I’m just learning so cannot comment on her accent or grammar but from the point of view of the flow of the conversation, I think she’s doing well and is totally on target for 6 years of study. After almost 9 months myself, I could see myself more or less being here conversation wise in 5 years with much higher level of reading and passive comprehension.
someone in a few years will see my message, its 2021 and i dont know if i am even going to have orals or not (pandemic) but if you are reading this, good luck you will do great
As an outsider with an interest in languages and language learning/teaching I found this very interesting. Initially I was very impressed by her 'fluency' but after a while I realised it was a sort of 'super-fluency'. Clearly there are only a limited number of things that a stranger can reasonably ask a pupil of this age, so the trick is clearly to have a little paragraph memorised for each possible question. Then all you have to do is spot one or two key words and 'replay' what you hope will be the right answer. I could probably programme a computer to do this, like the old 'doctor' program, it doesn't have to be very intelligent and it doesn't really have to have any deep understanding of the questions, just the ability to spot key words/phrases. So this is a little ritual/game/rite-of-passage you are obliged to go through. Agus Cothrom na Féinne dhuibh, biodh eagal mór orm, gu dearbh fhéin! But the wider question is does this really help anyone to learn to speak Irish? Let alone leave them, after going through all this rigmarole, with any actual desire to ever use the language again? I doubt if it bears much relation to the way Irish, or any language for that matter, is used in normal conversation. I'm sure there are techniques and skills that can be taught for that, but they're not being taught here IMO. I wonder in what circumstances these pupils would want or need to speak Irish. If the answer is 'none' then what is the point of teaching the spoken language at all? Better simply stick to the literature for those with an interest. Is mise le meas ...
I have my leaving cert oral tomorrow and I found your videos yesterday !! Thank you very much for uploading this, it has been so helpful and beneficial
Thank you so much for these videos Garry Bannister. I live in the United States and there are no resources for learning the Irish language close to where I live. There are few in the United States to begin with, but none where I live in the northern part of California. These videos really help out so please keep them coming! GRMA.
Carl Love You're very welcome, Carl. Thanks for your very positive feedback. I am very grateful to all the young people like Hannah who kindly allow their videos to be posted on youtube.
I think this is brilliant and well done Hanna. I would love to hear someone answer. My Dad? He is s lazy git and does sweet FA round the house, Mum does everything and is a doctor aswell.
Good fucking Christ. Do people think this is a high level of Irish? This video displays a high level of memory and DECENT competence with the language. Which is necessary (or was during her time and my time of doing HL Irish level) to do well in this oral exam setting. She clearly has a script in her head. Does this conversation sound natural? If some randomer actually asked me about my family in English, I wouldn't be that quick with answers, unless I knew in advance that I wanted to tell this person my daddy's an attorney and my mom's a GP with her own practice in whatever place. Hannah's looking around at far angles (especially upwards), which is a good indicator of working your memory hard. She's also making tongue slips when she's rattling off her sentences, mixing up sounds that will come later on in the sentence. Hinting at the fact that she knows her script well, so well in fact that's she already thinking of the word that will come in a few seconds' time. And good God, the obvious diversion of attention to a different topic when he starts asking an awkward question. Like, "fuck give him a one liner answer and let me start talking about the school's facilities, I've that covered about a million times." Well done Hannah on that wonderful display of memory, but please don't be fooled folks. You can do HL Irish for the Leaving too. Start taking your cod liver oil tablets now, you need memory and sufficient time spent practising your speech. I sincerely doubt this girl is fluent. Her teacher gives excellent scripts. I did extremely well in my HL Irish oral exam a few years ago, but I am so far from fluent it's laughable. I'm still learning Irish in college and the orals are less predictable, you don't have two years to build up your potential speech and you're ACTUALLY relying on your level of fluency. Good luck on your oral friends, don't forget to rob a few of Hannah's phrases, sure she just robbed them from her teacher or Revise Wise or God knows where else!
having "a high level of memory" is what the whole irish leaving exam is about. Being able to understand and speak Irish on a somewhat practical level means FUCK ALL to you in the course . Your expected to learn and regurgitate pages and pages of shit that wouldnt interest any young person in the slightest.
