SIobhan is SO relaxing in her presentation, and adorable!! So here I sit, Not Irish, but still in New Jersey, USA, getting my share of Gaelic in time for St. Pat's!! And beyond. :)
Hey Jersey person🍀 no worries because I hear there are two kinds of Irish. Those that are and those that want to be 😅👍🏻🍀🙏🏼I also find that we can be taken out of Jersey but the Jersey can't be taken out of us😂🤸♀️👍🏻 best of Irish luck to you!
It's almost if she's actually getting us to say something naughty & she's joking with us!! Like duping delight!! But obviously not as the TH-cam comments section would soon be trying to put her right on the slightest mistake!!
You have such a clear presentation with very accessible written notes, that after many years of struggling with Irish, I can start to understand many new things.
Thanks for not forgetting the FATDAD, Siobhán - (Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Derry, Armagh, Down for those wondering). I'm born and bred County Derry and we are always overlooked so thank you. But great videos, I appreciate it.
I'm also Welsh, and I think we could learn a lot from Ireland. Irish is the official language of the law, is compulsory in schools, with exams at 16 and 18 and there are officially recognised areas where the language is spoken in the home and on the street. The electoral system is better too.
I'm an ethnically Irish Brit, Irish family on both sides, dad was an immigrant from Dublin, and I grew up around Gaelic, especially from my grandmother on mums side. We all speak varying amounts of Gaelic, and I'm literally the first generation to be born in England, so now I'm going back and properly learning the language. I really hope to be a part of preserving such a beautiful and ancient language
I don't know which is the hardest my Welsh language or my Grandparents Irish language but anyway I'm going to keep on learning and I find it's a awesome channel totally brilliant, Slan ☘🇨🇮👍
Growing up speaking Welsh, I find Irish sounds so familiar, but also so very different at the same time. I think it’s fantastic. Love the video and the language. O Gymru.
My GG grandmother was from Wales and emigrated to Ireland. I married an Irish Dub! It was so high on my bucket list to visit Wales.. Just a day trip but so hope to return !
As a Welshman moving to Ireland, this was a great help! Even as a welsh speak I struggled!! I see similarities, but the orthography is completely different. In Welsh we do also have the mutated start or words with certain letters following certain sounds.
Ah now I got a headache :) Great job.... thank you so much! I loved it. What an honour and pleasure to learn this from you. Cheers from Berlin, Germany.
As you can see in the video, the word for province in Gaeilge is cúige, meaning one-fifth, recognising the fact that there were/are five ancient provinces of Ireland. Thanks for sharing x.
ThankYou So VERY VERY MUCH for showing ALL of us how to properly pronounce the countries and names in Irish !!! SO VERY HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND YOU ARE OUT HERE ON UTUBE Teaching all of us watered down Irish roots Americans how to say those countries properly!! GOD BLESS YOU Such a kind Soul to do this service for us all... I cant thank you enough!! BLESS YOU..😁🙂🌲👌👍🦌🐬🐋🐳🐟🍁🌲🌲🌲🌲🙂👍
Cool! My Great Grandparents were from Cavan on my mom's father's side. He was born here in the US. His parents died when he was 7 so we never knew anything about them or where they came from😢 I live hearing a native speaker and how to pronounce everything.
I've only just discovered your great videos. I am learning a bit of Irish Gaelic and am loving it, and hearing your very clear pronunciations is wonderful. Thanks! (Táim i mo chónaí i Ros Comáin :) )
Wow. Impressive. There may be hope for me learning to read and speak Gaelic after all🍀🎉🍀! Thank you for your great patience💚 and clear, repeating instruction❤ it is all most helpful!
My Great Grandparents were from Cavan and I'm so proud of that. My Grandpa on my mother's side was born here in the US so he was a first generation Irish American. I would love to know more about where they came from. Now I know how to say the county and town name in Irish, thank you!
I feel much more confutable with you sister, thank you . I need learn from nothing., raised right by mum and Nan, Cork ladies. I know, those you are working with, are helping those at a higher level, godless them F friends 💚
I love living in the county that's name changes so much when 'Contae' is put in front of it that my teacher had to spend 20 minutes trying to get my year used to it.
