Geralt of Rivia (Foundational)

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**Learn Gaelic with The Witcher: Day 1**
Boost your Gaelic while learning about The Witcher. Here, we take a closer look at the famous Geralt of Rivia...
Lots more Gaelic in the intermediate version here: • Gearalt Riviach (Inter...
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 69

@stahu_mishima 2 роки тому

Idea about learning from the Witcher was so good. Think I'm gonna play witcher now and speak Gaidhlig to myself haha

@andreah.8320 Рік тому

Jason, I love the pauses you take after you say things "mmhm" and "glè mhath". It gives my brain a chance to take a breath and prepares me for the next thing you say. Also when you drew the skull and bones, I died 😊👍🏼 Tapadh leibh a thidseir!!

@GaelicwithJason 3 місяці тому

'S e do bheatha! I'm glad that you shared this, Andreah; wee 'brain breaks' are essential to avoid overloading our minds. They're so important. I'm glad your brain is getting a breather - and that you like my drawings. 😁 Tapadh leat!

@ophelia1725 2 роки тому

Two things which I love so much: learning gaelic and Witcher! Thank u Jason, you are just great! And cheers from Poland! Tha thu sgoinneil!

@lutherhaynes8422 2 роки тому

Jason, you have an awesome heart to teach. Keep up the excellent work. Ya being a greet to me eye. A Scot is a Scot even for a hundred generations.

@jcusack3494 2 роки тому

Seo glè mhath agus spòrsail, tapadh leat a charaid! Your videos are great, they help me a lot.

@thedruiddiaries6378 2 роки тому

I love your use of visual symbolism, hand language, and way of organizing...plus your natural love of what you are doing is so wonderful I cannot express how much I value it. Have you ever taught teachers how to teach? What you do is special. I'm a visual/symbolic thinker. I need deliver in exactly this kin complex holistic manner. It;s rare to find. Have you ever taught teachers how to teach? I doubt most could do this regardless, but some might. It's beautiful. I'm a rather poor senior, si all I can do is spread the word and learn. I taught art as an art instructor. My approach was similar. Always learning though. Regardless, I am grateful to you. Thank you. I'm a subscriber with two different accounts. Sharing this.

@ericthompson3982 2 роки тому

Apparently I'm supposed to tell you Bruce sent me. Just wondering where it's best to start. You totally grabbed me with The Witcher. Edit: having now watched the entire video, I feel I have just been down the single nerdiest educational rabbit hole of my entire life. I say this as a person who once had a high energy physics fellowship at a superconducting cyclotron laboratory, so make of that what you will.

@badtimebandits Рік тому

I been learning Gaeilge (Irish) and stumbled on your channel and have been so surprised on how much I could understand! I had some guests at work speaking Gaelic to each other and I was able to understand most of what they were saying thanks to you! Next time I comment I hope I can do so in Gaelic 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@sterlingdriggs8806 Рік тому

I can understand a lot of Irish that I've seen, and I'm just a beginner at Gàidhlig, it's really cool.

@tarushdei Рік тому

I'm not sure if it's your teaching style or my genetic predisposition or both, but I'm picking up this language incredibly quickly. I'm going with your teaching style. I've taken some other language courses in university before, and they were entirely rote methods, and I took forever to learn anything. This way I'm picking up words and grammar very quickly. I so so so so appreciate everything you are doing here. Love it.

@jandunn169 2 роки тому

A gle fun class and now I'm going to watch Geralt agus na uilebheistean gle chunnartach.

@theveganpolyglot9746 2 роки тому

I have no connection to The Witcher but this is tremendously helpful nonetheless.

@sassandsavvy007 2 роки тому

What a great way to learn... thank you so much, Jason. 🙋🏻‍♀️from Bavaria

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Danke sehr, Lisa! Thanks for watching and I hope you are doing well. 🙂

@sassandsavvy007 2 роки тому

@@GaelicwithJason thank YOU, Jason. I'm still in this blasted sickbed, 15 months by now. Learning Gaelic gives me something to do that I really like. Glad it's my legs that are giving up on me not my brains 😁. Your videos make my day so very often... background chickens, tea and all. You may not be aware of it but you bring smiles to people even in non-smile times - that's a gift on both ends 🙋🏻‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤

@SyrMusic 2 роки тому

This is awesome!!

