Can Irish People Speak Irish? (Gaeilge or Gaelic) // Clisare
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2013
- Seeing if Irish people can actually understand or speak their native language.
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I would have loved to hear more of you guys speaking cuz it was lovely to hear the effortlessness with which you spoke. Hopefully your studies have gone well and you're maybe teaching?
Awesome update! Hope all is well with you sir.
Omg it is wonderful 😻
Is as an Tuaisceart mé, labhraím í gach lá... go hiontach a chara! Mar a dúirt Conor GRMMA!🙂🇮🇪💚👍
Result: Irish people speak irish as a foreign language
Yeah and I don't get it why. I understand that the language is much less useful than English but come on it's your own language: speak it!
Don't worry! The girl just chose Dublin because it's know not to have many Irish speakers, she just chose Dublin for the views! If you looked up
'people in Galway speaking Irish' then you'd be surprised by the amount of irish they speak!
+Nicola Ramoso unless you're from a country where there's a language used more than your native language you can't really judge. if you're not raised speaking it every day its unlikely you're gonna feel as comfortable in your native tongue as much as English which is everywhere.
Jewelled Pixel It's still sad that Dublin people can't speak their own language well. If you interview people in other capital cities like Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Berlin, Paris most people speak their own language perfectly.
kooolkidninjamaster The schools should take the responsibility to revive the native language. It should not only be taught as a course but also be used to teach other courses in middle schools.
Irish people! Don't let your language die.
Dia duit táim siún táim 9!
That means: hi I'm siún and I'm 9
Our children are still studying Irish
@@Luv4pookie I'm glad to hear you're learning the language. That's real good that Irish children still learn to speak their native tongue.
@@nyannyan123456 ye most children in the country go to and English school and learn only a small amount of Irish everyday
But I go to all Irish school so we only speak Irish, all my friends go to an English school so I can say things in Irish to annoy them
Also what I said is like- junior infants class Irish
Just Irish spelling is confusing
As a foreigner this is exactly what I think about this situation.
Look I'm a linguaphile who really loves and wants to learn Irish and I certainly hate when languages die. Even I, as a foreigner, do think that a situation like in this video is totally bad. It really is sad. There are already many dead languages on Earth and I don't want more🥺 Lots of love from me to you Irish people and your dear language. ❤️❤️
Im not even irish and I want to protect this language
Same
Same, if I were irish I'd use more irish instead of english
Thank you.
Same lol
@@ericgonzalez3641 I'm *am* Irish and when we are in school I *HATE* learning Irish tho😐
I’m French and have just started to learn Irish on DuoLingo; it’s quite hard, everything seems so different from the few languages I know! Word order, grammar, pronunciation...but at the same time it makes Irish fascinating and kind of mysterious! Please don’t let it die!!
It honestly didn't know people from other countries found Irish hard! I find french extremely difficult. Maybe neither are hard, they're just so different from each other!
êtes-vous de quelle région ?
@@Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer well as a French it’s hard for me because if I had to compare Irish to Italian, Spanish or English, it sounds like and look completely different. I live in a « Latin environment » and Irish is a Celtic language, so that’s why I guess. French isn’t easy as well..
@@Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer I find french so easy and Irish horrible! It's so hard to learn in school.
@@patrickbbale Celtic languages are probably more closely related to Latin than Germanic languages like English are, though. But, as an English-speaker, all of the Germanic languages and Romance languages, as well as every other Indo-European language (when written in the Latin alphabet), are much easier to grasp than the Celtic languages-they’re just different. I don’t know why the pronunciation is so different (although I guess Portuguese is kind of weird in that way as well), why they use Latin letters so differently than other languages do.
If you're gonna use white subtitles... please don't wear a giant white coat that blends perfectly into them.
Synystr7 that what i was thinking 💀💀
Right. So annoying as I'm trying to watch this video.
Lol
Her coat wasn't white: it was her scarf.
If a Canadian wore that jacket and walked into a restaurant, they'd say "Sorry, no shirt means no service."
Don't let your beautiful language die!!!! Noooo!!!!
Eloísa García yeah we're trying lmao
katie mcmahon well, that's good news n.n
The unionists up here in the North of our great country try to do that whenever they can.The irony of it is that it was Presbyterians that saved our language.
tell me about it ⬆ they should just leave
junior torres what the fuck are you on about
I noticed that Welsh is preserved more than Irish and Scottish. All those languages are very beautiful and I feel sad about their situation
It’s not actually. About 500k people speak Welsh, whereas about 1 million speak Irish.
This video took place in Dublin, there would be fewer Irish speakers in Dublin than anywhere else in Ireland, particularly the west of Ireland.
In terms of everyday use, it’s very common to hear 1 or 2 Irish words in every other sentence. I’ve noticed they thing it’s humorous to say somethings in Irish.
General Irish words I heard all the time
1) mobile phone
2) bed
3) toilet
4) nose
5) fun and music
6) cake/sweets
7) please/thank you
Etc
You’d often hear normal conversations of (forgive my spelling in both Irish/English.)
‘Well how are ya?’
‘Ah not too bad, yourself?’
‘Grand sure, was out for a bitta craic agus ceole there on the weekend, didn’t hit the labba until about 4, gwan gis me fone poka there masadehullay (that’s 100% so wrong lol, I meant please), I’ll show you a gas video from the night’
They sprinkle it in like that. Also every official document is in Irish. All the government buildings, road signs, public transport, school buildings, basically everything public is in Irish.
