occupation, Hungarian was our language. They didn't try to kill it.

I read that in Quebec, Canada, French is integrated in every aspect of work/daily life. There are go also places that are French only. Here in Hawaii, the Hawaiian language or Olelo Hawai'i is starting to get integrated into work and life.

As a UK resident and Duolingo Irish student who has done approximately half their course, without ever having done any Irish at school or indeed ever, I am very interested in this question. It needs to be pointed out that foreign language learning is a training for the mind so, actually, Irish people are getting an advantage over most ordinary Brits. Certainly, Irish people are more confident in tackling other foreign languages whereas language learning seems to be dying out in the UK.. We already have been able to observe that bilinguals have more ability to add third and fourth languages quite easily. Recently I was fascinated to see that a recent asylum seeker Joseff Gnagbo, originally from Ivory Coast, has been teaching Welsh to refugees in Cardiff, Wales, UK. In 2023, just five years after arriving in Wales, he is Chairman of his local Cymdeithas yr Iaith near Cardiff. Perhaps Irish should be targeted at those who are already bilingual because they will then lead by example. I came across a Dutch cheese making merchant in county Galway some years ago whose children were attending school locally and outperforming everyone else in the Irish classes...

31:15 The way Swedish school boys in High School get good at English and French actually is throught this kind of discomfort. A conversation in the target language is recorded. The students are not given the text. They are given a word list of words they have not learned yet. They prepare by reading the word list and by being told what the subject matter is. THEN they listen and THEN they have to write down as much as they can about the content, not word for word the text, but answer things like "what was the special ingredient in the plumb kougloff, that Aunt Baskia revealed" (we used this method again, when I was learning Polish).

Me encanta esta vídeo, voy a aprender irlandés ☘️ 😊

What a great video. Thanks.

Shes Brilliant and so real. Her course is so incredibly well laid out. Great Stuff!!Go raibh maith agaibh!. and its kinda common to use "Airee" as "high" or "stoned, feeling good"

The same thing is being done in Hawaii with the native Hawaiian language!

This is a really interesting convo for someone with multiple ancestral languages including Irish and Basque. I know some Spanish but I only really know English which is a shame.

Purists would likely disagree with me, but as an American, I would argue that part of any _culture,_ particularly when interacting with _other cultures,_ includes the degree to which one incorporates aspects of the _other_ and modifies them to local functionality over time. Once a word becomes commonly used...with a distinctly _different_ meaning from its primary source...that _version_ of the word essentially becomes a part of the culture that adopts and modifies it. In that sense, "Craic," is part of the Irish Language Heritage. 31:18 - In 8th Grade English, we did a yearlong lesson called _Roots,_ in which we learned to break apart and put together English words by recognizing their Gr./Lat/Fr./etc. components. P.S. I don't know why...as much as I know about historically forced assimilation...it never occurred to me that colonialism (English _and_ American) had been killing the Irish language, too.

Mollie is the Susie Dent of the Irish language....the modern Irish version....I know a couple in Kerry and Galway too

If everyone someday can read it and code switch I think that's a great goal to strive for to at least save the language part-way instead of completely.

June, July and August... haha... in Ireland my goal will be April, May, September, October. ;-) What Mollie says about exams is soooo true: we are judged on what we did wrong at a certain test on a certain day at a certain time...it is insane... especially if one's goal is constant learning.

Tha craic came to Ireland via the Scots. It's very common in the North East where it means news or conversation. It filtered into Scottish Gaelic from there and crossed over to Ulster.

I grew up in Munster .. .My fathers family are from Northern Ireland and my mother from Kerry .. my grandparents were fluent and I was essentially brought up by my Grandmother...of course when we went to TRALEE al that stopped ... being such a former Norman Town etc. and I was actively made to be ASHAMED of it ..and often even trying to talk As Gaeilge I was told.. "to limit it to the appointed hours ..and sometimes less polite." with the result I put on the mantle .. of "its a language of shame" but I have lived in many EU countries I currently live in Berlin Germany and even though my relationship is over with my ex .. I have three boys here whom are bi lingual ... in German and English ..I sincerely wish but IM BLOCKED by ex teaching my kids Irish ..IM passionate to connect and GIVE them a gift .. the gift of Irish ..its ONE of the most ancient languages in Europe and one of the oldest written venacular .. in Europe ... its a GIFT ... I would encourage anyone to reconnect with it ... I have to say I personally hate the WAY all languages are taught pouring on the dative case noun past participle etc.. just TALK TALK TALK be corrected as in its better this way and KEEP going ... along with TPRS and then when fluent thinking feeling .. if Ireland encouraged this method just read write story etc. etc.. it would come back I personally hate the "Gaelgors" whom hop on a persons head .. .with every single mistake ... people make mistakes when learning for example Germans are very forgiving ... and dont hop on you when you say something wrong.. so you still gain ... Im speaking several languages ... by the way from my living in many EU countries Im seriously passionate about our language Im resisting swapping to Irish as I want to encourage any English or Irish descendant to embrace this gift