The girl is clearly fluent and you bet she knows what she going to say its the leaving ....you are just jealous. People who say its memory and whine about the leaving are those who failed it.
Tá Béalscrudú agam féin amárach, le cuidiú Dé go mbeidh mé ábalta ag caint cosúil leis sin ach tá beagainín amhreas orm! Is é a caighdeán an-ard chun na firinne a rá!
ChEzCoLe100 Hi Ch Ez Cole, Don't lose heart! They say you need to know about 300 words active vocabulary in any language to speak it with reasonable fluency. Try to focus on the most common questions like: An maith leat do scoil? Cad iad na hábhair (the subjects) a dhéanann tú?... Ask your teacher to give you the ten most frequently asked topics. Then learn to say simple things. Like: Is maith liom mo scoil. Tá sé go hiontach. Tá a lán cairde (a lot of freinds) agam... etc. You'll be surprised how much you can say with just a few words. Also practise speaking to yourself on your own on each of the ten topics... one at a time. You will find it a lot easier than you ever thought. Beannachtaí, Garry
Would you have to have such long answers prepared to get an A1 mark, or is it more about the flow and vocabulary you have? You only have less than 10 mins in your oral after the sraith pictuir and the filiocht...
Memorise "blocks" of Irish, phrases that can be combined in an unending remix. Learn the conversational oilers to buy you time while you are thinking e.g. fan go bheicfe mé, bhuel, etc. Above all constantly practise thinking in Irish, and think out loud in Irish at every opportunity when people aren't around.
I have found that the length of the 'free conversation' can vary, but you are right, it is usually about 10 minutes after the poetry reading and the 'sraitheanna'. The topics are also usually fairly general, unless the examiner sees that you have a specific interest in a particular area. The vast majority of examiners will try to facilitate the students with questions that will allow them to show off the Irish they know. If you have prepared a reasonable number of topics well, such as: your family, your local area, your subjects and school life, your hobbies and friends, etc, then there is nothing to be worried about. You will be given ample opportunity to freely speak on all such topics. Remember, the examiner cannot ask you any personal questions, unless you offer the information voluntarily yourself and the examiner is only interested in the flow and skill in your spoken-language. So, do not be tempted to say things that go beyond your language competence. The very best of luck to you in your oral exam! Go n-éirí leat!
+Garry Bannister hi I'd love if you added the English translation into your videos. I would love to know what I'm saying instead of just learning something off by heart. These are helpful thanks!!
Garry Bannister !!!! как ты поживаешь, a chara - или друг? (Tá mé ag déanamh nach bhfuil muid chun an focal товарищ a úsáid, tá an ré sin thart.) Is fada an lá ó bhí mé ag cainnt leat. Bhí mé ag obair leat tá na blianta o shoin san "People's College," faoi smacht "Sheila" Ag an am céanna bhí mise ag freastail ar do ranganna comhrá sa Rúisis - "meetups," an focal atá orthu I bhfus I Londain, an áit ina bhfuil mé I mo chonaí I láthair na h-uaire. (Tá fiachadh orm a adhmháil gur scaoil mé leis an Rúisis fadó o shoin ach sin scéal eile). B’fhéidir nach cuimhin leat mé ach Is tusa a chuir mise i dteagmháil leis an gcumann Éireannach, Ollscoil Moscó (МГУ). - agus leis na scoláirí iontacha Gaeilge a bhí ann ag an am. Agus an "Headbanger" go deo - ní cuimhinn liom a ainm - a chuir in aithne dúinn (na daoine ón People's College) an saol oíche Moscó - agus sin roimh thitim an chumannachais, I mo thuaraimse, nuair a bhí an cathair níos suimiúla ar shlí ná mar atá sí san lá atá inniu ann, . Bhfuel, níos difiriula, ar aon nos. Ní haoin áibhéil a rá, I ndiaidh na blianta seo chuaigh thart, gur tháing tú orm aníar aduaidh. Mar sin, guíom ort: fan I dteagmhail, a Gharry. Ba mhaith liom a fháil amach conas atá an saol ag eirigh leat. murraymicha@gmail.com. Nó: ar an suiomh seo: (FaceBook/Messenger) Michael Murray London.
