Scotland: Gaelic in the Hebrides (Part 4/4)

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  • @TheHarashi
    @TheHarashi 9 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    Gaelic isn't just in the Hebrides! I'm from Caithness (North East Mainland) and I come from a family where only Gaelic is spoken, haha. I study in Edinburgh and it's actually surprising the amount of people from the South East I've come across who also speak it. It's an optimistic sign. Bring back the Gaelic!

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Charlotte McCann amen!!!

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      In the past Scottish Gaelic was spoken as south as Lowlands!

    • @Tara2stars1
      @Tara2stars1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Charlotte McCann +vagabrothers I am from Philadelphia, PA and I am studying Gaelic now!!!! determined to be fluent in the next few years and loved connecting with my ancient ancestry when I was there visiting a few weeks ago! Love Gaelic!

    • @nealesphotographypage6583
      @nealesphotographypage6583 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +vagabrothers You should've checked out Tulloch Castle in Dingwall when you were in Inverness, four poster bedrooms for the price of a Travelodge, and haunted as hell. And the barman speaks Gaelic.

    • @numbers7n
      @numbers7n 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Preserve Gaelic with your lives. It is a link to your heritage. Protect it and grow it, speak it and know it.

  • @quixotic5576
    @quixotic5576 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I'm from Lewis! I speak Gaelic too. It makes me really happy watching this video

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      cá mhéad teanga atá agat?

    • @quixotic5576
      @quixotic5576 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Oisin O Lochlainn Bidh mi a bridhinn beurla agus Gaidhlig Albannach

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lynsey Morrison Cool, go hiontach ar fad. Tá Gaeilge agus béarla agam....Tá mé ag foghlaim na Danmhairge, tá sé deacair lol...

    • @quixotic5576
      @quixotic5576 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Oisin O Lochlainn gur math tha leat! Tha mise a feuchainn a ionnnsachadh Greek cuideach

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lynsey Morrison IOntach sílim go bhfuil sé sin suimiúil...anyway, is deas bualadh leat, slán

  • @ullapudliankatie21
    @ullapudliankatie21 10 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I'm from Ullapool, fluent in Gaidhlig (Gaelic) and live on croft :) So cool to see you guys exploring our country. Hope you enjoyed yourselves :D

  • @nikkibishop8025
    @nikkibishop8025 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    'The fields waiting for their children to come home'. Beaytiful sentiments.

  • @sasquatchbrett6331
    @sasquatchbrett6331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We didn't forget where we came from; Cape Breton has Nova Scotia's biggest Scottish history with a Gaelic college still! My own great grandfather Angus McLean came from Northern Uist; my great grandmother from the Isle of Skye.

  • @DaisySage
    @DaisySage 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    at the end the Gaelic speakers are saying "we love the Vagabrothers", tha gaol againn air Vagabrothers, that is sweet (I think anyway). I love the Isle of Lewis.

  • @ryan.1990
    @ryan.1990 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    "The people who built these stones, the Celts."
    Those standing stones were ancient to the Celts! Even to the previous Bronze Age 'Beaker' settlers too!

    • @jamienelson3470
      @jamienelson3470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That is true. It's a frustrating assumption that most people make about most of the standing stones in the British Isles, that they're Celtic, when they in fact predate the Celts by millennia!

    • @suzicameron4860
      @suzicameron4860 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pugweed built stones? No primordial man guy

    • @iseultmackinnon8197
      @iseultmackinnon8197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A study of genetics suggests that the megalith culture was started by the ancient European hunter gatherers who wiped out the male farmers from turkey who had settled europe from about 4000 BC. Its like they allowed them to settle for a while and then thought, sod this lets take our land back. They were then wiped out by the Beaker people about 2500 BC who may have came from the Yamnaya people of the Eurasian step and who were also the protocelts.

    • @paleohunterWHG
      @paleohunterWHG ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iseultmackinnon8197 So the current leading view is that both resident Mesolithic hunter-gatherer populations and immigrant Neolithic farmers with megalithic traditions jointly participated in the construction and use of these stone circles and monuments through mixed communities.
      In summary, while the earliest phases may have involved Neolithic farmers, it's likely both indigenous Western hunter-gatherer peoples and incoming Continental Neolithic groups with megalithic practices collaborated together in creating Britain's extensive ancient stone structures.

