Cam sròn i believe means bent nose and became the surname cameron. They earned that name from their love of a fight. Many thanks for what you do Jason.
Thank you Jason, for the work you do and the way you do it. I've been wanting to learn gaelic for so many years, and stumbling upon one of your videos a few months ago kicked me into actually start doing it. I take it slow (having a tricky brain that works against me most of the time) and I watch the same video more than once, and I really pick something up each time I watch it. The way you teach, I feel like you actually talk to me and and I feel so encouraged by your "glè mhath!". Keep up the awesome work. Cheers from Sweden!
Great teaching. That clears up where the 't' came from in the port town Stranraer, which comes from the Gaidhlig - An t-Sròn Reamhar (see map of Galloway coastline).
Really appreciate your message about hearing (and working in) what we are ready for. At times I feel my learning is stuck in weird spots but then I do notice little things to bring in...what a nice thing to focus on. As always your sheer joy brings a big smile!
Excellent explanation again ….esp the grammar …and I’m one of those who don’t use the St lol …..it is really great how you do point out the differences in dialect ….that is important …..mind you for a person of my age, they changed the spelling of things and counting lol ……..we won’t go there lol Well done if many teachers took your approach more I would think would find it a good deal easier to learn our language.
What a great teaching style. I'm glad I found you as I'm coming back to learning Gaidhlig. I've been away for .... a while ;) . Excited to get back into it. I do love the language.
Jason, you teach me so much Love your videos they are truly helpful and I am learning to pronounce the words as I hear you and also, I read children books in Gaelic
Yes, they are cognates with argentum, and the Welsh word arian is cognate with it as well - the modern Celtic languages come mostly from Latin and Norse and Gaulish / other previous pre-Celtic languages, so most words are actually cognates with the Latin / Norse words, it’s just that most of the cognates are used with different meanings and many of them were modified a lot to the point that they look like a completely different word, so it’s not so easy for most to recognize every cognate, but I am learning all these languages, and I come across lots of new words that are cognates all the time, and I am amazed to see how many cognates there are in all these languages!
Hi Jason! I'm curious as to why 'bheag' and 'straidean' both have such different prnounciation of -ea, despite being both at the end of the word. Thx for the videos!
That's a useful thing for sure, Racc. In my experience, the silent ones will be in the middle of words. Also, a FH at the beginning of a word will always be silent. Hmmm, that could be a useful short video. I'll add it to my list. 🙂
Gah! I'm just dipping into this, and I'm sure there are patterns for the vowels and the consonants and how they interact, because I have read a little about Gaelic, but wow, it's "worse" (more complicated) than either English or French spelling, which are very idiosyncratic. -- I'm sure I'll learn the patterns as I go, and then wonder why it seemed so weird, but...wow, that's a lot! Huh, OK, learn those patterns. -- Also, is it my imagination, or is there, very faintly in the background, the sound of chickens? Besides the whiteboard creaking as he writes on it, that is. Not judging. Chickens, fine. :D (My grandparents on both sides came from farming families. Big city life is recent, my parents' and my generations. So, chickens, fine.) ....If, however, I am somehow hearing something else and there are no chickens.... Yeah, never mind, back to the lesson.... Hoo boy.
What you’re calling a t sound, I always took to be a rolled r. Not a long Spanish or French rolled r, just one that was rolled once. In effect, I guess there’d be no practical difference, I was just surprised to hear it described that way.
@@GaelicwithJason Your are spoiling us this week! Thank you for sharing your precious time to teach us gaelic. It is really welcome, Jason. Nollaig Chridheil
@jason would thèid mi be the same form you would use to say I will go to the store? Like if the wife says , We're out of bread and you say I will go to the store Thèid mi an bhùth ?
Dé thá an focal sin (dhan)? Ní thuigim sin . Thá mé duilich. Edit: 'Bheil ceart é seo........an - the....dhan - to the ? 'Bheil an difríocht é sin , go mar , claochlú (word mutation) ?
Hi Jay. I hope your day is going well. 🙂 I plan on making a video about that exact thing. Just for now, though, that 'th' sound is a dialectal feature. As far as I'm aware, not every dialect uses it.
I find it so difficult to pronounce the "str" sound in a fluid way. Using sràidean as an example, it comes out sounding like "st-uh-ràidean". Any tips?
The final -dh is pronounced as a voiced velar fricative. It's not a sound that exists in English but you can find it in Castilian Spanish, Greek, Arabic and the like.
Gaelic is a category 3 language, like Irish, so it can be quite complicated, one cannot learn it without detailed English explanations - Scottish Gaelic and Irish are the hardest languages I am learning, a bit more complicated than Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish etc which are category 2, mostly due to the spelling, which is very complex, and the fact that the pronunciation of most words is usually very different from the spelling which can take longer to sink in, whereas Dutch and Norse and Gothic and Icelandic and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Manx and Faroese and Norwegian and Danish and Esperanto and Galician and Latin and Gallo and Italian and Slovene etc are some of the easiest category 1 languages, after English which is the easiest ever!