I love your videos. Sometimes I wish my family didn't migrate to America. But yeah, it's pretty awesome over here too. Thank you for your videos they help me reconnect with my Irish roots. I want to come back. How do the Irish feel about reuniting with their long lost children?
levi record To live here happily you'd have to be a millionaire 👍👍😂 stay were you are, but it's good living on your own Island , and been Irish 100pc Gold 🍻☘👍
ah so it's more an idea for expats lol. my grandmother would love it. her parents were born in Birr, County Offaly (not sure if you say the county or town first there, in US we say town, then county)
levi record MERICA FUCK YEA..... Also I'm surprised like none of the Irish people who migrated to America brought the language with them..... You'd think like a good portion of the American population would be speaking it after the Famine. Ahh well
My Great Grandfather and his brothers Migrated to America from Ireland and I always dreamed of going there, hopefully I will one day. My Great Grandfather last name is Kelley.
Is maith liom do ghuth, tá sé socair & éasca éisteacht leis. I've been learning to read and write Gaeilge for just over a year now & still can't speak it to save my life. I know & understand words by the way they look not how they sound but lately been watching more videos on vocalization, hope to see a lot more of this series in the future. Go raibh maith agat as uaslódáil. ☘
ᕼᑌᗰᗩᑎ ᖴᗴᒪᒪᗩ How are you with your Irish five months later, I can do basic Irish after that I need a teacher so basic it is, in anyway are you much better at Gaelic ☘👍
Half irish half English living in Birmingham, I've been enjoying learning the language of my mother's family, Go raibh maith agat! (I hope I said that right)
My ancestors come from Co. Monaghan I was thinking oh good I'll wait until it's mentioned. Started off near it oh good she'll mention it soon.....and, second last to be mentioned lmao Great video I enjoyed it I never knew there were so many counties in Ireland. Go raibh maith agat.
My family fares from Contae Fhear Manach. We can trace our roots all the way back to the late 1700s. Not long after part of the family left Ireland for the United States in 1820.
You should also mention that there are only 19 letters in the Irish Alphabet. Or in other words ... any letter in Scrabble that is worth or exceeds "5 points" doesn't exist. So no ..... J, K, Q, V, X, Y, Z. The reason why some Irish Names sound like they should have a "V" is because the letter doesn't exist in Irish, so the alternative in "BH" or MH" .... (example) .... As explained in the video ....
Thank you Siobhan. I am so grateful the internet and people like you have given me an opportunity to learn history, traditions and truths about my ancestral homeland. My grandfather who died when I was a baby spoke Irish but his son's one being my father never bothered to learn any thing or care anything about his ancestry.
It’s interesting how most have English names that actually sound like the counties (An Cabhán, Tír Eoghan agus Ciarraí) whilst others have very different names that are not anglicisations (Wexford and Waterford)
Go raibh mile maith agat! I loved this. I’m an Irish American trying to get back to my roots. Can you do the song Mo Ghile Mear, but use the trinity college players version. I’d also love more explanations into how word pronunciations change without lenition or Elypsis but just bassed on other surroundings works.
Correction: it’s the choral scholars of University college Dublin I’d love to have this deconstructed based on actual presentation, reasons for any alternative pronunciation , and a translation. I want to sing this in a concert but I wast the audience to be proud. We have a Celtic festival in March 21 so I have limited time.
Something that I'm having a bit of trouble with reading Gaelic is working out when to pronounce mh or bh as W or V. I was told it's based on dialect, but you have used both here. Also in the name Laois, the i comes before the s but is still pronounced as sh; so is the rule for changing pronunciation just if there is an e or i on either side, it still counts? Hope you can help
SIobhan is SO relaxing in her presentation, and adorable!! So here I sit, Not Irish, but still in New Jersey, USA, getting my share of Gaelic in time for St. Pat's!! And beyond. :)
Hey Jersey person🍀 no worries because I hear there are two kinds of Irish. Those that are and those that want to be 😅👍🏻🍀🙏🏼I also find that we can be taken out of Jersey but the Jersey can't be taken out of us😂🤸♀️👍🏻 best of Irish luck to you!
What a pleasure to see a young person interested in her culture and cultural heritage ! All is not lost while young people like her are around !
The joy in your beautiful face is wonderful, Siobhan x
Such a beautiful language
Love how she looks like she is goin to burst out laughing any second! The dialect is totally different from what i learned i waterford growing up.
I am guessing she is from Galway?
I know! she's so adorable!
@BxxDxx Hoodoo She has said in another video that that's how her grandmother pronounced it.