What needs to happen is that irish needs to be made fun to learn. TV/movies/cartoons/videogames need to be translated and dubbed using native speakers with native sounds

What a beautiful language...💚🤍🧡

you should definitely study the case of Paraguay, Ireland could learn a few things from there.

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25:48 w a i t, that would make it a very recognisable cognate of German Krach, basically "noise" ... "Was ist der Krach?" instead of "Was ist los?" would signal the question was provoked by a noisy disturbance. Dad reading newspaper and five children just running to him and talking in each other's mouths ... he could say "was ist los?" but he could also say "was soll dieser Krach?" What's the purpose of the ... craic.

35:17 I kind of suppose he _might_ be a fan of Angelo Kelly and Family or of the original The Kelly Family a few decades earlier ....

22:16 That's pretty much how I felt about Spanish when crossing the frontier Hendaye / Irún the evening of 15th August of 2004.

It's a very complex question. One can't just blame the government and the schools, it's a result of hundreds of years of colonization and having it beaten out of us. There is a lot of generational trauma, colonization forced English upon the Irish, the famine affected Irish speakers more than any other group. Irish was associated with poverty and in order to survive or get ahead, one needed English. As a nation, we still carry that trauma and until we get over that and appreciate the language as part of our identity and embrace it, all the signposts in the country will make no difference.

Ta roint Gaeilge agam! Agus taim broduil as mo Ghaeilge! Speaking of old traditions that were passed down I had no idea the Phase knock on wood which is something my mother says this and grandmother said this all the time and it comes from an old irish superstition about knocking on wood when you say something to wake the wood spirits which was thought to be a way of warding of a jinx. This may also have been used by other Celtic peoples

Molly!! ❤❤❤☘️☘️☘️ ... go raibh MILE maith agat 🤗 ...

I want to practice my gaeilge when at the shops purchasing goods but its not possible as I am not meeting irish people most of the time serving me in the store or even driving the taxis.

After 100 years of independence non-Irishmen (like me) would think that Ireland would be thé expert on strengthening its native language (apart from Israel). But it is not. The Irish government doesn’t really promote the language, or at least not in the right way. It constantly makes unrealistic language plans which therefor fail or are carried out badly. So the idea of many Irish that reviving Irish is impossible, is ‘confirmed’ again and again in this way. Irish speakers constantly have to fight to be treated equally, as if Britain were still ruling Ireland. I read that 1 out of 4 Irish parents would send their children to a gaelscoil if there were enough of them. However this huge demand does not trigger the government to make a plan on how to found more gaelscoileannaí as soon as possible. More gaelscoileanna are not the ultimate solution, but (former) pupils of gaelscoileannaí don’t have any complexes about Irish. So it would mean a great leap forwards for Irish, if one quarter of the Irish would have the attitude Mollie is promoting. If only one of both parents would talk Irish to their children regularly (not necessarly all the time), this would make a huge difference. To achieve this many future Irish parents should get their education through Irish. So why are there no government plans to achieve this?

Training children up in the culture, is how the language will be preserved - let's look at Acadian French as a prime example.

