Basically 13 years of Irish education summed up in a minute and a half

This is basically what the Irish educational system teaches you, vocab, not the actual language

reminds me of a story i got told in ireland: there was a succsessful barkeeper in america leading an irishpub always bragging about him being such an irishman and fully knowing gaelic. when an actual gaelic speaking guy went to his pub they started talking in gaelic. The barkeeper only knew the "our father" in gaelic though, so when he was asked a gaelic question he answered in the first rhyme of it. The irish lad quickly understood and proceeded the prayings next verse, on wich the barkeeper could answer in the next one and so on making it look like an actual conversation. the irish lad got all his drinks for free on that night and didn't tell anyone.

“Would you like some ice cream?” Criminal’s mind: These are nicest cops ever

When you say you speak a language, and people think you’re fluent in it..

“Do you know any foreign languages?” “Well I’ve taken Mandarin at school for ~6 years I guess” “Oh so you are conversational?” “I know 20 words and can write 8 of them”

The way the English guy kept calling it “Gaelic” even after he was corrected is spot on lmfao

Years later, it still cracks me up every time when he starts listing the days of the week and has to give up after Wednesday 😂

I want a whole show based around this non-Gaelic speaking Irish policeman.

Imagine he is innocent, but his directions to the post office were vague enough that they found the bodies

it would've been incredibly funny if they somehow made the misunderstanding coincidently lead to actual crime, leading to Detective Moran being praised for his good work.

Reminds me of the story that my Manx Dad and Grandad were on a train in the UK in an old style compartment. Two people came in and started speaking in Welsh. So Dad and Grandad spent the rest of the journey saying Hello, Merry Xmas and Good Health to each other in Manx for the rest of the journey.

Would you like ice cream? - Ice cream? ANSWER THE QUESTION! - I'd love it! 😂😂😂

Do Irish for ten years then fail ordinary level. That's a real Irish gamer move.

I love the fact that the accused one realised that the other one didn't know Irish good enough and played along just to not embarass him xD

Studying Swedish on Duolingo and feeling the same pain: I can tell you that "The yellow hat is on the tortoise between the restaurant and the bear," etc.

-"Me, you, he, she..." -"Them!" -"He's cooperating!" This cracked me up 😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂 That interrogation sounds like my Irish oral exam.

I like how the guy supposedly doesn't understand English but knows the guy said "lovely to meet you" 😂 great sketch

I’m Welsh and this is how my Welsh language skills would also fair with a fluent speaker…although I’d probably still be able to ask the questions to the suspect I think! I loved this, the days of the week bit got me!!! 🤣

Swap Irish for French and you've got the educational system in English Canada.

I’m currently studying Japanese at uni and I feel this pain. I can’t converse, but I *can* ask you your father’s profession and tell you the pen on the table belongs to me.

"Sinead is... playing football in the toilet!" "That's right, she is!"

I like rewatching this just to hear y’all speak Irish. Can you make more of these?

No matter how bad you are at Irish, you will never forget how to ask to go to the toilet

IM DYING 😂😂😂😂 "She ,he, it" "Them" "Them! Them"

This was my gateway drug to all of FAH. Thanks, algorithm, for getting me to these lads who've made the past 3 yrs more bearable.

Interesting. Some of these words were still in use in Jamaica when I was a child. Didn't know they were Irish Gaelic. I thought they were just old-fashioned English words no one uses any more. Interesting. There were other words in our vocabulary that were probably Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. Makes sense. The Jamaican flag has the cross of St. Andrew; Rastas wear tam o lyns which they call tams; Bob Marley sang about dancing the quadrille etc.

My Irish teacher showed this to us in school to encourage us to try to study in Irish better 😂😂😂

I'm ethnically chinese and I speak 4 languages. None of them are Chinese.

As a person who learnt Irish since primary school its even more funny when you understand it and don’t need the subtitles

1:51 The rage... No trace of Anne.

You just nailed the two kinds of Irish speakers there XD Either fluent or enough to pass the exams.

This is my favourite sketch in a while, I’d kill to see any outtakes of the interrogation bit tbh

I love that! Some seriously good acting there. Can feel how nervous the Irish cop is. Wonder at what point the perp realised the cop was bluffing for his colleague 😂😂

I went to Ireland on an exchange programme in uni and took an Irish course. I loved it but it’s really difficult and unlike any other languages I’d learnt before. I went to a Pop Up Gaeltacht event in Dublin. I couldn’t understand a thing but really enjoyed it because people there were really encouraging. Wish I could get better at it but it’s hard to find classes outside of Ireland. I tried Duolingo but I’d prefer it if I could be in class in person to talk to other people. I’ve dreamt about moving to the west of Ireland for maybe a few months to learn it.