It's almost if she's actually getting us to say something naughty & she's joking with us!! Like duping delight!! But obviously not as the TH-cam comments section would soon be trying to put her right on the slightest mistake!!
I could sit and listen (and look at) her all day.
Many thanks to this young lady for providing an interesting and informative video on the proper way to pronounce Irish Gaelic.
There isn't a single proper way of pronouncing Irish, the same way there isn't a single proper way of pronouncing English.
You have such a clear presentation with very accessible written notes, that after many years of struggling with Irish, I can start to understand many new things.
Thank God you included 32 counties. I was anticipating the worst. :O
like leaving cork out... Only joking, tir gan teanga, tir gan anamh!
32 historical counties of the island of Ireland. Not of the ROI.
@@athulfgeirsson 4 provinces, 32 counties.
@@athulfgeirsson nothing historical , the current of Ireland lad
26+6=1
Thanks for not forgetting the FATDAD, Siobhán - (Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Derry, Armagh, Down for those wondering). I'm born and bred County Derry and we are always overlooked so thank you. But great videos, I appreciate it.
Thank you for your very interesting video from Italy 🙂👋
My new favorite channel!
Thank you so much! I speak Welsh and only wish for Irish people to grasp their language with as much zeal as the Welsh do!
I am Irish, I’m doing my Irish homework and I’m trying to pronounce it cuz I have to read it in front of my class 😂
A fi!
I'm also Welsh, and I think we could learn a lot from Ireland. Irish is the official language of the law, is compulsory in schools, with exams at 16 and 18 and there are officially recognised areas where the language is spoken in the home and on the street. The electoral system is better too.
I'm an ethnically Irish Brit, Irish family on both sides, dad was an immigrant from Dublin, and I grew up around Gaelic, especially from my grandmother on mums side. We all speak varying amounts of Gaelic, and I'm literally the first generation to be born in England, so now I'm going back and properly learning the language. I really hope to be a part of preserving such a beautiful and ancient language
I like your smile, especially when you are pronouncing the names.
Just luv listening and learning from this girl
I don't know which is the hardest my Welsh language or my Grandparents Irish language but anyway I'm going to keep on learning and I find it's a awesome channel totally brilliant, Slan ☘🇨🇮👍
Growing up speaking Welsh, I find Irish sounds so familiar, but also so very different at the same time. I think it’s fantastic. Love the video and the language. O Gymru.
Very clear, very helpful. After I watch 30 times, I’ll remember pronunciation so different to spelling.Good job!
My GG grandmother was from Wales and emigrated to Ireland. I married an Irish Dub! It was so high on my bucket list to visit Wales.. Just a day trip but so hope to return !
Your Irish accent is so strong it almost becomes my mother's Welsh accent. I didn't even know this was possible
There are similarities, I agree.
Bitesize Irish is the best language video on the internet!
May Irish and the Celtic Nations never perish
It's interesting learning Gaeilge. I'm Kenyan; I speak English, Swahili, and I'm of bantu ancestry.
I love your lessons. Good job you're doing. Danke!
Up mayo 💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️
Do you love your Mayo Mammy!?
@@Vesnicie i have a Mayo Daddy.
GREAT Teacher!
As a Welshman moving to Ireland, this was a great help! Even as a welsh speak I struggled!! I see similarities, but the orthography is completely different. In Welsh we do also have the mutated start or words with certain letters following certain sounds.
Ah now I got a headache :) Great job.... thank you so much! I loved it. What an honour and pleasure to learn this from you. Cheers from Berlin, Germany.
As you can see in the video, the word for province in Gaeilge is cúige, meaning one-fifth, recognising the fact that there were/are five ancient provinces of Ireland. Thanks for sharing x.
ThankYou So VERY VERY MUCH for showing ALL of us how to properly pronounce the countries and names in Irish !!!
SO VERY HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND YOU ARE OUT HERE ON UTUBE
Teaching all of us watered down Irish roots Americans how to say those countries properly!!
GOD BLESS YOU
Such a kind Soul to do this service for us all...
I cant thank you enough!!
BLESS YOU..😁🙂🌲👌👍🦌🐬🐋🐳🐟🍁🌲🌲🌲🌲🙂👍
Gracias por tu instructivo canal. Buena gente los irlandeses !
Great job love your lessons 👏
Great stuff this is really useful for my Irish studies - thanks!!
I already like the start: "All 32" 😊
I Will Be Practicing Dear Lady Thank You .