Le bhur dtoil: Foghlaimígí na focail a fhuaimniú go ceart mar nach féidir liom na cainteoirí Gaelainne as an nGalltacht (cosúil leis an gcailín seo) a thuiscint go maith, má tá siad ag labhairt chomh tapaidh is a shíleann tú go ndeireann siad focail Bhéarla. Tá crampa gallda ar an dteanga orthusan, agus d'fhéadfá a rá ná fuil na cainteoirí dúchais ró-shásta faoin dtoradh a tháinig as an aidhm, is as an iarracht nuachainteoirí a chur amach. Dar liom (is é mo bharúilse!) go bhfuil an aidhm seo teipthe orainn, toisc nach féidir leis na mic léinn sin a chomhrá as Gaelainn le haon duine atá in ann Gaelainn liofa láidir a labhairt, agus atá in ann an fuaimniú "coimeádach" nó (b'fhéidir níos fearr) an fuaimniú BUNÚIL a úsáid, mar a déarfá. Is é sin fadhb mhór. Bail ó Dhia oraibh!
+Glao na hÉireann Go raibh míle maith agat as do theachtaireacht. Tuigim go maith go bhfuil deighilt mhór éirithe idir cainteoirí na nGaeltachtaí agus cainteoirí ó chathracha gallda na tíre. Is cuimhin liom féin go maith le linn m'óige nuair a bhínn sa Ghaeltacht Anagaire i nDún na nGall nár thuig muintir na háite sin ach le deacracht mhór a mbíodh a rá ag lucht léite na nuachta ar RTÉ. Bhí mé féin le tamall fada ag obair le cainteoirí dúchais ó Ghaoth Dobhair agus bhí fadhbanna tuisceana acu siúd le léachtóirí Bhlá Chliath a raibh canúint Chiarraí ar a gcuid Gaeilge. Déanta na fírinne, tá an oiread sin de mhodhanna cainte anois - canúint agus comhréir na nGaelscoileanna, canúint na ngnáthscoileanna, canúint RTÉ agus Raidió na Life nach mbím, i ndáiríre, cinnte cad é an fuaimniú ceart oifigiúil gur chóir domsa glacadh leis nó gan glacadh leis nuair a bhím i mbun éisteacht le hiarrthóirí ó cheantar éagsúla ar fud na tíre. An rud ar a ndírím féin m'aire anois ná ar chruinneas na gramadaí, nó go háirithe ar chomhréir na teanga féin agus gan amhras ar shaibhreas agus líofacht an chainteora.
It's this kind of arrogance that puts people off learning the language at all. Of course she has the accent of a non native speaker, because she is a non-native speaker, likewise if she spends enough time listening to fluent native speech, then she'll learn to understand it. At the end of the day, who is ever going to want to learn Irish when the people they're going to be talking to are nitpickers like you?
I love your books but this sounds fake and reminds me of school. She's not thinking in Irish she's remembering what she has learnt. As an IELTS examiner who has seen this hundreds of times it's kind of sad. I wouldn't fail her but she wouldn't get a high mark. We need Irish as the language of the classroom not as a subject.
I do higher level Irish. I'll be taking my own sweet precious time. Why would he need to know what hospital I was born in.
He never asks that, her sister just works in one
Still helping people with their Oral 10 years later, I thank you from the bottom of my heart
Ahhh Jaysus I guess I'm doing ordinary.
_Irish_ Deco_ still have to do it either way mate lol
Alexis the oral is common level. The examiner won’t know if your in higher or ordinary
My Irish orals are in 2 days and this just made me terrified
I’m just learning so cannot comment on her accent or grammar but from the point of view of the flow of the conversation, I think she’s doing well and is totally on target for 6 years of study. After almost 9 months myself, I could see myself more or less being here conversation wise in 5 years with much higher level of reading and passive comprehension.
i nearly know this conversation off by heart from stealing all her phrases :p
hope to god this isn't the standard of Irish expected for higher...cuz if it is...i gonna fail:'(
ave123ization did you fail?
