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What if the bodies were in the post office? He tried shipping body limbs in different packages to hide the evidence until he could escape police custody.
And before any of you come to conclusion that Irish lass is about to murder someone - kill, (or chill, because there is no "K" in Irish alphabet), means "church" in Irish, and what this idiom ("I'd kill") means, literally - "I would bless". When said by Irish, of course. Or, at least, with Irish accent.
@@anreoil So when a criminal says in an interrogation that they killed a guy, the Garda just thinks "Aargh, we'll never get them to confess to this murder!" 😶😁
reminds me of a story i got told in ireland: there was a succsessful barkeeper in america leading an irishpub always bragging about him being such an irishman and fully knowing gaelic. when an actual gaelic speaking guy went to his pub they started talking in gaelic. The barkeeper only knew the "our father" in gaelic though, so when he was asked a gaelic question he answered in the first rhyme of it. The irish lad quickly understood and proceeded the prayings next verse, on wich the barkeeper could answer in the next one and so on making it look like an actual conversation. the irish lad got all his drinks for free on that night and didn't tell anyone.
I’m currently studying Japanese at uni and I feel this pain. I can’t converse, but I *can* ask you your father’s profession and tell you the pen on the table belongs to me.
Leigh-Ann Turnbull Osukunatte sumimasen. That’s all I remember from Japanese class and the spelling is probably off lol I still remember it because it was my most used phrase besides “enpitsu”
@@theirishdemon7644 no offence but did you fail if you went to a gaelscoil like your fluent before you start secondary school I spell my name wrong and still got an A
“Do you know any foreign languages?” “Well I’ve taken Mandarin at school for ~6 years I guess” “Oh so you are conversational?” “I know 20 words and can write 8 of them”
@@annonimooseq1246 The second is is "jiā yóu". It literally means "add oil", but people use it to mean "you can do it!" or "come on!" or even "great job!"
My irish oral exam I know pretty much nothing I tried to describe my day and said "ith na paiste" I tried to say I ate pasta but I pronounced it like that which meant I ate the child
My sister learned irish Gaelic and didn't have anyone to talk to so I spent a year learning Gaelic too to suprise her... I learned Scottish Gaelic and cannot communicate with her at all. Well barely🤦♀️🙃.
@@misterx1342 you mean verstaan. I also did compulsory Afrikaans first additional language for 10 years of my education and I just barely understand basic conversation.
Sin é. Ní éisteann na Sasanaigh linn. Ceapann siad go mbíonn an ceart acu i gcónaí. Ach an oiread daoine anseo ag rá Gaelic freisin. Cuireann sé soir mé!
@@EllaKarhu Yeah but it's hard when you're in a in between I speak a good bit of Russian and I'm able to get round just fine with it, but I wouldnt say I'm fluent or close.
Miikka Karhu there’s something in-between you know. Besides I’m never going to say I’m fluent in a language because really, I consider that something that only be achieved by mother tongue speakers. I’d say I speak French well but I also speak Italian on a conversational level. I still make a lot of mistakes but the locals understand me and I understand them. But I don’t speak Italian then according to you?
Miikka Karhu You can speak a language without being fluent. I speak Spanish and can converse pretty well but Iʻm not fluent by any stretch of the imagination
Also known as when you lie and someone finds out. Don't pretend to speak a language if you don't actually speak it! A few phrases is fun but not the same as speaking a language.
Reminds me of the story that my Manx Dad and Grandad were on a train in the UK in an old style compartment. Two people came in and started speaking in Welsh. So Dad and Grandad spent the rest of the journey saying Hello, Merry Xmas and Good Health to each other in Manx for the rest of the journey.
Manx and Welsh are related, aren't they? Couldn't the Welsh speakers guessed what these three phrases meant? Or at least noticed that they are repeating? Even if you don't understand the words at all, you can notice that someone is repeating some phrases over and over again.
@@samuela-aegisdottir Manx is a kind of gaelic so not close to Welsh. There's a very few words are the same like Ty mor = Thie Mooar, I think. Both my Dad and Grandad have been dead over 30 years now so I can't quiz them on the details. They would have been saying some other words and phrases too but I didn't list them all as I was trying to make it reasonably interesting and concise 😊
M-A Kuttner, most bilinguals in Canada are from or live in the « billingual belt » those areas where English and French speakers live there so you need to speak both languages on a daily basis. Montreal, Ottawa, New Brunswick, region of Quebec and Ontario near the borders.
At the beginning, it's really hard to teach a subject that people don't want to learn. A.K.A Mandatory foreign language, after that, it's just the nature of school itself that is really bad with learning languages. Because they note people on their ability to speak a foreign language and by consequences, they create losers and winners. So competition, some losers will feel like it's impossible for them to learn a foreign language that they are dumper than Katia, let's say, but what they don't know about her is that her mother works for a federal agency and therefore her mother helps her with her homework because people in her family already speaks French, so she is in an advantage, but she will make feel other people in her class as inferior. They will start to resent and hate their foreign language classes and just try to do the bare minimum to pass the tests, memorizing words and expressions and nothing more. Because there is no fun or joy in that stressful and competitive environment, maybe that the students are more equipped to be good employees, but learning the foreign language in question ... Not so ... What we should do is favoring cooperation in classes where students can learn from each other, like with Katia and her parents helping her with her homework, but in that case scenario, it would be everyone enjoying this help, even those who are not as privileged as her. So in a positive environment, people wouldn't resent learning a foreign language as much. Because it wouldn't be linked in their mind as a painful, stressful traumatic experience, but rather as something fun, challenging and that takes time. Because learning a foreign language takes time and it's really better to enjoy the possess. For example, English is not my Native language Shcool after many many years just taught me the basics. Just being able to get by in English, now my level of English is really advance, but I needed to learn all that by myself. Obviously, it's easy with English with the availability of movies, music, books, etc... But that's it and with time it just became more and more, easier to listen to it, to talk, to write English. But I needed to invest myself in that and to make my own immersion. I just enjoyed the process and that's it my English is getting better days by days.
it would've been incredibly funny if they somehow made the misunderstanding coincidently lead to actual crime, leading to Detective Moran being praised for his good work.
As an American, this is about the same as the sum total of the Spanish I learned in school, but instead of "where is the post office?" the one everyone remembered was "where is the library?"
Cedric the Entertainer had on his show "Que Hora Es?", the Mexican soap opera for people who only had three weeks of Spanish in the 4th grade. th-cam.com/video/4cKGyOE_jOI/w-d-xo.html
Fellow American who learned languages through schooling. It's lack of applied practice. This video is my German, because I hardly use it, but my Russian is actually pretty good, because I use it frequently.
@Arch Stanton LOL. Speaking French as a first language and then learning Spanish has some advantages; you just have to spanishify a French word and it works 85% of the time. Trouble is : the orthography can be quite different :P Bibliothèque Biblioteca
This is like me with high school French. (I'm Dutch) Ou est le (la?) post? One of the first things I learnt in the 4 years I had to take French. Then on holliday my parents wanted me to ask someone where the freaking post office was and I could't remember!
I love that the criminal is so pleasently surprised at being offered ice cream and asked about his holidays that he becomes extremely helpful in giving directions to the post office.
@@nevergiveupdearfriend7289 No. We speak English but we have to learn Irish (a very different language) in school as a subject and it isn't taught very well
@@bigjuicypotato1482 oh i see. İ always thought you speak Irish in daily life ,my apologies. Can I ask you why English is your spoken language? İs it something about nationalism or french revolution etc? İ don't have quite knowledge about history of europe and politics. Can you summarize it of it is possible?
@@nevergiveupdearfriend7289 We were a part of Britain for almost a millennium. That's the easiest way to explain it. Also a very small amount of people do speak Irish daily but it is only a few thousand.
Studying Swedish on Duolingo and feeling the same pain: I can tell you that "The yellow hat is on the tortoise between the restaurant and the bear," etc.
@@fouzanium not at all strange. Yellow hats in Sweden have higher than the average tendency to land on the reptiles in the vicinity of food supply places and hairy mammals. One needs proper tools to express this phenomenon once it is observed.
Hobbit Girly you are a disgrace to both your halves. Your only means of redemption is if you can cook a sick pasta dish while drinking a pint of guinness every 5 minutes.
Yes, I feel your pain. I'm half Italian and half Mexican. No matter where I go in my family, everyone just sees me as a failure for not speaking their language. I'm studying though now. Starting with Italian and then will move to Spanish.
This reminds me of a true story I heard years ago in New Zealand A German guy was on trial and he could only speak German so the judge not having an interpreter handy asked the folks watching the trial in the gallery if anyone could speak...A huge tattoo covered Maori guy with dreadlocks put up his hand to act as an interpreter and came to stand next to the dock where the German guy was standing.....The Judge asked the Maori guy to ask what the defendants name was for the record...The Maori guy cleared his throat...turned to face the defendant and asked loudly...... *VOT ISH YOUR NAAAAAAMEE?*
The true story was a German in an Irish court (Dublin) it was just after world war 2. And when the offending party said it the judge sentenced him to 6 month's imprisonment for contempt of court.
Doulingo keeps telling me "there are more people learning Irish here then there are native speakers" But now I guess the native speakers are the ones trying to learn it there :D
@@MrHarrystank to be fair, learning a second language is hard. For adults with jobs and kids to raise, it's not lazy to not have the time or energy to devote to a project like that. Especially if you don't really *need* it for your daily life, and you aren't surrounded by native speakers to keep you focused and motivated.