  • @catblues8645
    @catblues8645 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

  • @jhendin
    @jhendin 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I have a strong linguistic background in Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages. One day when I was in Barnes & Nole I saw a Teach Yourself Gaelic book on the shelf, so I bought it, thinking it was Irish Gaelic. When I got home I discovered, to my disappointment, it was Scottish Gaelic, so the book collected dust on the shelf for a couple of years. Realizing since I bought the book I should read it. Thus began my journey with Gaidhlig. The spelling is a nightmare, so I've had to use TH-cam videos to learn how to pronounce the words. By the way, at the end of the video you showed chan eil aon chanan gu leor. That means "one language is not enough"! What a beautiful language! Alba gu brath!!!! (Scotland forever).

    • @marconatrix
      @marconatrix 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Irish is even worse -- LOL!

    • @tiemenbosma5793
      @tiemenbosma5793 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lúcás Ó Daimhín Alba gu brath

  • @agnieszkaczapnik8428
    @agnieszkaczapnik8428 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As I stay currently in Scottish Highlands for a bit longer, I can see as much united they're in differences. Sense of freedom, misty landscapes and so warm -hearted people! Thank you for shared inspiration :)

  • @angharadhafod
    @angharadhafod 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Just a small correction in a fascinating video: the Calanais stones were not erected by the Celts. They were erected by whoever was around on the islands around 5000 years ago. We don't really know who that was, but it wasn't the Celts, that much is certain.

    • @carold8308
      @carold8308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe the Picts set up the standing stones?

    • @Artur-hg1qg
      @Artur-hg1qg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@carold8308 The Picts were a Celtic tribe lol.

    • @margaretjoanmacisaac4766
      @margaretjoanmacisaac4766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It would have been probably pre neolithic

  • @luvvids27
    @luvvids27 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Glad to see the young people speaking Gaelic. I wish the people would feel a sense of pride and tradition to speak and keep the Gaelic language alive. The people at large (non-Gaelic speaking) see the Gaelic language as something valuable. It is the language of first peoples to inhabit that area. It is rich cultural heritage that should not be lost!!

    • @alexmacseoin9699
      @alexmacseoin9699 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's not the language of the first people to inhabit the area, it was brought over from Ireland while the Picts were already living there

    • @alexmacseoin9699
      @alexmacseoin9699 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ltx their language would have been closer to Welsh if it even was a Celtic language and not something that was there earlier

    • @CuFhoirthe88
      @CuFhoirthe88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alexmacseoin9699 It's not the first, we know about the steppe ancestries of Celts and other Europeans, we also know of the Paleo-European languages. But you're wrong about Irish invasion theory. Argyll was never Pictish.
      EDIT: I would rephrase Luvvids27's argument as, it's Scots' oldest national language tradition, since sadly Pictish and Cumbric are lost to us. Languages belong to flesh and blood peoples moreso than to physical lands.

  • @thespian218
    @thespian218 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This further reinforces my intense desire to visit this country. I love this.

  • @ianjthompson4715
    @ianjthompson4715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m from Newcastle Upon Tyne in North East England and I visited the Outer Hebrides on a birdwatching holiday with the Newcastle Upon Tyne RSPB Group and visited those amazing Islands in the Spring/Summer period in 2019 and one of the highlight was the seeing the amazing machair, crofters working and hearing the Corncrake in many places on the Outer Hebrides. It was a holiday I will never forget and sadly I probably won’t get to visit the Outer Hebrides again as I will be 68 in May of this year 2020. But the Outer Hebrides is still largely unspoilt. I would have liked to have seen on this TH-cam video the amazing machair, but it must have been the wrong time of the year to see the amazing colours of the machair. But this holiday in 2019 was the most amazing holiday in the UK in all my lifetime and it was a holiday I will never forget.

  • @hfranke07
    @hfranke07 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome, dudes.... I love ya!! Scotland is the best.

  • @Olentzaro
    @Olentzaro 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Gaelic is spoken in more places than the outer islands and northern Highlands. You just have to know where to look. The fact that all Gaelic speakers know English as well means that in public they'll mostly be speaking English in the streets. I have to say that it's surprising these these commentators identified the standing stones and having been erected by the Celtic ancestors. A tad bit of reading would have told them that they preceded the Celts by many centuries.