He died.
ave123ization what language is she speaking ? Too easy!! Yeah right😁.
someone in a few years will see my message, its 2021 and i dont know if i am even going to have orals or not (pandemic) but if you are reading this, good luck you will do great
@@AR-dl3kn Thanks! Looks like orals are goin ahead...
May the lord have mercy on my soul. A drop out may have to be done.
As an outsider with an interest in languages and language learning/teaching I found this very interesting. Initially I was very impressed by her 'fluency' but after a while I realised it was a sort of 'super-fluency'. Clearly there are only a limited number of things that a stranger can reasonably ask a pupil of this age, so the trick is clearly to have a little paragraph memorised for each possible question. Then all you have to do is spot one or two key words and 'replay' what you hope will be the right answer. I could probably programme a computer to do this, like the old 'doctor' program, it doesn't have to be very intelligent and it doesn't really have to have any deep understanding of the questions, just the ability to spot key words/phrases.
So this is a little ritual/game/rite-of-passage you are obliged to go through. Agus Cothrom na Féinne dhuibh, biodh eagal mór orm, gu dearbh fhéin!
But the wider question is does this really help anyone to learn to speak Irish? Let alone leave them, after going through all this rigmarole, with any actual desire to ever use the language again? I doubt if it bears much relation to the way Irish, or any language for that matter, is used in normal conversation. I'm sure there are techniques and skills that can be taught for that, but they're not being taught here IMO. I wonder in what circumstances these pupils would want or need to speak Irish. If the answer is 'none' then what is the point of teaching the spoken language at all? Better simply stick to the literature for those with an interest.
Is mise le meas ...
eileen healy
White Blackbird! Cha chuala mi sin riamh roimhe. Cia e?
Every parent thinks that their own.child is the best Apologies re tardiness Sick and slow
eileen healy
Well if you parents don't think you're the best, who will? Hope you're feeling better now btw.
+marconatrix it's a horrible language don't learn it
Dermot Kimmage
:-)
So what do you rate as a nice language?
And what exactly is it about G. that winds you up? (Just curious)
bit of a relief watching this; very simple questions to answer with practice. thank you!
I have my leaving cert oral tomorrow and I found your videos yesterday !! Thank you very much for uploading this, it has been so helpful and beneficial
Iseabail Hughes Fáilte romhat! Tá áthas orm é sin a chloisteáil! Go n-éirí leat amárach!! :)
And this is exactly why I'm taking predicted for irish xd
Same here m8, btw where in Ireland u from. I from the Dubs
Lucky feckers, no predicted for us in 6th year now 😔
@mathlide same here it sucks balls
Is it too late to watch this two hours before my practice oral ;-;” Leaving Cert of 2021 @-@“””
Same
how did yis get on?
Although I didn't understand a word, I thought it was amazing. She put a lot of work into that. Bless x
I'm fucked for this. I know about a quarter of the irish she knows.
Watching this with my oral in two days and I still have yet to learn a sraith.. Update: I fucked it lads
Sorry to hear that, hope you are doing well now friend
Bro I hope things going well got mine tomorrow ill update you on how it goes 😅
@@barr143 it all worked out in the end. 5 years later and i have finished college
@Jonfroy I forgot to give an update, it went alright studying for the lc now which is horrendous
Thank you so much for these videos Garry Bannister. I live in the United States and there are no resources for learning the Irish language close to where I live. There are few in the United States to begin with, but none where I live in the northern part of California. These videos really help out so please keep them coming! GRMA.
Carl Love You're very welcome, Carl. Thanks for your very positive feedback. I am very grateful to all the young people like Hannah who kindly allow their videos to be posted on youtube.
Gees this pupils is unreal. She could teach it already.
Why is it that all the people on these videos are all posh D4s
They just are
Wankers
They can afford the grinds
I love how this pops up in my recommened a FULL day _after_ my oral😂
Thanks ....now I’m shitting myself for my oral and I’m in ordinary
I think this is brilliant and well done Hanna.