@abdullataheri 2 роки тому

Amazing!🤍

@leahunverferth8247 2 роки тому

Hearing the word for sword I knew it had to be where we get the English word claymore! Claidheamh mor Now I know two words borrowed from Gaelic. Smashing (the British use of the word) and claymore. Thanks for the wonderful lesson ☺️

@Debble Рік тому

This is gonna be DND gold☺️

@SM-ph8ox 2 роки тому

This is quite fast paced with minimal explanation of the grammatical point other than very helpful visual clues with your different coloured pens, but I think that actually works really well if you have a student building their vocabulary while already having a basic grasp of some gaelic rules. Really enjoyable, you’re a great teacher!

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Many thanks for your kind words, S M. 🙂 My style prioritizes communication and thinking IN Gaelic instead of *about* it. Grammar study can be useful later on. Wishing you a restful, happy, meaningful holiday!

@MilkaStream 2 роки тому

Jason, you're one of the best teachers I know. I just wanted to know what Gaelic is like (how to pronounce the names of the whiskies that I adore :-), but now I find myself watching the 4th video in full length. You're doing a great job. However, my first impression is that Gaelic orthography could use some revision. The sounds are all so different from their written image. Are there any rules one could stick to? Maybe you could make a video on that topic. Greetings from good old Germany

@jennhonor7648 2 роки тому

SQUEEE!! Brilliant!!

@Steevesry 2 роки тому

Tabadh leat a caraid, I love the Witcher series and also started learning gaelic recently! Perfect way to learn!

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

'S e do bheatha, a Ryan. I couldn't resist with Season 2 coming out earlier in the month. Glad you're enjoying the videos! 🙂

@MikeM-gs2fv 2 роки тому

This will grow on me... Sin mar tha e. Cheers Jason

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Excellent! Sin mar a tha e, gu dearbh. Thanks for watching, Mike. 🙂

@marksadventures3889 7 місяців тому

Am I wrongly thinking there's Welsh as in Cymraeg influences in the language? I know that pre-Roman times the Welsh were in parts of Southern Scotland - Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire. I would imagine they had a contribution to the language. Or are phrasings naturally that way in all Gaelic languages? I will check that rabbit hole soon. I like the videos Jason - they're an excellent way to learn our native tongue.

@GaelicwithJason 6 місяців тому

Glad you enjoy my videos, a charaid! Thanks for watching. 🙂 There are definitely some things that all the Celtic languages share to some degree. In my experience with Breton and Welsh, there are some shared words and also concepts. I bet a native Welsh speaker and/or linguist could tell us more. 🙂

@Amenweser 5 місяців тому

You could be picking up similarities in them both being Celtic languages, and there may be Welsh influence. But one thing that I read is that Pictish was also a Brythonic Celtic language (like Welsh), and a lot of Pictish merged into what became Scottish Gaelic (goidelic Celtic). So it is possible you are picking up on that too.

@laurabachman9400 2 роки тому

Btw- love your shirt!!

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Tapadh leat! 😁

@edytaryszkiewicz 2 роки тому

Thank you for these wonderful lessons you provide! How to translate Roach to Gaelic? :) For me it’s Płotka anyway (original Polish name), but I’m just curious ;)

@brigidroche1006 2 роки тому

👍

@davidsutton2838 2 роки тому

Much appreciated as always. Rivia reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask: what happens about assigning a gender to place names in Gaelic? Presumably they need one from time to time for various grammatical reasons, but the dictionaries seem coy about it. Dwelly, for example, explicitly gives Glaschu and Pàislig as feminine, but gives no guidance for Sruighlea or Peairt. Can one make any default assumptions?

@josephatthecoop 2 роки тому

This doesn’t answer your question directly and I am merely a beginning student, but it’s my understanding that all countries and languages are feminine by default. It makes me wonder if the principle extends down to smaller political units.

@katstiehm3932 2 роки тому

I’ve been wanting to watch this! Book or show second? No presentation could be better than Gaelic with Jason so that will have to come first.