Everybody gangsta until Detective Moran starts listing the days in Gaelic.

My sister learned irish Gaelic and didn't have anyone to talk to so I spent a year learning Gaelic too to suprise her... I learned Scottish Gaelic and cannot communicate with her at all. Well barely🤦‍♀️🙃.

This is your first sketch ever that I watched. It was on my fb newsfeed about half a year ago. I'm so lucky to have found you guys. Your videos are helping me manage exam stress these days, and it gets really crippling for me, so I'm not saying this lightly. Thanks a million.

Despite learning irish for years. I still cant speak irish well lol.

as an American who was only able to take Spanish for 3 years in high school... donde esta la biblioteca

I'm an Irish person and I can say that I actually learned more Irish in this video than the entire education system

That is a very intense "lovely to meet you" isn't it 😂

Honestly this is second-language learning in every school everywhere. We need to overhaul our language curriculums.

Me, half-Irish half-Italian and can't speak either language: *starts sweating nervously*

I love that the criminal is so pleasently surprised at being offered ice cream and asked about his holidays that he becomes extremely helpful in giving directions to the post office.

This was one of my favourite sketches. After 12 years learning Irish I know about as much Irish as that guy. So funny.

Sinead is doing..what ?!!! 🤔🤣🤣🤣❤️

I love how he's speaking total bs with such confidence 😂

I lost it at "Is he leading us to the bodies?" when he was giving directions to the post-office.

Foil arms and hog have some unreal sketches but this one will always be the best

"Sinead is playing football... in the toilet." 😶

As an American, this is about the same as the sum total of the Spanish I learned in school, but instead of "where is the post office?" the one everyone remembered was "where is the library?"

Me: Why do Irish folks always answer a question with a question? Irishman: Oh, do we now?

As an Irishman myself, I can confirm that no one I know personally other than my Irish teacher herself

*that moment when you learned Irish from a policeman that can’t speak Irish*

And then they run off together and begin a beautiful friendship

Lol

Absolutely love love this one!

This is my favourite sketch!

I'm learning Welsh on Duolingo and I can greet dragons, I can ask you if you enjoy eating the five spiders, if you are a house wife and an unemployed electrician, if you want to iron the cheese, but not how old you are or where you're from. Edit: I can also tell you a lot about Owen's parsnips.

Doulingo keeps telling me "there are more people learning Irish here then there are native speakers" But now I guess the native speakers are the ones trying to learn it there :D

I feel like this is relevant to anyone who tried to learn a foreign language in school. This is absolutely where my French was at five years after I finished school 😅

I expected for them both to just start speaking in a thick accent 😂

Finnish police interrogating a swedish man would be similar

This reminds me of a true story I heard years ago in New Zealand A German guy was on trial and he could only speak German so the judge not having an interpreter handy asked the folks watching the trial in the gallery if anyone could speak...A huge tattoo covered Maori guy with dreadlocks put up his hand to act as an interpreter and came to stand next to the dock where the German guy was standing.....The Judge asked the Maori guy to ask what the defendants name was for the record...The Maori guy cleared his throat...turned to face the defendant and asked loudly...... *VOT ISH YOUR NAAAAAAMEE?*

Oh so relatable! I started to learn Spanish with Duolingo. And I know so many useful sentences... El elefante come arroz. - The elefant eats rice. But my favorite... La tortuga bebe leche. - The turtle drinks milk. 🙈

JUST started studying Gaelic as my project this year since I love a lot of Trad music and wanted to have the ability to get some idea of the proper substance of some songs and when it got to "Me, You, He, She, They", I lost it!

Had 9 years of french schooling myself... croissant

I'd totally watch a whole "Detective Moran" series, he's hilarious!

This is brilliant lads! Was lucky enough to see u live last year in January hope to see u again post pandemic!