I would love to hear someone answer.
My Dad? He is s lazy git and does sweet FA round the house, Mum does everything and is a doctor aswell.
This is such a beautiful language. I'm American but family originally is from Ireland and I want to learn this.
Good fucking Christ. Do people think this is a high level of Irish? This video displays a high level of memory and DECENT competence with the language. Which is necessary (or was during her time and my time of doing HL Irish level) to do well in this oral exam setting. She clearly has a script in her head. Does this conversation sound natural? If some randomer actually asked me about my family in English, I wouldn't be that quick with answers, unless I knew in advance that I wanted to tell this person my daddy's an attorney and my mom's a GP with her own practice in whatever place. Hannah's looking around at far angles (especially upwards), which is a good indicator of working your memory hard. She's also making tongue slips when she's rattling off her sentences, mixing up sounds that will come later on in the sentence. Hinting at the fact that she knows her script well, so well in fact that's she already thinking of the word that will come in a few seconds' time. And good God, the obvious diversion of attention to a different topic when he starts asking an awkward question. Like, "fuck give him a one liner answer and let me start talking about the school's facilities, I've that covered about a million times." Well done Hannah on that wonderful display of memory, but please don't be fooled folks. You can do HL Irish for the Leaving too. Start taking your cod liver oil tablets now, you need memory and sufficient time spent practising your speech. I sincerely doubt this girl is fluent. Her teacher gives excellent scripts. I did extremely well in my HL Irish oral exam a few years ago, but I am so far from fluent it's laughable. I'm still learning Irish in college and the orals are less predictable, you don't have two years to build up your potential speech and you're ACTUALLY relying on your level of fluency. Good luck on your oral friends, don't forget to rob a few of Hannah's phrases, sure she just robbed them from her teacher or Revise Wise or God knows where else!
having "a high level of memory" is what the whole irish leaving exam is about. Being able to understand and speak Irish on a somewhat practical level means FUCK ALL to you in the course . Your expected to learn and regurgitate pages and pages of shit that wouldnt interest any young person in the slightest.
@@cookiee45007 whole lc is a memory exam
They were some good burns there...
The girl is clearly fluent and you bet she knows what she going to say its the leaving ....you are just jealous. People who say its memory and whine about the leaving are those who failed it.
@@silverkitty2503 Don't worry I'm sure you'll pass, best of luck this August
I have the orals tomorrow and I’m leaving a comment so I can look back and remind myself how shit being Pre-Scrúdú Béil was
There's no fucking hope for me
God bless us all, let death be swift
Ah in fairness
how are you anois?
theres no way they ask you how to make a cup of tea
Tá Béalscrudú agam féin amárach, le cuidiú Dé go mbeidh mé ábalta ag caint cosúil leis sin ach tá beagainín amhreas orm! Is é a caighdeán an-ard chun na firinne a rá!
I'm doing my junior this year and I just thought I'd check out what was ahead... I think I'm gonna die by sixth year :(
ChEzCoLe100 Hi Ch Ez Cole, Don't lose heart! They say you need to know about 300 words active vocabulary in any language to speak it with reasonable fluency. Try to focus on the most common questions like: An maith leat do scoil? Cad iad na hábhair (the subjects) a dhéanann tú?... Ask your teacher to give you the ten most frequently asked topics. Then learn to say simple things. Like: Is maith liom mo scoil. Tá sé go hiontach. Tá a lán cairde (a lot of freinds) agam... etc. You'll be surprised how much you can say with just a few words. Also practise speaking to yourself on your own on each of the ten topics... one at a time. You will find it a lot easier than you ever thought. Beannachtaí, Garry
Would you have to have such long answers prepared to get an A1 mark, or is it more about the flow and vocabulary you have? You only have less than 10 mins in your oral after the sraith pictuir and the filiocht...