The way u say Armagh is brilliant lol
From a pedagogical point of view, this is superb: a first-class teacher!
Such a fascinating language!
Wonderful video.
On a rating from one to ten.
Ten with a plus!
My grand-father spoke Cavan Irish .He was from Tully-haw, home of the Magauran's and Maguire's. My Granny was from Cille Aidan, Maigh Eo.
Cool! My Great Grandparents were from Cavan on my mom's father's side. He was born here in the US. His parents died when he was 7 so we never knew anything about them or where they came from😢 I live hearing a native speaker and how to pronounce everything.
I love this TH-cam channel
I love your voice Siobhan. 💗👩☘️
Excellent! Thank you so much!`
Glad you liked it!
Have the Junior Cert in 2 hours, this was very helpful for the cluaistuscint! Go raibh míle maith agat💕
Thank you. My great great grandma came to America from County Cavan at age 14. Now I know how to say it in Irish😄
Wow, my mom's father's parents were from Cavan. It must be a very popular place!
I've only just discovered your great videos. I am learning a bit of Irish Gaelic and am loving it, and hearing your very clear pronunciations is wonderful. Thanks! (Táim i mo chónaí i Ros Comáin :) )
Wow. Impressive. There may be hope for me learning to read and speak Gaelic after all🍀🎉🍀! Thank you for your great patience💚 and clear, repeating instruction❤ it is all most helpful!
Having said that, love this girl.
Gracias mi a mi amor desde España
You are me favorit teacher. Thank you very much for the great job.
My Great Grandparents were from Cavan and I'm so proud of that. My Grandpa on my mother's side was born here in the US so he was a first generation Irish American. I would love to know more about where they came from. Now I know how to say the county and town name in Irish, thank you!
I love it
Siobhán is so adorable.
love this, thank you!
I feel much more confutable with you sister, thank you . I need learn from nothing., raised right by mum and Nan, Cork ladies. I know, those you are working with, are helping those at a higher level, godless them F friends 💚
God bless our nation, and all those who keep our language alive. Excuse my typing mistakes 🇮🇪
Ana-mhaith ar fad. Really good and clear. Will be returning to this for reference a lot.
Cheers
My Murphy ancestors came from Co Tyrone or Tir Eoghain but I have ancestors from various parts of Ireland
Go- Aláinn Siobhán 👍
really cool video. this is my favorite aside from the prayers
Your accent is great
I love you! Thanks for the fun videos!
Fantastic. Thank you.
Thank you I needed to pronounce Galway for my homework this helped a lot 👍👉🏻👈🏻✨✨✨
Awesome! Go raibh maith agat!
I love these videos
Couldn't remember 5% of these, but you are great and wonderful and I love Ireland sooo much!!! Greetings from Croatia :*
This helps me to get close to my Irish roots
Dia dhuit cara how ye doing, I'm a year late on this vid but nice vid tanks for including the north 👍🏼
Love, love, love. I'm from Michigan, and I was surprised to hear some familiar county names in honor of the mother land.
My last name is mayo and my whole life never knew the correct way of saying it, thank you I really appreciate this.
I love living in the county that's name changes so much when 'Contae' is put in front of it that my teacher had to spend 20 minutes trying to get my year used to it.
I love your videos. Sometimes I wish my family didn't migrate to America. But yeah, it's pretty awesome over here too. Thank you for your videos they help me reconnect with my Irish roots. I want to come back. How do the Irish feel about reuniting with their long lost children?
levi record Catholic's only otherwise you'll be lying, you'll be welcomed☘☘🍻❤️👍🏼
levi record To live here happily you'd have to be a millionaire 👍👍😂 stay were you are, but it's good living on your own Island , and been Irish 100pc Gold 🍻☘👍
ah so it's more an idea for expats lol. my grandmother would love it. her parents were born in Birr, County Offaly (not sure if you say the county or town first there, in US we say town, then county)
levi record MERICA FUCK YEA.....
Also I'm surprised like none of the Irish people who migrated to America brought the language with them..... You'd think like a good portion of the American population would be speaking it after the Famine. Ahh well
My Great Grandfather and his brothers Migrated to America from Ireland and I always dreamed of going there, hopefully I will one day. My Great Grandfather last name is Kelley.
I remember Irish words with a bh in them having a v sound not a w sound. I've always pronounced Siobhan like shee - vaan.
It's both depending on the vowels around it :) BH is pronounced like a V in "sibh" but like a W in "a bhord".