    • @acanpc333
      @acanpc333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Olentzaro haha yes... I was thinking, naw... pretty sure the Neolithic/Mesolithic people were at least 1000 years before Celts even came to Britain... But i do wander what the ancient celts thought of those stone circles, and what the interaction was like with the people of Britain they encountered. My family is all from Portugal. we have the same stone circles and Celts too, but I wonder who was there before them. and how many of them are my ancestors too!

    • @shinrarango
      @shinrarango 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      also u can find stone circles literally all over the uk

    • @Olentzaro
      @Olentzaro 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The stone circle builders on the continent clearly had many commonalities with those in Britain. It would be interesting if we could somehow know if the circle builders had a uniform culture. Strange that the people of Galicia in northeast Spain often call themselves Celts, but their language is almost identical with Portuguese. One day I'd like someone to describe the differences between the Galician and Portuguese languages.

    • @SD-nz7qy
      @SD-nz7qy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are neolithic stones all over the WORLD.

  • @Julesjuliem
    @Julesjuliem 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved your Scottish tour videos, I’m from Glasgow but my family is originally from the Isle of Lewis. There is definitely so much more for you guys to see 😁

  • @comesahorseman
    @comesahorseman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a lovely island.....thanks, guys! :)

  • @kemily7032
    @kemily7032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've just started studying Irish :) and it was so exciting to realize I understand the lil bits of Scottish too! The two languages really are quite similar

  • @debparks7823
    @debparks7823 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved all four parts. Brilliant! Thank you.

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +deb parks thanks for watching the whole thing!

  • @toddjohnson9782
    @toddjohnson9782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grandmother was a morrison,ancestor came from lewis,would love to go,particularly to dun eistien!

  • @cocolikeschoco
    @cocolikeschoco 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You are my best discovery on youtube!! I cannot wait to watch all your videos!
    You make me dream that one day I'll also go and discover places like you do. Awesome job, guys, keep it up! :)

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Chloe! Much more on the way. Glad to have you with us :)

  • @fearnpol4938
    @fearnpol4938 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Hell the language is spoken in the streets in Ullapool and in the east coast of the Highlands.

    • @jamiegalbraith4874
      @jamiegalbraith4874 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fearn pol I hear Gaelic in Glasgow everyday... born and raised in Glasgow and I hear it all the time.

  • @jamiegalbraith4874
    @jamiegalbraith4874 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's amazing to see my home country like this. Born and live in Glasgow and I hear Gaelic a lot...

  • @Kinlochbervie50
    @Kinlochbervie50 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done, lads - this was a pretty cool series of vids. A good reflection of Scotland.

  • @hubaisilancy9867
    @hubaisilancy9867 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful documentary!

  • @wesvonbiltong5550
    @wesvonbiltong5550 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gaelic is epic!!!!❤❤❤ from a South African Scot.

  • @Cassiopey09
    @Cassiopey09 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Slàinte mhath Vagabrothers! I really enjoyed this serie on Scotland, I know it might not be in the 2017 big plan but keep putting in historical, cultural facts, you have a such nice way of doing it!

  • @prajwal3350
    @prajwal3350 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was just awesome..feels great watching you people travel...

  • @gordonmacdonald299
    @gordonmacdonald299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Great great grand parents immigrated to Nova Scotia from Lewis. He was a teacher and a lay minister. She was a midwife. They have descendants across North America.

  • @Louisianish
    @Louisianish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm not from Scotland, nor do I speak their language, but thank you for pronouncing "Gaelic" correctly. 👍

  • @richardmiller3922
    @richardmiller3922 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks guys, that was a beautiful series.

  • @robertstigers311
    @robertstigers311 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great show guys thank you for taking the time to visit and share this with us

  • @acanpc333
    @acanpc333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    that's super! Going to spend 5 months on exchange from Canada, at the University of Glasgow. Hope I find a Gaelic crew and get to got to the Highlands and the islands! :D thanks boys. Cheers from a fellow Westcoaster!

  • @niksmusicfun
    @niksmusicfun 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the Cali girl in me loves that this ended in the surf. can't wait to share this series!