They have Irish radio stations and tv channels that broadcast entirely in Irish. Even their English radio stations may do the weekend broadcasting through Irish.
It’s a lot more prevalent than people think.
I'm not an Irish but as a South Asian, i feel really sad how much impact colonisation made and english took so much control that both are cultures and languages are starting to disappear. In my country nowadays, if someone couldn't speak in English our own people make fun of them and call them "uneducated". It's truly very sad.
' if someone couldn't speak in English our own people make fun of them and call them "uneducated".'
Yes, avery similar attitude arose in Ireland. I Ihave heard that some young people in other countries {Malta for example] are rejecting their own languages for English.If that continues and spreads, what happened to Irish will possibly happen to those languages
South Asia already has a huge variety of languages tho
@Snowhite yes I agree, the fact a singular language has dominated the world stage to thi extent is already bad enough, but why should it even be a germanic language with tons of French words originally spoken in an isolated island
Are you a Singaporean?
I hope the Irish people start to speak more Irish and that it eventually dominates again in Ireland. Every nation has the right to preserve its own culture.
Althistory Luxembourg
Don't worry, it IS dominant. She just chose Dublin because its known to have very little Irish viewers (therefore getting her video more views)
Jewelled Pixel I wouldn't necessarily say that Irish is dominant because there are almost no places left where Gaeilge is taught as a first language
If all cared about preserving their culture, they would also convert back to Paganism, which has been in the island for far longer than Christianity even existed.
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. " A country without a language is a country without a soul.”
Faith Emmanuel I think all Americans should forget English and speak think Irish...that way Trump will be babbling on in a different world from us....oh wait a minute there...tis too late
We lost our language when the Brits took over , they wouldn't let teachers teach Irish in school , it all became English
ryano 99 In 500 years under turkish rule Albanians had no Albanian schools but we still speak our language...
ryano 99 I’m English but it doesn’t look like England has done any thing good at all for Europe
You simply gave up on it. In Romania we used to be dominated by the Hapsburg, Ottoman and Russian Empire for more than 500 years but still we retained our language and culture
@@Cris-hd1wb and Indians still know they real language and also english
@@aslhanylmaz2942 Exactly !
Your language is who you are. Please dont lose it, much love for the Irish people.
I literally cried watching this!!! Never ever let our languages die.
They sound like they're speaking the sims language lol
Omg that's exactly what I thought lmao
Considering the fact that Simlish is based on Ukrainian, Navajo, Romanian, Tagalog, and IRISH.Yes, it really does sound like Simlish to a foreign ear like mine lol.
Omg yes! I was wondering where I headed this before
nothing sounds more like the sims than dutch!!
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Why speed up the conversation with the man speaking Irish when the point of the video is to see who can speak said language.
marshall hill Yea, what the hell. The one guy who spoke fluent and they were like “let’s just skip this part”?? 😂😂😂
They don't care. They just want to rag on Irish people that don't speak Irish.
Exactly! I was here to listen the language, and when appear a good speaker, she speed it up lol
It was a vox pop, so it was trying to see how many people I stopped could speak Irish, and we just had a chat so I sped it up. Feedback noted for a follow up!
I was confused by that as well
I’m American, but I just recently started learning Irish Gaelic (and a bit of Scottish but I decided to just focus on Irish first before moving to Scottish). It’s hard because I have never heard anyone ever speak it here and a lot of people don’t get why I’m learning it (“why don’t you learn Spanish?” Is a common phrase), but I just love the language so much.
This is an awesome video but for reasons I was most excited when I saw a Disney store in the background. I love and I'm jealous by the fact that you guys still have a Disney store.
White subtitles on mostly white background? GOOD JOB!
they had ONE JOB
That ruined the majority of the video for non-Irish speakers...
+tFighterPilot
Yeah, that sucked. Why can't they just put a frigging outline on the text.
You're right, I couldn't understood either what were they saying, all for the subtitles were white color, in mostly white background like you said.
i was searching for this comment.
I met an English boy once we got in a argument he said if it weren't for us in the second world war then you guys would be speaking german and I told him well if it weren't for you we would be speaking irish and have a complete country
It's a very silly "argument" anyway. The Germans would not even have attempted to force conquered peoples to speak German, even if it were feasible, which it isn't.
English people are German migrants
my family was born in german conquered poland, though they were lucky to not have just been shipped off and killed, they were put into a germanic school to learn german and nazi ideology, their polish language became forbidden. So Germany clearly would have “germanized” conqured people and lands nearby, given that the people matched the “vision” of german aesthetics or something... That’s what colonization is and it’s not “we own your land but you are free to do what you please”.
Plot twist..English is a Germanic language. Gaelic/ Celt is actually a native language of the isles.
@@robroux6074 how is that a plot twist?
Also, you should keep in mind that Celtic came from the Continent, too.
Please do more Irish video, I just started learning the language and this video was very realistic and helped me to evaluate my abilities
Absolutely love the language, thank you so much for sharing.
This was fascinating however it was hard to read the white subtitles as they overlapped on your white clothing, maybe you should consider using outlined script?
I went from the Ireland video to this!
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Keep your language alive, good people, it's part of your identity, don't lose it. Greetings from Serbia! :)
The youth of our country don't cate about our history, our culture or our identity as a nation and as a people. It's really sad to see some of our own people forget their own native language.
@@seanegan8150 well you're wrong there, I just turned 18 and have been learning the Irish Language over a year, I believe some of the youth do actually care but they struggle to learn the language.