I'm learning Welsh on Duolingo and I can greet dragons, I can ask you if you enjoy eating the five spiders, if you are a house wife and an unemployed electrician, if you want to iron the cheese, but not how old you are or where you're from. Edit: I can also tell you a lot about Owen's parsnips.
This is your first sketch ever that I watched. It was on my fb newsfeed about half a year ago. I'm so lucky to have found you guys. Your videos are helping me manage exam stress these days, and it gets really crippling for me, so I'm not saying this lightly. Thanks a million.
Im irish and this is painfully accurate for 90% of the population of ireland myself included, im more fluent in Norwegian than my own countries native language the only word i understood without translation was póg mo thóin
I’m Welsh and this is how my Welsh language skills would also fair with a fluent speaker…although I’d probably still be able to ask the questions to the suspect I think! I loved this, the days of the week bit got me!!! 🤣
I'm Irish and I can still fluently ask ( I'm not going to attempt to spell it so I'll say it phonetically) awn will gad a gum dull guh dee an letrriss . Literally can I go to the toilet. That pretty much my knowledge... Well done Irish teachers 😂😂😂
So funny! I learned more Irish in 3 weeks in the Gaeltacht than in a year or 2 in school even though I only did an hours class a day and spend the rest of the time playing sports, dancing and talking 'As Gaeilge". Had great craic there!
That is the magic, i promise you. I would get math answers wrong but when friends ask me, i instantly answer with determination without looking at them and...that's how I got wrong with my side of the class 😁😁 all for one, and one for allllll
So funny! Kind of reminds me of the whole debacle where they sent an email for a sign to be translated into Welsh and wrote “I’m out of the office” on a road sign in Welsh
@@alicedwonderland7733 The English part of the sign said "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only." The Welsh 'translation' read "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
I went to Ireland on an exchange programme in uni and took an Irish course. I loved it but it’s really difficult and unlike any other languages I’d learnt before. I went to a Pop Up Gaeltacht event in Dublin. I couldn’t understand a thing but really enjoyed it because people there were really encouraging. Wish I could get better at it but it’s hard to find classes outside of Ireland. I tried Duolingo but I’d prefer it if I could be in class in person to talk to other people. I’ve dreamt about moving to the west of Ireland for maybe a few months to learn it.
I have an Irish (native) teacher via zoom and there are many classes. Apps do not really work for me, only as an extra. We actually used this sketch in a lesson
@Honeysuckle Blossom Indeed, did 4 years of French at school, then took another 2 years at French A level, but apart from school trips have never actually been to France on holiday or anything. So that was worthwhile lol :) Meanwhile I go on camping trips to different parts of Wales every other year (love it there) and keep wishing English schools gave the option of learning Welsh instead - would probably have been far more useful to me and I'd have used it a lot more.
@@Cyhcg5uhgb really? Ambulance? I've been to France and Ireland with school. And during these few days I've learned more then in 5 years at school. Btw, "Wo ist die Bibliothek?"
There is a sad irony to this video. Back around 2000 there was an announcement made that there was officially one last and final monolingual Irishman...meaning he spoke Irish and Irish only all his life and doesn't even know English. He was maybe 45 back then maybe more I don't remember. When he dies though, Irish will be classified a new way as a language I forget the terminology but it has serious implications. So they were going to him having him read all the texts they could and recording everything possible to ensure the monolingual native fluent Irish accent wouldn't be lost. Hope the guy is still kicking, if not what a sad day. My Irish-Do iss meer uh dwit! A hen, a dōg, a tree, a matter, a coowig, a shayv, a shop, a hope, annoy, a day...and um....yea I guess that's all. And it's probably so off in spelling and mistaken the pronunciations I hear that it is incomprehensible to an gaeligophone.
Apparently he died in 1998. The name was Seán Ó hEinirí. Quick google search will get ya the results. Pretty sad tbh, it's an interesting language with a... how to put it nicely... shitty recent history? Yeah that sums it well. When they say "the luck of the Irish" I'm always confused since historically speaking there wasn't much luck to go around on that island, having their population wiped out by a couple/a dozen percents every now and then.
I'm so sorry about this but seeing how someone that's not irish spells irish words really cracks me up, not blaming you it's pretty darn difficult to spell but for anyone wondering here's the actual Irish words at the end of that sentence Dia is mhuire duit! (typically used when replying to hello used when saying "hello to you too") A haon, a dó, a trí, a ceathar, a cuig, a sé, a hocht, a naoi, a deich (basically numbers from 1-10) lol I mightnt have spelled them all right but you get the idea and rest in peace to that irish man 😢
@@GalaxyCloud lol boy was I off! And died in 1998? Wow so that was an old documentary. I still cant remember the terminology used for languages like Irish though that it would have been switched to category wise...meaning it is a dead language but has a significant number of secondary iriah non monolunguimal speakers. I wonder if it would go back to normal classification if in some unlikely universe, Ireland went back to using Irish since it would have an all new accent and timbre and cadence from the original language's run. For the sake of the world and its language students though, I would recommend a more thorough revamping of the alphabet and spelling to align with a more latinized or anglicized w....no...you know something, looking at the above post again, I think one thing that is so incredibly charming about Irish is the amazing usage and unique usage of course of the same alphabet much of the world uses and knows but taken fornauch a one of a kind wild ride with Gaelic.
@@YourName-tt8tz, in my opinion, I don't think Irish is ever really going to be like the main language in Ireland. its a nice language to have don't get me wrong, but I don't see it being used anymore as much as English. too little people in Ireland know Irish fluently for that. As for making the spelling more 'English' it's really not all that difficult once you start to get the hang of it. Well at least the reading part, spelling might be a little weird sometimes, but honestly, isn't English as well? Though the Irish do love their vowels in spelling like the word ''siopadoireacht'' it might look complicated to say but its literally ''shopa-dor-ukt'' (it means shopping btw) i think its the grammar that gets to me though, i still don't fully get it but there are weird language things like saying ''I'm hungry'' in Irish (Tá ocras orm) literally means 'hunger is on me'. Yeah, sorry for going on a little tangent there about the Irish language but hope someone learned something from it.
Went on a trip to Ireland last year and ran into this! One tour guide had been bragging for days about how Gaelic is coming back through the schools and she was so proud to learn it. But when we stopped near a farm north of Galway we ran into a farmer trying to move some sheep, and when she approached him the dude started instantly going off in Gaelic. We all saw her completely freeze and just stare tongue-tied. I love the ideas of bringing the language back, but if just studying it in High School was enough, then most Americans would be able to speak Spanish these days!
i'm very late, but irish has been taught for 12-13 years of a student's life for quite some time now. it's still not enough, though, because they don't teach how to speak conversationally, you only know the answers to some basic questions, which is kind of referenced in the skit. the oral exam is how we learn irish conversationally, but you pretty much learn a written-off answer for each question. "hello," "hello to you too," and "how are you?" "i'm very good, thank you" are probably as far as most people get, so by all means moran being able to ask "what did you do for your summer holidays" is pretty exceptional since that question is optional for the examiner to ask. i'd honestly argue that america's language classes are better, from what i've heard, and that's kinda disappointing, but also kinda hilarious.
And most canadians would be able to speak basic French lol (we officially have to learn it from grade 4 to 9 but it sucks ass, even if you go to a french immersion school)
@@deltafrappuccino I just can't see the point in taking endless hours of students' time to teach them a language that practically nobody outside of Ireland speaks. You literally would find more people in the world who know Latin that Gaelic. And in Ireland everyone still speaks English as their first language (except for in some remote areas you'd probably never visit). You'd better serve the teaching of Irish culture by teaching Irish history and literature in translation, and swap the time spent on dead-language instruction for engineering or maths or finance...or foreign languages that more than .0001 % of the Earth's population speaks.
The reality actually is quite sad, the language is the most important thing for a nation. In my case, im Basque, and I speak euskera in my everyday life, we are not idependet but the fact that we have our language being used by almost 1.000.000 people is priceless
I've heard from a girl from Bilbao (although of Catalan origins, not Basque) that almost no one in the city uses it and people that use it dont care about verbs and mostly uses the Spanish ones (something like that)
I am torn about the language question. Is it good to preserve a language at all costs or is it better to accept a globalizing world where everyone can communicate in English?
Interesting. Some of these words were still in use in Jamaica when I was a child. Didn't know they were Irish Gaelic. I thought they were just old-fashioned English words no one uses any more. Interesting. There were other words in our vocabulary that were probably Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. Makes sense. The Jamaican flag has the cross of St. Andrew; Rastas wear tam o lyns which they call tams; Bob Marley sang about dancing the quadrille etc.
I've been on holiday to spain as a kid. I know "helado con nata, por favor" (ice cream with cream, please). Learning it was good, the portion for that cute little girl that at least tries to speak the language was just a little bit bigger than usually
This is actually perfect timing, because I did a speech at the climate change protest in Dublin, but because I did it in Irish, nobody understood a word.
@@theultimatebro9278 New york is 33feet above sea levels or 10m or so, london is 36ft or 11m or so UN estimates say that sea levels will rise by 15-26 feet by 2070 this makes a lot of cities near uninhabitable. My point being big business knows this and stirs up fear in the public the idea being get people to come together to solve a global problem which further enhances the UN agenda of a world government.
