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Hello, I am learning more about Irish. I understand pronunciations vary across dialects. Would it be accurate to say an Ulster dialect might sound more like "Shunna" (pardon my phonetic ignorance) and a Connact dialect might sound more like "Shunnuv" like how Siobhan is frequently pronounced "Shivan?" Thank you for your wonderful work!

Compassion means to “suffer with” someone. Death is part of life!

Go raibh míle

My favorite word in the Irish DuoLingo course is iógart...because the voice sounds like they're having painful constipation.

Can you do a review of Microsoft edges Irish text to speech?

Go hiontach. I've started a series which may help learners of Kerry Irish

Does anybody have a clue on how to pronounce the slender R sound? I can perfectly pronounce the broad R, but after several months, I've failed with the slender R. It's so damn hard, and I can never find a good description on how to pronounce it. I'm tired of adding a "ž" sound after a broad R when pronouncing words like "fir" and "óir" when it sounds nothing like the real deal.... 🥲🙏

Thank you SO much for acknowledging Aon Troim. It gets so tiring having to defend our Irish ethnicity. Go raibh maith míle agat! Also, you should know that those of us in the North with any interest in Gaelic don't participate in "the 12th". Please be more careful.

Tell us more about the lenition dot and the unentomological h please

I think i ve found a new fascination!!🤓 maith a fear! Ta gaeilge an suimuil. Go raibh maith agat a fear uasal. ☘️

Wonderfully done!!! you’ve made this video so engaging and fun, I had quite the laugh while watching. I usually hate watching long videos about phonetics (despite loving the subject), as the videos are very often dry and boring, but this was great! very informative and entertaining!!

'm drankin the whole damn oasis with thisun. Thankyuh

I love your work! Can I ask a question please. In Australia, historically Irish was called Gaelic or "the Gaelic" by speakers here. Now obviously the official way to refer to it in Ireland is "Irish", but many heritage learners in Australia don't see the official standard as being the language which our ancestors spoke and so are more interested in learning dialects (with correct pronunciation). I was wondering, do native/dialect speakers in Ireland ever call the language "Gaelic" in English, or has it fallen out of use entirely in favour of "Irish"? As someone who was taught that older family members had spoken "Gaelic" and knowing that some convict ancestors were listed as (and sometimes punished for) speaking "only Gaelic", many of us here have an emotional connection to the name. We are constantly told off for using the wrong name online by Irish speakers though, and I was wondering your thoughts on this. GRMMA

an í gaeilge do theanga dhúcais?

Trying to learn Irish on Duolingo, is very frustrating because there are many pronunciations of the same words...... after listening to you I'm going to need antidepressants.......😣 I have a great fear that I can read it, but will understand NOTHING if I go to Connemara.... I hear YOU sigh....imagine how we all feel now. Perhaps conversations with subtitles....speaking slowly would be a great benfit.

I am a Canadian who is using Mícheál Ó Siadhail’s “Learning Irish” book and recordings supplemented by some lessons Máirtín Ó Cadhain made with recordings and some other native Cois Fharraige stuff on TG4. It’s very hard to get good source material. I tried a couple of courses online from Ireland and the most daunting thing was always asking which dialect I was going to get (U/C/M). They could never give me an answer. There seems to be a tendency to try to erase dialects entirely from lessons out of Dublin (was able to get an answer from Galway online lessons). But it should be the FIRST THING said - “In this class we will be learning a real (or approximation) of Connacht dialect…) “

I don't even speak Irish but one of the voices sounds like an American (a non-native speaker)

This is a useful video. I never learned Irish in school, so I'm thankful for the accessibility of Duolingo, especially given that it's free. I've also used other resources like 'Now You're Talking' (available on RUclips and worth watching purely for the retro cardigans and hairdos) which definitely seems like it gives more genuine (Ulster) pronunciations. Using these things, my comprehension has improved exponentially, but I'm aware that in order to get good at speaking, I'll certainly need to find time to attend classes and groups. There are plenty in my locality, just never seems like there are enough hours in the day.

Go diail, tánn tú ana-greannmhar agus dheinis an beart glan chun taircaisne a thabhairt d’einne agus duine eile nach iad😄

Don't listen to the complaining and criticism of other commenters, I really enjoyed hearing this discussion and your thoughts about life and hope to see more episodes of this in the future.

thank you for doing this! i especially loved you showing the munster way to pronounce siúicre and le do thoil as that’s the dialect i want to learn :D i realize more and more how similar sounding irish and my native norwegian can be at times, especially since i speak a dialect where palatalization is one of its core distinctions! i hope you, painful as it may be, choose to do this again sometime so we can get a further look at the various ways to correctly pronounce words i nGaeilinn ;) grma!

I have been searching the internet for the best place to learn authentic Scottish Gaelic. Because its a small unrepresented language im paranoid about learning it the wrong way. If you or anyone can tell me id appreciate it

I’m learning Irish on Duolingo, but I think I have quite a feeling for languages, I can hear if it is „real“ Irish or if it has that „english touch“. Even the English on Duolingo is just American English, I would not call it „English“, because then it would be BE and not AE. I just use it to learn words and a hint of grammar, because you can not really find good material online. That works pretty fine, I fresh up my Italian(second mother tongue) with German(first), Swedish, English and a little bit of French so I get all kind of pronounciations. I like to have it all in one app. When I add all dialects I speak/understand, I can just get a feeling for what is „contaminated“ and what sounds real. You should never learn a language only from one app/book/course but get as many material you can. So thank you so much for this vid that helps me learning better Irish, the next wunderful language on my list 😊

Go raibh míle maith agat, a chara. It’d be great to see more videos like this focused on correct Irish pronunciation.