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  11 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha of course! Need to surf! Thanks for watching

  • @Norrie754
    @Norrie754 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Good film guys, enjoyed watching and sharing a laugh. Hope your film inspires people to visit our lovely country and by the way. I'll be voting Yes

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  11 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Norrie! We love Scotland!

  • @ronbrooks3387
    @ronbrooks3387 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool. My mom is from Scotland and I surf. I found your video very interesting and informative. Tapadh leat.

  • @RyanR3STL3SS
    @RyanR3STL3SS 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    New vagabrothers fan. Love the writing on this episode.

  • @johnhonsky6404
    @johnhonsky6404 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Superb videos. Thanks.

  • @jamesfletcher5906
    @jamesfletcher5906 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is obviously a low budget thing from a couple of lads, but honestly great work boys. I got Goosebumps at the end, very nice attitude you went in with and made a nice wee video. Respect.

  • @jamienelson3470
    @jamienelson3470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Celts migrated to the British Isles from mainland Europe at least a thousand years AFTER Stonehenge and the many other smaller arrangements of standing stones were built.

  • @nealesphotographypage6583
    @nealesphotographypage6583 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Skerryvore, just bought all of their albums!!! Thank you for showing me them. Rock, folk, bagpipes, there is nothing better!!! Keep up the great videos guys, I've watched all of your UK tours now I think. What's up next?

    • @RACHELTAYLOR7
      @RACHELTAYLOR7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Neale's photography page The Peatbog Fairies and Shooglenifty are great too.

  • @williamhwl
    @williamhwl 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such an amazing trip and keep up the good work !!

  • @TarrelScot
    @TarrelScot 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a superb set of videos! Great to see an open-minded, sensitive approach to travel. You guys should come back and do the North Coast 500. Scenery and vibe even more awesome than you've already seen!

  • @carrierueden756
    @carrierueden756 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Soooo love Scotland❤️

  • @jamstahjam
    @jamstahjam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My ancestory DNA came back that my granddad was from outer hebrides. Going to learn all I can, this made me tear up 😥

  • @LetMeThink007
    @LetMeThink007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent

  • @RobinOneHood
    @RobinOneHood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My ma's mum is from Stornoway of clan MacDonald, and her father is a Mackay of the highlands, they all only spoke Gaelic at their homes, hated the english because they were forced to not speak in Gaelic and to adopt some of English culture like singing god save the Queen which my grannie always told me she fuckin hated her lol i remember stories about the blackhouse and her lamb named Suki. They all immigrated to Canada just before my mum was born, and even though I'm from Canada Scotland has always been known as home. Wish I could have been taught Gaelic to keep it alive.

  • @zamingold
    @zamingold 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great doc, thanks guys! Didnt even know Scottish Gaelic was still spoken in pockets, thought only in Ireland was Celtic language still alive. Whats the band name or is there a link for them wanting to hear more and its not showing up on my music search. Slainte!

  • @RobertGillespie
    @RobertGillespie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing, I came across your channel from jacks gap, I love living in Scotland. Keep up the good work, give me a shout if you are ever back in Edinburgh!

  • @RACHELTAYLOR7
    @RACHELTAYLOR7 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think Glasgow is the biggest Gaelic speaking area outside of the highland.Gaelic medium education is popular and there are Gaelic medium schools but there is a shortage of Gaelic speaking teachers and a high demand for school places.

  • @abdellahsadellah1414
    @abdellahsadellah1414 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    it seems similar to Moroccan Berber , in Berber we say " ismino" which means "my name is" , and in Berber we say also " ismens" which means " her/his name " . in addition there are three Moroccan Berber tribes got their names from Scot clans
    M'Touga ( Moroccan Berber Tribe ) ------- > MacDougall ( Scottish highland clan )
    M'Ghill ( Moroccan Berber tribe ) ----------> MacGill ( from Scotland )
    M'Tir ( Moroccan Berber tribe ) -----------> MacTier ( Scotland )
    M' of the Berbers which means 'sons of', and is exactly the same as the Gaelic Mac
    or Mc ... do you see some similarity ? :)

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +abdellah sadellah very interesting!! There definitely were Celts in North Africa.