The sad truth is I can speak French easier than Irish, and I only have a secondary school (middle/high combined) education in French, while I was “taught” Gaelige/Irish from age five. Basically, we’re taught all the basics of the language in primary/elementary school, and then go on to secondary school with an “understanding” we already know the basics: which we don’t because they were “taught” to us in a very young age. And that “education” was very different and spotty for every child. Nonetheless, the secondary school curriculum goes straight into pros and essays, and never goes back over the basics on any real depth; and for exams we are encouraged to basically learn off whole essays/paragraphs that we’ve had corrected by “Irish teachers,” (basically fake it), to pass our tests. Not to mention, the Irish school curriculum is based on the two weeks of intensive testing that you do in the end of your last school year, as opposed to a continuous average/GPA. Fun. The saddest thing is that we only lost our language in the mid-1800s or so. And we got our independence back from Britain only a hundred years later, after eight hundred years of colonisation. We even had “bush schools” (named from the idea of literally teaching children in secret “in the bushes”) when Irish was outlawed. But yeah, the final two nails on the coffin were when speaking Irish in school was corporeally punished (kids would wear a meter stick around their neck, and any time they spoke Irish in class, the teacher would put a notch in the stick, which would count how many times that student would be hit with the stick at the end of class). And, of course, the Great Famine, when there was a potato blight that decimated the Irish peoples’ only real food source (as potato’s were abundant and could famously grow anywhere, even the sides of roads) and Great Britain refused to waste resources (that they had; they were still even _exporting_ beef from Ireland during the time, if I recall) to feed us when we ran out, eating grass in desperation being a strong visual that’s stuck with me. (Estimated 1 million died, 1 million emigrated, why Irish people are all over the globe; population only now back to where it was then in the last ten years, but of course, that means it’s much less that other countries of a comparable size cause we missed a lot of that growth time. But “at least” we can freely travel/live in Britain on Irish passports, even after brexit; they know they owe us, even if many English have forgotten, and Irish history is not taught in English schools). But yeah: a very proud people, the irish. ;) Even if many can’t speak the language well. Also, your formal warning to never say Ireland is part of the UK; we may have lost our Northern part due to plantations, but we’ve never really given much “love”for the British. (I hear there were celebrations all around when the queen died lol). That’s not to say, fuck all English people, at all; it’s more the power™️ than the common people that we truly hate. ;)c

More Irish than I remember despite learning it for 14 years in school 😩

I love the Irish comradery at the end when he covers for the cop with the kiss my ass part.

I just wonder if such translation happens in real world and how many get away or end up in prison

Why am I crushing over Detective Moran???!! 😍😍😍

Im irish and this is painfully accurate for 90% of the population of ireland myself included, im more fluent in Norwegian than my own countries native language the only word i understood without translation was póg mo thóin

"Dé Luan, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin... Nollaig shona duit, mé, tú, sé, sí, sinn, sibh... eh..." "Siad"

I'm learning Irish from scratch and rewatching this video every once in a while. Every time I rewatch it I can understand a few more words than before :) Still a long way to go but I'm happy to see the progress

"He's leading us to the bodies!"...🤣🤣🤣

So funny! Kind of reminds me of the whole debacle where they sent an email for a sign to be translated into Welsh and wrote “I’m out of the office” on a road sign in Welsh

There is a sad irony to this video. Back around 2000 there was an announcement made that there was officially one last and final monolingual Irishman...meaning he spoke Irish and Irish only all his life and doesn't even know English. He was maybe 45 back then maybe more I don't remember. When he dies though, Irish will be classified a new way as a language I forget the terminology but it has serious implications. So they were going to him having him read all the texts they could and recording everything possible to ensure the monolingual native fluent Irish accent wouldn't be lost. Hope the guy is still kicking, if not what a sad day. My Irish-Do iss meer uh dwit! A hen, a dōg, a tree, a matter, a coowig, a shayv, a shop, a hope, annoy, a day...and um....yea I guess that's all. And it's probably so off in spelling and mistaken the pronunciations I hear that it is incomprehensible to an gaeligophone.

I came back to this video after finishing my leaving cert and I'm surprised at the fact that I was able to translate what foil/arms/hogs was saying (I don't know who's who don't attack me ). I guess that's what happens when I pay more attention in Irish since I'm absolutely useless at french.

God I'm loving these series .. you guys are amazing

Irish Teachers : NEVER USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE

This is actually perfect timing, because I did a speech at the climate change protest in Dublin, but because I did it in Irish, nobody understood a word.

I barely found this and this is the funniest skit I've seen In a while. Well done gentlemen 🤣

As someone who’s lived on 3 continents and studied 4 languages (only mastered my native tongue), this made me laugh so hard. 😂 The struggle to communicate is real!

"Scoil?? What Scoil?!TELL US WHERE THE BODIES ARE!" genius as per usual :D

HAHA! Love this

I forgot all about these guys from ages ago. So glad to find this in my feed!

When you learn a language on Duolingo and decide to put it on practice 😂.

99% of how well people learn second languages at school anywhere

As soon as he said Bá faith leat... Uachteor Reoite was the first thing that came to mind 😂😂😂

As a Welsh person, 100% solidarity here

“Sinead Is playing football in the toilet” idk why this made me crack up as much as it did

The only thing I learned from Spanish class in high school is how to say that I don't speak Spanish, so this is pretty relatable.

I just discovered your comedy group about 2 months ago and I have really enjoyed your material. It is very difficult to find solid humor like this. I find myself belly laughing. It is so good to get away from politics.

This is your best video. Along with the Risk ones.

Omg this was hilarious! I'm from Finland and this is exactly like Finnish people speaking Swedish 🤣