Seán Michelangelo Charles Egan that's really sad honestly, I'm an American of Irish descent and I'd like to see the language brought back
@@anthonyfox585 well start to learn it yourself
@@algonzalez6853 yup, gandhi once said, *You must be the change you wish to see in the world*
Great video, love it, but a slight tweak is when in a bright background or wearing a white scarf, it would be better to give a colored outline so we can read the word.
I love watching people having a conversation in their ethnic language, especially if it is your acquaintance. It feels like they coming from another planet :D
Do you even contrast bro.
+Wolfie Venturi Not even once.
Wolfie Venturi Níl
or sis
Irish has three uses. Going to the Gaeltacht, reading the odd sign and talking about foreigners with your friends
+Agathor747's gaming An' to talk to Irish people who don't speak much English ;P
+Agathor747's gaming Seo é, go dtí an bar le túsa
Don't forget liberating the north
very true very truenand it is a bummer
Agathor747's gaming I love this omg
I promise to learn my ancestors language as much as I learn my American Indian languages! Love you my Irish brothers and sisters! 🇮🇪💚
I love Irish ❤️ I just started learning it this year. For some reason, Irish pronunciation feels more natural to my tongue than my own language. And it's so much fun to learn!
Love the unreadable subtitles, great touch!
and when she fast forwards through the only person who can hold conversation
So im irish
We speak english
Me personally am pretty shite at gaelige
People fought for our country so the least we could do is speak our native language
Im gonna make it a life goal to become fluent in gaelige like I am with english
Slán👋
Maith fear
Maith thú
kinda got the impression u were shite at irish when you spelled gaeilge wrong in the third line 😂
@John Ster
You sound like a salty lad, who failed learning Irish
@John Ster Faighimid toraí Sasannach, a leaids! Tabhair íde béil dó!
I just learned that Irish was a language a few months ago and it’s really interesting !! I saw one of my favorite Irish artists Niall horan speaking Irish and I was like “ THATS A LANGUAGE?? “
how did you not know
@@oscarr5 was never taught it in school or by anyone else
@@demolitionlxvrs3627 SAME
I have been asking myself this question for quite a while. Thank you for this video.
It’s still possible to revive Irish as the main language of Ireland. Change the language of instruction at school to Irish and teach English as a second language.
All migrant children learnt languages this way and adapt perfectly fine. People won’t be forced to speak Irish, simply taught in it.
People in Scandinavia speak excellent English while keeping their mother tongue. Children will use the language that they’re taught in as the main language and pass it on to their children. A language that is not a language of instruction will die out eventually as these children grow up and the older generation passes away.
This is the obvious answer. But it seems that the Irish don't have the will for it. Too much national trauma?
I mean we are still thought Irish all the way up to graduation school but it’s just not a useful language to learn nor is it a simple one, I’ve been learning Irish far longer than the five I’ve spent learning Spanish yet I’ve far surpassed where I am in Irish. The schools also focus too much on writing Irish and not enough on actually speaking it. Even though it’s part of our major exams, most see it as a nuisance, that’s only really there to stop you from getting the points necessary. I personally am sad that it’s got to point where Irish is seen like this but it’s just not useful language, particularly when you consider that our neighbours to the west and east both speak English as they’re first languages.
@@Mandobird1 we have the will for it.
I agree. Look at Sweden for an example where English is the second language but nearly ALL of the country can speak English perfectly fine. I wish they would do that in America. Take 4 years of Spanish in highschool and these kids will remember 15 words...sad
@@revan4130 except teaching spanish has an evil agenda, since its to accomodate to south american invaders
The Brits took over, and tried to destroy the Irish way of life, including the language. I say we show the world just how strong Ireland is. So many people died fighting for Ireland, for their way of life. I say we bring it back, and never stop fighting for what’s ours.
That's strange because the south has completely lost its irishness today. There was a better sense of being Irish under British rule than there is now in the Republic. The North is more Irish than you lot
@Iamdmonah 322 Maybe consult a history book about 1800s Ireland and its cultural movements, and contrast that with the present day Republic. Then it'll make sense for you
Edit: Perhaps I'll bother to explain myself. I have experienced both parts of ireland. There is more sense of being Irish and what that means to he an irishman in the North than the pro-European South. Dublin is a European city. It has little distinguishing feature that makes it Irish. If you disagree, you've been living in the modern Republic far too long to know what true Ireland was like
@Iamdmonah 322 If you don't know the relevancy of 1800s cultural movements in Ireland then you completely misunderstood my original comment. And hurling is non existent in ulster? Please, don't be silly.
@@user-qi5jw2hg1c burning the union Jack isn't being irish and neither is petrol bombing cars
You can't blame it in the past for not speaking it in the present.
It's the peoples fault and the goverment
I had no idea Irish folks had a native language. I thought they just spoke English with an Irish accent. But this is a really elegant sounding language. 😊
Don't lose your language!!!! KEEP SPEAKING IRISH. I'm not even Irish but it sickens me to see people losing their own language.
Ceart go leor, taim ag caint as Geailge anois. An bhfuil tú sásta? Is cuma liom go bhfuil nach feidir le a lán duine abair as Gaeilge a abalta, mar ní raibh sé do fadhb.