    • @Nemevv
      @Nemevv 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also thought it sounded similar to Arabic "ismi". But "is mise" (pronounced "is mishuh") means "I am" ("is" is related to English "is", "mise" to "me"). In Arabic, "ismi" means "my name (is)" and it comes from "ism" (name)... Anyway I do acknowledge it's an amazing coincidence. :)

    • @miriamwells35
      @miriamwells35 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      abdellah sadellah It's definitely possible. People often think I am Middle Eastern or Traveller but I am 80% Scots and Irish. Is there a Berber equivalent for McBurney?

    • @dbcox2009
      @dbcox2009 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      abdellah sadellah is it really that Berber if Arabic is 'ismi'?

    • @keithmitchell6548
      @keithmitchell6548 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting. In Scotland we have a word ‘shufti’ which means to take a look. I believe there’s a similar word in Moroccan?

  • @wfcoaker1398
    @wfcoaker1398 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s interesting how a lot of sounds guys are so used to doing sound for rock shows, they put so much emphasis the drums. Often, the other instruments are drowned out by the drums. I’ve often been to trad shows where the traditional instruments are practically inaudible. The scene at the Skerryvor concert is a case in point.

  • @rachellemacphail7670
    @rachellemacphail7670 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you.

  • @thedruiddiaries6378
    @thedruiddiaries6378 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven't forgotten. It isn't easy to come home either. More and more want to.

  • @conornorris6815
    @conornorris6815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    america has so many people of scottish descent it sucks that we dont have any areas were gaelic is spoken

    • @jamienelson3470
      @jamienelson3470 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was still spoken a little on Prince Edward Island in Canada by my dad's aunts and uncles 30 or 40 years ago. I don't know if my generation still does. I'm not from there myself.

    • @RM-cg3tc
      @RM-cg3tc ปีที่แล้ว

      It's spoken in Nova Scotia,Canada🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

  • @kathleenregan9356
    @kathleenregan9356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very similar to the west of Ireland

  • @FaithfulHorrorhound
    @FaithfulHorrorhound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reminds me of the Song of Albion trilogy and the show Monarch of the Glen.

  • @JB-lm5xt
    @JB-lm5xt 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @DoctorCymraeg
    @DoctorCymraeg 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wonderful video. Glè-mhath!
    By the way, it was the Welsh who went to Patagonia.

    • @jhendin
      @jhendin 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Steffan Owain Rheoli I thought about that when I heard them say that. As far as New Zealand goes, when I was on South Island I could definitely hear the Scottish influence in the English that is spoken there.

    • @acanpc333
      @acanpc333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +James Hendin and in British Columbia (western most province of Canada) there is a huge Scottish presence, and the highest density of piping bands in North America :D

    • @coldyoshi
      @coldyoshi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of Welsh went to Patagonia but many scottish gaels went over as well to work the land including relatives of mine.

    • @PamelaMou1
      @PamelaMou1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The word penguin is Welsh. They saw white peaks of Patagonia and called the bird just that.

  • @siouxsie0679
    @siouxsie0679 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome vid guys!

  • @aonghasmacaghobhainn2322
    @aonghasmacaghobhainn2322 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should have gone to the broch in carloway

  • @rabiaoloren9581
    @rabiaoloren9581 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I constantly asked people in Stornaway if they spoke the Gaelic, and after many denials someone told me to go to the local library and there I would finally find someone who spoke it.

  • @Seinghesa
    @Seinghesa 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pan-Celt! We are your brothers! American Irish Celts! Illinois/Colorado Celts!

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      we Irish are Gaels, the Celt theory is proving to be wrong. There is no evedience of the Celts of indo Europe ever coming to Ireland. The Irish today are the same people that were here 1000s of years ago, with a mix of Norse, and English thrown in

  • @margaretjoanmacisaac4766
    @margaretjoanmacisaac4766 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    lovely film x

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Maggie MacIsaac cheers Maggie! Check out our Ireland Vlog Series, you'll love it!

    • @johnhill7233
      @johnhill7233 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maggie MacIsaac y

  • @colinsymes
    @colinsymes 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    'S math sin! (just say, 'smashin') - That's so good!

  • @thedruiddiaries6378
    @thedruiddiaries6378 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Overseas a lot of people want to learn Gaelic...fancy that. I have started. More music in Gaelic would help.

  • @willneverforgets3341
    @willneverforgets3341 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loathed it in school but now I am making up to it...