Thank you so much Hannah and Garry! This video was super helpful :)
+Cliodhna Hanley Tá fáilte romhat, Cliodhna! Tá áhas orm gur thaitin sé leat! :)
Will there ever be a day when I speak Irish like that? :o
Well ... im officially SCREWED for my irish oral in a months time
Memorise "blocks" of Irish, phrases that can be combined in an unending remix. Learn the conversational oilers to buy you time while you are thinking e.g. fan go bheicfe mé, bhuel, etc. Above all constantly practise thinking in Irish, and think out loud in Irish at every opportunity when people aren't around.
Seaghan Ó Buadhaigh omg thank you 😊
I don’t even think i can do this in English
The comhra isn't going to be this long in the actual thing
Would they actually ask how you make a cup of tea 😂
Shannon Doheny No😂
surely there not going to ask you how to make a cup of tea?
Glad I done Ordinary level! Would have failed HL.
Is there an Irish video with bilingual subs, Gaeilge/Béarla?
Grma
I though the oral was supposed to be only 10 minutes. Does a longer oral mean a better mark?
I have found that the length of the 'free conversation' can vary, but you are right, it is usually about 10 minutes after the poetry reading and the 'sraitheanna'. The topics are also usually fairly general, unless the examiner sees that you have a specific interest in a particular area. The vast majority of examiners will try to facilitate the students with questions that will allow them to show off the Irish they know. If you have prepared a reasonable number of topics well, such as: your family, your local area, your subjects and school life, your hobbies and friends, etc, then there is nothing to be worried about. You will be given ample opportunity to freely speak on all such topics. Remember, the examiner cannot ask you any personal questions, unless you offer the information voluntarily yourself and the examiner is only interested in the flow and skill in your spoken-language. So, do not be tempted to say things that go beyond your language competence. The very best of luck to you in your oral exam! Go n-éirí leat!
Oh my god I’m fucked
The way they mangle their vowels in Dublin is so weird. I gcouweni instead of i gcónaí. Gawsh roysh.
#2023 here. We are all doomed r.i.p
Absolute dinger
Is maith liom Fortnite
Garry, please help me, I’m in lc rn and I need some help
I have my Irish orals in 2 days ( on Sunday) it's friday right now😭
THE WAY IM GONNA FAIL THIS SO BAD
does the question "inis dom faoi rud eigin grannmhar a bhain duit" come up often?
Ronan Mac Fhlannchadha Yes, Ronán, this is a very common starter-question so that the examiner can get to know a little about you. Best of luck!
+Garry Bannister hi I'd love if you added the English translation into your videos. I would love to know what I'm saying instead of just learning something off by heart. These are helpful thanks!!
If Hannah can do it I can do it!
Garry Bannister !!!! как ты поживаешь, a chara - или друг? (Tá mé ag déanamh nach bhfuil muid chun an focal товарищ a úsáid, tá an ré sin thart.) Is fada an lá ó bhí mé ag cainnt leat. Bhí mé ag obair leat tá na blianta o shoin san "People's College," faoi smacht "Sheila" Ag an am céanna bhí mise ag freastail ar do ranganna comhrá sa Rúisis - "meetups," an focal atá orthu I bhfus I Londain, an áit ina bhfuil mé I mo chonaí I láthair na h-uaire. (Tá fiachadh orm a adhmháil gur scaoil mé leis an Rúisis fadó o shoin ach sin scéal eile). B’fhéidir nach cuimhin leat mé ach Is tusa a chuir mise i dteagmháil leis an gcumann Éireannach, Ollscoil Moscó (МГУ). - agus leis na scoláirí iontacha Gaeilge a bhí ann ag an am. Agus an "Headbanger" go deo - ní cuimhinn liom a ainm - a chuir in aithne dúinn (na daoine ón People's College) an saol oíche Moscó - agus sin roimh thitim an chumannachais, I mo thuaraimse, nuair a bhí an cathair níos suimiúla ar shlí ná mar atá sí san lá atá inniu ann, . Bhfuel, níos difiriula, ar aon nos. Ní haoin áibhéil a rá, I ndiaidh na blianta seo chuaigh thart, gur tháing tú orm aníar aduaidh. Mar sin, guíom ort: fan I dteagmhail, a Gharry. Ba mhaith liom a fháil amach conas atá an saol ag eirigh leat. murraymicha@gmail.com. Nó: ar an suiomh seo: (FaceBook/Messenger) Michael Murray London.