Tá mise abalta Gaeilge a labhairt, bíonn me ag Caint é a achan lá. :) Níl me Sasta mar níl maran daoine ag caint e níos mó D:
Bruh I’m as Irish as I can get but never in my 19 years on the planet have I ever gotten an opportunity to speak Irish. The person I’ve ever found that spoke Irish was my French Teacher in school...French.
osmosys808 prefer speaking english but ill always keep a little irish if i can remember. In school im doing higher level irish atm and i am considering dropping to ordinary because of how hard the subject is
I'm Irish and still in school, literally everyone in my school hates learning Irish and consider it useless, You don't need a language to have a unique culture
Too many people bashing the Irish because they let their language die. Do you know for how many centuries were the Irish colonized? Grab a history book if you don't mind.
Most here are aware of Irish history, at least enough to know that. It's not as if it was any different in other countries, in France, the regional languages have suffered a great deal, too, and in Spain, all but Castillian (=main Spanish) was banned under Franco. Now, Catalan, Galego or Basque have returned on the set. Saami languages in Northernmost Europe have been discriminated against for centuries. Morocco still has a difficult relationship with Berber languages, and most indigenous languages in America are endangered. Some languages have made a comeback, others haven't, and colonisation is only part of their story. It's also about the ability to study in your language (Flemish was under threat in Belgium because for a long time, higher education, even higher secondary education, was in French only), because there's no government pushing the language (which Ireland has had for over half a century, and even before when it became a dominion), and not in the least because of a lack of uniformity, if you can only understand your neighbours, but not some random people from 3 villages up the road, it doesn't help to make the language attractive, and that does seem to be a bit of a problem in Irish.
Exactly. All the examples you gave show that these people didn't let their languages die because of lack of national pride, but because of colonization and many other complicated reasons. People should be aware of that.
They did manage to overcome it, though, even without many of them having their own country, unlike Ireland.
Estonia, as with the other Baltic nations, has a long history where it belongs to other empires, for most of the last centuries, it was Russian, and even before, it wasn't Estonian which was the language of those in power (it was mainly German, some Swedish, too.) Already before their first independence in the Interbellum, they had a Russian minority, that minority has only grown with the occupation by the Soviet Union, and yet, that country is firmly Estonian, speaking Estonian, and not Russian.
It would have been so much easier to just switch to Russian, as so many did, it allowed you to study at the best universities in Moscow and St-Petersburg in stead of a regional university in Tartu or Tallinn, you could have a career easier, and you could talk to anyone, not just your fellow Estonians, but also the many Russians living there, who often didn't bother learning some small regional language (in their optic). But they didn't.
We Greeks were enslaved by Turkish for about 500 years (only a small part of Greece got independence after 400 years). We still kept our language alive. I believe now with the internet and tv people can greatly improve their irish skills.
ikanian preach!
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PLEASE make the subtitles black so I can read through it all.
@@Clumpydump indeed, very hard to see. At least it is captioned though, lots of stuff is not and I am deaf. This still gets an A plus for having the consideration to caption.
But you do have a point.
Do Irish come back to school as the language of instruction now? Coz Schools are the biggest influence on children, and children are the future of this culture
This is awesome.I like Irish people thanks foro video
Thanks a lot for your ❤️ , I receive it as a sweet gift by you , 👍🙏🇮🇹❤️🇨🇮with many friendship by me!
This is my second day of teaching myself Irish, and I’ll take this as motivation to keep at.
Being half Irish this is incredibly sad. My mom always made sure my sisters, and I spoke Irish. I speak, English, Spanish, and Irish. I wish we could stop speaking the language of our oppressors... long live Ireland. ✊🏼🇮🇪
Soy 100% irlandesa y hablo irlandés , inglés y un poco de Español! Did your mum speak Irish to you all the time at home or just cúpla focal? Tu historia me interesa mucho. ¿Tienes fluencia en irlandés? No tengo fluencia en irlandés ni español, solo inglés 😢 jajaj
alea hey! Tu español es muy bueno sabes.
Mostly just at home. The screaming was horrendous. 😂
Also maybe sometimes when we went out to the store and stuff, but I remember at night she would tell my sisters and I stories about the old country (mostly had to do with the English 😂) and she would do so in Irish. No, no tengo mucha fluencia en Irish. Ni en español haha, nomas en inglés porque es mi primer lenguaje por decir: pero eso está cambiando. Me a estado metiendo a la cultura irlandés y hispana mucho so a estado practicando muchísimo los lenguajes. En poco tiempo tendré fluencia en todas mis leguas! Thanks for being interested! I’m not the only half Hispanic half Irish where I’m from actually which is Southern California. I am one of the only ones with an Irish immigrant mother though. My mom’s straight from limerick, where as some friends are American Irish mix so they don’t hold on to Irish culture as much as I do. My parents literally met at a Catholic Church so that should tell you how hardcore we are. 😂
That’s why my Irish grandpa loves my Mexican dad so much because when my parents met he was studying to be a cardinal or something like that in the Catholic Church. Haha.
You should really keep practicing! I absolutely love going in deeper into cultures. I’ve learned so much in the past 6 months, It’s honestly really great. I hope you get better at it! lol.
England aren't our oppressors any more. Irish is a language, that shouldn't die out, for sure, but it shouldn't be forced upon people. There is only one family I know that speak Irish to each other a lot, but even then they mostly speak English. It's a language that nobody speaks, most people hate being forced to learn and isn't useful on a global scale.
@@bigyoshi7134 big brain moment
@@Louisef22 What do you mean?
This is really sad :( I hope Irish becomes more prevalent as time goes by.
+jellyjay I hope Irish one day becomes as prominent within Ireland as Ukrainian and Kazakh have within Ukraine and Kazakhstan, respectively. That's although Russian is, within Ukraine, an official language in name only (and, within Kazakhstan, is official).
