My grandfather from Roscommon signed me up for classes with a guy from Armagh who taught Munster Irish one summer when I was visiting. You could say my regional foundation was a bit muddled… “Conas uh-tah tú?”
Rosie, you're a trooper! Your videos are excellent! It's such a pity that most Irish people, those who never speak Gaelic but like to tell others how to, feel the need to instruct people that "Muire" should be pronounced "mura", and of course you've also been told it with conviction. This is wrong, which you can clearly hear if you listen to any proficient native speakers greeting, and resist the temptation to pronounce that R as if it's English.
Thank you so much! 👋 😊 And, yes, R’s are by far my biggest pronunciation weakness 😩…I keep falling back into the English pronunciations, even though I know better-I’m gonna keep working at it! 😅
Patchy, you’re brilliant! I watched your video last night before bed, and it was extremely helpful. I never had thought about what you said before about “new” sounds in another language aren’t always actually new…rather our brains have a hard time grasping it when we see the spelling. For awhile, the Donegal slender “r” has eluded me (I too have been baffled by the vast array of non-consistent audio examples of it on Teanglann.ie. Also, I’ve listened to interviews and TG4 segments from native Donegal speakers, like Áine Ní Bhreisleáin and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, and their slender r’s seem to vary between a “tapped” sort of sound and a “y” sound. I’ve asked around on forums, trying to pinpoint a general “rule” on this, and looked for it in An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh, but no one seems to know for 💯 sure)…so I’ve mostly just been saying English r’s…especially at the end of words, and sometimes in the middle too. But your video made me decide something: I think, for now, I’m going to do more of a Connacht or Munster “r” (because it’s way more achievable for me at this point) till I can finally figure out the Donegal r. It’s way better to mix elements of different dialects within the Irish language, than to rely on a completely foreign sound from the English language. Differentiating between r’s can mean the difference between singular or plural & nominative or genitive sometimes, and that’s pretty important! 😃 So anyway, sorry for the long reply (this r-thing has been bothering me for awhile 😅)-thank you again, Patchy! 👋😊 You’re an excellent teacher!
Hi Rosie, Thank you very much for the New video. It is very good as all the others. Do you want what I wanted to tell you in case you give me a good advice I need so much. I can totally Reed at all. I can read sentences and words I know, but when it comes to words and sentences I do not know I am terrible. I do not know what to read, and what not. I also have problem with the endings of the words as I do not know how to pronouns them and how to do it. I study and I am happy as I do well but my reading is my worst point. Any advice? Thank you very much. I study Irish ror two years.
Haigh, a Efthimios! I know exactly how you feel! 😁 I struggled with those things to, and still do in a lot of ways. This, so far, is was has helped me: 1) When I read a word and I don’t know what it means (or how to pronounce it), I’ll type it into the online dictionary www.teanglann.ie/en/ Very often, they’ll have the word in the pronunciation database. 2) If there is a certain specific Irish word ending or letter combination that I don’t know how to pronounce, I like to use the website www.fuaimeanna.ie/en/Recordings.aspx?Ortho=aidh You can simply type any letter combination into the “Find Recordings by Text” search box, and sample recordings in all 3 dialects with written pronunciation transcripts will appear. In the link above, I’ve already typed in the letter combo “aidh” just as an example. 3) Also, the automatic speech machine at abair.ie/en/ is helpful (It’s occasionally a bit inaccurate, but it’s mostly great.)…Sometimes, even when I hear the word pronounced, I don’t trust my own ears…so, if you have the same issue, be sure to scroll down and press “Transcription IPA” and then toggle all three switches that appear to the “on” position to reveal a written pronunciation. Here’s a link to the Irish IPA pronunciation key: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish 4) And last, vocab building is key to recognizing more and more words. And it’s something I myself need to get into a better habit of doing. 😆 If you’re not already, I’d start with a small goal of learning maybe 3-5 new words a week. Especially words that you find yourself using a lot in daily life in your own language. You can look up any word on www.focloir.ie And, personally, I find that writing the words down helps me learn them quicker. Ádh mór, a Chara! ☘️ And thank you for the question!😃
Excellent standard as usual and an added bonus to boot - Geography !
Thank you so much! 😊 🇮🇪
And another fun-filled lesson.
Go raibh maith agat! 👋🏼 😁
My grandfather from Roscommon signed me up for classes with a guy from Armagh who taught Munster Irish one summer when I was visiting. You could say my regional foundation was a bit muddled…
“Conas uh-tah tú?”
😅 That’s awesome! I have a feeling, when all’s said and done, that I’ll also have something of a mixed version of Irish myself! 😁
Rosie, you're a trooper!
