I went and did my Duolingo after watching this , and it immediately said “more people are learning Irish on Duolingo than there are native Irish speakers “
Ikr! I downloaded duolingo yestrday and during loading it said that exact sentence and my mind went to this video right away and now I just have to rewatch it 😁
At least it looks like Duolingo's improved their Irish course. I switched to a different app a while back because every lesson after the basics just kept teaching me, "the lion eats the children," and, "what does the fox say?" over and over again lmao
Cad a deir an sionnach? ;) Really though I died a bit inside when I say that. My favorites from Duolingo Irish have been gems such as "the lion eats the sandwich" and "the deer speaks irish". My absolute favorite though has to be " Tá an fear sa chuisneoir." Why is there a man in the fridge Duo??? Do you have something to confess??? ...also what other aps are there for learning Irish? Duolingo is the only one I know of.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 I agree, but you can't just repeat the same two phrases for six months and nothing else. I'm not talking about basic learning repetition. I'm talking about every single slide on every single lesson. When Duo claims I've completed a course and learned a list of words that I've never even seen before because it just keeps asking me what the fox says, the courses need improvement.
@@jamiehalleran6421 Both of you are only half right, its Irish and Gaelic, in the language itself there are 3 main names for the language, in Connacht it's Gaeilge, in Munster is Gaeluinn and in Ulster it's Gaelag, the Connacht version became standard when the language was standardised but it was originally grammatically incorrect. Gaelag, the Ulster varient is the oldest form of the language's name, Gaelic is an Anglicisation of the word Gaelag and Irish is used by the majority of Irish people so both are equally acceptable.
@@gram. It is actually Irish Gaelic is a Sub-set of the Celtic language family of languages derived from middle Irish, Irish or Gaeilge, Scottish Gaelic or Gaidhlig, and Manx or Ghaelgagh. It's like saying "He learned Slavic, no such thing as Russian" Irish is the first language of Ireland, Gaelic is a sport we play
Fun facts about Irish: there isn’t a word for ‘yes’ or ‘no’. (Like, someone asks ‘do you like dogs’ you would say ‘I like dogs’ or ‘I do not like dogs’). Also, the word order in Irish is found in only 9% of the world’s languages.
it’s swag as hell, though you can shorten your reponses by just saying the subject and verb. someone asks ar cheannaigh tú úlla? (did you buy apples?) and you can just say cheannaigh mé. (i bought) ! :]
I hear nìl and tà/siadh used a lot. I assume that modernisation or grammatically incorrect. (I said hear cause my Irish is so bad I don't think I can even claim to speak it)
@@thejazzy6012 same, haha. It's really just modernization, in the same way that you usually don't hear "dia duit/dhuit" or "dia is muire daoibh" because they're really REALLY old. If i remember right, it's something similar to "hallo," but im not sure. Also, the old greetings translate to "god be with you," and "god and mary with you," the latter usually is said as a 'hello to you too,' type thing.
Spanish is my native language and honestly Kevin's doing great. Sure he can't say many things but like, he pronounces really well especially comparing to how literally ever single other native Spanish speaker speaks English. It's just atrocious, so really they can't judge him doesn't matter how much he might mispronounce given how they mispronounce English. Also manzana is pronounced Man's Anna. The "Z", even in argentinian accent, which makes the z significantly closer to an "S" is still a " 's " rather than just the " s " and Ana, name or not (Ana is a Spanish name), is the same as Anna, in English.
Kevin is completing his Irish courses the way I got through my Spanish ones. By not actually learning or retaining what words meant but just figuring out context clues and seeing what answer would be a coherent sentence.
@@doodlebyte7964 the method works for sure but if the same thing is done in the right environment you have a much better time retaining the information because its important and applicable at the time of learning
Sad thing is, Kevin's level of skill with the Irish language is typical for the vast majority of Irish people. School forces you to do Irish classes but Ireland as a whole rarely gives you the opportunity to use the language in everyday life. As I see it, our patria lingua is on life-support
It's because the curriculum doesn't make students understand the language, it encourages students to learn off answers to questions that are predicted to come up, and learn how to reply to super specific questions that come up in the oral. That's it. No understanding, no look at the structure of the language, just force fed things to just learn off and never use again
Learning a language solely based on what they teach at school has never worked, anywhere. To have it work, first you need to have it be the main language of teaching and you probably need to ban any other languages being spoken (the same way they ban students from speaking their native languages in international schools all around the world). Then you'd need like at least 5 hours of Irish language class everyday.
@@Foxtrot6624 it's roughly how English is taught in Italy For example I have to remember computer science both in English and italian but we don't study English literature or everyday things so it's really difficult to speak English outside of the school context
We could all learn along with him. That would actually be really awesome because I've been dying to learn Irish, plus it'd be doing a huge favor for the Irish language as it's almost in danger of dying off, although it has been coming back in recent years.
True sadly, it's mainly a small amount of the west that speak Irish, I being in that part. Generally just a small bit of Donegal, mayo, Galway and Kerry, that's about it. Even so, almost everyone will speak English so there's almost no reason to know the language other than to talk shit about someone
i know ;'( to be fair it has a lot of norse influence from way back, and of course Old Irish, so it can feel so different. I think it's beautiful the way Hiberno english retains so much syntax grammar and lyrical flow seen in Irish. he knows more than he thinks, really!
@@ahhhhyes I mean in Irish it is literally how we say it sjbdhdbd Don’t have words for all the new gender unfortunately :(. - a sad agender Irish person
“Because, let’s face it, we’re all beginners here” Me, an Irish secondary school student, who is watching this video instead of studying for an Irish test: *ferocious nodding*
I'm just surprised to hear evidence of an Irish person having air conditioning. She must have recorded that abroad, cause I've yet to see a single house with air conditioning here.
@@ScutoidStudios Wait, *we have a word for it??* Is it crazy long like the word for CD, or actually reasonable? I bet we only have a word for it because of air conditioning in cars and to talk about whether its broken or not, rather than the devices in buildings.
@@hikariyumi9441 I can just imagine someone using Duolingo for a few months and going to a foreign country. "Excuse me sir, Megan does not like eating vegetables"
@@SEEYAIAYE that’s good information to have! My owl keeps calling me a bad girl! Not only is that rude I’m not seeing myself calling other people that 😂
He was doing really well, it saddened me to hear him say that not saving the results is probably for the best. I had a similar situation living in an autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in Russia where all kids, regardless of ethnicity, learn Tatar along Russian, but because I wasn't Tatar myself, and the way they were teaching it was super boring, I felt it was useless and barely passed all my exams and could never pay attention. But once, just once, when reading a Tatar text aloud, I was complimented by the teacher on how good my pronunciation was. She said I sounded just like a tatar girl. I was SO flattered. Even though I did terrible at the language. Even though once as a kid I said to (another) teacher's face I hated her subject. Much later I understood that being multilingual is a huge asset and there are no "useless" languages. So, Kevin, don't get discouraged, language learning is never a fast process unless you're a genius or practice constantly, which most of us can't afford to do. If you really want to learn Gaelic, you can. It even has a Latin script which makes it much easier. Good luck to anyone learning a language, the trick is to make it enjoyable and personal to you.