  • @Ahmed-ob6ec
    @Ahmed-ob6ec 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why don't they make it mandatory to learn Scottish Gaelic in schools?

  • @Seinghesa
    @Seinghesa 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God Bless!

  • @daibhidhcaidh8769
    @daibhidhcaidh8769 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Stones predate the Celts by 1,000 year.

  • @molecatcher3383
    @molecatcher3383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is highly unlikely that the standing stones you stood amongst were built by Celtic people. Following fairly recent DNA analysis of ancient skeletons from the period of the stone circle construction , the stone circles are now thought to be from the Neolithic period which was before Celtic people (Indo-European speaking) arrived in Western Europe.

  • @TheXitone
    @TheXitone 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Glasgow there's gaidhlig spoken . and stop calling us British!!! great video though guys.

    • @jamiegalbraith4874
      @jamiegalbraith4874 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Eek a Mouse Im from Glasgow. And I hear Gaelic here everyday! And exactly. We are Scottish. Not British.

    • @alexmacseoin9699
      @alexmacseoin9699 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If you're from Scotland you're British because Scotland is in Great Britain, it's like being European, it's a geographical term not political you can't choose not to be British if you were born in Great Britain

    • @mrmikecrocodile4238
      @mrmikecrocodile4238 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As Glasgow lies on the island of Britain, you cannot escape being geographically British. Some people confuse British with English and that is annoying. But Scots, Welsh, Manx and Cornish are British through geography and in any case the word Britain is descended from a Greek word for this island before there were any of the boundaries that exist now. So be proud to be British which you would be even if Scotland were independant.

    • @peteymax
      @peteymax 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gaidhlig agus Gaeilge abú 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪

    • @festeringferret7147
      @festeringferret7147 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t you live in the UK🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @skull16cr
    @skull16cr 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    liked and subscribed! Amazing video, and so nice to see two guys from California not acting like the typical douchbag that says oh, dude, totally, gnarly every 10 seconds

  • @GuruishMike
    @GuruishMike 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tha mi à Alba Nuadh. We haven't forgotten.

  • @itzlennon6520
    @itzlennon6520 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you do come I recommend visiting Guinness's store house in Dublin its awsome you would really enjoy ir ☺

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  9 ปีที่แล้ว

      We've been but before we started filming. We're excited to come back out to create content :)

  • @Maurizio4672
    @Maurizio4672 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    pistastuvu nta bovatta? O iistuvu sulu u faciti i ricchiuni adduvi i masculi si vestunu i fimmina?

  • @Moonsabie
    @Moonsabie 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are the American Scotts really welcome back or you just saying that?

  • @douglastodd1947
    @douglastodd1947 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    9.31 Argos in stirling in background.

  • @SD-nz7qy
    @SD-nz7qy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Forgive me, I know this video is well intentioned. But the Calanais Stones were not erected by the Celts. That’s not an insignificant error.😑

  • @JM-gu3tx
    @JM-gu3tx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These guys didn't bother to look at a map of where Scots Gaelic is spoken? That's scary.

  • @redpat8832
    @redpat8832 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet! 🙏

  • @MorrisonScotch
    @MorrisonScotch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are my islands

  • @davel831
    @davel831 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was there and it's gods country!!

  • @elspethwalker2231
    @elspethwalker2231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I stay there

  • @Imightbecrying
    @Imightbecrying 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did I miss something, or are they saying Gaelic incorrectly? It's actually bothering me. Is it GAYlick? Or GAllick?

    • @colmtierney3160
      @colmtierney3160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In English people pronounce it GAYlick, but the word in the Scots Gaelic language is Gàidhlig, which sounds more like GAlick. People also use the word Gaelic in English for the Irish and Isle of Mann languages, but people who speak them call them Irish, Manx, or Gaeilge (GAYlga) and Gaelg, respectively.
      Hope that helps :)

    • @Imightbecrying
      @Imightbecrying 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@colmtierney3160 Cheers mate! I initially clicked on the video because I love learning about languages, their origins, as well as efforts to reclaim dying languages, local dialects, etc. Appreciate you taking the time to answer!

  • @marconatrix
    @marconatrix 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If only the average American was half as open-minded as you guys :-)
    Edit : For American read ¨English speaker¨ maybe?