+jellyjay The sad thing is that I seldom see anyone who is able to pronounce Irish like a native speaker -.- They all have this weird English accent and this kind of upsets me. I absolutely appreciate that awesome people like Clare are learning and supporting the rich Irish language but I really have to question myself whether there is any competent Irish teacher outside the Gaeltacht who would not stop trying to give their students the best possible pronunciation. The problem with this strong English accent is not that well known among the Irish people: the Irish speakers from the Galltacht have problems in understanding the native speakers from the Gaeltacht and, obviously, vice versa and thus the efforts in retaining the linguistic heritage of Ireland are somewhat "adulterating" or "falsifying" the original quality of the language. It starts with pronouncing the words with the English "r", and using "k" instead of "ch" and goes on with literally translating English phrases into Irish. I'm sorry to be so strict in this case but for me it is not tolerable.
Ach go háirithe, ní stopfaimid le cur leis an dteanga dúchais na hÉireann feasta, agus ní ligfimid d'aon phobal eile arís an teanga so a thruailliú in aon chor!
Éire go brách
+Glao na hÉireann Learning Irish should be fun. Yet although a lot of Ukrainian cities, towns, districts and oblasts have their sites in Ukrainian (or at least give users the option to switch to Ukrainian-language pages), a fair # of cities and towns in Ireland don't have webpages in Irish.
+David W in Kazakhstan most of native kazakhs speak both language from childhood: kazakh as native and fluent russian.
Is it the same in Ireland? I think when the language dies the nation dies as well. Irish sounds very beautiful, you should use it more often :)
+David W im irish and its harder than it looks
Thanks for posting!❤
WOW! This is cool. I didn't know so many Irish people still speak Irish! Sounds great!
I think it's interesting that the Irish say "Do you HAVE Irish?" instead of "Do you KNOW Irish?" Interesting cultural difference
They say that for every language. I just came back from a two week holiday in Dublin and my host family there asked a kid who just arrived "Do you have any English?"
It is derivated from gaelic An bhfuil Gaelige agat
Andrea C Every language? I speak 3 languages and in none of those do they say "Do you have any 'language'"as a literal or meaningful translation
Adam Something ...that's not what I was saying. What I meant is that the Irish say "Do you have any *insert language here*?" for every language, not just Irish.
It reminds me a bit of the German "Kannst du Deutsch (sprechen)?" Often the final word is left out, meaning it is simply translated as "Can you German?" The little quirks are quite funny but really endearing.
Quick tip: When you wear a white scarf, don't use white subtitles. :P
was thinking the same thing, lo
lol* stupid phone
At least put a shadow like tf
SgtAwesome97 true!
I am just starting to learn Irish on Duolingo; I'm American and have a little Irish ancestry but mostly I think the language and accent are so beautiful and it makes me happy to hear them. I couldn't make sense of much at the speed everyone was talking in this video but I did understand "agus!" :)
I have a good bit of Irish in my family tree, and used to watch an Irish soap opera that was in Irish with subtitles. I liked the way it sounded, and still do.
What has England done to you.
***** said Russian stupid goat without understanding of the problem
+martmart1 The russian guy with the biggest country in the world yeah you stupid shit
+Sergei Ivanovich Mosin too right man
Agree
The problem is one: Irish hasn't been made the official language. When they got the independence, they should've done just that. There's no use in speaking the oppressor's language, when you got rid him for most of the territory.
From an outsider, the irish language sounds so good.
It really doesn’t
@@krystiankowal7088 nie pieprz
@@krystiankowal7088 Я ирландец, и я говорю по-русски
@@Sycks Somewhat true.
@@krystiankowal7088 no need for that, maybe to it doesn't but we all percieve things differently. Why come here to hate? keep it positive, how would you like that said about your people. very uncalled for, grow up.
@Clisare, 7 years after yo7 posted this: I really love your channel!
Just one thing: could you adjust the color of the subtitles, the white is hardly visible.
Wonderful work, love it!
I can't do it seven years later 😂 they were edited into the video! I've fixed them since on other videos. 👍🏻
@@Clisare go raibh maith agat 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏾
Hey look what a treasure of a video we have here. I love going back on your videos. And I watched this at least 20 times lol. And every time I watched this there was this burning question coming up. Would you consider to do this kind of video in 2022?
Thinking about it!
Finds the only guy who spoke fluent Irish. ::fast forwards through entire segment::
Yeah that was bullshit.
I wanted to hear the conversation between 2 fluent irish speakers :(
I wish irish wasn’t takes for granted as much as it is - it’s part of our heritage like
You should really be speaking it at home with your family members like the welsh do.
They need to start taking in immigrants so they can start blaming them for the loss of their culture
Master Debater the shouldn’t take anyone in and naturally increase by getting rid of media and start having children and get away from English.
Ben Goodhart it’s definitely a good idea to get away from a language that’s widely used and start learning a language that’s dying out.
It's also the Language we are meant to speak as our primary
When i was younger i was absolutely fascinated by Irish and Welsh and really had wanted to learn both.. never happened. Aesthetically sounds so beautiful 😍
Comment to boost the algorithm. Love the content!
pro tip - DONT use white lettering for subs if the background is really bright.....
Dano Manion that would make them not white..
To Answer Some Questions In The Comments:
Q1 - Is Irish Taught In School?