"Living in Tatarstan I had to learn Russian and Tatar growing up..." *Proceeds to write a comment in perfect English* Whenever I run in to someone who has learned multiple languages it always makes me a little jealous haha. I'm from England, I did learn a little French in middle school but I dropped it when I chose my subjects in upper school I did take German though, I was pretty good at it. This was many years ago though and unfortunately I've since forgotten a lot of what I learned. I at least take some solace in the pride I feel that the language most of the world chooses to learn after their own is the language from my country.
@@Gohka At least in scandinavia it's obligatory to learn english in school. Here in Sweden we also have a bunch of culture from England or the US and we mostly dub movies or series meant for kids. Kids as early as three years old learn basic english thanks to games, youtube videos or music.
I realized that the experiences are always very similar between people who lived this thing of being in a place where there's a dominant language and a traditionnal / minority language. I used to hate breton language (a celtic language spoken in France) and I used to laugh at breton lessons and teachers. I repeated the stuff I heard, it was an ugly language and more important, it was useless. But when I grew up, I realized maybe breton language was missing in my life without me even knowing it. And as you said, I realized there's no useless languages.
@@Ys-uv3zq Even I didn't know that France and Germany when unifying only a few centuries ago, quashed much of the smaller regional cultures, traditions and languages in favor of standard high french and german. so places Like Breton/Britanny and Bavaria and similarily Ireland with all it's regional dialects became so endangered and shamed upon. but they're beautiful and every Indigenous language has a unique outlook and story of the lives of it's people old and present!
I'm half Irish and have been learning on Duolingo. I am really amazed at how well the lessons have been working for me. I can now speak it better than my dad (my Irish parent) to be fair though he also hasn't touched the language since High school.
“You can see what the Irish language is like” As a Gaelic Scot, I’m already laughing, god you’re in for a bloody rough time. Scots literally has 18 letters for the alphabet instead of 26, so letters like V simply don’t exist, but BH and MH are said like V… so… my condolences?
I went to the Irish whiskey museum and learned that the word "whiskey" literally comes from "uisce", the Gaelic word for water. Glad they didn't lie to us lol
"I don't even know how to say I, and I studied the language for 9 years!" That is legit me and French. I took it from grade 1 to grade 9, and I still can't speak French, so now I'm also on Duolingo to try to learn it, and the owl now keeps popping up in my day to day life to guilt/threaten me into learning more.
It's fun to see similar grammatical rules in different languages. Throughout this vid I was like "That makes sense, it's like in German!" or "It's obviously that, kind of like in Polish" . Heck, it was enjoyable and I actually learned something
This was very interesting to see from the perspective of an Irish person. I think you are being harder on yourself then you need to be. I could tell your background knowledge from school was helping you more than you realized. You at least knew how to pronounce words that I don't think I could ever manage to pronounce XD. Definitely would watch more if you ever wanted to delve into something like this again.
Kev, as a Spanish cult member, I'm so impressed with how good your Spanish pronunciation is. You're honestly doing great. Also, I'm one of the weirdos studying Irish on Duolingo. Maybe that Spongebob video is indeed perfect for me.
I've been saying it for years, and I won't stop now: Duolingo tests more how well you know English than teaches you the language you're trying to use it for.
@@jadedesigns6171 I got a mistake for typing "Jon" instead of "John", which made me quit, because in Japanese (which I was trying to learn/maintain), they're both spelled "Jon" smh
Verbs in Irish with -im or -aim at the end of them is me! It's basically taking mè being squished into the word. Like in English you say I am, but you can also say I'm. You did really well for someone who doesn't speak any Irish and hasn't for years!
yes! i found a video series on youtube that actually explains what every word means, how the suffixes are implemented, the general meaning and direct translations and pronunciation slow and run-together and have found it very helpful. to know with confidence precisely what one is saying is key to confidence and progression. you cant just mimickery the sounds.
another irish here and through all my years of irish i think kevin did so well like i know foods, drinks random phrases and swears, the anthem and how to go to the toilet thats literally everything from like 10yrs of learning at least i know all the names easily
That's unfortunately because they don't *actually* teach the language. They're primarily just teaching vocabulary by rote learning, and simple phrases that are ridiculously specific, and can't be used outside of certain contexts. But people can recall on tests. That's not actually learning a language. You need to learn the grammar and syntax as well. This has been a constant complaint of Irish language enthusiasts for years, and unfortunately the government has completely ignored their suggestions to revise the method of teaching for years. Because they don't really care if the language dies out. The language could honestly be revived in just a few decades, completely, if they just followed the successful Israeli example of reviving a dead/dying language.
I'm not Irish but also learned it for 10 years which is actually really sad tbh I do know a good bit of Irish though since I grew up speaking German and English so I retained language information pretty easily
The trick is to actually use it when learning it.. Kids should have more regular conversation in the language outside of class.. It would be enough with just 45 minutes a day.. And you would retain the language into adulthood.
8:39 - Muzzy! 😻 I’m Italian and we had the dvd here too, iIrc multiple dvds were released, each one with different languages. It used to come out each week, but my parents stopped at the first one ‘cause it had the languages we learn in school. I wanted more tbh, I watched it so many times as a kid lmao I still have it 👀
I laughed way more than I should have about how this briefly devolved into watching Spongebob in Gaelic... although that Gaelic but subtitled in Spanish just seems like it was targeted to an Irishman who moved to Spain but decided to watch Spongebob, hmmmm... But keep up the good work relearning garlic
@@parkycod you asked what did I say ok I said yes you speak Spanish very good I am a student of Duolingual app with is the crazy how bad I am at speaking Spanish were is the bathroom?. The crazy is not prouper English it's a mistake in the translation of Spanish to English also proper English it's not very good it's very well my bad 😅. I'm sorry for my bad Spanish
I have the same problem with Welsh, Duo is great for casual learning and repetition on basic stuff but you need to dig a lot deeper, get some books and listen to some podcasts/audio of your TL if you really want to really learn a language.
Yeah I've tried Duolingo for a few languages and it's just not very good. It's more so you can just say "oh yeah I know Irish "conas atá tú?" It's very rarely actually useful stuff. But if you do want to learn it, get books, get classes, talk to others who speak the language. I know this sounds silly but if you can come to the country I'd say it's not a bad idea. Obviously you'd need some basic understanding, but actually using it in daily life does wonders for learning it. I feel the main reason Irish people don't remember Irish is because they never use it at home, at all and they never even have the option to most of the time. But, if you want it, ná cuir stop leis an staidéar
I guessed all the names, only because once you get the dip- and trip-thongs down and kind of like chinese radicals, certain letters chang the sound so if you spot them, you know there's mental math to be done.
I had the French version too. I remember I would watch it, not understand what was going on, then pop in the English version and watch that like I was watching a Disney movie or something, lol!
I watched the Spanish version in 8th grade and it was everything. It was a huge meme and we all loved getting to watch that instead of doing whatever we would have done instead, although we were tested on it a little
Okay, I actually pronounced Eamon right, along with Fionn, Niall, and (believe it or not) Niamh. I had a friend/classmate in school named Niamh (pronounced neeve), and every substitute teacher messed up her name... all but one... ...who had an Irish last name. And she pronounced it right!
