The english spelling of Gaeilge is not gaelic it's just 'Irish', the term you are looking for is the Anglicised version. Besides nobody uses the term Gaelic to refer to the language because there is more than one gaelic language. People try to sound intelligent when actually the correct way to say it is either 'Irish' or 'Gaeilge'. Nowhere in Ireland do they refer to it as Gaelic, that is something foreigners seem to do... I mean I don't know if your Irish or not but I do know that that is actually something that really irritates Irish people..
I mean Liam was doing it for years so it’s her turn now 😂😂 plus I swear there are a lot of Irish actors like michelle Fairely aka catelyn stark shes Irish so is little finger and Varys all Irish .
As an Irish person I am confused almost every time an Irish person tries to pronounce their own names. Miss Ronan is a perfect example. Her name is pronounced always as SEERSHUH.....never SERSHUH.
To be fair, went to Dublin last year overnight for work and sat across from him in the pub for lunch. My colleague went over and asked him for a picture and he told him to f**k off because he was eating his lunch. Though dissapointing, it was satisfying in a very stereotypical way....
@@markhenley3097 The standard Irish accent developed as part of a dialect continuum stretching from west country England to Dublin in the 15th/16th and 17th centuries. And it slowly spread from Dublin to the rest of the country. (Ireland is known for it's many regional accents, but experts on the English of Ireland say that the regional accents are dying off and being replaced by the standard 'RTÉ' accent originating in Dublin, which is the way people with status tend to speak. This is especially noticeable in younger women, even as far south as Kerry very few women under 35 will have a regional accent, and as all experts in linguistics know, women are generally the forebearers of language change across cultures as they always adopt the higher status way of speaking and carry new trends). And I'm not surprised that people in the south of England have a similar tone, because the south Dublin accent developed from people trying to sound more English years ago. Add in to the mix the effect American mass media has had on the speech of young people everywhere and it's not surprising at all that there are similarities!
Yeah, most hosts of shows like this are like that. They are conditioned to fear even one instant of dead air, so they yap like toddlers on meth. Plus, they are self obsessed attention whores by nature, and they want the spotlight and for everyone to think they are clever at all times. The best at avoiding those issues is probably Seth Meyers.
@Salwa Iqtait we used to have our own language known as Irish but we got colonised by the English a long time ago and we lost our language and now we all speak English but we all are still taught it in schools. I know a fair bit of Irish.
@@carlosandleon to some spelling is more important then phonetics. I'd rather someone screw up saying my name then spell it wrong but that's also because you should be able to spell to my name give or take a letter based off of how its pronounced.
@@KayColeLynn You don't Talk to people by spelling. Phoenetics can cross cultures and languages. Spelling not so much. You can't spell your name as ypu want in Japan
@uildanach2010 you re just completely besides the point saying "The names don't sound the way the are written in English": it's just that in both those languages there are letter combinations that make a sound different than how it is written. nothing to do with it being a name or with latin origins (especially because english is a mix of latin and germanic and on top of it latin actually works like english anyways, with no letter combinations).
My grandfather who passed away on Saint Patrick’s Day in 2009 was 100 Percent Irish, I was only about 7 at the time so I really don’t remember if he had an accent or not !! He was an amazing man and I really wish I could have gotten to know him better and for longer than my first 7 years of life !!! Miss and love you pop corn !! So proud to be Irish !!!
If he was 100% Irish, that means he was inbred. Conan O'Brian did a DNA test and came out as 100% Irish. His doctor told him NOBODY is 100% ANYTHING without inbreeding 😂😂😂😂
Britt Volkonskaya that’s rather ignorant of you it’s not her choice my name gets brought up every day of my life because people butcher it I’m not going to keep my mouth shut about correcting people on my name
Britt Volkonskaya them not knowing is the definition of ignorance because they are capable of learning and knowing. I am American my language is English I know of those speakers you talk about but there’s still no excuse when someone corrects you on how to pronounce their name three times for them to mispronounce it again because they feel like it’s close enough. I’m done talking you can have your opinion all you like and excuse people for it all you want.
There are dozens and dozens of Irish accents. Every county has it's own accent, and some have more than one depending on where you're from in that county. Hence why all the comments saying "she's pronouncing this wrong" are wrong. The way you say it, will depend on where you are from in Ireland. Slight differences, but you can hear them all the same.