@@theultimatebro9278 If it is such an issue like you guys make it out to be despite there being no long term trend or much proof humans affect climate more than the variation you expect to see decade on decade, why was the 1970s cooler than the 1960s globally? The 1940s-1960s is really when we started releasing a measurable amount of CO2. And also the physics of global warming don't make much sense gasses in our atmosphere dissolve in the sea as the sea heats up more gasses escape so there should be a slightly higher total CO2 level however its made no measurable impact since we first got reliable reading of the composition in our atmosphere in the 50s. The last few centuries have been actually some of the coldest in the last couple thousand years, also why was it called "Global Warming" 10 years ago? Now everyone calls it "Climate Change". Maybe because the world wasn't warming and people began to doubt the ludicrous claims being made about "Climate Change".
If its any consolation, you are still lightyears ahead of Swedes trying to tangle with Finnish. 😂 Our linguistic knowledge base consists of: A usually frowned upon name for female genitalia Standard safety message for the use of a radiator ... and in some rare cases 'knife'.
Hshs as a Swedish person myself I very much understand this as our languages are on different branches of the language tree ahhs I mean I have no clue how to say anything in Finnish but the first numbers but I only know that because of a series from tv. But you have Swedish classes in Finland right? Or some people do at least
I had an internet friend who was trying to learn the difference of "en" and "ett" and when to use it and at the time I had no idea how to explain it ahsh since it simply sounds right to me
@@idkprettygay6156 yeah we have Swedish classes. There's two official languages in Finland (Swedish being the other one) so we all need to learn it at school 😄
AS an Indian, we had 4 languages. Sanskrit was the 4th and we could be conversational as long as we were studying it. Now lost touch! This is only in school. Apart from that, my mother tongue is different than the state language and we can speak the languages of the neighbour states too
Doulingo; "your duck is sleeping on my shirt" Me: 0_O okaaaaaay then... But it's quite good (I'm learning Spanish) to keep the ball rolling. I've started taking to myself about things at home, like "I'm now cooking pasta with sauce", "we don't have bacon" or "this yellow dress is mine". It becomes more natural and now I'm starting to watch kids shows like Phineas and Ferb or shows I already know in Spanish and every day I understand a bit more.
@@emmylee8862 I'm laughing way too hard at this. 😂 There are some quite disturbing ones. Yesterday I got "El cuchillo alcanza al hombre" which translates to "the knife catches up with the man" - Maybe it's the same guy and he ended up in the fridge later 🤔
Try being an Australian in Dublin during World Cup,soccer when Ireland got through to I think the quarter finals in 1990? Then being on a tram with an old Irish gentleman conversing fluently in Gaelic “apparently” about their last match! Not understanding a bloody word I kept answering “Yeah!” Then the old guy got off at a stop. A young Irishman then said to me “Ya di-int understand a word ‘e was sayin di ya?” Apologies for my Irish accent!🤣 I said “Not a bloody word!” He said “Ya di ok mate. Ya answered wit a yes each time!”👍🏼🥴😆
I did that in AZ in a nail salon run by some sweet Asians. Some guys walked in, looked shady; I thought they were asking for money, then they left. The Asian workers talked up a storm. I understood nothing except their concern. At one point when a breath was taken I said, Right! The lady painting my toenails looked up and said, Right! Their whole demeanor changed, eased. I was hoping they felt better. Now I think they might have felt imposed upon. Hmmmmmm
I remember randomly picking up a novel from school library about a decade ago. The cover of the book said based on an old Irish legend so naturally i thought the author was Irish. When i finished reading i looked up the author's name on the web and it turned out this author is Australian but somehow grew up speaking Irish as his native language. I think the author's name was Cecil Mór or something along that line. Edit: Found it. It's Caiseal Mór. Here's his bio users.tpg.com.au/waldrenm/mor.html I'm glad this webpage is still active because most of the websites i used to frequent back in my highschool days all went defunct
Having a conversation in Ireland and not understanding a single word, and thus only responding with multiple "yeah yeah" "grand" and "for sure" is a great part of our culture
@@JohnDouille I had noticed that when I was in Ireland, some people just want to speak and come to you, I could never stay more than 5 minutes alone but I liked it!
1:26 i love how the gaeilge speaker isn't even mad he just goes "síad :3" like he recognizes he's trying and gives a little push in the right direction, even if they're trying to put him behind bars.
I'm learning Irish from scratch and rewatching this video every once in a while. Every time I rewatch it I can understand a few more words than before :) Still a long way to go but I'm happy to see the progress
This is how I felt as a kid, no joke. This entire situation was my childhood visits seeing my Grandma. My Grandma (bless her soul) would speak Gaelic to me as a child and I, a 6 y.o. American female from LAS VEGAS (the culture being gambling, drinking, drugs and sex), tended to be so lost I didn't know if I should apologize, cry or laugh b/c half the time I wasn't sure if I was in trouble. And she was a hardcore beat your ass with a sack of potatoes, cabbage and beef kinda woman. She straight up served cookies and lemonade to the crips & bloods back in the early 90's (at the SAME TIME) and avoided a gang war by ripping their ears when they got outta line. She terrified them.
We need more people like your grandma. Put them in charge of the police force. People would be as scared as the Jews in the 6 months before he started putting them in the concerntration camps. Like hardcore gangbangers would be moving to Canada to escape the irish granny tyranny....
@choppa grizzly I don't think they were scared of her physically. But they might have been ashamed since they she showed them compassion, human psychology is a complex thing. I live in South Africa and I've heard similar stories about certain brave But kind old ladies and gangsters
@choppa grizzly It's not about respecting the elderly, it's about a small handful of people being treated well. Gangsta's are human, they're aren't some space demon race the can't be manipulated or can't feel any positive emotion. So while unlikely it is possible for someone to make multiple people feel respect or admiration for someone
@choppa grizzly I mean I don't know about American culture as much as you do but I've heard stories of gangsters liking an old guy and giving him free "protection" bc he talked to the local gangsters, joked around with them, asked them about themselves, offered them ice tea and allowed them to chill at his garden while he was busy working there. Basically treated them like human beings. That shit can have an effect on some people, maybe not everyone but my parents grew up during apartheid so I've heard quite a few stories like this
Scots has been the dominant language in Scotland for well over a thousand years gaelic you speak is from Irish invaders . The language the Picts spoke is extinct modern Gaelic has nothing to do with Scotland!
@@nathandurbin9260 Its got more to do with scotland than Scots by that logic. As its been here for over 500 years linger. Gaelic was the dominant language until about 1500ad
@@fsxpilot02 Not to all of Scotland, it's more of a Highland thing. Definitely don't oblige someone from Lothian to learn Gaelic for "ancestral purposes", when it was never widely spoken in their area. Their area is the original core from which Germanic Scots would eventually spread around Scotland.
In France there are special schools (called Diwan schools) where all courses are in French and Breton. There are some bands that sing in the language to keep it alive too.
@@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 Manx, Canal Islands Gaeli, Cornish, Orkneyan and Inner Hebridean are basically dead languages, no native speakers alive. Once, in the past they spoke a variety of gaeli even in Cumbria (England)
@George Kafiridis I'm sure it does have fada. Hold down the letter it should be on, itll show accent options (assuming you're using an android. I'm not 100% sure if iPhone runs the same way) Also its póg mo thóin - even the guy correcting you didnt get it 100% Understood what you meant anyway :P
I love that! Some seriously good acting there. Can feel how nervous the Irish cop is. Wonder at what point the perp realised the cop was bluffing for his colleague 😂😂
Lmao unfortunately it depends on the teacher... I got really lucky, I'm actually fluent now in the language I was studying! (Also cause I'm a total nerd and I loved it.) But most of my friends who dropped a language felt this way...
The language is Irish, not Gaelic. Gaelic is a family of languages, which includes Irish, Scot’s Gaelic, and Manx. Calling the Irish language Gaelic is the equivalent of saying that you speak Germanic. The Irish word for Irish os Gaeilge. (Pronounced “Gay-L-geh.)
In my nation,they teach English as the second language,but things has got so bad that even though most of Vietnamese can speak English,most are at the toodler level. So yah,u got it right.
@@jasonvoorhees6152 The problem is it is not taught like a foreign language and it really needs to be, they should also start from scratch when pupils enter secondary school.
@@heilong79 YES! I remember as soon I got into 1st year, I was lost since I forgot everything including verbs and grammar from Primary. It's honestly pretty annoying as of now and I plan to drop to OL since HL for me expects you to write an essay with all the Irish you know.
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These guys are absolutely brilliant. Never laughed so much at all their sketches.
Technically, you’ll be in St Paul, MN…not Minneapolis….just bought tickets….looking forward to it….good luck on the tour…
Imagine he is innocent, but his directions to the post office were vague enough that they found the bodies
The bodies were actually hidden in the alley behind the post office
Angela Cast 😂😂😂
What if the bodies were in the post office? He tried shipping body limbs in different packages to hide the evidence until he could escape police custody.
Angela Cast I can totally see that 😂😂😂😂
Hahah! 😂😂🤣🤣
I want a whole show based around this non-Gaelic speaking Irish policeman.
Hell yes!
Detective Dia dhuit on duty!