So basically what yoir telling me is... I'm failing Irish
So rehearsed. No wonder this isn't working.
Le bhur dtoil: Foghlaimígí na focail a fhuaimniú go ceart mar nach féidir liom na cainteoirí Gaelainne as an nGalltacht (cosúil leis an gcailín seo) a thuiscint go maith, má tá siad ag labhairt chomh tapaidh is a shíleann tú go ndeireann siad focail Bhéarla. Tá crampa gallda ar an dteanga orthusan, agus d'fhéadfá a rá ná fuil na cainteoirí dúchais ró-shásta faoin dtoradh a tháinig as an aidhm, is as an iarracht nuachainteoirí a chur amach. Dar liom (is é mo bharúilse!) go bhfuil an aidhm seo teipthe orainn, toisc nach féidir leis na mic léinn sin a chomhrá as Gaelainn le haon duine atá in ann Gaelainn liofa láidir a labhairt, agus atá in ann an fuaimniú "coimeádach" nó (b'fhéidir níos fearr) an fuaimniú BUNÚIL a úsáid, mar a déarfá. Is é sin fadhb mhór.
Bail ó Dhia oraibh!
+Glao na hÉireann
Go raibh míle maith agat as do theachtaireacht. Tuigim go maith go bhfuil deighilt mhór éirithe idir cainteoirí na nGaeltachtaí agus cainteoirí ó chathracha gallda na tíre. Is cuimhin liom féin go maith le linn m'óige nuair a bhínn sa Ghaeltacht Anagaire i nDún na nGall nár thuig muintir na háite sin ach le deacracht mhór a mbíodh a rá ag lucht léite na nuachta ar RTÉ. Bhí mé féin le tamall fada ag obair le cainteoirí dúchais ó Ghaoth Dobhair agus bhí fadhbanna tuisceana acu siúd le léachtóirí Bhlá Chliath a raibh canúint Chiarraí ar a gcuid Gaeilge. Déanta na fírinne, tá an oiread sin de mhodhanna cainte anois - canúint agus comhréir na nGaelscoileanna, canúint na ngnáthscoileanna, canúint RTÉ agus Raidió na Life nach mbím, i ndáiríre, cinnte cad é an fuaimniú ceart oifigiúil gur chóir domsa glacadh leis nó gan glacadh leis nuair a bhím i mbun éisteacht le hiarrthóirí ó cheantar éagsúla ar fud na tíre. An rud ar a ndírím féin m'aire anois ná ar chruinneas na gramadaí, nó go háirithe ar chomhréir na teanga féin agus gan amhras ar shaibhreas agus líofacht an chainteora.
it should be a criminal offence to speak irish with an english tongue
It's this kind of arrogance that puts people off learning the language at all. Of course she has the accent of a non native speaker, because she is a non-native speaker, likewise if she spends enough time listening to fluent native speech, then she'll learn to understand it. At the end of the day, who is ever going to want to learn Irish when the people they're going to be talking to are nitpickers like you?
Chopin....
Super helpful! I have my Irish Oral tomorrow😅😅
+Fiona ft Go n-éirí an scrúdú leat amárach, Fiona!
don't fuck with big man Garry anyway
what grade would this be?
Tá gaeilge iontach agat! B'aoibhinn liom an caighdeán seo Gaeilge a chuir i láthair i mo chuid obair féin. Comhghairdeachas
hello st aidans
I love your books but this sounds fake and reminds me of school. She's not thinking in Irish she's remembering what she has learnt. As an IELTS examiner who has seen this hundreds of times it's kind of sad. I wouldn't fail her but she wouldn't get a high mark. We need Irish as the language of the classroom not as a subject.
If hannah looks beautiful, anyone can.
Such a rehearsed conversation in fairness. Its basically stuttering 'as Gaeilge'.
Input City its a school exam what do u expect