The one thing in the effort to rescue endangered languages that I don't think we leverage enough is that our lingua franca, English, DOES provide a conduit to learning other languages. It has nothing to do with the qualities of English itself so much as that any lingua franca can simultaneously promote intermediary communication and thus a stepping stone, by reaching the greatest number of potential learners with the first presentation or publication directed toward speakers of that lingua franca. In other words, if everybody learns English, then all English-to-target language materials become useful to all those English speakers, whether English is a primary or secondary language. By default, the Internet tends toward English-second to facilitate X-English-target. Argh, I'm not saying this well, so I'll shut up on that count I'm a Western-European-mutt-American. The most recent of my ancestors to immigrate was my great-great-grandfather, who came from Dublin. All the other immigrants I've found in my genealogy make me 11th generation, though at least two of them married women already here, so, maybe more. At least two other ancestors moved from Ireland, as well, the rest known from France, England, Wales, Scotland, German (Pennsylvania Dutch). I've always been fascinated by Gaeilge and tried to pick it up more than once, but it wasn't for the faint of heart without anyone to learn pronunciations and converse, plus the generally available self-teaching materials barely existed. Michael O'Siadhail's audio materials weren't the easiest recordings to understand, at least not on cassettes circa 1993. With the explosion of decent language programs and materials in and for the speakers of much smaller populations, learning is a whole other beast, now. As a language nerd with linguistics under his belt, I do gravitate toward a lot of technical stuff unnecessary to becoming a casual speaker of a language. I do love a complete grammar not even meant to be a teaching document. :) At least then I can decipher written materials, formal or informal.

33:55 "a couple of words" -- the sub titles said "cupla focal", but I think it could be .. cúpla fócail? Or should genitive plural drop the slender and revert to broad? One or two l? cúpla fócail cúpla fócaill cúpla fócal cúpla fócall Btw, I suppose it could be an early loan from Latin "vocalis, vocalem" like the same era when "vinum" became "fíona"?

I think I'm still too traumatised by the memory of those hardback green and red Irish/English, English/Irish dictionaries we had back in the day to try Irish again!

22:37 I mean, back at the boarding school, 83-86, I couldn't have stringed together a sentence in Spanish myself if my life had depended on it, and no one was shaming me for that while I learned a certain refrain: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oKGofZ-dnqlorIk.html

The answer is obvious. The answer has always been obvious. Teach school in Irish, with English taught well as a language.

Tá saol na hÉireann tábhachtach

I thought now the idea was to replace the irish altogether native and english speakers alike

SAVE IT OR LET HISTORY SWALLOW IT UP, ITS YOUR CHOICE WETHER YOUR ANCESTORS LIVE OR DIE IN THE OBLIVION OF THE PAST.

If you would like to Learn as much as you can about your families ancient culture, the best way I s to become a fluent speaker in ancestors mother tongue, before an English teacher s speaking culture forced us to not use it. And be acclimated in their culture through their difficult language called English.

Mollie, why aren’t you an actress. (Sorry, I know it’s nothing to do with learning Gaelic!)

I was very interested in what she said about Irish people learning Swedish in a relatively short time and then suddenly wondering why they never mastered Irish, only then returning to tackle it afresh... Absolutely, this method works quite well where you are learning an easier language alongside a harder one so as to keep yourself encouraged enough to persevere. I started Hebrew on Duolingo because it was free and used Duolingo Irish as light relief. The Duolingo Hebrew course is not well put together whereas their Irish offering is much better devised. But I was able to persevere with both long enough to then tackle their Arabic offering.

Help me achieve the knowledge of my ancestors. I’m a dumb American.

I’m finding out lots. I suck at at language studies. So what. Go raibthe maith agat. Ta me go go maith, ta me go hiontach ✌️😎

Did they talk about hebrew

Never mind using the same old tropes time and time again get the kids to sing our national anthem in school first thing in the morning it will give them a love of the language Thier culture and who we are as a people did you ever see the way all the Welsh can sing Thier anthem unlike us you will get no where untill then

How about revival of Hebrew in Israel as an example?

Irish should never be a subject to grade , it should be used as a living language in schools. Areas should learn the dialect that is from their region, not Irish from a island of Munster . Then we may have a foothold

Alot more people would sign up if it wasn't so costly.

You missed out the VERY obvious in US English into smithereens ... from the Irish Smitirini ...agh my keyboard is crap but it the Irish for into tiny little pieces ... and yeah I have spelt that wrong ... but do check

You need to save your country first.

There will be more speaking Albanian than Gaelige soon.

Another Liverpool expression - Wack. Presumably from a mhac ? Never heard it anywhere else in England.

I do not think that Irish will ever be revived complitelly and become the main language of Ireland because Irish people do not want that. This way you can’t ever make people speak Irish at home. The entire education should be in Irish except for universities where it will be both Irish and English. If you do not make education in Irish mandatory for everyone in the country you can’t bring it back. Without radical decisions you will never succeed protecting it but the opposite even families speaking Irish natively for centuries begin speaking English at home. Irish people should stop lying to theirselves

The biggest problem is the death of authentic pronunciation. If you use an English r sound, you have failed. Mollie seems to try hard but I can tell she’s from Dublin when she speaks Irish.