Gaeilge or Irish. Gaelic is a blanket term for several languages.
Send it to the Rick & Morty writers for inter dimensional cable
@Sean kirrane If he doesn't speak gaelic then he doesn't speak irish. Whilst you are making a point, it's pointless.
This is my favourite sketch in a while, I’d kill to see any outtakes of the interrogation bit tbh
Same! Let's hope they include it next time they do an outtakes compilation!
Grace Valente yesss 👌👌
Cheap assassins 😶
And before any of you come to conclusion that Irish lass is about to murder someone - kill, (or chill, because there is no "K" in Irish alphabet), means "church" in Irish, and what this idiom ("I'd kill") means, literally - "I would bless". When said by Irish, of course. Or, at least, with Irish accent.
@@anreoil So when a criminal says in an interrogation that they killed a guy, the Garda just thinks "Aargh, we'll never get them to confess to this murder!" 😶😁
reminds me of a story i got told in ireland: there was a succsessful barkeeper in america leading an irishpub always bragging about him being such an irishman and fully knowing gaelic. when an actual gaelic speaking guy went to his pub they started talking in gaelic. The barkeeper only knew the "our father" in gaelic though, so when he was asked a gaelic question he answered in the first rhyme of it. The irish lad quickly understood and proceeded the prayings next verse, on wich the barkeeper could answer in the next one and so on making it look like an actual conversation. the irish lad got all his drinks for free on that night and didn't tell anyone.
Barkeeper's a filthy liar
Well he's got the same level as most Irish lads.
Tis now an open secret
Lmao
Don't tell me you're one of those Americans that thinks he is Irish because you've Irish ancestors ffs
I’m currently studying Japanese at uni and I feel this pain. I can’t converse, but I *can* ask you your father’s profession and tell you the pen on the table belongs to me.
Leigh-Ann Turnbull Osukunatte sumimasen. That’s all I remember from Japanese class and the spelling is probably off lol I still remember it because it was my most used phrase besides “enpitsu”
Sumimasen, sore ha watashi no enpitsu desu.
笑笑
@@Blitzentine enpitsu means pencil
Pen means pen
Well that leads to coversation doesn't it. You have to start somewhere.
Basically 13 years of Irish education summed up in a minute and a half
Y e s
The sad truth
Exactly 😂
It's the sad truth
Sea
Would you like ice cream?
- Ice cream?
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
- I'd love it! 😂😂😂
Hahahahaha
Do u speak Irish?
@@annaender6710 you ate an orange in Dublin?
@hypnotherapy practitioner uk ok... I can't understand much Irish so idk wut u just said
@hypnotherapy practitioner uk Ní labhraíonn mé ach beagán Gaeilge
“Would you like some ice cream?”
Criminal’s mind: These are nicest cops ever
If only they weren't completely bonkers
Playing good cop better cop are you? Won't fall for that one.
Is breá mé
My reply (in Gaelic...er, Irish, of course): "What're ya tryin' ta kill me? I'm pre-diabetic!" 😆
Can anybody explain to me how Germany can understand every word please?
Do Irish for ten years then fail ordinary level. That's a real Irish gamer move.
Go to an Irish school for primary and get an exemption for the leaving cert
@Zod of Heaven tru
Blanko defo👌🏻😂
Blanko
I even went to an Irish school
Gael scoíl
I failed so I did so
I can’t spell in Irish but I can talk Gaelic
@@theirishdemon7644 no offence but did you fail if you went to a gaelscoil like your fluent before you start secondary school I spell my name wrong and still got an A
“Do you know any foreign languages?”
“Well I’ve taken Mandarin at school for ~6 years I guess”
“Oh so you are conversational?”
“I know 20 words and can write 8 of them”
你明白我写什么吗? 加油!
@Saudi King Volintine Ander of Arabia Lmao, I agree with you to an extent.
Ewwww. 簡體字。 Here comes the glorious 繁體字。
Jonah S 我明白第一个句子
@@annonimooseq1246 The second is is "jiā yóu". It literally means "add oil", but people use it to mean "you can do it!" or "come on!" or even "great job!"
😂😂😂😂 That interrogation sounds like my Irish oral exam.
I would pay to have seen your Irish oral exam David 😂.
@@shanefoley6428 😂😂😂😂
My irish oral exam I know pretty much nothing I tried to describe my day and said "ith na paiste" I tried to say I ate pasta but I pronounced it like that which meant I ate the child
Leaded Eagle holy shit lmao
David Nwokoye
Was it on your teacher oh wait...
Years later, it still cracks me up every time when he starts listing the days of the week and has to give up after Wednesday 😂
My sister learned irish Gaelic and didn't have anyone to talk to so I spent a year learning Gaelic too to suprise her...
I learned Scottish Gaelic and cannot communicate with her at all. Well barely🤦♀️🙃.
Oh wow, that's a sad mistake. Spend a year trying to surprise someone and then find out you can't communicate. That sucks man
It's the thought that counts girl.
I wish you rainbows.
I can't imagine Scots Gaelic being handy seeing as how us that are born here don't even really use it.
Tá dlúthghaol ag Gaeilge na hAlban le Gaeilge na hÉireann. (Scottish Gaelic is very similar/related to Irish) Ulster Irish is closer
Where did you learn it?
This is basically what the Irish educational system teaches you, vocab, not the actual language
Bhfuel,níl sé sin go léir i gceart agat mar táim ábalta é a labhairt go héasca :3
Same thing for Afrikaans in South Africa
@@hikari-stinks XD yaaaaaa.....
@@milosvdl4861 ek kan onderstand 'n beitjie "Dutch", maar in Afrikaans daar is nie 'n "C" en "Z" nie.
@@misterx1342 you mean verstaan. I also did compulsory Afrikaans first additional language for 10 years of my education and I just barely understand basic conversation.
You just nailed the two kinds of Irish speakers there XD Either fluent or enough to pass the exams.
Jamie Kenny
What about me? Not enough to pass the exams
Did ye do foundation?
70% percent in ordinary yeet
@@dreadpiraterobertsii4420 60% higher and can't speak a fuckin word now.
@@49Jkenny Nah probably learning another dead language like latin
The way the English guy kept calling it “Gaelic” even after he was corrected is spot on lmfao
Sin é. Ní éisteann na Sasanaigh linn. Ceapann siad go mbíonn an ceart acu i gcónaí. Ach an oiread daoine anseo ag rá Gaelic freisin. Cuireann sé soir mé!
@@caitrionaweafer2993 That’s easy for you to say. 😄
@@caitrionaweafer2993 Ni hea, ní i gcónaí a cheapann muintir Shasana go bhfuil an ceart acu!
@@lorrainecrampton1632 Ar ndóigh, ach go minic.
Tá mé ina chónaí i Áth Stún, cá bhfuil... tú ina chónaí?
-"Me, you, he, she..." -"Them!" -"He's cooperating!" This cracked me up 😂😂😂
I tried so hard to understand the whole thing. I failed miserably. I did understand that part, though! 😂
When you say you speak a language, and people think you’re fluent in it..
Best thing is- people pretend to be foreign national and then the translator arrives 😂😂
@@EllaKarhu Yeah but it's hard when you're in a in between I speak a good bit of Russian and I'm able to get round just fine with it, but I wouldnt say I'm fluent or close.
Miikka Karhu there’s something in-between you know. Besides I’m never going to say I’m fluent in a language because really, I consider that something that only be achieved by mother tongue speakers. I’d say I speak French well but I also speak Italian on a conversational level. I still make a lot of mistakes but the locals understand me and I understand them. But I don’t speak Italian then according to you?
Miikka Karhu You can speak a language without being fluent. I speak Spanish and can converse pretty well but Iʻm not fluent by any stretch of the imagination
Also known as when you lie and someone finds out. Don't pretend to speak a language if you don't actually speak it! A few phrases is fun but not the same as speaking a language.
as an American who was only able to take Spanish for 3 years in high school... donde esta la biblioteca
Adrenaline Soup for fuck sake now the rap is in my head for the next year!
La biblioteca es cerca el banco
Nah, où est la bibliothèque?
Adrenaline Soup French for me. Je ne parle pas france (idk how the fuck that is written)
as a Spanish who learned french for 3 years.... Comme ça va?Je m'appelle Marian, et toi?
Reminds me of the story that my Manx Dad and Grandad were on a train in the UK in an old style compartment. Two people came in and started speaking in Welsh. So Dad and Grandad spent the rest of the journey saying Hello, Merry Xmas and Good Health to each other in Manx for the rest of the journey.
😂
Manx and Welsh are related, aren't they? Couldn't the Welsh speakers guessed what these three phrases meant?
Or at least noticed that they are repeating? Even if you don't understand the words at all, you can notice that someone is repeating some phrases over and over again.
@@samuela-aegisdottir Manx is a kind of gaelic so not close to Welsh. There's a very few words are the same like Ty mor = Thie Mooar, I think. Both my Dad and Grandad have been dead over 30 years now so I can't quiz them on the details. They would have been saying some other words and phrases too but I didn't list them all as I was trying to make it reasonably interesting and concise 😊
Everybody gangsta until Detective Moran starts listing the days in Gaelic.
Dé Luain, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin, Dé.... Nollag Shona Duit!
Mé!.... Tú! sé! sí! sinn! sibh!....
@@CrimsonCreationAGM ...siad?