A1 - Yes, Irish Is Mandatory For Children When We Enter School (Age 3/4) And Until We Leave Secondary School/High School (Age 17/18/19) Then We Can Pursue It In University But Most Universities Require You To Speak Irish As Well As A Second Language Such As French Or German, But There're's Certain Times Where You Are Exempt (Don't Have To Learn) From Irish Such As If You're Family Moved From Another Country And You Are Over 11 Years Old.... And If You Have A Disability That Makes Learning The Language Very Hard For You........
Q2 - Do The Irish Hate The English/Vice Versa?
A2 - This Is A Sensitive Question For Most Of Us As We Were Conquered/Settled And Murdered By The English For Almost 800 Years And The Troubles Made Our Relations Even Worse, But I Think Since The Good Friday Agreement Our Relationship With The UK Has Improved. To Answer The Question, No We Don't "Hate" The English Per Say, We Don't Admire Them For Their Treatment Of Us Or How They Deliberately Starved Us To Death During The Famine Of The Late 19th Century, Some People Don't Like Them And They'll Curse The Queen Or The Union Jack, But I Personally Have Absolutely No Problem With The English People. I Was Talking To One Of My Friends, Who's English And Has Lived Over Here (Ireland) For 11 Years, And She Said They Were Never Told Anything About Ireland In School And What They Did To Us, She Had To Look It Up Herself In Books And She Was Absolutely Horrified About What She Found Out... The Famine, Plantations etc. She Said She Couldn't Blame The Irish For Hating The English......
Hope This Helped!! :-)
M. Cloak i didn't start learning irish till i was 11 and i can stop when Im finished my GCSE so ur A1 is wrong unless ur talking about the republic of ireland i have no clue about what they learn there but in northern ireland it doesn't matter
+M. Cloak Irish appears to be as mandatory, within the Republic of Ireland, as Ukrainian is within Ukraine (well, at least those parts of the ex-Soviet republic still under the effective control of the federal government).
***** JCGamer That said, even with the heavy use of Russian in Ukraine, the language of Taras Shevchenko is more widely used than Gaeilge is. Ireland has a thing or two to learn, from Ukraine, on learning languages.
M. Cloak
I'm British and live in the UK but my great great (or something) grandad (someone in my family) was Irish so I have Irish blood
And my last name is apparently Irish
I've searched it and it is but
I ain't gonna say it
dude it's hard to read when all words begin with capital letter.
Great to hear so many understood and most could converse, considering you were on a busy city street. Good result.
I felt in love with irish language. So sweet pronunciation) greetings from Azerbaijan)
"Is mise Mammy"
i love that woman
Love her too powerpuffgirl
Ah man, I actually had feels when that guy felt that he was letting down his country :(
West Side is da best he is
Meet a real Irish man. Probably won't so beautiful
We were taught Spanish in school in belfast and no irish history at all.
@The Conservative Britain isn't British fs
@The Conservative Are they part of britain? No.
While you're here I think you should respect the half of the population that is native to the island mainly identify as Irish.
It's so sad and annoying, don't they study it in Ireland either?
Same here went to a prod school in NI we were taught French and then you could pick between German or Spanish. In history we went over Irish history for only 3 months in 1st year when I was about 12 (so good luck remembering that shit naturally). After those 3 months it was off to learn about nazi Germany and the Anglo Saxons until the end of 3rd year. 4th and 5th year was Cold War, Berlin, Vietnam and the Korean War.
please don't lose this language , do something about it .it's lovely language with beautiful deep accent.❤❤❤
love you from belgium.
it's such a beautiful language
Ashley Manney go raibh maith agat
Ashley Manney thank you
How does irish suck
Sin tá sé chomh fíor
@@galaxy_wolf9873 we have to learn it in school and it’s so annoying!
im from vietnam. my country was colony of china for over 1000 years but we dont speak chinese, we still speak vietnamese. irish people should do the same
Shane Park
That was rude. Her English was almost perfect. Don't chastise someone just because they're not completely correct in a language. She made herself understood, didn't she? She worked hard to make it that way.
Shane Park if you've never had to learn another language, shut the fuck up.
Amy Feehily yeah because we were shot if we spoke it fuck off you don't no nothing it's not as easy as ok let's all just speak gaeilge Aon bhleach ta me gó maith agus conas ata tú
@Pepe the Frog clearly
What are you talking about? 1000 years a colony? In what world you live?
Nice video!!
In my country many Irishmen arrived during the last 3 centuries to join the Spanish army, or to live in the Iberian Peninsula, the islands and Latin America. Obviously they were Catholics that had a lot to do with it. I find these topics very interesting.
(I'm sorry for my English)
Greetings from Barcelona! Love Ireland :D
I am not Irish but I want to visit Ireland so bad, I m in love with the culture and the mythology. Protect this language at all costs!
I can speak a little bit of Gaeilge. I'm from England but my dad is Irish and he taught me some of it.
Conas ata tu?
So sims speak in irish?
*Speed-slaps Captain America*
This is all ironic enough, because Captain America supposedly speaks irish gaelic.
Offended a we bit.
What
How do Sims sound like their speaking Irish because if they were it would be a bit annoying that some people would understand it and others just because they didn't learn the language couldn't, considering it isn't just an Irish game.
Wow glad to know it's spoken so much still. I'm have been learning on Duolingo for some time now. Irish isn't that great on there but the Scottish Gaelic is awesome!
I like these types of interviewin the people! I get to learn more about living in Ireland and stoof!
Of course there is always one person that can speak Irish perfectly.
Ta sé an buachail an mhaith
@@republicraider8336 what?
@@bestever9178 That's Irish for "He is a good lad".