All languages will die. Telepathy is the future. 🤯

Arabic will soon be the second language of Ireland.

Molly says it's not as difficult as everyone thought, and there's truth in that, but Molly is no expert Irish speaker. She doesn't have the basics of the pronunciation down, not even close, and the stuff I've seen written by her has been littered with grammar mistakes and Béarlachas, and yet, Anglophone ears probably prefer her anglicised inaccurate Irish to a completely Gaelic completely accurate native (Gaeltacht) speakers Irish. Why is that? I think there's still a lot of internalised colonial prejudices against anything rural and anything Gaelic, to the extent that only the most anglicised 'Irish' possible is palatable to the masses. There's an obsession with things being 'modern'. Real Irish allegedly isn't 'modern' enough. English, is very cool and modern. So Irish is only palatable to Anglophone Irish when it shares the exact same phonetic structure as the English language. Discuss.

The intro was misleading. The Irish didn’t “speak Irish until British rule”; successive waves of Vikings, Normans and British followed the Celtic invaders (who weren’t the first to the island either). Ireland didn’t “regain its independence” in 1916: for one thing, there had never been a united Ireland before British rule (romantic myths about “high kings” notwithstanding). Ireland had its own parliament from about 1300 till 1800, when it voted itself out of existence in favour of representation in the Westminster parliament. A little over a century later (1914), Westminster passed a home rule bill that would have established and Irish parliament for the whole of Ireland; implementation was delayed (as it was for other legislation) because of the outbreak of WW1 but some idiotic hotheads kicked off the Easter rebellion in 1916 instead. Thousands died in the ensuing wars and the upshot is that instead of the peaceful establishment of home rule we now have Northern Ireland part of the UK and racked with violence and the south as a vassal state of the EU. There’s a lot of romantic tosh thrown about but those are the facts. Violence begets violence.

Full of west brits in political establishment parties across the board, media and civil service

"centered"??????????? its spelt centred. not off to a good start. also to frame "mollie of Instagram" fame as some sort of bulwark attempting to save Irish from extinction is a gross exaggeration. as if the state itself has not been doing anything to promote the use of Irish, as if Mollie is alone in the fight to preserve Irish. your title should read "Irish with Mollie's Effort to Promote/Spread the love for the Language". the implied subtext to your title is that without mollie Irish would be in greatER danger of extinction. or that mollie is needed to keep Irish from extinction. such grandiose claims are unwarranted and make this video nigh unwatchable. do better with your titles.

Far Right language

I admire your intentions and effort. But to preserve the Irish language (not the culpa focal which is a waste of time ) the way it is taught and subsequently supported by the board of education, civil service and political elite needs to change. These government bodies are responsible for the decline of the language. Irish has effectively become an elitist language, and even at that, is a sorry excuse for a language as it is merely effectively translated English.

Irish should be a free choice in schools and not compulsory. If kids chose it that's grand but children are spending valuable time they will never have again on something that will not get them a job. Its fine for the clever but the backward kids need to concentrate on reading and writing in English and simple maths without nationalist intolerance adding a burden. Even more fascist was the practice of failing a child in all subjects if they failed in Irish. The oppressed has turned into the oppressor.

Most Irish are Germanic anyway, so it's not their culture nor language. I get that Germanic people like to LARP and "go native", but it's clearly not their language and it's pointless keeping alive something that has no value. The people who inhabited Ireland before the Germanic invasion never contributed anything to the world, not scientifically, not culturally, nothing in tens of thousands of years so it's not really comparable to Latin or Anglisc. I mean perhaps as an artistic project, but don't go wasting resources on it.

You can barely understand what they say when speaking English.

A multicultural Ireland will not help the language recover.

Sinead O'Connor certainly embraced plenty NOT Irish, sadly. But interested in learning Gaeilge in an easier way! As for Cataluña, the seperatist institutions are hideously bigotted against Castillian Spanish speakers. Children are bullied out of Castillian in Catalunia and discouraged from learning Spanish- in Spain! Don't, don't, don't head that spiteful, agressive way, Irish. Be more creative. You will win no friends if you emulate the Catalunians- nor the Basques if the language is closely with terrorism.

A language that needs saving is not worth saving.

Learn chinese first! You can worry about irish when your old and retired and noone wants to talk to you! 😅😅😅

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