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Hehe, tapadh leat, a Kat. Hmmm. I read the books first, watched the show second. It depends how much time you have, I suppose. The books are pretty thick and rich with detail. 🙂

@leroidesseins7114 Рік тому

Jason, I have been wondering, are you a speaker of Canadian Gaelic? I kind of always assumed, but have never asked. It has been a while, but I am back after being inspired to pick up Gaelic again and hopefully travel to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton one day

@GaelicwithJason Рік тому

Feasgar math! My Gaelic was very Nova Scotian way back when I started. I shifted it more towards Scottish patterns once I started my job over there and it's been more Scottish than Nova Scotian ever since. That being said, I'd love to brush up on my Cape Breton-isms. I've still got all my notes from my time over there. 😁 Long story short: the Gaelic I use in these videos is more Scottish than Nova Scotian. 🙂

@malcolmmoore5260 Рік тому

I just started watching The Witcher so I thought I'd watch this again - what is the difference between Ban and Geal - Ta Mal

@tfiascon 2 роки тому

Finally! I know how to say uilebheistean!

@mathieujonval1352 2 роки тому

That's a very interesting vidéo. Moreover, there's vocabulary on this vidéo that can be found in your novel Deidre agus an righ. For example sealgair. So, it's helping a lot. Moran taing a charaid agus I wish you the best.

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

And you, Mathieu. I hope you are doing well. 🙂 True, they do line up a bit. How cool - that was unintentional!

@ginawaldon2110 2 роки тому

sgoinneil!

@Sprongleweed 2 роки тому

I know nothing of the Witcher so I hope it won't hold me back. Is it a TV series? If it is, will try to watch it. I have done some of your lessons before, Jason and I know how good a teacher you are, so, here goes! Tapadh leibh!

@mayagonzales1702 2 роки тому

There is a tv show, its based off the book series. There’s also a video game series based off the book. The show is on Netflix but its becoming pretty different from the books

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Feasgar math, Hilda! I hope your week is going well. 🙂 Thank you for your kind words. No worries if you're not familiar with The Witcher - these videos will give you lots of details about the world and some of the characters. Enjoy!

@Sprongleweed 2 роки тому

@@GaelicwithJason Moran taing Jason, I watched the first episode of the series and your video today and I am enjoying both so far!

@Sprongleweed 2 роки тому

@@mayagonzales1702 Thank you Maya. I have found the Netflix series and my husband (who has watched it already) is happy to watch it all again. Bless

@kennethmanheim265 2 роки тому

First is there a gealic translation from the Witcher? Second in my native language the horses name is Plötze. Third if the first is yes is Roach the english name or the gealic name?

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Hey Kenneth! Nice to see you. 🙂 There isn't a Gaelic translation of the books as far as I know. Maybe one day... Roach is the English name, I believe.

@ax1sp0wers 2 роки тому

So, “tha Geralt glè, glè làidir le chlaidheamh”...which is singular-sword, right? How might you say “with swords” -plural, or “with his [two] swords” -possessive? Is that, “le chlaidheamhan (aige)”?

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Those would look like this: Tha e glè làidir le claidheamhan. Tha e glè làidir leis na claidheamhan aige. No need to add the extra H in claidheamh(an) here. 🙂

@lutherhaynes8422 2 роки тому

Am madadh-allaidh bàn sinbhal bho àite gu àite oir 's e se again a th'ann?

@lutherhaynes8422 2 роки тому

could you also say nan chunnertach vilebhiestean or is it nan vilebhiestean chunnertach?

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

Hiya Luther. All adjectives, except for a small handful, come after the word they describe. It would be uilebheistean cunnartach.🙂

@LB341_ 2 роки тому

Uilebheistean like...every beast? sorry if it's obvious, it took me months to realize that seòmar-cadail is quite literally a room to sleep :P Regards agus mòran taing bho Ameireaga a Deas, a place where money and silver also use the same word.

@GaelicwithJason 2 роки тому

YES! You got it! 😎 In Gaelic, monsters are so scary/dangerous, they have part of 'every beast'. Sgoinneil!