@@republicraider8336 cheers a chara, made my morning 😂
@@conorbreathnach8484 Tá tú an daoine ana mhaith freisin a chara :)
Wow I had no idea the Irish has their own language, simply beautiful I could listen to it all day
Missy Moo this is the nicest comment I’ve seen in the comments section so far😂
Gora mátha got
@@thingstodo4736 what does that mean lovely
@@thingstodo4736 *go raibh maith agat
While I am sick of hearing this, you saying it sounded lovely softened the blow
Absolutely love your videos, your the prettiest of them all.
Interesting to see a lot of young people struggling to speak irish well. It reminds me of the hispanics here in northern cali which grow up forgetting how to speak the language or are around it and never learn. It was my first language as a kid and i forgot and i always felt bad that i was quite bad at it lol but i wish i stumbled on this video to help me realize that even other countries and nationalities go through this!
Beannachtai ó Ceanada,
My great-granny came from Ireland in the late 1890s as a teen and she mostly spoke Gaeilge and my grandpa spoke it fluently as well. My dad never bothered learning it and I was never taught much from my grandpa beyond a few basic words & phrases. My grandpa died in 2012 and he was the last person in my family to speak it, anywho, last year I started learning to read & write it, which is coming along okay, but can only say or understand a few words verbally.
Páirtí ar! 🤘
I'm irish and recently spent 2 weeks in irish college(where you can only speak irish). I'm in second year and in my opinion its our own fault we don't speak irish. Sure the British didn't let us speak irish but that was over 100 years ago. So many people died for our language yet almost no one can speak it fluently, it's such a shame people don't realise its dying out and try make more of an effort, my irish isn't the best I'm pretty good at speaking but not writing which is why this is in english. Even by saying "go raibh maith agat" to a shop keeper or saying "anseo" instead of "here" in class. Thx for reading my rant😂 slàn go foil mo chara👋👋
Saoirse Hamilton I get what your saying but most people like me find it really difficult to learn which is why it’s not spoken as much as it used to
@@peskymagser9943 it is a very difficult language to learn but also because of the way schools try to teach it. You can't learn a language by learning a list of verbs being tested on them once and then forgetting about them. I think that while learning irish in primary school and 1st year you should only speak irish to gain fluency and from 2nd year on classes should be more about doing reading comprehensions and learning poetic techniques. But it is sooo hard to learn💙slán go foil.
Yeah very sad. When I lived in Ireland I allways said: "Irish is your language, so you should speak it not english, at least not as your 1st language. Of course you shouldnt loose your english, but still Irish is your language, your heritage and your culture. You speak the language of your former opressor. Even I would learn Irish if I had to." It allways had an impact.... Btw even I understand "go raibh maith agat" as a German;) It's all about the effort.
Saoirse Hamilton I know I’m still in primary school but literally NO ONE except me and my freinds speak Irish if teachers aren’t around it’s actually easy enough if you can speak well tigim cad a tá tú ag abair 🙃 Ní’lm an a maith ag deanamh è seo ar an idirlín (sorry if you can’t understand it I speak it fluently but its hard with autocorrect lol)
@@rabbithearted444 cad atá a rá agat. not cad atá tú ag abair
Do not lose your language, buddies.
Language is the power & the symbol of unity.
Scottish and Welsh are languages that are unfortunately dying, but Irish does everything possible to continue maintaining it, and that is greatly appreciated, it is a very beautiful language. But unfortunately for Ireland, English is being assimilated very quickly all over the world.
As the Welsh said, *May the old language endure.*
For anyone who's interested in learning Irish, there's a free course on duolingo for english-speekers.
thanks! im just 15 but i really want to try!
Been learning it on there for a couple of weeks now. It's really fantastic. Super website and a fantastic language! Is maith liom!
This is so sad. Many people with Irish blood have no pride in the old ways. Doesn't give hope for the future of the celtic languages.
Good choice of colour for the subtitles...marginally better than non at all ;P
Interesting. As an American, I never knew this. Thank you for teaching me something new today. Now I'm interested in knowing when I wish turned into English I wish or whatever you might call it. Something to Google tomorrow.
This is so beautiful language I'm Amazigh from Algeria and we have the same problem we have our Amazigh language but many peaples speak Arabic and This threatens our language to extinction😢😭😭
Meanwhile even the Arabic speakers are threatened by Frenchification... and France itself is worried about getting displaced by English. Hope all peoples around the world are able to resist these forces and protect their own respective languages
Uhhhhh.... not in Vietnam i gussed
:(
Yess i totally agree and i’m from morocco
I'm half Algerian and my Algerian family can only speak arabic, Algerian Arabic and French....😅 I'm not sure if they are of berber descent so... Yeah..
And im half scottish... And no one in scotland can speak gaelic.. Its dead now 😅😅
What a beautiful language. love how it sounds. I speak spanish and i really really like irish. Hope you manage to keep it alive!
Sé aer dóibh aer beag t-ó ha é tí stíl bé laige
As someone who just finished my leaving cert orals and is not an Irish person, if this language wasn't forced upon students and was an option more people would learn to love and speak it
Dude at the end spoke so well, I hope I can do so one day 😂
I am only half Irish and was born and raised in Turkey until I was 18, yet my mom taught me Irish since I was a baby. It is sad many people cannot speak it without throwing 4 english words to a supposedly Irish sentence of 5 words.