Im called Eamon and yeah you very rarely get those names pronounced right the first time, not that i mind too much i still like my name. I got most of the names pronounced right but there were a few there that tripped me up
I started learning Irish about 3 months ago. Coincidentally enough it was when I learned that it even existed from a video you posted a while back. I can't remember the one, but the struggle is real. Raised with English, and didn't grade well in it, with a dip into French from high school. Irish has been quite different in structure. Many of the sentences beginning with the verb that changes based on if I'm doing it, we are, or he/she/they are. I think my favorite phrase so far is "tá brón orm." "I'm sorry." A word for word translation being there is sadness on me.
Changing verbs depending on the subject is actually something a lot of European and romance languages share. In Russian, words can be in a lot of different orders and still make sense because much of the grammar comes from the way the words end. I've heard a lot of people learning English actually find it really confusing because we don't conjugate our verbs that way so word order is much more important for meaning.
@@eldonhill4840 the funny thing is that irish doesn't just change the verb depending on the subject, but also the preposition. Like "agam" means "at me" but "agat" means "at you". there aren't a lot of languages which do that.
Oh my gosh the nostalgia I felt when you watched Muzzy! We watched it for French in school, also having no idea what they were saying. Side note, From someone learning a difficult langauge for a degree (Japanese), Duolingo is okay if you want to visit the place as a tourist. It teaches you phrases and words for every day use, and makes it so you can get around. Unfortunately it doesnt really teach you how to apply grammar structures and conjugation properly. Helpful for vocab and phrases, not so great with how to use the langauge
I heard the same. I was using it so I could read Japanese on my own, but it wasn't much help since a lot of anime and manga use slang and improper structure.
@@nedinnis6752 yeah, Duolingo teaches you basic dialect, where as a lot of manga is short form casual. The fact it doesnt fully teach you the Kanji too is annoying. If you really wanna learn, I recommend the Genki textbooks for grammar and vocab, and the Basic Kanji books for well... Kanji. JapanesePod101 has a great video for learning all Hiragana and katakana, so I reccomend checking that out too. Best of luck!
I have tickets to a Rammstein show next year and I'm trying to learn as much German as I can. I already know some from their songs but I can't speak it good at all lol. Duolingo has helped a bit🤣
I’m learning german too! I started out with duolingo, but i found a fantastic online class for it, and its the best language learning experience ive ever had. I’m still very much a beginner but german is such a fun language and i hope i stick with it and become fluent eventually
This is kind of ironic considering that Welsh probably has the most intimidating spelling out of all languages written in the Latin alphabet (emphasis on intimidating though - my understanding is that Welsh orthography is actually remarkably regular and predictable once you learn the basics, whereas Irish spelling is way less intimidating at first glance, but it's certainly much, much harder)
@@hrotha Welsh is very regular once you're aware of the sounds, but my struggle with Irish is difference between broad and slender sounds as well as all the digraphs that don't sound how one would perhaps expect them to based on how they're written
As someone who learned Irish for 12 years and only retained a bit more than Kevin, I am amazed that a Welsh speaker is probably putting more effort into keeping the endangered Irish language alive than I ever did. I always wondered how English suddenly decided "nah, we don't need those things to help people reading figure out how a vowel is produced," but even more confusing is how Welsh at some stage just... didn't need vowels. I know it's not that simple, but I am curious how it still works without any (that I can recognise).
I have to say going from English to Spanish is a lot easier than I expected and I can still pronounce most things in Spanish I just don't always know what they mean 😅
@samuelpinder1215 Not sure if you knew, but for samsung keyboards, you can enable the billingual keyboard that will autocorrect and recommend words in both languages. It's easier than having to switch keyboards!
14:55 (basic translation of the instructions to the Irish exam paper) Instructions: There are 2 parts in this paper. Part A - 45 Marcs - Listening- 3 questions Part B- 225 marks - Reading, composition and literature- 8 questions Answer every question Answer in Irish except for when it isn’t needed. Every question is worth different marks Write your answers in the spaces left in this booklet. There is no need to use all of the space available . There is extra space to answer at the back of the booklet. Label any extra work clearly with the question number and part of the question.
it’s actually really interesting as a Niamh™️ because in england people say my name as one single syllable (‘neev’) but in ireland it’s almost split into two syllables like kevin does (‘nee-vuh’) so you’ll never win folks 😭
This video did wonders for my self esteem! Every time i looked in the mirror i'd be ashamed and disgusted thinking that from the side my body looks bean-shaped. Now i know that beanhood is the epitome of womanhood. Thanks, Kevin! :D
that bit where you used asking to go to the toilet to remember please gave me flashbacks to when I started studying welsh a year ago and used may i go to the bathroom please (ga i fynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch chi'n dda?) to remember go, please, and may i. I'm glad they make you ask in Irish at school just like they made us ask in Welsh.
@@purpletree8174 nuir a raibh me I rang a ceathair, beidh mo múinteoir le rá "déan jig" le duine ar bith a cuir an chéist "An dtig liom dul cuig an leithreas?"
I don't know what I love more, seeing him struggle more with the official language of his country (100% irish, remember those dna tests), or how adorably innocent he looks speaking spanish, as if he hadn't commited several war crimes in every game he's played
When I first learned Irish on Duolingo, the first thing I was taught was "Is fear me", (I am a man). Teaching people to fear men? I think that's what made me fall more in love with Ireland than I was before.
@@alissageearr708 some ppl I know pronounce it like that. I actually pronounce it ‘Key-va’ so basically the same as keefa but with a sharper ‘V’ sound. It’s not uncommon for Irish names to have multiple pronunciations. I met a girl called ‘saoirse’ who pronounced it ‘Soar-a-ha’ instead of ‘Soar-sha’ Irish is just weird
Muzzy was one of the first programs in USSR/Russia for English learning, it also had no subtitles, my mom used to watch it when she was young. That's so cool that they made it it Irish 😄
You're too humble Kevin! You are promoting Ireland, maybe not conventionally, but through your light heartedness and sarcasm. It means a lot for the Irish language that you're trying out these lessons (and you're doing it with respect). Thanks for sharing! 😊🙏
I went and did my Duolingo after watching this , and it immediately said “more people are learning Irish on Duolingo than there are native Irish speakers “
😂😂😂😂😂
Me too
It’s said that before, I think. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it say that months ago. If not, someone please correct me, thank you 💙
Ikr! I downloaded duolingo yestrday and during loading it said that exact sentence and my mind went to this video right away and now I just have to rewatch it 😁
cant tell if thats depressing or not
Kevin, who is 100% Irish, struggles in Irish. To make matters worse, a green owl will now haunt him for eternity until he is godlike in the language.
"Call Me Kevin" will soon be "Was Called Kevin"
He's learning Spanish on there, he good the owl is happy.
@@chicknorton8839 more like qevin
he duo-ed his last lingo
Kevin trilingual :)
Kevin is Irish yet he is somehow more fluent in Simlish.
Sul sul
Shadooby!
Flarbin!
Tbh Irish kinda sounds like Simlish
My guess is that's because the English systematically murdered Irish people in order to wipe out their language from common knowledge.
At least it looks like Duolingo's improved their Irish course. I switched to a different app a while back because every lesson after the basics just kept teaching me, "the lion eats the children," and, "what does the fox say?" over and over again lmao
Ding ding ding ding dingding ding ding ding
Cad a deir an sionnach? ;)
Really though I died a bit inside when I say that. My favorites from Duolingo Irish have been gems such as "the lion eats the sandwich" and "the deer speaks irish".