@@sheepastley SIAD! Siad!...
@@CrimsonCreationAGM "Go on, he's cooperatin!"
It’s Irish not Gaelic
Swap Irish for French and you've got the educational system in English Canada.
M-A Kuttner, most bilinguals in Canada are from or live in the « billingual belt » those areas where English and French speakers live there so you need to speak both languages on a daily basis.
Montreal, Ottawa, New Brunswick, region of Quebec and Ontario near the borders.
Why the hell do they teach it like that?! I've always wondered.
At the beginning, it's really hard to teach a subject that people don't want to learn. A.K.A Mandatory foreign language, after that, it's just the nature of school itself that is really bad with learning languages. Because they note people on their ability to speak a foreign language and by consequences, they create losers and winners.
So competition, some losers will feel like it's impossible for them to learn a foreign language that they are dumper than Katia, let's say, but what they don't know about her is that her mother works for a federal agency and therefore her mother helps her with her homework because people in her family already speaks French, so she is in an advantage, but she will make feel other people in her class as inferior.
They will start to resent and hate their foreign language classes and just try to do the bare minimum to pass the tests, memorizing words and expressions and nothing more.
Because there is no fun or joy in that stressful and competitive environment, maybe that the students are more equipped to be good employees, but learning the foreign language in question ... Not so ...
What we should do is favoring cooperation in classes where students can learn from each other, like with Katia and her parents helping her with her homework, but in that case scenario, it would be everyone enjoying this help, even those who are not as privileged as her. So in a positive environment, people wouldn't resent learning a foreign language as much.
Because it wouldn't be linked in their mind as a painful, stressful traumatic experience, but rather as something fun, challenging and that takes time. Because learning a foreign language takes time and it's really better to enjoy the possess. For example, English is not my Native language Shcool after many many years just taught me the basics. Just being able to get by in English, now my level of English is really advance, but I needed to learn all that by myself. Obviously, it's easy with English with the availability of movies, music, books, etc...
But that's it and with time it just became more and more, easier to listen to it, to talk, to write English. But I needed to invest myself in that and to make my own immersion. I just enjoyed the process and that's it my English is getting better days by days.
Yuuup! I can't have a conversation but I can order a pizza from a clown.
Im assuming you could replace irish for welsh in some parts of Wales as well.
IM DYING 😂😂😂😂 "She ,he, it"
"Them"
"Them! Them"
Skull? (School). What skull?
@Jack didn't he say me you him her we ye/y'all
I loved when the criminal started helping him XD
Like he was his friend in an oral exam who knew actually knew the material
@@DeathnoteBB yeah thats the best part. Since he feels for him for having to try hard to speak Irish and by. "I'd love ice cream" 😆😆
@@DeathnoteBB Haha 😂
it would've been incredibly funny if they somehow made the misunderstanding coincidently lead to actual crime, leading to Detective Moran being praised for his good work.
We need this Cinematic Universe
That would be a great plot twist.
My Irish teacher showed this to us in school to encourage us to try to study in Irish better 😂😂😂
Legend 😂
Sounds like a cool teacher! 😂
That wont work since teachers teach us pointless Irish over and over again
@Vanilla bhabi g¡rl yah your weird
@Vanilla bhabi g¡rl “racist”. So we just throwin this word out there like it’s confetti I see
No matter how bad you are at Irish, you will never forget how to ask to go to the toilet
An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti an leithris (Cork gaelic)
@@BrianThompson-dj2sq oof
@@BrianThompson-dj2sq I actually forgot how to say that xd
Same with French in (English-speaking) Canada. Est-ce que je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plait? Had that one nailed since grade 4.
So true
I lost it at "Is he leading us to the bodies?" when he was giving directions to the post-office.
accurate
Genius
I love the fact that the accused one realised that the other one didn't know Irish good enough and played along just to not embarass him xD
I think it was more about how he could get his freedom more easily if he didn’t rat out the Irish detective lol
As an American, this is about the same as the sum total of the Spanish I learned in school, but instead of "where is the post office?" the one everyone remembered was "where is the library?"
Cedric the Entertainer had on his show "Que Hora Es?", the Mexican soap opera for people who only had three weeks of Spanish in the 4th grade. th-cam.com/video/4cKGyOE_jOI/w-d-xo.html
Fellow American who learned languages through schooling. It's lack of applied practice. This video is my German, because I hardly use it, but my Russian is actually pretty good, because I use it frequently.
¿DONDÉ ESTÀ LA BIBLIOTHECA?
@Arch Stanton LOL. Speaking French as a first language and then learning Spanish has some advantages; you just have to spanishify a French word and it works 85% of the time. Trouble is : the orthography can be quite different :P
Bibliothèque
Biblioteca
This is like me with high school French. (I'm Dutch) Ou est le (la?) post? One of the first things I learnt in the 4 years I had to take French. Then on holliday my parents wanted me to ask someone where the freaking post office was and I could't remember!
I love that the criminal is so pleasently surprised at being offered ice cream and asked about his holidays that he becomes extremely helpful in giving directions to the post office.
😂
Truly beautiful.
I'm an Irish person and I can say that I actually learned more Irish in this video than the entire education system
After watching thr same Spongebob episode over and over, I leanred "etilt" which has something to do with planes
İ don't understand what do you talk in your country,isn't it Irish?
@@nevergiveupdearfriend7289 No. We speak English but we have to learn Irish (a very different language) in school as a subject and it isn't taught very well
@@bigjuicypotato1482 oh i see. İ always thought you speak Irish in daily life ,my apologies. Can I ask you why English is your spoken language? İs it something about nationalism or french revolution etc? İ don't have quite knowledge about history of europe and politics. Can you summarize it of it is possible?
@@nevergiveupdearfriend7289 We were a part of Britain for almost a millennium.
That's the easiest way to explain it.
Also a very small amount of people do speak Irish daily but it is only a few thousand.
Studying Swedish on Duolingo and feeling the same pain: I can tell you that "The yellow hat is on the tortoise between the restaurant and the bear," etc.
Den gula hatten är på sköldpaddan mellan restaurangen och björnen? Konstigt
Mina föräldrar är fula.
Still one of my favourites. Even though my parent were only somewhat amused.
I'm Swedish (:
@@fouzanium not at all strange. Yellow hats in Sweden have higher than the average tendency to land on the reptiles in the vicinity of food supply places and hairy mammals. One needs proper tools to express this phenomenon once it is observed.
That's a lyric from an early ABBA song.
Me, half-Irish half-Italian and can't speak either language: *starts sweating nervously*
Honestly same lol
Hobbit Girly you are a disgrace to both your halves. Your only means of redemption is if you can cook a sick pasta dish while drinking a pint of guinness every 5 minutes.
Thats kinda sad
Yes, I feel your pain. I'm half Italian and half Mexican. No matter where I go in my family, everyone just sees me as a failure for not speaking their language. I'm studying though now. Starting with Italian and then will move to Spanish.
@724warlord Yes, it is an American lol
And then they run off together and begin a beautiful friendship
This reminds me of a true story I heard years ago in New Zealand
A German guy was on trial and he could only speak German so the judge not having an interpreter handy asked the folks watching the trial in the gallery if anyone could speak...A huge tattoo covered Maori guy with dreadlocks put up his hand to act as an interpreter and came to stand next to the dock where the German guy was standing.....The Judge asked the Maori guy to ask what the defendants name was for the record...The Maori guy cleared his throat...turned to face the defendant and asked loudly...... *VOT ISH YOUR NAAAAAAMEE?*
Judge: -_-
he probably got that right tho 😂
that maori guy went on to become Jonah Lomu...and got moarried to the love of his life Kylie Minogue...
LMAO
The true story was a German in an Irish court (Dublin) it was just after world war 2. And when the offending party said it the judge sentenced him to 6 month's imprisonment for contempt of court.
I like rewatching this just to hear y’all speak Irish. Can you make more of these?
They have two more that I know of in Irish. They're both called Ceol agus Ól. Have fun!
Doulingo keeps telling me "there are more people learning Irish here then there are native speakers"
But now I guess the native speakers are the ones trying to learn it there :D
no need to out us thanks
Than*
If they're a native speaker of Irish then they wouldn't need to use Duolingo.
@@MrHarrystank to be fair, learning a second language is hard. For adults with jobs and kids to raise, it's not lazy to not have the time or energy to devote to a project like that. Especially if you don't really *need* it for your daily life, and you aren't surrounded by native speakers to keep you focused and motivated.
@@chris7263 americans literally expect the whole world to speak english.
I'm ethnically chinese and I speak 4 languages.
None of them are Chinese.
What are they?
Lol
I'm half-Chinese and can only say curse words.😅
You're pathetic
@Lol Haha chibai so hai, ah. Gun-nin-yang
I'm learning Welsh on Duolingo and I can greet dragons, I can ask you if you enjoy eating the five spiders, if you are a house wife and an unemployed electrician, if you want to iron the cheese, but not how old you are or where you're from.
Edit: I can also tell you a lot about Owen's parsnips.
Bore da, draig.
Dych chi'n mwynhau bwyta'r pum copyn?
@@GoogleUser-dwcy Nac ydw, dw i'n hoffi bwytar sglefrod môr bywion yn fwy
@@harriffanconshertini8804 Mae'n swnio'n flasus.