I just realised that jason is the bob ross of gaelic
true
Hands down!!!
Sin ceart!
Ceart!!🤣
Oh my god this is bang on 😂
Cam sròn i believe means bent nose and became the surname cameron. They earned that name from their love of a fight. Many thanks for what you do Jason.
Makes you wonder how Campbell.. cam beul ..crooked/bent mouth got theirs.
love the chickens in the background
Thank you Jason, for the work you do and the way you do it.
I've been wanting to learn gaelic for so many years, and stumbling upon one of your videos a few months ago kicked me into actually start doing it. I take it slow (having a tricky brain that works against me most of the time) and I watch the same video more than once, and I really pick something up each time I watch it. The way you teach, I feel like you actually talk to me and and I feel so encouraged by your "glè mhath!". Keep up the awesome work.
Cheers from Sweden!
I too agree Idenitet Jason is the best and he is great teacher I too am learning for five year no way a native Speaker yet but will get there.
Great teaching. That clears up where the 't' came from in the port town Stranraer, which
comes from the Gaidhlig - An t-Sròn Reamhar (see map of Galloway coastline).
Really appreciate your message about hearing (and working in) what we are ready for. At times I feel my learning is stuck in weird spots but then I do notice little things to bring in...what a nice thing to focus on. As always your sheer joy brings a big smile!
So fabulous to have another video. I didn't realise how much I've been missing you Jason. I've finished both your courses and I just want more!!!!!!
Man, just thank you for every video you make! Helps me a lot to understand how the language works. Really, thank you
Excellent video! Thanks for keeping these going. The genitive *is* big and scary! Could be a good standalone video. That, and past/present/future.
Excellent explanation again ….esp the grammar …and I’m one of those who don’t use the St lol …..it is really great how you do point out the differences in dialect ….that is important …..mind you for a person of my age, they changed the spelling of things and counting lol ……..we won’t go there lol
Well done if many teachers took your approach more I would think would find it a good deal easier to learn our language.
Mòran taing !!! I'm a French beginner learner and your videos help me so much !!!
What a great teaching style. I'm glad I found you as I'm coming back to learning Gaidhlig. I've been away for .... a while ;) . Excited to get back into it. I do love the language.
Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge (and humour) with us
Jason, you teach me so much Love your videos they are truly helpful and I am learning to pronounce the words as I hear you and also, I read children books in Gaelic
Excellent teacher.
Thank you Jason
👍 Thanks again.
Big help! Thank you!
That was very helpful, thanks
Loving the chickens in the background! Proper Gaelic this is! :)
Loving learning Gaelic, your making it very easy buddy 👍🏴
Lovely!
Helped me a lot...
Another well explained video Jason, moran taing bho Glaschu.
Oh my gosh! The hidden t sound was making me crazy. Id think, well, I dont see a T. This must be some kind of American ear deafness 😅😅 Thank you!
You've got big Bob Ross energy, caraid dhomh
Hehe, mòran taing! 😁
In Dumfries & Galloway there used to be a dialect of Gaelic spoken but the last first language gaelic person died in 1750s I think.
Ah, I've heard about Galloway Gaelic. There's a few records of it right?
@@plixypl0x yeah.
I think that was in South Ayrshire, near Girvan, rather than Galloway.
Gle mhath!!!!! Helps to clarify so much. The word Gaidhlig....I guess is an exception.
Ah, that's because it's 'idh' rather than just 'id.' When there are Hs involved, it's a different situation. 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason Oh yes Thank you.....How do I say "thank you?"
@@jandunn169 tapadh leat or tapadh leibh to be polite
I'm guessing "airgead" "airgid" share the same root as "argentum" for silver.
I think so, yes. They come from the Latin, if I remember correctly. 🙂
Yes, they are cognates with argentum, and the Welsh word arian is cognate with it as well - the modern Celtic languages come mostly from Latin and Norse and Gaulish / other previous pre-Celtic languages, so most words are actually cognates with the Latin / Norse words, it’s just that most of the cognates are used with different meanings and many of them were modified a lot to the point that they look like a completely different word, so it’s not so easy for most to recognize every cognate, but I am learning all these languages, and I come across lots of new words that are cognates all the time, and I am amazed to see how many cognates there are in all these languages!
Love the lessons......was wondering what type of chickens you have and how do you translate into Gaelic
The Gaelic word for chicken is cearc! Kuh-AIR-kuh
Are there any good scottish gaelic apps for android phones?
Hi Jason! I'm curious as to why 'bheag' and 'straidean' both have such different prnounciation of -ea, despite being both at the end of the word. Thx for the videos!
I think the final n letter modifies the sound from /i/ to /en/
Do you have any advice for how to tell when a lenited consonant is silent? For example leabhar, book
That's a useful thing for sure, Racc. In my experience, the silent ones will be in the middle of words. Also, a FH at the beginning of a word will always be silent. Hmmm, that could be a useful short video. I'll add it to my list. 🙂
Are there any songs you would recommend to help learn Gaelic?