+RavensSarora True, like in Cork City you can almost tell what street somebody is from, by the way they lilt and sing at ya :P For the record though, Saoirse's accent is all over the gaf. As a Gaeilgeoir nothing makes me cringe more than hearing a fake Dublin accent wrap itself around the finer points of a triple vowel sound. "Sertia", ffs lol.
in our oldest province, ulster, it is often called Creevagh. just like the irish lingo word for hill (kinnock) is often called Crock in irish!! yeah, crock!! and ulster should know ... it is a ncienet, after all.
+SallyTheSeahorse Irish immigrants were heavily looked down upon when they first started coming to America in large numbers. Racists and anti-immigration types (but I repeat myself) claimed the Irish weren't actually white somehow, and some segregated places forbade Irish people from using the "Whites" facilities.
SallyTheSeahorse Kate Hu As kewlpc already explained, back in the 1800s, Irish immigrants (who were the largest in number arriving in the US pre-Civil War) faced huge discrimination for being poor and Catholic. In many parts of the US back then, people were grouped into four main "races": white, black, Native American, and Irish. This kind of discrimination actually lasted well into the 20th Century and didn't really go away until the Cold War. Remember when JFK was elected president and how so many people feared having an Irish Catholic president for the first time?
Obsessive mind aka The Sad Rapper no they don't,she sounds like an American/British actor trying to do an Irish accent, 'ah jaysus, sure little auld me from oireland with me potatoes and me shillelagh, I'm in a little filum begorrah' she's ridiculously fake
I think her accent is not from where she's from (since she traveled so much during her formative years). It's actually her parents' accents. Her parents are her anchor, her roots, her identity and her guide. She never lost it because it probably makes her feel grounded, plus, everybody loves it so she jokingly says that it's too late to change it now. I don't get why some Irish people call her out on her "fake Dublin" accent. How can she fake something like that? She's had it since she was a child. Is she supposed to have a Carlow accent? She grew up everywhere. The only stable accent she's heard were her folks'.
the problem with the names is not how they sound, it's that they are written differently from the way it is pronounced, which is clearly their sadistic way of torturing us... =P
+SallyTheSeahorse 99.8% of Americans can't speak Gailge and the vast majority of major languages are pronounced phonetically. It's only natural for non-Irish to call him Sillian.
Irish kindergarten school be like Teacher - A for? students - apple teacher - spell apple students - chmioarzxt teacher - how is it pronounce? students - Apple.
@Anarchist Well, in Germany we do have kindergarten, but we don't learn how to spell there, the kids only play and learn social skills and at a maximum learn how to draw within lines and how to use scissors properly. Letters and learning how to spell is reserved for primary school. @Ben Ski it's the place young kids are usually send to before they start going to school. But what you do there varies (maybe from country to country?).
Irish pronunciation does make sense according to Irish orthography. Most people in North America already know how to pronounce the name Seán ("shawn") - in Irish, the letter S is pronounced "sh" when it's next to an I or E, but as "s" everywhere else. So the "sh" sound in Siobhan shouldn't surprise people too much.. and when you see the name Saoirse, it begins to make sense that the first S is sounded like a "sh" while the second is "s". (I'm not going to get into vowel combinations like aoi, though, because it may make your brain hurt.) And the name Saoirse is beautiful - it means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic.
@@elgranlugus7267 Might be easier to just say "h" isn't a letter in Irish, it's just a modifier to the previous letter, so whenever you see an "h" in Irish, you should expect it and the previous letter to make a different sound than it would in English. For those curious, "h" takes the place of an accent marker (a dot above the letter) on previous letter that was standard in Old Irish. I don't know this for sure, but my guess is they made that change to make things easier with the introduction of the printing press (since they had plenty of "h"s lying around, but consonants with dots probably would have to have been specially made) So a name like Siobhan using the old orthography would be Sıoḃan. (I hope RUclips uses a font that renders that correctly…)
@@PucaCiuin It all comes to dialects, if you say Siobhan like "Sho-van" it's correct, same as "Shoe-wan". However, in other sentences, names or words, slender "bh" is like a "v", and broad bh is "w". The word bhaile, needs to be pronounced as "wah-leh" yes or yes. Broad MH - "w" Slender MH - "v"
cha mekke 'aoi' is pronounced *ee* in Irish. For example the word 'naoi' (nine) is pronounced *nee*. Any Irish person could look at any Irish name even if they've never seen it before and would still be able to pronounce it. Names like caoimhe oisin siobhan saoirse and roisin are very common in ireland
imagine being sarcastic and saying "i got the skin tone to go with it" but when you go to mexico you legit see that skin tone and hair colour along with the eye colour
@@verm7148 You completely picked that up incorrectly. In Ireland because we are so pale and most of us like tanned skin she was being self deprecating about her pale skin and nothing racist to Mexians. It was more her way of saying she would like to have tanned skin tone like Mexicans than anything against them. Everything needs to be framed within the particular cultural reference. And to us that was her taking the piss out of being so pale
I had an Irish classmate once. I asked for his name and was confused because I thought it was strange that a boy would be named after a dance involving tutus. Then he spelled it and it was "Billy", not "Ballet".