My absolute favorite though has to be "
Tá an fear sa chuisneoir." Why is there a man in the fridge Duo??? Do you have something to confess???
...also what other aps are there for learning Irish? Duolingo is the only one I know of.
@@ZombiesOhMyGod Do Rosetta and Babel not have it or something?
The courses were made by volunteers, and repetition is very, very important in learning a language.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 I agree, but you can't just repeat the same two phrases for six months and nothing else. I'm not talking about basic learning repetition. I'm talking about every single slide on every single lesson. When Duo claims I've completed a course and learned a list of words that I've never even seen before because it just keeps asking me what the fox says, the courses need improvement.
me, an australian who started saying "feck" because of Kevin's videos: yeah I'm somewhat of an irshman myself
I'm not even a native english speaker and I picked up feck from Kevin
Mood though 😂😂
Well considering most Australians were convicts who came from England and Ireland we are probably a little bit Irish except for aboriginal people
I'm british and I started saying feck too lmao
Honestly dude it’s not that uncommon here. My Ma says it all the time. Maybe it’s just the south who say it?
Kevin: *Leaves Ireland and moves to Spain*
Kevin: Now seems like the perfect time to learn some Irish!
Sigma grindset
He's going to return in Ireland full Irish speaking
@@alfredorotondo 900% Irish mode: on
Is there a video explaining when and why he moved?
@@ayekantspeylgud I have no idea, sorry. I just assumed he moved because he wanted to.
It's fascinating watching an Irishman-who is currently not in Ireland (theabsolutetraitor)-trying to learn Irish.
He learned Gaelic,
No such thing as 'Irish' the absolute f to the Ann + y.
@@gram. it’s Gaeilge or Irish
@@jamiehalleran6421 Both of you are only half right, its Irish and Gaelic, in the language itself there are 3 main names for the language, in Connacht it's Gaeilge, in Munster is Gaeluinn and in Ulster it's Gaelag, the Connacht version became standard when the language was standardised but it was originally grammatically incorrect. Gaelag, the Ulster varient is the oldest form of the language's name, Gaelic is an Anglicisation of the word Gaelag and Irish is used by the majority of Irish people so both are equally acceptable.
@@gram. It is actually Irish
Gaelic is a Sub-set of the Celtic language family of languages derived from middle Irish, Irish or Gaeilge, Scottish Gaelic or Gaidhlig, and Manx or Ghaelgagh. It's like saying "He learned Slavic, no such thing as Russian"
Irish is the first language of Ireland, Gaelic is a sport we play
@@gram. I mean the Irishman himself called it learning Irish in the title
Fun facts about Irish: there isn’t a word for ‘yes’ or ‘no’. (Like, someone asks ‘do you like dogs’ you would say ‘I like dogs’ or ‘I do not like dogs’). Also, the word order in Irish is found in only 9% of the world’s languages.
it’s swag as hell, though you can shorten your reponses by just saying the subject and verb. someone asks ar cheannaigh tú úlla? (did you buy apples?) and you can just say cheannaigh mé. (i bought) ! :]
Irish does have a binary yes and no now so that it can be used on computers and things but it isn't really used outside of that
I hear nìl and tà/siadh used a lot. I assume that modernisation or grammatically incorrect. (I said hear cause my Irish is so bad I don't think I can even claim to speak it)
@@thejazzy6012 same, haha. It's really just modernization, in the same way that you usually don't hear "dia duit/dhuit" or "dia is muire daoibh" because they're really REALLY old. If i remember right, it's something similar to "hallo," but im not sure. Also, the old greetings translate to "god be with you," and "god and mary with you," the latter usually is said as a 'hello to you too,' type thing.
Irish 🤝 Chinese
Not having a word for yes/no specifically.
The duolingo owl is ALMOST as scary as Jim… almost.
@Anna thank you anna
Maybe Jim should have an owl familiar whose name is Duolingo?
@@shoutarho6081 there's bear costumes, there needs to be an owl suit noo
someone: say apple in spanish
kevin: man's anna
you're doing amazing sweetie
Well i suppose he does have a mans anna too 🤔
Ive always pronounced it as maansaana so it’s kinda similar
well he is Anna’s man after all
Spanish is my native language and honestly Kevin's doing great. Sure he can't say many things but like, he pronounces really well especially comparing to how literally ever single other native Spanish speaker speaks English. It's just atrocious, so really they can't judge him doesn't matter how much he might mispronounce given how they mispronounce English. Also manzana is pronounced Man's Anna. The "Z", even in argentinian accent, which makes the z significantly closer to an "S" is still a " 's " rather than just the " s " and Ana, name or not (Ana is a Spanish name), is the same as Anna, in English.
La mela
Kevin is completing his Irish courses the way I got through my Spanish ones. By not actually learning or retaining what words meant but just figuring out context clues and seeing what answer would be a coherent sentence.
Exactly. How is there any other way to do it?
@@doodlebyte7964 the method works for sure but if the same thing is done in the right environment you have a much better time retaining the information because its important and applicable at the time of learning
I did the exact same thing for Chinese and it was hell
Languages being taught for a grade just sucks
Language Transfer seems like a good app for learning Spanish, but I don't know for sure
Sad thing is, Kevin's level of skill with the Irish language is typical for the vast majority of Irish people. School forces you to do Irish classes but Ireland as a whole rarely gives you the opportunity to use the language in everyday life. As I see it, our patria lingua is on life-support
It's because the curriculum doesn't make students understand the language, it encourages students to learn off answers to questions that are predicted to come up, and learn how to reply to super specific questions that come up in the oral. That's it. No understanding, no look at the structure of the language, just force fed things to just learn off and never use again
Learning a language solely based on what they teach at school has never worked, anywhere. To have it work, first you need to have it be the main language of teaching and you probably need to ban any other languages being spoken (the same way they ban students from speaking their native languages in international schools all around the world). Then you'd need like at least 5 hours of Irish language class everyday.
@@juch3 you sir, should be Ireland's Minister of Education.
@@juch3 also you need a lot of Irish content like movies, newspapers and etc.
@@Foxtrot6624 it's roughly how English is taught in Italy
For example I have to remember computer science both in English and italian but we don't study English literature or everyday things so it's really difficult to speak English outside of the school context
Now that he's in Spain, naturally Kevin has to polish his Irish skills.
Read this as “Polish his Irish”
@@lennongrad13 Me too this Comment section is too Europe
Why is he in Spain just wondering.
@@brotherhogan6880 the s is silent
@@brotherhogan6880 he did a video on it. Basically the weather is nicer. I think his girlfriend is from there too.
I'm realizing I would absolutely be invested in a series of Kevin relearning Irish to fluency
Yesssss
We could all learn along with him. That would actually be really awesome because I've been dying to learn Irish, plus it'd be doing a huge favor for the Irish language as it's almost in danger of dying off, although it has been coming back in recent years.
@@jeremy5602 it has died off for common use, my mom grew up in ireland and dosent know it at all
@@ducksongfans Have you not heard of the Gaeltacht?
@@jeremy5602 oh i hadn't hear of them
According to duolingo, there are more people learning Irish on duolingo than there are people in Ireland who actually speak it.