Your videos are excellent!
It's such a pity that most Irish people, those who never speak Gaelic but like to tell others how to, feel the need to instruct people that "Muire" should be pronounced "mura", and of course you've also been told it with conviction.
This is wrong, which you can clearly hear if you listen to any proficient native speakers greeting, and resist the temptation to pronounce that R as if it's English.
Thank you so much! 👋 😊 And, yes, R’s are by far my biggest pronunciation weakness 😩…I keep falling back into the English pronunciations, even though I know better-I’m gonna keep working at it! 😅
@@irishwithrosie2007
I've put up a video called "Speak Gaelic like a native", which shows how.
Oh! I’m gonna totally check that out! Can you post the link? 😃
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Patchy, you’re brilliant! I watched your video last night before bed, and it was extremely helpful. I never had thought about what you said before about “new” sounds in another language aren’t always actually new…rather our brains have a hard time grasping it when we see the spelling. For awhile, the Donegal slender “r” has eluded me (I too have been baffled by the vast array of non-consistent audio examples of it on Teanglann.ie. Also, I’ve listened to interviews and TG4 segments from native Donegal speakers, like Áine Ní Bhreisleáin and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, and their slender r’s seem to vary between a “tapped” sort of sound and a “y” sound. I’ve asked around on forums, trying to pinpoint a general “rule” on this, and looked for it in An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh, but no one seems to know for 💯 sure)…so I’ve mostly just been saying English r’s…especially at the end of words, and sometimes in the middle too. But your video made me decide something: I think, for now, I’m going to do more of a Connacht or Munster “r” (because it’s way more achievable for me at this point) till I can finally figure out the Donegal r. It’s way better to mix elements of different dialects within the Irish language, than to rely on a completely foreign sound from the English language. Differentiating between r’s can mean the difference between singular or plural & nominative or genitive sometimes, and that’s pretty important! 😃 So anyway, sorry for the long reply (this r-thing has been bothering me for awhile 😅)-thank you again, Patchy! 👋😊 You’re an excellent teacher!
Hi Rosie, Thank you very much for the New video. It is very good as all the others. Do you want what I wanted to tell you in case you give me a good advice I need so much. I can totally Reed at all. I can read sentences and words I know, but when it comes to words and sentences I do not know I am terrible. I do not know what to read, and what not. I also have problem with the endings of the words as I do not know how to pronouns them and how to do it. I study and I am happy as I do well but my reading is my worst point. Any advice? Thank you very much. I study Irish ror two years.
Haigh, a Efthimios! I know exactly how you feel! 😁 I struggled with those things to, and still do in a lot of ways. This, so far, is was has helped me:
1) When I read a word and I don’t know what it means (or how to pronounce it), I’ll type it into the online dictionary www.teanglann.ie/en/
Very often, they’ll have the word in the pronunciation database.
2) If there is a certain specific Irish word ending or letter combination that I don’t know how to pronounce, I like to use the website www.fuaimeanna.ie/en/Recordings.aspx?Ortho=aidh
You can simply type any letter combination into the “Find Recordings by Text” search box, and sample recordings in all 3 dialects with written pronunciation transcripts will appear. In the link above, I’ve already typed in the letter combo “aidh” just as an example.
3) Also, the automatic speech machine at abair.ie/en/ is helpful (It’s occasionally a bit inaccurate, but it’s mostly great.)…Sometimes, even when I hear the word pronounced, I don’t trust my own ears…so, if you have the same issue, be sure to scroll down and press “Transcription IPA” and then toggle all three switches that appear to the “on” position to reveal a written pronunciation. Here’s a link to the Irish IPA pronunciation key: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish
4) And last, vocab building is key to recognizing more and more words. And it’s something I myself need to get into a better habit of doing. 😆 If you’re not already, I’d start with a small goal of learning maybe 3-5 new words a week. Especially words that you find yourself using a lot in daily life in your own language. You can look up any word on www.focloir.ie And, personally, I find that writing the words down helps me learn them quicker.
Ádh mór, a Chara! ☘️ And thank you for the question!😃
Thank you very much Rosie. You are a real Irish. Friendly, nice and helpful.
@@efthimiosmakris3476 Tá fáilte romhat, a Chara! Agus go raibh maith agat féin! ☀️ 😃
Ta se seo iontach. Maith thú! Is brea liom na fiseain seo.
Go raibh maith agat, a Pheadair! Tá an-áthas orm gur bhain tú sult as! ☺️🌅
Bhur go hiontach Rosie
Go raibh míle✨MÍLE ✨ maith agat, a Chara! 🌻
Maith thú Rosie
Grma
Go raibh míle, a Chara! ☀️