Just found this. Awesome. My mate from Armagh pronounces it differently. Regional accents can be so confusing to a non native, no joke.
Is maith liom do ghuth, tá sé socair & éasca éisteacht leis. I've been learning to read and write Gaeilge for just over a year now & still can't speak it to save my life. I know & understand words by the way they look not how they sound but lately been watching more videos on vocalization, hope to see a lot more of this series in the future. Go raibh maith agat as uaslódáil. ☘
ᕼᑌᗰᗩᑎ ᖴᗴᒪᒪᗩ How are you with your Irish five months later, I can do basic Irish after that I need a teacher so basic it is, in anyway are you much better at Gaelic ☘👍
Talk in english
@@oneshot9739 cén fáth
Magnificant
Half irish half English living in Birmingham, I've been enjoying learning the language of my mother's family,
Go raibh maith agat! (I hope I said that right)
You did indeed say it right, its always nice to see someone try to learn the language, good luck.
My ancestors come from Co. Monaghan I was thinking oh good I'll wait until it's mentioned. Started off near it oh good she'll mention it soon.....and, second last to be mentioned lmao Great video I enjoyed it I never knew there were so many counties in Ireland. Go raibh maith agat.
My family fares from Contae Fhear Manach. We can trace our roots all the way back to the late 1700s. Not long after part of the family left Ireland for the United States in 1820.
Siobháb: All 32
The comment section: fenian intensifies
Cool accent I can’t believe those eyes are so rare looking.
Big up Chorcaí ✌🏻
3:59 I don't get how Limerick goes from "Lim-nuk" to "Kundae 'Lim-nee" for the County. Waterford also changes when paired with "County."
@@BitesizeIrish Thanks very much!
I like the accent even though I am Filipino
I’m from Ireland and it’s funny hearing how different ur accent is to mine
Her accent in Irish and English sounds very much like my mother who was born outside Spiddal in 1922. Wonderful to know it is not extinct.
Up Tipp
You should also mention that there are only 19 letters in the Irish Alphabet. Or in other words ... any letter in Scrabble that is worth or exceeds "5 points" doesn't exist. So no ..... J, K, Q, V, X, Y, Z. The reason why some Irish Names sound like they should have a "V" is because the letter doesn't exist in Irish, so the alternative in "BH" or MH" .... (example) .... As explained in the video ....
Lol. I want an Irish Scrabble game. I'll go by my own rules. 5 points per fada!
Wow
Yay! Now I can pronounce where my ancestors were from...Contae na Mí
Спасибо за хорошее и медленное произношение. 👍😍 táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge. grma. an Rúis
❤️❤️
Carlow blew my mind
Old OddJobs my surname comes from Carlow 😇☘😂
Thank you Siobhan. I am so grateful the internet and people like you have given me an opportunity to learn history, traditions and truths about my ancestral homeland. My grandfather who died when I was a baby spoke Irish but his son's one being my father never bothered to learn any thing or care anything about his ancestry.
It’s interesting how most have English names that actually sound like the counties (An Cabhán, Tír Eoghan agus Ciarraí) whilst others have very different names that are not anglicisations (Wexford and Waterford)
How to bless yourself
Go raibh mile maith agat! I loved this. I’m an Irish American trying to get back to my roots. Can you do the song Mo Ghile Mear, but use the trinity college players version. I’d also love more explanations into how word pronunciations change without lenition or Elypsis but just bassed on other surroundings works.
Correction: it’s the choral scholars of University college Dublin
I’d love to have this deconstructed based on actual presentation, reasons for any alternative pronunciation , and a translation. I want to sing this in a concert but I wast the audience to be proud. We have a Celtic festival in March 21 so I have limited time.
Go raibh maith agat! . Ba mhaith liom moran cheachtana le seo..ar fheabhas!
1:04 it sounds like a certain catchphrase from early seasons of South Park
go raibh mile maith agat Siobhan !.. agus Dia do beatha !
Something that I'm having a bit of trouble with reading Gaelic is working out when to pronounce mh or bh as W or V. I was told it's based on dialect, but you have used both here. Also in the name Laois, the i comes before the s but is still pronounced as sh; so is the rule for changing pronunciation just if there is an e or i on either side, it still counts?
Hope you can help
Come on Wexford 💜💛
Up the Cats 🐱☘
Would you be able to share what county you are from?