@@GoogleUser-dwcy 😉
This is your first sketch ever that I watched. It was on my fb newsfeed about half a year ago. I'm so lucky to have found you guys. Your videos are helping me manage exam stress these days, and it gets really crippling for me, so I'm not saying this lightly. Thanks a million.
Me: Why do Irish folks always answer a question with a question? Irishman: Oh, do we now?
Spaniards say the same about us galicians lol
Why is this so true?
Oh wait-
@@PinkMelatonin Absolutely true. It must something common to Celtic people.
Same jikes are about Jews.
- Rabinowitz, why are you always answering to a question by a question?
- So what?
Why do ye want to know?
Im irish and this is painfully accurate for 90% of the population of ireland myself included, im more fluent in Norwegian than my own countries native language the only word i understood without translation was póg mo thóin
Same I live in Ireland and speak irish but I'm more fluent in Spanish
* squint * you spell it like Thóin? Latin alphabets, ffs.
@2good2be4gott Norwegian is relatively easy to learn if you know english
@peacelovechocolate But it is your language and you should learn it, lazy ass prick.
You can thank the english for that
I love the Irish comradery at the end when he covers for the cop with the kiss my ass part.
I’m Welsh and this is how my Welsh language skills would also fair with a fluent speaker…although I’d probably still be able to ask the questions to the suspect I think! I loved this, the days of the week bit got me!!! 🤣
mae'n cymryd amser ond byddwch chi'n cyrraedd yno!
I'm Irish and I can still fluently ask ( I'm not going to attempt to spell it so I'll say it phonetically) awn will gad a gum dull guh dee an letrriss . Literally can I go to the toilet. That pretty much my knowledge... Well done Irish teachers 😂😂😂
I'd totally watch a whole "Detective Moran" series, he's hilarious!
Can you speak irish ?
So funny! I learned more Irish in 3 weeks in the Gaeltacht than in a year or 2 in school even though I only did an hours class a day and spend the rest of the time playing sports, dancing and talking 'As Gaeilge". Had great craic there!
Me too!!!
Yes!! Foil Arms and Hog please give us more!!
I love how he's speaking total bs with such confidence 😂
That is the magic, i promise you. I would get math answers wrong but when friends ask me, i instantly answer with determination without looking at them and...that's how I got wrong with my side of the class 😁😁 all for one, and one for allllll
That's just Irish class when we have to talk to each other
Me dying the LC oral 🤣😭
Me doing my Irish oral
that, my friend, is the life story of everyone who has ever tried to speak a second language
So funny! Kind of reminds me of the whole debacle where they sent an email for a sign to be translated into Welsh and wrote “I’m out of the office” on a road sign in Welsh
did this really happen? lol
@@alicedwonderland7733 yes picture of the sign on the BBC news site together with story
@@alicedwonderland7733 The English part of the sign said "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only." The Welsh 'translation' read "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
@@willch.2259 too funny! Thanks for sharing.
CLASSIC
I went to Ireland on an exchange programme in uni and took an Irish course. I loved it but it’s really difficult and unlike any other languages I’d learnt before. I went to a Pop Up Gaeltacht event in Dublin. I couldn’t understand a thing but really enjoyed it because people there were really encouraging. Wish I could get better at it but it’s hard to find classes outside of Ireland. I tried Duolingo but I’d prefer it if I could be in class in person to talk to other people. I’ve dreamt about moving to the west of Ireland for maybe a few months to learn it.
I have an Irish (native) teacher via zoom and there are many classes. Apps do not really work for me, only as an extra. We actually used this sketch in a lesson
HAHA! Love this
Oh hi Barbs!
Barbs :D
Geography Now barbs is here?
ㅤ
Da hell?
Had 9 years of french schooling myself... croissant
Ou est la bibliothèque?
@Honeysuckle Blossom Indeed, did 4 years of French at school, then took another 2 years at French A level, but apart from school trips have never actually been to France on holiday or anything. So that was worthwhile lol :) Meanwhile I go on camping trips to different parts of Wales every other year (love it there) and keep wishing English schools gave the option of learning Welsh instead - would probably have been far more useful to me and I'd have used it a lot more.
I had 2 years of french (dropped it like a brick when I got the chance) Bagette.
Also 2 years of German: Krankenwagen
@@Cyhcg5uhgb really? Ambulance?
I've been to France and Ireland with school. And during these few days I've learned more then in 5 years at school.
Btw, "Wo ist die Bibliothek?"
Cancerino 😂
There is a sad irony to this video. Back around 2000 there was an announcement made that there was officially one last and final monolingual Irishman...meaning he spoke Irish and Irish only all his life and doesn't even know English. He was maybe 45 back then maybe more I don't remember. When he dies though, Irish will be classified a new way as a language I forget the terminology but it has serious implications. So they were going to him having him read all the texts they could and recording everything possible to ensure the monolingual native fluent Irish accent wouldn't be lost. Hope the guy is still kicking, if not what a sad day. My Irish-Do iss meer uh dwit! A hen, a dōg, a tree, a matter, a coowig, a shayv, a shop, a hope, annoy, a day...and um....yea I guess that's all. And it's probably so off in spelling and mistaken the pronunciations I hear that it is incomprehensible to an gaeligophone.
Apparently he died in 1998. The name was Seán Ó hEinirí. Quick google search will get ya the results. Pretty sad tbh, it's an interesting language with a... how to put it nicely... shitty recent history? Yeah that sums it well. When they say "the luck of the Irish" I'm always confused since historically speaking there wasn't much luck to go around on that island, having their population wiped out by a couple/a dozen percents every now and then.
@@thisrandomdude2880 The luck of the Irish is a way of saying bad luck
I'm so sorry about this but seeing how someone that's not irish spells irish words really cracks me up, not blaming you it's pretty darn difficult to spell but for anyone wondering here's the actual Irish words at the end of that sentence
Dia is mhuire duit! (typically used when replying to hello used when saying "hello to you too")
A haon, a dó, a trí, a ceathar, a cuig, a sé, a hocht, a naoi, a deich (basically numbers from 1-10) lol I mightnt have spelled them all right but you get the idea
and rest in peace to that irish man 😢
@@GalaxyCloud lol boy was I off! And died in 1998? Wow so that was an old documentary. I still cant remember the terminology used for languages like Irish though that it would have been switched to category wise...meaning it is a dead language but has a significant number of secondary iriah non monolunguimal speakers. I wonder if it would go back to normal classification if in some unlikely universe, Ireland went back to using Irish since it would have an all new accent and timbre and cadence from the original language's run.
For the sake of the world and its language students though, I would recommend a more thorough revamping of the alphabet and spelling to align with a more latinized or anglicized w....no...you know something, looking at the above post again, I think one thing that is so incredibly charming about Irish is the amazing usage and unique usage of course of the same alphabet much of the world uses and knows but taken fornauch a one of a kind wild ride with Gaelic.
@@YourName-tt8tz, in my opinion, I don't think Irish is ever really going to be like the main language in Ireland. its a nice language to have don't get me wrong, but I don't see it being used anymore as much as English. too little people in Ireland know Irish fluently for that. As for making the spelling more 'English' it's really not all that difficult once you start to get the hang of it. Well at least the reading part, spelling might be a little weird sometimes, but honestly, isn't English as well? Though the Irish do love their vowels in spelling like the word ''siopadoireacht'' it might look complicated to say but its literally ''shopa-dor-ukt'' (it means shopping btw) i think its the grammar that gets to me though, i still don't fully get it but there are weird language things like saying ''I'm hungry'' in Irish (Tá ocras orm) literally means 'hunger is on me'. Yeah, sorry for going on a little tangent there about the Irish language but hope someone learned something from it.
I like how the guy supposedly doesn't understand English but knows the guy said "lovely to meet you" 😂 great sketch
You can see he understands English from the first sentence of the interview.
Common tactical among bilingual people to try to get out of talking to others.
Pogue mahone doesn't mean 'lovely to meat you' it means something more rude.
@@alicequayle4625Detective Moran only really knows the swears.
@@IceWolfLoki his colleague thinks pogue mahone (which means 'kiss my backside) means lovely to meet you.
Finnish police interrogating a swedish man would be similar
@@venga3 it doesn't help at all
Or someone from Åland interigating a finnish speaker, that would be fun
Lol
Its even worse when there's foreign people getting better grades in Irish classes than Irish people💀
@@kari1989 all the Polksi lads going to the gaeltacht
Basically how English is for Koreans...
Canadians with French
Like Non Latino Americans who get high school spanish.
More Irish than I remember despite learning it for 14 years in school 😩
Ta
Agus mé fein freisin
an féidir liom dul chuig an leithreas
@@lee_2302 An mhaith tú cáca milis?
@Danielsvideos
Duolingo.com, más mian leat cúpla focal a foghlaim ;)
"Sinead is... playing football in the toilet!"
"That's right, she is!"
"Dé Luan, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin... Nollaig shona duit, mé, tú, sé, sí, sinn, sibh... eh..."
"Siad"
Me trying to remember how to speak at all 😂😅
Poug mahone
Póg má hón LMAO
@@weirdscience8341 Póst Malone
Wha'?