That's sad but I 100% believe it since only 2 people I know can speak it fluently
True sadly, it's mainly a small amount of the west that speak Irish, I being in that part. Generally just a small bit of Donegal, mayo, Galway and Kerry, that's about it. Even so, almost everyone will speak English so there's almost no reason to know the language other than to talk shit about someone
@@sponge260 Póg mo thóin is something I use nearly every day which is kiss my ass in irish
@@sponge260 are the people from mayo called mayonnaise?
Probably people in the US or Canada learning Irish to get more connected to their culture.
" I would be an alcoholic too if this was my language"
Sir, this IS your language.😂
i know ;'( to be fair it has a lot of norse influence from way back, and of course Old Irish, so it can feel so different. I think it's beautiful the way Hiberno english retains so much syntax grammar and lyrical flow seen in Irish. he knows more than he thinks, really!
ah yes the two genders:
1. fear
2. bean
perfect
@@ahhhhyes I mean in Irish it is literally how we say it sjbdhdbd
Don’t have words for all the new gender unfortunately :(.
- a sad agender Irish person
@@ahhhhyes lol not its male and female. Who calls it woman and man
@@whitelily6658 Can I still call you a Bean though?
@@whitelily6658 Nach bhfuil siad baininscneach agus firinscneach?
I'm Irish and I can confirm I am a bean
‘a bean’ will never get old it literally cracks me up EVERY time
Same with bore ragnarok, every single time man
Makes "Mr Bean" a bit weird as a name.
that's the goblet of fire video?
that's the goblet of fire video?
@@KlaximumSkroeft yes
"you're the worst thing to happen to ireland since the famine" had me dying
Probably had kevin dying on the inside after they said that to him
The “fear” pronunciation in irish is very similar to “far” in Norwegian, meaning “dad”
Every man is now your dad.
Likely influenced from Viking settlements
@@Pallethands More likely that the Vikings caused sound changes that also happened in Norwegian.
@@Pallethands "Likely influenced from viking settlements" Ok ok lets stop trying to sound smart thats not even remotely plausible
@@GAMER123GAMING you do realize the vikings invaded ireland... right? This is middle school history
“Because, let’s face it, we’re all beginners here” Me, an Irish secondary school student, who is watching this video instead of studying for an Irish test: *ferocious nodding*
This is studying the fun way
I second this lol have a test next week
im surprised they got into the aimsir laithreach so quickly. the boy EATS an apple? start with the past tense like normal irish lessons
it would probably be easier if he was listening to the correct dialect
@@ewe3221 omg yes! My test is specifically grammar and Duolingo doesn’t know the meaning of grammar 😭
“The woman with the air conditioning is back”
Shouldn’t it be “the bean with the air conditioning”? 🤔 I’m learning so much from today’s video
I'm just surprised to hear evidence of an Irish person having air conditioning. She must have recorded that abroad, cause I've yet to see a single house with air conditioning here.
@@BurnsyMcBurn Yeah, I'm fluent and I didn't even know we had a word for air conditioning!
@@BurnsyMcBurn æm
@@ScutoidStudios Wait, *we have a word for it??* Is it crazy long like the word for CD, or actually reasonable?
I bet we only have a word for it because of air conditioning in cars and to talk about whether its broken or not, rather than the devices in buildings.
@@BurnsyMcBurn aerchóirithe, perfectly reasonable!
As an Irish citizen recently moved to Spain, using Duolingo to learn Irish was the obvious choice
I love when Kevin does something “a little bit different” 😂
The amount of serotonin I get every time the Bean joke resurfaces is through the roof. It’s always funny.
I think I missed that video.
Do you by any chance remember what it's called?
@@desmondleguay1969 I’m pretty sure it’s from when Kevin played the Harry Potter: prisoner of askaban game
@@majahultgren5368 cheers
SAME OMG ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITES
I'll never forget two sentences this app made me learn
"I'm not a woman. I'm a seal".
Irish is beautiful
Prynhawn da, draig dw i - Good afternoon, I am a Dragon.
Duolingo always sets priorities when it comes to useful phrases!
@@hikariyumi9441 I can just imagine someone using Duolingo for a few months and going to a foreign country. "Excuse me sir, Megan does not like eating vegetables"
@@SEEYAIAYE that’s good information to have! My owl keeps calling me a bad girl! Not only is that rude I’m not seeing myself calling other people that 😂
@@hikariyumi9441 I think Duo knows us too well, It keeps making me repeat that I enjoy drinking beer but I don't like drinking water.
"I would be passed off too if this was my language"....but Kevin, you're 100% Irish. This is your language.
He was doing really well, it saddened me to hear him say that not saving the results is probably for the best. I had a similar situation living in an autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in Russia where all kids, regardless of ethnicity, learn Tatar along Russian, but because I wasn't Tatar myself, and the way they were teaching it was super boring, I felt it was useless and barely passed all my exams and could never pay attention. But once, just once, when reading a Tatar text aloud, I was complimented by the teacher on how good my pronunciation was. She said I sounded just like a tatar girl. I was SO flattered. Even though I did terrible at the language. Even though once as a kid I said to (another) teacher's face I hated her subject. Much later I understood that being multilingual is a huge asset and there are no "useless" languages. So, Kevin, don't get discouraged, language learning is never a fast process unless you're a genius or practice constantly, which most of us can't afford to do. If you really want to learn Gaelic, you can. It even has a Latin script which makes it much easier. Good luck to anyone learning a language, the trick is to make it enjoyable and personal to you.
"Living in Tatarstan I had to learn Russian and Tatar growing up..."
*Proceeds to write a comment in perfect English*
Whenever I run in to someone who has learned multiple languages it always makes me a little jealous haha. I'm from England, I did learn a little French in middle school but I dropped it when I chose my subjects in upper school I did take German though, I was pretty good at it. This was many years ago though and unfortunately I've since forgotten a lot of what I learned.
I at least take some solace in the pride I feel that the language most of the world chooses to learn after their own is the language from my country.
@@Gohka At least in scandinavia it's obligatory to learn english in school. Here in Sweden we also have a bunch of culture from England or the US and we mostly dub movies or series meant for kids. Kids as early as three years old learn basic english thanks to games, youtube videos or music.
I realized that the experiences are always very similar between people who lived this thing of being in a place where there's a dominant language and a traditionnal / minority language.
I used to hate breton language (a celtic language spoken in France) and I used to laugh at breton lessons and teachers. I repeated the stuff I heard, it was an ugly language and more important, it was useless. But when I grew up, I realized maybe breton language was missing in my life without me even knowing it. And as you said, I realized there's no useless languages.
@@Ys-uv3zq Even I didn't know that France and Germany when unifying only a few centuries ago, quashed much of the smaller regional cultures, traditions and languages in favor of standard high french and german. so places Like Breton/Britanny and Bavaria and similarily Ireland with all it's regional dialects became so endangered and shamed upon. but they're beautiful and every Indigenous language has a unique outlook and story of the lives of it's people old and present!
As a Gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker), this was the most blursed thing I've seen all week, thank you Caoimhín (Kevin)
Aye, exactly. It's gaylick.
Not Irish.
Then there's the supreme, gaelic.
Caoimhín 😳😳😂
Still cant understand how "mh" turns into "v"
@@inspector_beyond the same reason why spanish people turn j into h.
@@inspector_beyond depending on the part of the country you're in it can also turn into a 'w', and 'bh' is done the same way!