Turkce konusabiliyor musun? Ben yunanim
Ye well considering our teachers are shit says enough
your mom is a traitor who ruined her lineage
What do u mean only?! Half or quarter is a lot
Gabh i leith go fóill is dearcadh an-suimiúil go brách é do chionn-sa, ní mhór duit físeán nó rud éicint a uaslódáil díot fhéin ag labhairt na teangadh agus ag déanamh comparáid idir an dá chultúr agus ag léiriú cén chaoi gur éirigh leat an teangaidh a labhairt le do mháthair is tú ag éirí aníos nó mar sin. Chuirfinn fhéin spéis mhillteanach
Im irish I speak irish and proud to speak and write it
Great, I've immense respect for the Irish nation!
Maith thú
I'm better at writing then speaking :)
and now your speak an irish??
Is breá look Gaeilge mar tá mé go hiontach
My grandpa was born in scotland raised in northern ireland spoke Gaelic I wish I paid more attention to it when he spoke it trying to teach us grand kids. Miss you Poppy. so much
Love the video btw
omg im middle eastern and i love how this language sounds! no seriously im going to study it until i know how to completely speak, write and understand it!!
Dia duit agus conas ta tu inniu?
la Sa …watch out friend… there are people who don't like Middle Eastern people in those parts.
Dorvuzak Uzn oh thats upsetting to hear!
la Sa Never come here we don't like you or any foreigners.
Wolf Der Nacht Wow. And Europeans used to give Americans crap for not liking Mexicans. .....
Can Irish people tell the difference between Irish and Simlish (Sims language)?
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Clisare my name is Orlaith I’m British but also Irish and Scottish and I can speak fluent Irish!i really enjoyed your video!
This was 6 years ago and you still posting comments in this channel.... I love this😂
My Da (stepdad actually) is Irish but his family moved away and he was raised away from Ireland; knows a great deal about the history and culture and wishes he could speak the language but he knows the little odd phrases here and there. He's very proud of his heritage. Very proud. I'm not Irish obviously but he always treats me like I am 💚 That has always made me appreciative and happy. Fun times is when he makes me sing Irish folk songs with him, and I have no idea how to 😅 Oh yes he doesn't speak much of the language but songs he can do effortlessly haha!
As a Brazilian i can say that i never heard a language that hard.
It's AMAZING ! Protect your culture
really sad.. they've been assimilated.. the same thing is happening to us Kurds. The government needs to do something about this problem.
The government in Ireland has taken action. The made Irish language mandatory in schools.
Problem is, Irish is an extremely hard language to learn and has little practical use, so most end up hating it and never want to use it outside of school. Most would rather focus on learning French or some other European language that they may actually need at some point. At the end of it all, they often wind up being able to understand Irish when they hear it, but not speak it well.
@Gabriel English is already known, no one will lose the ability to speak it. A native language is culture. In Wales we have the saying "Cenedl heb iaith ydy cenedl heb galon" which means a nation without a language is a nation without a heart.
@@BroadwayRonMexico I didn't meet any Irish person who can understand the Irish on the radio when I was there. So they mustn't really be able to understand much after finishing exams.
@@tsarnicholasii274 I've been to both Ireland and Wales. Heard loads of Welsh travelling around Wales. Heard no Irish travelling around Ireland except for on the radio and one guy with a sign in Dublin who didn't sound like he was speaking it right (as I compared to the stuff on the radio).
@@cigh7445 Well like in Wales it depends where you go. There's plenty of Irish speaking communities in Ireland
The truth is, Irish is much harder to learn than let's say French or Spanish, for example. It's a Gaelic language, like Scots Gaelic and Manx (from The Isle of Man), and they differ quite a lot from European languages, even though they technically are, and most people learning the language come out of school hating it. Majority of primary schools are terrible at teaching it (From different accents in Irish, so it's not really their fault) and if you asked a first year to go and have a simple conversation, most couldn't. The best technique of getting kids to learn Irish is to send them to a Gael Scoil, where everything is taught through Irish.
Not a chance. Granted I didn’t go to a Gael primary but I’ve just joined a Gaelscoil secondary this year and I’m shit at it. It probably works a lot better than an English speaking school but it’s having detrimental effects on my other subjects because 8 don’t understand them properly
Kcaj Does Stuff That's because you are too old to do it. The progress would super fast for a 7-year-old kid.
It could be, but it causes peoples english to be much worse. Irish is not needed for almost any job and if you are going almost anywhere in europe then the main cities will know english for tourists at least. You know how many other countries use irish? 0
And then what are they going to do with it? English is all over the Internet, the movies, the thousands of printed books (essential for higher education), the pop music world, etc. etc. Thousands of languages have died over the past couple of thousand years. Arabic, for instance, used to be a language spoken by only a small ethnic group in the Mecca/Medina area, and now it's the lingua franca of a huge swathe of North Africa and the Middle East, replacing lots of other Semitic and Berber languages. The same thing is happening with English. Irish and Welsh will be effectively dead in a couple of centuries at best. Language is first and foremost a practical tool for communication, not a badge or flag of cultural identity! Learn Irish as a hobby, sure, but it will be no more than that.
gaelscoils are great for learning irish, but i know a kid who goes to one and he didnt start learning english phonics until 1st class, and he struggles with reading english now too
Ireland, a really nice place with nice people and green grass a lots of rain :) I'm starting to miss it.
I am not Irish myself, but I want to protect this language. As a language, it is one of the symbols of the people and self-consciousness. Reading the history of the Irish people and language, I just wanted to cry.
My Irish friend inspired me into learning irish its so interesting and bizarre i like it