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Ar fheabhas!

Where's that Joe guy?

Please may I inquire as to where the book mentioned can be purchased?

This is really useful, thank you!

This is very helpful! Thank you. (I'm a brand new beginner and this video, along with the one on pronunciation, is helping Irish be less confusing to me.)

Is he American or Irish? It's hard to tell when he speaks English. The standard Irish and American accents are actually getting quite similar these days!

Will you share more videos on Irish gaelic pronunciation? Go raibh maith agat.

Awesome!

Tá sé dorcha...

why not simplify? so much ink wasted on typing all those hbhgsss and endless silent letters or four-letter combinations which only give one sound and could easily be written by one letter! Same applies to English, French and other not very phonetically written languages, but Irish seems to be an ink waster, too.

so many to remember...excellent video though!

Great stuff,one small caveat the biggest problem for Irish learners is double consonants vs single consonants.Most learners and indeed teachers tend to ignore this.Go back and listen to how you pronounced the word "baile" there is no "ll" in Baile hope this helps

Amazing teaching

That's so cool to know that Irish has broad and slender like Russian. :) So for and russian speaker the difference between broad R and slender R is very distinctive :))

Practice words and phrases would be wonderful, especially if pronounced very s-l-o-w-l-y, with each syllable separate from the others. Once each words is thus clarified, then it could be spoken at a speed considered "slow" by a native speaker. The final iteration could be at normal speed for a native. As an aural rather than visual learner, I've had great difficulty committing the pronounciation rules to memory, never mind putting them into actual practice. I tried learning from several different teachers but always felt that there was insufficient time spent on any one area.

Is there a place where we can download the text? Thank you for your videos. They are helping me.

Tá sé seo go maith. Go raibh maith agat!

Thar a bheith spéisiúil. Go maire sibh. Buíochas. Brian

Go raibh maith agat for the gift of your time in creating this video. Using this in conjunction with your video on pronunciation and with the handout has made some things clear which were murky for me before. This will be a very helpful tool in being able to link sounds with the writing system, and then using the sound system to learn more by reading--a positive spiral. Agus méanfach deas, agus "féach!" :)

My Grampa was the last of his family line who spoke fluent Gaeilge but he never taught much of it to the following generations before he died so I'm learning it on my own. This video helped a lot and made it so simple even I could understand it! LOL! I'll be the 1st to admit my verbal skills are shite but I can read & write Gaeilge somewhat decently, nowhere near as well as my French. In Canada we also have 2 official languages, French is everywhere starting with Sesame Street & I had 10 years of it in school same as Gaeilge & English in Eire.

this is the first resource I've seen that made me feel like there might be hope; everything written is never going to help me because I need to hear these words spoken....slowly enough to hear the sounds. Thank you for doing this. I don't so much want to learn Irish as not be at a complete loss of how the words are pronounced....thank you.

Overall this is a good video but there are a number of significant mistakes throughout. This is almost inevitable, however, when Irish is being taught by a non-native speaker. My best suggestion for improvement would be to research native Irish speaker resources for learning Irish and recommend them to viewers at the end of the video or in the suggestion box as a follow up that has more potential for accuracy. This is also extremely important for cultural reasons. Irish is a minority language that is struggling to survive. To have people from a more dominant culture/language group explaining our language to the world is not the most culturally sensitive thing. Compare it with a white person making videos to explain the struggles of African Americans. For a majority culture to explain a minority culture, while a step in the right direction, is not the answer. It is better to give a voice to the minority culture and allow them to explain their own experiences. For this reason, recommending native Irish speakers or resources in your videos would be highly beneficial to the Irish language community. Nonetheless, seeing Irish brought to a wider audience is always a good thing and one that as a native Irish speaker, I highly appreciate. I hope you keep learning Irish and spreading it as much as possible.

Go raibh maith agat!

thank you for this video! it helps so much.

You are awesome. Best 15 minutes spent in my life. Now I can read most things in irish gaelic without fear of making mistakes. <3

Maidir leis an Séimhiú, ceard faoi an ainm 'Siobhán'? Tá litreacha leathan ann roimh agus tar éis an ainm, ach deirtear leis an fuaim 'v'.

irish is such a beautiful elegant language. It should occupy the place french has in the world. You know, that language that makes people feel fancier about themselves. Irish is my french

any way to get copies of the handouts featured in this vid?

This is the clearest and most concise explanation of the Irish pronunciation system I've come across in nearly a decade of trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to learn Irish. It accurately reflects the pronunciation needed to pass oral examinations and converse in urban settings with other speakers who also learned their Irish in school.But it won't help very much if you visit a Gaeltacht and try to speak with a native speaker there. The Irish they speak is usually so different from "school" Irish that you can't understand them. It's almost as if the native Gaelgeoiri are diglossic and speak a different language than the written one. It's a lot like visiting Switzerland and expecting to hold a conversation in modern standard German (aka SchriftDeutsch).

I have to say that as a chinese speaker (not as first language) this is quite more difficult than chinese pronunciation (except for the tones).

A butt load of thanks and a farm pond of gratitude for this. I've never found a usable explanation of broad and slender consonant values. I was ready to chuck irish Gaelic for good when I stumbled across this.

I had always learned, slender with slender and broad with broad, before and after a consonant, when it comes to vowels. For example, the Irish words for "mother and sister." Máthair agus deirfiúr. Notice the position of the broad vowels in 'máthair' and the slender vowels in 'deirfiúr'? Many times, when it came to spelling, I may have wondered, "is it 'I-A' or is it 'A-I'?" Then recall that little slender with slender, broad with broad trick and realize, "It's a broad vowel before the consonant, that means it would be a broad vowel right after the consonant ... So it would be 'A-I'." You could say it is the Irish equivalent to the English, "I before E, except after C." However, like that English language trick, that Irish trick ... there are some rare exceptions. In those cases, you simply need to know those exceptions. On a sidenote: Here is a link to a poem with the 51 English exceptions. facebook.com/georgehtakei/posts/665778686784921

Go deas. = Nice.

I rather go to prison than to listen to that crap again , it would put you off learning Irish , man help me

Very helpful, thank you.

This video answered so many questions and made everything make much more sense! keep em comin! :D

This is exactly what I needed to make Irish click for me Thank you.

Is breá liom an fiséan. Go raibh mile maith agat!

Finally a good explanation of the Irish pronunciation. Your video was very helpful. Thank you!

Very good.

Cuirim an píosa seo ar mo shuíomh FB go minic. An-mhaith! Seán facebook.com/irishlanguagelearners

a lot of irish is based off dialect. for instance i go to school in leinster and do the leinster dialect, however my teacher learned the munster dialect and so we would pronounce ceithre differently. so thats important to note aswell

Great video. The narrator is learned. I think the dialectical differences would make parts of this video inaccurate though.

Is maith liom é seo go mór. Obair mhaith!

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Where can I find this list? It would be very nice to have on paper, for making notes

Thank you and i can say it in irish too:Go raibh maith agat

I speak a few European languages and have always wanted to learn my parents' language, Irish. But, every time I've started, I've been put off by the spelling. This video is so clear that at last I've made sense of the sound and spelling rules. I'm now able to equate particularly the phonological rules with those of other languages such as Greek, which helps tremendously. Thank you so much!!!

I didn't quite understand what is "úrú" for and when is it used. Can you explain, please?