You know this stressed him out when it literally said "fear me" and he didn't comment on it
As a former home-schooled kid who's spanish lessons consisted of watching every episode of Muzzy, I know your pain all to well
Same, but with French.
Mine was Italian
Muzzy is vaguely familiar, definitely something I tried to forget. It's creepy😆🙈
Mine was in English, i think at least, I think I repressed it
@@bddragon631 Same. I didn’t know it was originally British until way later.
I'm half Irish and have been learning on Duolingo. I am really amazed at how well the lessons have been working for me. I can now speak it better than my dad (my Irish parent) to be fair though he also hasn't touched the language since High school.
“You can see what the Irish language is like”
As a Gaelic Scot, I’m already laughing, god you’re in for a bloody rough time. Scots literally has 18 letters for the alphabet instead of 26, so letters like V simply don’t exist, but BH and MH are said like V… so… my condolences?
English: learning silent "e"
Gaelic: learning silent "ddhgh"
Irish is the same! I think they share an alphabet
That’s just Celtic languages in general tbh
@@alioc3298 Hey, no need to tar the Brythonic languages with the same brush as the Gaelic languages!
@@Talarc24 hey I dunno about you but my Cornish ass is sure as shit seeing similarities here
the fact that kevin is so entertaining that we can watch him learning a language via an app and still have a blast
Me: pronouncing Aemon correctly
Kevin: you're wrong. Pronounces Aemon the same way I did
Me: ah I see
Yeah Eamon is actually my dad and my brother's middle name so I was just there like 😶
I knew that one from Dragon Age Origins lol.
Even if you're right, you're wrong.
I actually got Aoife correct because a mythical character by that name was mentioned in an OSP video.
I got Saoirse because of Séan lol. He names one of his dogs after her.
3:03 I pretty much gave up on language learning when they implemented the lives. It killed my motivation 💀
My favourite thing is when Kevin asks "what is this" and DOESN'T click the word although it would show what it is 😂
To be fair Duolingo isn't great at making sure you know this is something you can do
Took me quite a while to figure out
@@connis2299 it actually tells you in the little clues before you start a lesson
@@nataliaxo6239 Yeah, well, the app version tells you to click the tips section...which isn't on the app for Android.
@@connis2299 I was halfway through the second tree when I figured it out.
@@nataliaxo6239 Not in the mobile version, lol
Title: Learning Irish with Duolingo
Kevin: Starts the video speaking Spanish
Classic Kevin.
Gaylick
@@gram. Nah man, Garlic
I love how 7 minutes in, Kevin even lost the ability to talk normal english, going
"YOU EATS APPLE" 😂
should've said "Youse's eating plenty apples, sure there"
I went to the Irish whiskey museum and learned that the word "whiskey" literally comes from "uisce", the Gaelic word for water. Glad they didn't lie to us lol
Interesting, same goes for vodka in Slavic languages 🤔😄
@monasabbat9733 I was about to say the same thing🤔
"Every sentence'd be a struggle,
it would drive me to the bottle"
-Kevin, the Poet (2021)
Being Irish and knowing the language, this was the funniest thing ever
same lol
Definitely the best part
ye im only learning but now i feel like a god
@@beeznutz8017 conas a bhfuil tú ag dul air aighe leis?
yeah same with me
Alternate title: "Irishman exclaims 'what' in varying tones while attempting Irish Duolingo"
"I don't even know how to say I, and I studied the language for 9 years!"
That is legit me and French. I took it from grade 1 to grade 9, and I still can't speak French, so now I'm also on Duolingo to try to learn it, and the owl now keeps popping up in my day to day life to guilt/threaten me into learning more.
Me with Mandarin Chinese lol. Used to be decently conversational, even, but I forgot everything.
you canadian?
It's fun to see similar grammatical rules in different languages. Throughout this vid I was like "That makes sense, it's like in German!" or "It's obviously that, kind of like in Polish" . Heck, it was enjoyable and I actually learned something
Being a polyglot is so rewarding! Unfortunately these aren't close to my languages but I'm glad someone gets to experience that here 😂
Hallo! Wie geht es dir? Też mówię po polsku i niemiecku :P
I know that Scottish Gaelic is western Germanic and they can have a conversation in their native tongue with the Irish.
@@soloscriptura7451 pretty much, like if you drop them both in Antarctica they'll make a new Gaelic tongue.
It didnt remind me of any of the languages i know
As a native Spanish speaker, I would LOVE to see you do this again but instead of Irish, with Spanish
Amazing profile pic btw
Suscriptor de tomii 11 tienes mi respeto
Kevin: Irish is hard, I only have 3 lives left & I’m depressed
Duolingo: NICE!
This was very interesting to see from the perspective of an Irish person. I think you are being harder on yourself then you need to be. I could tell your background knowledge from school was helping you more than you realized. You at least knew how to pronounce words that I don't think I could ever manage to pronounce XD. Definitely would watch more if you ever wanted to delve into something like this again.
Kevin playing Duolingo was the definition of "doing something different today" on the channel
"An Irishman tries to learn Irish with Duolingo"
I can already see that he will fail tragicaly and Duolingo will do what he has to do...
@Anna if you have no rights, self promote
Naw.
Gaelic.
Not Irish.
@@gram. In Ireland, it's called Irish, not Gaelic. It's much like saying English is called Germanic
@@gram. its gailge on irish not gaelic thats what scots speak
And then he proceed to forget that in the present tense you get to mash together verbs and mé
Kev, as a Spanish cult member, I'm so impressed with how good your Spanish pronunciation is. You're honestly doing great.
Also, I'm one of the weirdos studying Irish on Duolingo. Maybe that Spongebob video is indeed perfect for me.
I'm also one of those weirdoes 😎😎😎
9:02 i totally forgot about this show.. this awakened some ancient memories
i definetly didnt watch it in irish though, but idk what language it was
I've been saying it for years, and I won't stop now: Duolingo tests more how well you know English than teaches you the language you're trying to use it for.
When duolingo doesn’t accept bike as an answer and you have to remember how to spell bicycle
@@jadedesigns6171 I got a mistake for typing "Jon" instead of "John", which made me quit, because in Japanese (which I was trying to learn/maintain), they're both spelled "Jon" smh
@@twrd7126 oop
@@twrd7126 I typed Jon and it worked fine :0
It's nice practice for a language you already know but don't get to speak often.
Kevin: living in Spain and learning Irish
Also Kevin: Why would anyone want to watch this in Irish with Spanish subtitles?
I would just like to compliment Kevin's shirt. It's just nice.
i think its just neat
I think it's just def.
I wish i had that shirt
Verbs in Irish with -im or -aim at the end of them is me! It's basically taking mè being squished into the word. Like in English you say I am, but you can also say I'm. You did really well for someone who doesn't speak any Irish and hasn't for years!
yes! i found a video series on youtube that actually explains what every word means, how the suffixes are implemented, the general meaning and direct translations and pronunciation slow and run-together and have found it very helpful. to know with confidence precisely what one is saying is key to confidence and progression. you cant just mimickery the sounds.
What can’t Kevin do? He’s handsome, has a beautiful voice, is funny, and is trilingual
Quadrilingual! He speaks Simlish, as well!