  • @itzlennon6520
    @itzlennon6520 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why don't you visit Ireland

    • @vagabrothers
      @vagabrothers  9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Itz Lennon Soon...

    • @suzicameron4860
      @suzicameron4860 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Itz Lennon because Scotland is better lol

  • @AlexderFranke
    @AlexderFranke 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Indeed, there are some Gaelic speakers in the Western Highlands as well as the cities of Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh. However, it is only on the Outer Hebrides that Gaelic speakers are not a small minority so that you can address people in Gaelic and hope to be understood. Otherewhere in Scotland, it is more or less searching for the needle in a bunch of hay.
    As to Irish Gaelic, you will more often been understood across the country than speaking Scottish Gaelic across Scotland. thanks to Irish lessons at school in the Republic of Ireland, even if the outcome of the Irish lessons at school is not that good as it ought to be.
    The censuses as well as surveys tell the differences, too. Scottish Gaelic has around 57.700 speakers alltogether with some 30.000 more with some skills in it. In Ireland, we have,between 50.000,and 100.000 native Irish speakers and 500.000 to 1 Million fluent and moderate skilled Irish speakers. Those with some knowledge range up to 1,8 Million on the island looking to the census of the Republic and of Northern Ireland.
    Kindly, Alex

  • @Chris-yo3cl
    @Chris-yo3cl 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from the islands.and I'm American..well my ancestors are..

  • @weishauptogram
    @weishauptogram 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Celts did not build these stones.

    • @jamienelson3470
      @jamienelson3470 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No indeed, not even their ancestors, as the stones had been standing for a thousand years by the time the Celts migrated over from mainland Europe.

    • @RACHELTAYLOR7
      @RACHELTAYLOR7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jamie Nelson There is no such race as the celts and these people did not call themselves celts.

  • @DaisySage
    @DaisySage 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lochs Deas is loaded with Gàidhlig on Lewis.

  • @michaelclark3283
    @michaelclark3283 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Celts didn't put up dem stones bruh

  • @Vishnu-ly1nq
    @Vishnu-ly1nq 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scotland, great North UK

  • @daviddebroux4708
    @daviddebroux4708 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Honestly, the fact that it seems that (even if the vid is eight years old by now) some of the locals are too nervous or unwilling to speak their native or old tongue, it just feels so *depressing*. Unbelievable that those people got the short end of the stick with social interactions just because of the Gaelic language.

  • @YY-et1cr
    @YY-et1cr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s a shame I wish the whole of Scotland speak it I am lucky in a way cos I speak Scots Doric I’m from the North East where it’s widely spoken and I love my language eg: (Fit like iday ma Freen Affa Dreicht oot ere) English Translation: How are you today my friend it’s very dull out there

  • @nadiamurchie1949
    @nadiamurchie1949 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    my daughter was made to do an extra year in school , held back a year, becuase she was caught talking, 'jibberrish'. at school. she was muttering gaelic that i was muttering to myself in the house as i tried to educate myself in private.. she now despises me muttering or trying to sing in gaelic, i am not fluent , i stopped trying to keep the gaelic alive in my house., and because it robbed her of a year of her life in education she despises hearing gaelic now.. when the education services realised it was gaelic i was very much punished. why would you speak this in the house ? if you were not taught it as a child. ?. growing up as a wee yin my nana begged me to try learn the gaelic you have to keep it alive. i tried, im still trying in private. costs some scots though. to go back to native.

    • @emailvonsour
      @emailvonsour ปีที่แล้ว

      Learn how to write English first, then try again with your utterly made-up story.

    • @nadiamurchie1949
      @nadiamurchie1949 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emailvonsour screenshot and shared to spread your ignorance . Happens to the irish and the Welsh aswell. * Saint Anthony *

    • @nadiamurchie1949
      @nadiamurchie1949 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emailvonsourlet's slap the native clean out of you till you understand what oppression feels like. Reprobate.

  • @Pteromandias
    @Pteromandias 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Glaaaaz Goe"

  • @Kurdedunaysiri
    @Kurdedunaysiri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Scotland should start to give education in Scottish not English. This places are last chance for save their own language. They protect this areas and start to make everything with Scottish language. Protecting language is a radical thing. You can not protect it only with talking about it. Work hard and survive your own language

  • @ionamacisaac9359
    @ionamacisaac9359 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    im from south uist