Went on a trip to Ireland last year and ran into this! One tour guide had been bragging for days about how Gaelic is coming back through the schools and she was so proud to learn it. But when we stopped near a farm north of Galway we ran into a farmer trying to move some sheep, and when she approached him the dude started instantly going off in Gaelic. We all saw her completely freeze and just stare tongue-tied. I love the ideas of bringing the language back, but if just studying it in High School was enough, then most Americans would be able to speak Spanish these days!
i'm very late, but irish has been taught for 12-13 years of a student's life for quite some time now. it's still not enough, though, because they don't teach how to speak conversationally, you only know the answers to some basic questions, which is kind of referenced in the skit. the oral exam is how we learn irish conversationally, but you pretty much learn a written-off answer for each question. "hello," "hello to you too," and "how are you?" "i'm very good, thank you" are probably as far as most people get, so by all means moran being able to ask "what did you do for your summer holidays" is pretty exceptional since that question is optional for the examiner to ask. i'd honestly argue that america's language classes are better, from what i've heard, and that's kinda disappointing, but also kinda hilarious.
@@deltafrappuccino Is breá liom an Airgintín
And most canadians would be able to speak basic French lol (we officially have to learn it from grade 4 to 9 but it sucks ass, even if you go to a french immersion school)
@@deltafrappuccino I just can't see the point in taking endless hours of students' time to teach them a language that practically nobody outside of Ireland speaks. You literally would find more people in the world who know Latin that Gaelic. And in Ireland everyone still speaks English as their first language (except for in some remote areas you'd probably never visit). You'd better serve the teaching of Irish culture by teaching Irish history and literature in translation, and swap the time spent on dead-language instruction for engineering or maths or finance...or foreign languages that more than .0001 % of the Earth's population speaks.
The problem is the school systems, not the period of learning.
The reality actually is quite sad, the language is the most important thing for a nation. In my case, im Basque, and I speak euskera in my everyday life, we are not idependet but the fact that we have our language being used by almost 1.000.000 people is priceless
I had seen a movie in Basque on Amazon not too long ago!
@@TragoudistrosMPH that's great! Do you know the name of the movie?
I've heard from a girl from Bilbao (although of Catalan origins, not Basque) that almost no one in the city uses it and people that use it dont care about verbs and mostly uses the Spanish ones (something like that)
I am torn about the language question.
Is it good to preserve a language at all costs or is it better to accept a globalizing world where everyone can communicate in English?
@@JeroenDoes Can't we do both? The Dutch and Scandanavien countries are all fluent in English without losing their original languges.
Interesting. Some of these words were still in use in Jamaica when I was a child. Didn't know they were Irish Gaelic. I thought they were just old-fashioned English words no one uses any more. Interesting. There were other words in our vocabulary that were probably Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. Makes sense. The Jamaican flag has the cross of St. Andrew; Rastas wear tam o lyns which they call tams; Bob Marley sang about dancing the quadrille etc.
Where is your Geansai Camille? 😂 I know thats one used over there
Jamaica was populated by many Irish slaves taken by the (chu ish) British East India Company in the 1800’s.
The only thing I learned from Spanish class in high school is how to say that I don't speak Spanish, so this is pretty relatable.
No hablo espanol
@@hyenapunkmohawk *español
@@San_Deep2501 lmao I dont have that on my keyboard
@@San_Deep2501 *español.
You forgot the point.
I've been on holiday to spain as a kid. I know "helado con nata, por favor" (ice cream with cream, please). Learning it was good, the portion for that cute little girl that at least tries to speak the language was just a little bit bigger than usually
This is actually perfect timing, because I did a speech at the climate change protest in Dublin, but because I did it in Irish, nobody understood a word.
@Steffen Bakken Yeah, it was me and my friend, Hazel
@@tommyj3188 can't tell if this is a joke
@@theultimatebro9278 New york is 33feet above sea levels or 10m or so, london is 36ft or 11m or so UN estimates say that sea levels will rise by 15-26 feet by 2070 this makes a lot of cities near uninhabitable. My point being big business knows this and stirs up fear in the public the idea being get people to come together to solve a global problem which further enhances the UN agenda of a world government.
@@theultimatebro9278 If it is such an issue like you guys make it out to be despite there being no long term trend or much proof humans affect climate more than the variation you expect to see decade on decade, why was the 1970s cooler than the 1960s globally?
The 1940s-1960s is really when we started releasing a measurable amount of CO2. And also the physics of global warming don't make much sense gasses in our atmosphere dissolve in the sea as the sea heats up more gasses escape so there should be a slightly higher total CO2 level however its made no measurable impact since we first got reliable reading of the composition in our atmosphere in the 50s.
The last few centuries have been actually some of the coldest in the last couple thousand years, also why was it called "Global Warming" 10 years ago? Now everyone calls it "Climate Change". Maybe because the world wasn't warming and people began to doubt the ludicrous claims being made about "Climate Change".
root_Astr0 well no one listens when they speak in English either. Don’t take it to heart. 🤣
I love that the dude covers for him at the end.
He doesn't. He is saving his own a**. XD
As a person who learnt Irish since primary school its even more funny when you understand it and don’t need the subtitles
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Christmas
I think we need to look deeper into the Irish education system guys...
Hahaha!
People just don't pay attention
i know this first hand
@@sulphide2858 Naw if people can learn English sucessfully in France then the Irish system needs to update with more emphasis on conversations
@@eb.3764 it's more of that nearly every classmate i've been with never pay attention, and it's the same for my friends in the school they went to
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"Scoil?? What Scoil?!TELL US WHERE THE BODIES ARE!" genius as per usual :D
Omg this was hilarious! I'm from Finland and this is exactly like Finnish people speaking Swedish 🤣
Jak er pök
If its any consolation, you are still lightyears ahead of Swedes trying to tangle with Finnish. 😂
Our linguistic knowledge base consists of:
A usually frowned upon name for female genitalia
Standard safety message for the use of a radiator
... and in some rare cases 'knife'.
Hshs as a Swedish person myself I very much understand this as our languages are on different branches of the language tree ahhs I mean I have no clue how to say anything in Finnish but the first numbers but I only know that because of a series from tv. But you have Swedish classes in Finland right? Or some people do at least
I had an internet friend who was trying to learn the difference of "en" and "ett" and when to use it and at the time I had no idea how to explain it ahsh since it simply sounds right to me
@@idkprettygay6156 yeah we have Swedish classes. There's two official languages in Finland (Swedish being the other one) so we all need to learn it at school 😄
99% of how well people learn second languages at school anywhere
Most schools anywhere do English as a second language
Second? Absolutely not, piece of cake. The 3th and 4th... definitely.
Except the Germans who speak better English than we do. Lol
Public schools are just messed up.
AS an Indian, we had 4 languages. Sanskrit was the 4th and we could be conversational as long as we were studying it. Now lost touch! This is only in school. Apart from that, my mother tongue is different than the state language and we can speak the languages of the neighbour states too
“Sinead Is playing football in the toilet” idk why this made me crack up as much as it did
Same!😂
A lad in my school broke a toilet after kicking it with a football during break a few weeks ago
I was waiting for the most important phrase in the entire language, "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?" 😂
What does it mean?
I found the explanation :) www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=an%20bhfuil%20cead%20agam%20dul%20go%20dt%C3%AD%20an%20leithreas
I've never learned irish but I knew what that would mean lol most important phrase in every language class
Anna133199 it means ‘may I go to the toilets ‘ every kid learn this in primary school 😂😂 the most iconic line
One time the teacher said’ Níl ‘
Lol
This is the first Foil Arms and Hog video I ever saw, I come back to it and enjoy it over and over.
Irish Teachers : NEVER USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE
That’s every teacher
Kichwa teachers: we are not even on google translate so dont bother
they arent wrong
fragolegirl2002 and then history teachers scream at you not to use Wikipedia
But we all do anyway
When you learn a language on Duolingo and decide to put it on practice 😂.
Doulingo; "your duck is sleeping on my shirt"
Me: 0_O okaaaaaay then...
But it's quite good (I'm learning Spanish) to keep the ball rolling. I've started taking to myself about things at home, like "I'm now cooking pasta with sauce", "we don't have bacon" or "this yellow dress is mine". It becomes more natural and now I'm starting to watch kids shows like Phineas and Ferb or shows I already know in Spanish and every day I understand a bit more.
I had "Tá an fear sá chuisnoir" the other day! (Meaning "there's a man in the fridge ")
@@emmylee8862 I'm laughing way too hard at this. 😂
There are some quite disturbing ones. Yesterday I got "El cuchillo alcanza al hombre" which translates to "the knife catches up with the man" - Maybe it's the same guy and he ended up in the fridge later 🤔
@@schattentaenzerin hahaha that's epic
@@emmylee8862 Once, I got "Leann na lachan an nuachtán" = "The ducks read the newspaper."
Try being an Australian in Dublin during World Cup,soccer when Ireland got through to I think the quarter finals in 1990? Then being on a tram with an old Irish gentleman conversing fluently in Gaelic “apparently” about their last match! Not understanding a bloody word I kept answering “Yeah!” Then the old guy got off at a stop. A young Irishman then said to me “Ya di-int understand a word ‘e was sayin di ya?” Apologies for my Irish accent!🤣 I said “Not a bloody word!” He said “Ya di ok mate. Ya answered wit a yes each time!”👍🏼🥴😆
I did that in AZ in a nail salon run by some sweet Asians. Some guys walked in, looked shady; I thought they were asking for money, then they left. The Asian workers talked up a storm. I understood nothing except their concern. At one point when a breath was taken I said, Right! The lady painting my toenails looked up and said, Right! Their whole demeanor changed, eased. I was hoping they felt better. Now I think they might have felt imposed upon. Hmmmmmm
I remember randomly picking up a novel from school library about a decade ago. The cover of the book said based on an old Irish legend so naturally i thought the author was Irish. When i finished reading i looked up the author's name on the web and it turned out this author is Australian but somehow grew up speaking Irish as his native language. I think the author's name was Cecil Mór or something along that line.