Kevin's "WHAT?!" At the word for congratulations was comedy gold
I clipped it right away. My highlight and very relatable
Comháirdeachas!!
another irish here and through all my years of irish i think kevin did so well
like i know foods, drinks random phrases and swears, the anthem and how to go to the toilet
thats literally everything from like 10yrs of learning
at least i know all the names easily
That's unfortunately because they don't *actually* teach the language. They're primarily just teaching vocabulary by rote learning, and simple phrases that are ridiculously specific, and can't be used outside of certain contexts. But people can recall on tests. That's not actually learning a language. You need to learn the grammar and syntax as well. This has been a constant complaint of Irish language enthusiasts for years, and unfortunately the government has completely ignored their suggestions to revise the method of teaching for years. Because they don't really care if the language dies out.
The language could honestly be revived in just a few decades, completely, if they just followed the successful Israeli example of reviving a dead/dying language.
I'm not Irish but also learned it for 10 years which is actually really sad tbh I do know a good bit of Irish though since I grew up speaking German and English so I retained language information pretty easily
The trick is to actually use it when learning it.. Kids should have more regular conversation in the language outside of class.. It would be enough with just 45 minutes a day.. And you would retain the language into adulthood.
@@swedishmetalbear like gym class and art class and after school clubs for fun as Gaeilge!
8:39 - Muzzy! 😻 I’m Italian and we had the dvd here too, iIrc multiple dvds were released, each one with different languages. It used to come out each week, but my parents stopped at the first one ‘cause it had the languages we learn in school. I wanted more tbh, I watched it so many times as a kid lmao I still have it 👀
I laughed way more than I should have about how this briefly devolved into watching Spongebob in Gaelic... although that Gaelic but subtitled in Spanish just seems like it was targeted to an Irishman who moved to Spain but decided to watch Spongebob, hmmmm...
But keep up the good work relearning garlic
Garlic.
gaeilge*
*GARLIC*
Irish*
Gaeilge *
Kevin, lo estás haciendo muy bien. Todo el mundo está orgulloso de ti.
Nah were not proud of him were fond of him
See yo speak Espaniol muy bien mi am es estudianta of Bilingual app with es el Loco how bad mi am at this lol donde esta el boinos?
You just taught me TH-cam has a translate option in comments
@@supernova582 Que dijiste 🤨
@@parkycod you asked what did I say ok I said yes you speak Spanish very good I am a student of Duolingual app with is the crazy how bad I am at speaking Spanish were is the bathroom?. The crazy is not prouper English it's a mistake in the translation of Spanish to English also proper English it's not very good it's very well my bad 😅. I'm sorry for my bad Spanish
God. As someone who has tried for years trying to learn Irish on Duolingo and having to restart multiple times, I feel so validated.
I have the same problem with Welsh, Duo is great for casual learning and repetition on basic stuff but you need to dig a lot deeper, get some books and listen to some podcasts/audio of your TL if you really want to really learn a language.
Yeah I've tried Duolingo for a few languages and it's just not very good. It's more so you can just say "oh yeah I know Irish "conas atá tú?"
It's very rarely actually useful stuff. But if you do want to learn it, get books, get classes, talk to others who speak the language. I know this sounds silly but if you can come to the country I'd say it's not a bad idea. Obviously you'd need some basic understanding, but actually using it in daily life does wonders for learning it. I feel the main reason Irish people don't remember Irish is because they never use it at home, at all and they never even have the option to most of the time.
But, if you want it, ná cuir stop leis an staidéar
1:35 honestly it makes more sense than french some days and i was forced to learn french. Great video!
I guessed all the names, only because once you get the dip- and trip-thongs down and kind of like chinese radicals, certain letters chang the sound so if you spot them, you know there's mental math to be done.
Okay but the fact Kevin remembers Muzzy is EVERYTHING
yes that’s French they’re speaking and NOOO these children are not French, they’re aMeRiCaN!!
That just brought back some repressed memories. I watched it in French and I was absolutely terrified of it
I had the French version too. I remember I would watch it, not understand what was going on, then pop in the English version and watch that like I was watching a Disney movie or something, lol!
I watched the Spanish version in 8th grade and it was everything. It was a huge meme and we all loved getting to watch that instead of doing whatever we would have done instead, although we were tested on it a little
I watched the English version and we absolutely loved it and were very invested in it
One of the things that made me finally start trying to learn Irish, was remembering that whiskey in Irish is Uisce Bheatha or Water (of) Life.
My grandparents are 100% Irish yet all I’ve learnt is “póg mo thóin” which wasn't the best phrase to teach me when I’m like 8
"pog"
What does that mean again?
What does it mean
@@stayhomewearamask3318 it means kiss my ass, it’s very common in everyone in Ireland to say😂
That's what i learned from my step dad. He's full blown Irish. Accent and all. But he also taught me a little more stuff.
Okay, I actually pronounced Eamon right, along with Fionn, Niall, and (believe it or not) Niamh.
I had a friend/classmate in school named Niamh (pronounced neeve), and every substitute teacher messed up her name... all but one...
...who had an Irish last name. And she pronounced it right!
Im called Eamon and yeah you very rarely get those names pronounced right the first time, not that i mind too much i still like my name. I got most of the names pronounced right but there were a few there that tripped me up
I started learning Irish about 3 months ago. Coincidentally enough it was when I learned that it even existed from a video you posted a while back. I can't remember the one, but the struggle is real. Raised with English, and didn't grade well in it, with a dip into French from high school. Irish has been quite different in structure. Many of the sentences beginning with the verb that changes based on if I'm doing it, we are, or he/she/they are. I think my favorite phrase so far is "tá brón orm." "I'm sorry." A word for word translation being there is sadness on me.
Changing verbs depending on the subject is actually something a lot of European and romance languages share. In Russian, words can be in a lot of different orders and still make sense because much of the grammar comes from the way the words end. I've heard a lot of people learning English actually find it really confusing because we don't conjugate our verbs that way so word order is much more important for meaning.
a lot of languages changes verbs depending on the subject
why though
@@itsoracle It just struck an interest with me. No reason beyond that.
@@eldonhill4840 the funny thing is that irish doesn't just change the verb depending on the subject, but also the preposition. Like "agam" means "at me" but "agat" means "at you". there aren't a lot of languages which do that.
Kevin: I'm 100% Irish
Also Kevin: let's learn Irish cause I forgot it all
That's the Irish way. 😂
Oh my gosh the nostalgia I felt when you watched Muzzy! We watched it for French in school, also having no idea what they were saying.
Side note, From someone learning a difficult langauge for a degree (Japanese), Duolingo is okay if you want to visit the place as a tourist. It teaches you phrases and words for every day use, and makes it so you can get around. Unfortunately it doesnt really teach you how to apply grammar structures and conjugation properly. Helpful for vocab and phrases, not so great with how to use the langauge
I'd agree.
It's a good step
I heard the same. I was using it so I could read Japanese on my own, but it wasn't much help since a lot of anime and manga use slang and improper structure.
@@nedinnis6752 yeah, Duolingo teaches you basic dialect, where as a lot of manga is short form casual. The fact it doesnt fully teach you the Kanji too is annoying. If you really wanna learn, I recommend the Genki textbooks for grammar and vocab, and the Basic Kanji books for well... Kanji. JapanesePod101 has a great video for learning all Hiragana and katakana, so I reccomend checking that out too. Best of luck!
@@Rene-xi3so It was made by volunteers. And there's over 4000 of them.