An bhfuil 'mic' agaibh...?

Má chuireann sé seo goimh ort fan go gcluinfidh tú cé chomh lofa is atá MS Word..

A Loingseach, might I suggest you open lines for viewer donations, as some of us would like to help buy you a better microphone -- all the better to hear you with.

5:23-5:30 This is EXACTLY like how non-greeks or westerners using Erasmian pronunciation treat the dipthong ει when learning Ancient Greek, pronouncing it not like a monophthong /eː/ or /iː/ but as /ey/ which is completely wrong and artificial.

duolingo changed the speaker for the course a few months back. the old speaker was all 'acub' and 'innuv' and her war of saying 'dheathair' contained lots of new sounds for me. the new speakers sound much more english to my ears. also the new speakers often pronounce the 'f' in future forms.

Too much emphasis on forcing students to speak from day one instead of getting the sound of the language fully ingrained in their head before they start talking. But that isn’t as easy to measure and test, so who cares! Totally wrongheaded approach to teaching language

I don’t care and you can’t make me

Is abair.ie any good for pronunciations?

Haven't used Duolingo in a number of years, but I couldve sworn they used to have pre-recordings from a Connaught-sounding woman. It was pretty decent, don't know why they got rid of her :(

Really wish a comprehensible input channel made by native Irish speakers existed. There should be some kind of government scheme or incentive to create a resource à la Dreaming Spanish so learners can listen to graded and varied content from total beginner to advanced, allowing learners to then make the jump to native materials. I basically went from terrible school-level Spanish to being able to converse with my girlfriend in a bit over year with no pronunciation issues. I owe all of it to videos, podcasts, and books targeted at specific levels.

Tangential question: How is the Irish pronunciation on Rosetta Stone (the app)? To my untrained ears it doesn't sound exceedingly English, but is it good Irish?

Thar bárr air fad. Tadhg

thank you for this video. As someone who tried to learn irish a while back with duolingo and rosetta stone, the moment when i realized that the pronounciation was completely wrong was like a revelation to me: so there IS a difference between rothar and rothair!

I have finally, at 34 years of age, learned *why* I pronounce mór like i do. (Raised and taught in South Tipp by local teachers.) For a while there i was starting to become self-conscious that it was a bad habit or pronunciation I'd picked up as a child and I'd been saying it wrong my entire life.

They’re too busy updating the Klingon course to be bothered with Irish phonology. there’s only a million people learning these mispronunciations, right?

Thank you very much for clarifying this! I considered using Duo Lingo but I now understand that I shouldn’t do that. I think that maybe a non-native speaker doesn’t need to get completely accent free (but they should make an effort to get as close as possible) but at least the learning resources should not contain the anglicized version of the language. I’m not a native English speaker myself (I’m German) so apologies if I make some mistakes. But I’m always willing to improve.

Thanks for this. Your consonant and vowel pronounciation videos were a massive turningpoint and help to my learning. I still use Duo-in a kind of conditional, extended way with notes, grammar research, and checking in with the teanglann audio. My fear using it now is how much of the grammar it teaches isn't correct.

Go raibh míle maith agat! Been using Duo for a daily quick vocab booster and general motivation to practice, and I've been deliberately ignoring the pronunciations and focusing on what I've picked up from your videos and a couple others like Patchy on RUclips. It helps to hear that my pronunciation is a lot closer to yours than the Duo recordings, but it also shows me a lot of areas where I need to improve.

I wish I was taught half of this in school! Go raibh míle maith agat from a Dubliner

This is such an interesting approach to learning the language! Don't think I've heard a teacher use linguistics and vowel placement to describe how to pronounce rudaí as Gaeilge before, it's so cool! First time seeing this channel, learned Irish in school from a mixture of Leinster and Munster teachers - (though the school was in Connacht), so we had an...interesting... mix of pronunciations by the time we got past Leaving Cert. Would love to see more of this on RUclips, it's both educational and entertaining. Maith thú dude.

we need more pronunciation videos: I’m still confused with words like beag, taispeáin and bord. Radically different pronunciation in different sources

Ní bheinn in ann dó seo, theilgfinn an guthán ar an mballa 😂

A large part of the reason for this, lets be frank, is because authentic pronunciation is *stigmatised* in modern Ireland. The Americanised stuck-up D4 types mentioned in the video mock the rural accents (ie those with Gaelic influence) in English, and have no notion of sounding anything like them in Irish either. Unless this fear of sounding like a "bogger" is overcome, we will continue to find a abundance of overly-anglicised speakers.

Go raibh maith agat AnLoingseach. Your videos have been very beneficial. I think many of us gravitate towards Duolingo because it's one of the simplest, easiest, and least expensive learning platforms out there. It's clearly quite counterproductive in terms of actual content. This might be a horrid idea, but perhaps it would be helpful if the folks watching this video drop the resources they use below this comment. I am hoping to compile them all into a Google Document, because from what I can tell, there seems to be no centralised source that points to quality resources for learning Irish. Your You Tube channel has been a huge help!

I've heard that dipthongisation is how native-English speakers get clocked with a lot of foreign languages. V common mistake

Was using Irish Duolingo a few years ago to familiarise myself with Irish for the sake of Gael solidarity. Had visions of making it easier to converse with the Donegal ground workers I encounter on building sites in West of Scotland