Moran taing.
Check out the youtube channel of “m. máire ní shúilleabháin“. She has a Scottish Gaelic section with very snog songs and lyrics.
Julie Fowlis is a native Scots Gaelic speaker from Uist. She sung the Brave movie theme song. Most of her work is in Scots Gaelic.
Gah! I'm just dipping into this, and I'm sure there are patterns for the vowels and the consonants and how they interact, because I have read a little about Gaelic, but wow, it's "worse" (more complicated) than either English or French spelling, which are very idiosyncratic. -- I'm sure I'll learn the patterns as I go, and then wonder why it seemed so weird, but...wow, that's a lot! Huh, OK, learn those patterns. -- Also, is it my imagination, or is there, very faintly in the background, the sound of chickens? Besides the whiteboard creaking as he writes on it, that is. Not judging. Chickens, fine. :D (My grandparents on both sides came from farming families. Big city life is recent, my parents' and my generations. So, chickens, fine.) ....If, however, I am somehow hearing something else and there are no chickens.... Yeah, never mind, back to the lesson.... Hoo boy.
What you’re calling a t sound, I always took to be a rolled r. Not a long Spanish or French rolled r, just one that was rolled once. In effect, I guess there’d be no practical difference, I was just surprised to hear it described that way.
Tapadh leit Dèsan
I was under an impression that id sounded more like j, but I guess I was wrong
To my favorite Gaelic word Là na Sàbaid we have the id sound, too
Yes indeed! Well spotted!
@@GaelicwithJason Your are spoiling us this week! Thank you for sharing your precious time to teach us gaelic. It is really welcome, Jason. Nollaig Chridheil
I found out two days ago that, Coinneach, means, Kenneth. Things are starting to come together. Gle mhath!
What does mo charaid mean? Did i miss it? I'll have to watch it again.
Good morning! It means 'my friend'. 🙂
Thèid mi comhla rì a' sruthadh (sdocha?)
My favourite Australian way to say :)
*suppose to be ' go with the flow'
XD
@jason would thèid mi be the same form you would use to say I will go to the store? Like if the wife says , We're out of bread and you say I will go to the store Thèid mi an bhùth ?
Madainn mhath! Nice to see you again, a charaid. 🙂 Yes, that's how I'd put it: "Thèid mi dhan bhùth."
Dé thá an focal sin (dhan)? Ní thuigim sin . Thá mé duilich.
Edit:
'Bheil ceart é seo........an - the....dhan - to the ? 'Bheil an difríocht é sin , go mar , claochlú (word mutation) ?
@@wickedone6476 Sin e! Dhan = to the 🙂 Glè mhath!
@@GaelicwithJason Gu rabh math agad a charaid.
Heidh ciamar a tha sibh Jason mo charaid? 😊
Tha mi ceart gu leòr, a Christine. Ciamar a tha thu fhèin? 🙂
@@GaelicwithJason Tha tha gu-math Tabadh xx
Ciamar a tha main? 😊
Hi
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Is there a video on the -ir ending? Sometimes I think I'm hearing a "th" sound but sometimes I don't
Hi Jay. I hope your day is going well. 🙂 I plan on making a video about that exact thing. Just for now, though, that 'th' sound is a dialectal feature. As far as I'm aware, not every dialect uses it.
@@GaelicwithJason Thank you! That's interesting I wonder where that came from
I find it so difficult to pronounce the "str" sound in a fluid way. Using sràidean as an example, it comes out sounding like "st-uh-ràidean".
Any tips?
Thèid mi na sràidean a-nis... tapadh leat, Jason!
Tapadh leibh. Tha bhideo seo glè inntinneach agus feumail
Does "sruthadh' end with a "g" sound?
The final -dh is pronounced as a voiced velar fricative. It's not a sound that exists in English but you can find it in Castilian Spanish, Greek, Arabic and the like.
Hi Jan. 🙂 It's a thick sound, a bit like "ghhh". I'm going to make a video specifically about that next week. Stay tuned!
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Moran taing.
Gaelic? Names have meanings….nothing New about that. Maybe someone will be named mosquito killer some day
Too much non-Gaelic blether. Think to yourself "Chan eil Beurla agam".
Gaelic is a category 3 language, like Irish, so it can be quite complicated, one cannot learn it without detailed English explanations - Scottish Gaelic and Irish are the hardest languages I am learning, a bit more complicated than Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish etc which are category 2, mostly due to the spelling, which is very complex, and the fact that the pronunciation of most words is usually very different from the spelling which can take longer to sink in, whereas Dutch and Norse and Gothic and Icelandic and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Manx and Faroese and Norwegian and Danish and Esperanto and Galician and Latin and Gallo and Italian and Slovene etc are some of the easiest category 1 languages, after English which is the easiest ever!