That depends on which language you are actually learning.
I have tickets to a Rammstein show next year and I'm trying to learn as much German as I can. I already know some from their songs but I can't speak it good at all lol. Duolingo has helped a bit🤣
I’m learning german too! I started out with duolingo, but i found a fantastic online class for it, and its the best language learning experience ive ever had. I’m still very much a beginner but german is such a fun language and i hope i stick with it and become fluent eventually
As a Welsh speaker, Irish makes a lot of sense grammatically to me but the alphabet is a hurdle... Plus the Duolingo Irish woman is scary
This is kind of ironic considering that Welsh probably has the most intimidating spelling out of all languages written in the Latin alphabet (emphasis on intimidating though - my understanding is that Welsh orthography is actually remarkably regular and predictable once you learn the basics, whereas Irish spelling is way less intimidating at first glance, but it's certainly much, much harder)
Welsh: laughs in /ɬ/
Sutmae, bore da.
@@hrotha Welsh is very regular once you're aware of the sounds, but my struggle with Irish is difference between broad and slender sounds as well as all the digraphs that don't sound how one would perhaps expect them to based on how they're written
As someone who learned Irish for 12 years and only retained a bit more than Kevin, I am amazed that a Welsh speaker is probably putting more effort into keeping the endangered Irish language alive than I ever did.
I always wondered how English suddenly decided "nah, we don't need those things to help people reading figure out how a vowel is produced," but even more confusing is how Welsh at some stage just... didn't need vowels. I know it's not that simple, but I am curious how it still works without any (that I can recognise).
As a Spanish native speaker, I always smile when Kevin says something I can 100% understand. Saludos, gran líder 💖
Muy bien. Kevin vives en españa así habla un poco de español. My english autocorrect hated typing that lol
I have to say going from English to Spanish is a lot easier than I expected and I can still pronounce most things in Spanish I just don't always know what they mean 😅
@samuelpinder1215 Not sure if you knew, but for samsung keyboards, you can enable the billingual keyboard that will autocorrect and recommend words in both languages. It's easier than having to switch keyboards!
@@samuelpinder1215 im so proud of myself cuz i actually read that without using the translation feature lol
@@AceOfStars0 yeah it was really basic spanish
Necesito ver a Kevin practicando Español, tiene que ser la risa.
Espero que ahora que está en España haya más comentarios en español
Ojalá que sí, sería genial que aprenda y un día logre hacer un video entero en español
Sí por favor. jaja
@Inti Nicolás Fierro Oroza no puedo siquiera empezar a imaginar a Kevin hablando español latinoamericano 😂😂
@Inti Nicolás Fierro Oroza pero dijo manzana como latino d:
14:55 (basic translation of the instructions to the Irish exam paper)
Instructions:
There are 2 parts in this paper.
Part A - 45 Marcs - Listening- 3 questions
Part B- 225 marks - Reading, composition and literature- 8 questions
Answer every question
Answer in Irish except for when it isn’t needed.
Every question is worth different marks
Write your answers in the spaces left in this booklet. There is no need to use all of the space available . There is extra space to answer at the back of the booklet. Label any extra work clearly with the question number and part of the question.
it’s actually really interesting as a Niamh™️ because in england people say my name as one single syllable (‘neev’) but in ireland it’s almost split into two syllables like kevin does (‘nee-vuh’) so you’ll never win folks 😭
I did wonder why he sounded like he was saying it with two syllables haha.
This video did wonders for my self esteem! Every time i looked in the mirror i'd be ashamed and disgusted thinking that from the side my body looks bean-shaped. Now i know that beanhood is the epitome of womanhood. Thanks, Kevin! :D
Lmao hella cracked up from this
I would love if this became a series. I love the similarities and differences between languages I know and this one. This video was so much fun!
that bit where you used asking to go to the toilet to remember please gave me flashbacks to when I started studying welsh a year ago and used may i go to the bathroom please (ga i fynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch chi'n dda?) to remember go, please, and may i. I'm glad they make you ask in Irish at school just like they made us ask in Welsh.
I love how half of this video is Kevin trying to learn Irish and the rest is him explaining why he doesn't know already
This man is literally just studying a language and uploads it as Comedy...
And it works, What a madman
I just watched 18 minutes of a man learning his own language and I enjoyed it
As someone doing the Scottish Gaelic course, this was a weird mix of familiar enough to recognise stuff, but different enough to be confusing 🤣🤣🤣
The fact that Kevin can only say can I go to the bathroom in Irish is very relatable
an bhuil cead agam dul go dti an leithreas, le do thoil?
@@purpletree8174 Níl
All I remember from 3 years of taking honors Spanish in high school 😂
Probably why he never learned Irish
@@purpletree8174 nuir a raibh me I rang a ceathair, beidh mo múinteoir le rá "déan jig" le duine ar bith a cuir an chéist "An dtig liom dul cuig an leithreas?"
I don't know what I love more, seeing him struggle more with the official language of his country (100% irish, remember those dna tests), or how adorably innocent he looks speaking spanish, as if he hadn't commited several war crimes in every game he's played
In this video: Irishman fails at his own language.
It should be sad, but for some reason it is hilarious.
Lol Im better at other languages than my own language tho
12:23 kevin my man thats literally the name of one of the members of a best selling boyband of all time
When I first learned Irish on Duolingo, the first thing I was taught was "Is fear me", (I am a man).
Teaching people to fear men? I think that's what made me fall more in love with Ireland than I was before.
This gives Ron's love of "beans" a new meaning.
And pythagoras' hate of them!
Now I just imagine Ron shouting "WOMAN"
@@sponge260 No wonder Ron's always so exhausted if he spends all his time chasing women
Kevin doing an Irish Junior Cert Ordinary Level exam paper is the best part of my 2021 so far
Me who's GCSE Irish has been cancelled 2 years in a row:
Never did I think hearing Kevin say "A BEAN!!!" would make me go from crying to laughing in an instant lmAo thanks kev
“I bet you didn’t get this one. If you say you did you’re lying”
Me, Who’s name is Caoimhe-
Thats the only one I didn't know how to pronounce. Going by the other names I knew, I assumed it would be Keefa.
@@alissageearr708 some ppl I know pronounce it like that. I actually pronounce it ‘Key-va’ so basically the same as keefa but with a sharper ‘V’ sound.
It’s not uncommon for Irish names to have multiple pronunciations. I met a girl called ‘saoirse’ who pronounced it ‘Soar-a-ha’ instead of ‘Soar-sha’
Irish is just weird
I’ll tell you that, it’s hard to grow up in Italy with the name Caoimhìn.
Kevin: *moves from Ireland to Spain*
Also Kevin: *learns to speak Irish in a country where no one speaks Irish*
Hearing Kevin proudly exclaim “I am a girl!” made my day and I hope it made yours too
Muzzy was one of the first programs in USSR/Russia for English learning, it also had no subtitles, my mom used to watch it when she was young. That's so cool that they made it it Irish 😄
I'll never get tired of A BEAN!
You're too humble Kevin! You are promoting Ireland, maybe not conventionally, but through your light heartedness and sarcasm. It means a lot for the Irish language that you're trying out these lessons (and you're doing it with respect). Thanks for sharing! 😊🙏
Kevin: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
Three seconds later: "What?!"
Oh no, Kevin too is now apart of the cult of duo