Edit: Found it. It's Caiseal Mór. Here's his bio users.tpg.com.au/waldrenm/mor.html
I'm glad this webpage is still active because most of the websites i used to frequent back in my highschool days all went defunct
Having a conversation in Ireland and not understanding a single word, and thus only responding with multiple "yeah yeah" "grand" and "for sure" is a great part of our culture
@@JohnDouille I had noticed that when I was in Ireland, some people just want to speak and come to you, I could never stay more than 5 minutes alone but I liked it!
1:26 i love how the gaeilge speaker isn't even mad he just goes "síad :3" like he recognizes he's trying and gives a little push in the right direction, even if they're trying to put him behind bars.
“He’s leading us to the bodies” DEAD!! 😂😂😂😂😂
If you don’t learn yer Gaelic, you’ll never know where to get off the DART.
"Next stop Bray, Bré" 😂
It always used to make me laugh when I heard the translation for Howth Junction...
Stasiun Heuston . . . . And thats me out.
@@TheLastAngryMan01 Howth Junction is the translation of the original Gabhal Bhinn Éadair, you mean
Ailín Ó'S Nope, I mean that it’s amusing that the word for “junction” and “vagina” are the same in the Irish language. Carry on...
And THAT kids is how Foil, Arms and Hog met.
I'm learning Irish from scratch and rewatching this video every once in a while. Every time I rewatch it I can understand a few more words than before :) Still a long way to go but I'm happy to see the progress
Brings me back to the days of Ceol agus Ól. Hope to see more Irish language sketches in the future!
This is how I felt as a kid, no joke. This entire situation was my childhood visits seeing my Grandma. My Grandma (bless her soul) would speak Gaelic to me as a child and I, a 6 y.o. American female from LAS VEGAS (the culture being gambling, drinking, drugs and sex), tended to be so lost I didn't know if I should apologize, cry or laugh b/c half the time I wasn't sure if I was in trouble.
And she was a hardcore beat your ass with a sack of potatoes, cabbage and beef kinda woman. She straight up served cookies and lemonade to the crips & bloods back in the early 90's (at the SAME TIME) and avoided a gang war by ripping their ears when they got outta line. She terrified them.
We need more people like your grandma. Put them in charge of the police force. People would be as scared as the Jews in the 6 months before he started putting them in the concerntration camps. Like hardcore gangbangers would be moving to Canada to escape the irish granny tyranny....
@choppa grizzly I don't think they were scared of her physically. But they might have been ashamed since they she showed them compassion, human psychology is a complex thing.
I live in South Africa and I've heard similar stories about certain brave But kind old ladies and gangsters
I want to see a movie of her.
@choppa grizzly It's not about respecting the elderly, it's about a small handful of people being treated well. Gangsta's are human, they're aren't some space demon race the can't be manipulated or can't feel any positive emotion. So while unlikely it is possible for someone to make multiple people feel respect or admiration for someone
@choppa grizzly I mean I don't know about American culture as much as you do but I've heard stories of gangsters liking an old guy and giving him free "protection" bc he talked to the local gangsters, joked around with them, asked them about themselves, offered them ice tea and allowed them to chill at his garden while he was busy working there. Basically treated them like human beings. That shit can have an effect on some people, maybe not everyone but my parents grew up during apartheid so I've heard quite a few stories like this
This is going straight to my fav fah video playlist lads!!
1:51 The rage... No trace of Anne.
Oisean remember your holiday home is in a Gaeltacht area ;)
As a native Scottish gaidhlig speaker who can understand some of this, it's pretty fucking accurate to Scotland too lmao
Càite bheil thu bho?
Scots has been the dominant language in Scotland for well over a thousand years gaelic you speak is from Irish invaders . The language the Picts spoke is extinct modern Gaelic has nothing to do with Scotland!
@@nathandurbin9260 Its got more to do with scotland than Scots by that logic. As its been here for over 500 years linger. Gaelic was the dominant language until about 1500ad
@@fsxpilot02 Not to all of Scotland, it's more of a Highland thing. Definitely don't oblige someone from Lothian to learn Gaelic for "ancestral purposes", when it was never widely spoken in their area. Their area is the original core from which Germanic Scots would eventually spread around Scotland.
A guid dirlin alang da lug!fir yin an aw,div ee ken noo!Sassenach
Channeil fios agam!
It's sad to see the Celtic languages dying out.
@Shreyas Misra Uhh... Yes. There's Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Cornish, Manx Gaelic, and Breton.
In France there are special schools (called Diwan schools) where all courses are in French and Breton. There are some bands that sing in the language to keep it alive too.
@@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386
Manx, Canal Islands Gaeli, Cornish, Orkneyan and Inner Hebridean are basically dead languages, no native speakers alive.
Once, in the past they spoke a variety of gaeli even in Cumbria (England)
@@mrj.kottari8453 Manx and Cornish are being revived.
Well the native americans lost 90% of their culture thanks to colonization so dont feel too bad it could be worse
We gotta keep the lie that *pog ma hón* means lovely to meet you
😂😂😂
George Kafiridis if you’re going to correct someone at least do it right - thóin
@George Kafiridis I'm sure it does have fada. Hold down the letter it should be on, itll show accent options (assuming you're using an android. I'm not 100% sure if iPhone runs the same way)
Also its póg mo thóin - even the guy correcting you didnt get it 100%
Understood what you meant anyway :P
@George Kafiridis ò_ó
Google translates it into English as "kiss my arse", but into Scandinavian languages as "kiss me", lol.
I love that! Some seriously good acting there. Can feel how nervous the Irish cop is. Wonder at what point the perp realised the cop was bluffing for his colleague 😂😂
Sorry my Irish teacher, I have failed you, I had to look at the subs
the way *CCTV* was said at 1:21...passionately delivered.
An bhfuil an cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?
Seah
Níl a fhios agam, an bhfuil cead agat dul go dtí on leithreas?
@@chickentikka4383 gach máthair Éireannach i gcónaí 😂
The one line everyone in primary uses
yes, with cream please, thank you
This was one of my favourite sketches. After 12 years learning Irish I know about as much Irish as that guy. So funny.
I feel this is anyone who took a few years of foreign language in high school lmao
Lmao unfortunately it depends on the teacher... I got really lucky, I'm actually fluent now in the language I was studying! (Also cause I'm a total nerd and I loved it.) But most of my friends who dropped a language felt this way...
At least now I know how to say kiss my arse in Gaelic..
Another language added to my international swearing vocabulary
Curses are tge first thing I learn. I can insult people in many languages!
Irish not gaelic
Jusssstttt realised the pub in town is called pogue mahone....
The language is Irish, not Gaelic. Gaelic is a family of languages, which includes Irish, Scot’s Gaelic, and Manx. Calling the Irish language Gaelic is the equivalent of saying that you speak Germanic.
The Irish word for Irish os Gaeilge. (Pronounced “Gay-L-geh.)
@@amymak93 I didn't know that.. thanks.. now I know something more other than curse words.
This is the same for Spanish in the US, French in Canada, and English in Japan.
No it's not,
Unless you don't use English in England, Spanish in Spain or French in France....
@@FordyGames but... in those counties you don't really use those languages...
Honestly this is second-language learning in every school everywhere. We need to overhaul our language curriculums.
In my country's schools we learn three or four languages. Maybe it's just me, but I think the teaching is pretty good.
In my nation,they teach English as the second language,but things has got so bad that even though most of Vietnamese can speak English,most are at the toodler level.
So yah,u got it right.
Well, many countries do get it right. I've met people from many countries who speak three or four languages.
Watching this as a Scottish Gaidhlig speaker makes my head hurt 😂
Gu dearbh fhéin a chàraid! ;-)
We need to preserve our Celtic languages
@@REBORNCENTRALGaming we need to change the way to make learn speaking Gaelic fun.
@@jasonvoorhees6152 The problem is it is not taught like a foreign language and it really needs to be, they should also start from scratch when pupils enter secondary school.
@@heilong79 YES! I remember as soon I got into 1st year, I was lost since I forgot everything including verbs and grammar from Primary. It's honestly pretty annoying as of now and I plan to drop to OL since HL for me expects you to write an essay with all the Irish you know.
Anyone from Ireland remember saying "anseo" when the teachers called the roll 🙄
Minty yup
You’d get yelled at if you spoke english
Yes
I still have to in Irish class (we get semmi yelled at if we say "here")
ME!
Could have been funny too if the suspect was also spoofing and the two Irish lads had a full interrogation through Irish without speaking it
Or it might turn out they were from the same village and began exchanging news and gossip, all the while making it look like interrogation :-)
@@marconatrix that would have been a funny twist 🤣
This was my gateway drug to all of FAH. Thanks, algorithm, for getting me to these lads who've made the past 3 yrs more bearable.
Thanks Sheri, great to have you