I suspect he was from Belfast in Northern Ireland… that part still connected to the U.K. In the Irish Republic, Liam (LEE-um) would be the equivalent of William and Billy is the diminutive. Being an Ulsterman and living here all my life, I have heard quite a few names and understand what you are saying about “Ballet”. For the others reading this who don’t understand… Ballet (bah-LAY) is the dance. Billy (BAL-ay) is the Belfast pronunciation. We have some rare words and phrases. Quare geg. Kwer gay-g = very funny Quare craic Kwer krak = very enjoyable Boutye? Bough-t-yee (Bough as in tree branch) = How are you? Grand = fine or good as in I feel fine, I am good. And we tend to talk too quickly for people to understand us.
Here's a simple phrase to practice: whale oil beef hooked. Not an Irish phrase at all at all, but say it a few times then emphasize oil. See how it sounds then.
For all you wondering: Eoin is pronounced the same as Owen, Cian is pronounced the same as Keane, Micheál is pronounced Mee*hawl*, Pádraig is pronounced *Paw*drig, Tomás is pronounced Tuh*mawss*, Darragh and Daragh are pronounced the same as Dara, Róisín is pronounced Roe-sheen, Aisling is pronounced the same as Ashling, Sinéad is pronounced Shin*aid*, Cathal is pronounced Caw*hil*, Fionn is pronounced Fyunn, Áine is pronounced *Aw*nyah (the N's pronounced like ñ is Spanish), Gráinne rhymes with Áine, Orlaith is pronounced the same as Orla, Eimear is proceed Eemuhr, Clodagh is pronounced Cloe-dah, Máire is pronounced *Moy*rah, Diarmuid is pronounced Deer-mid, Méabh is pronounced the same as Maeve, Ailbhe is pronounced Al-vah, Sorcha is pronounced Sore-sha, Sadhbh is pronounced Sive, Eabha is pronounced the same as Eva, Laoise is pronounced Lee-sha
@Ray Kah Because, "v" though it comes from Proto Indo European, most of cultures, would use an alternative consonant. Germanic languages use the "V" , however, it seems that, in proto-germanic, commonly the use a "W" sound.
Éabha is Ava in some cases too, though, since a fada on an E gives it an “ay” sound. Máire can be pronounced “maw-ruh” either, as a fada on the A gives it an “aww” sound.
Literally for months upon months I have been calling a friend of mine who's name is Caoimhe, "kay-mee" and she neeeeever corrected me until I came to her house and her mother called her "quee-vuh". I honestly didn't know how to act, at first I thought she was calling upon someone else but well....apparently not. 😂 (I still call her Kay-mee today)
fun fact - pronunciation of Irish names is incredibly regional sometimes so if she was born in the southern province of Munster it would be pronounced "see-or-sha", the other ones seen in this clip stay the same Saoirse is also the Irish word for freedom
Oh really? You know there's a lot of variety in Irish accents? In that case, I challenge you to listen to MissElayneous, an Irish 'rapper' from Finglas, an area of inner city Dublin :)
Mon Lemon...Although you are correct in saying Irish accent, it is a very broad term. There are many Irish accents, at least one for every county. The accent she´s using is a Dublin accent. In Dublin there are several accents and they tend to be strongly linked to social class and education. Her accent could be described as low-class Dublin.
+toyotaprius79 The Brian one is just unfair. As an Irish person living abroad I'm so glad I dodged a bullet. Meanwhile the poor Eoghains haven't a hope
I love how Americans always say they are Irish. They might be 50% German, 30% English, 10% Chinese, 5% Native American, 3% African but that all gets ignored when Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Sean was a Dublin man!!! haha
@@aonghaspringle7822 I don't run into too many people who claim Scottish only. It's almost always Scots-Irish, it seems, and at least where I'm from, that's probably more accurate than not. A LOT of Scots (and Irish, to a lesser extent) ended up settling in Appalachia back in the day, to the point where in some of the more remote hollers, you still have words in common usage that come directly out of Scots vocabulary. I watched a documentary once about the dialect here, and there were a surprising number of people commenting that the people in the documentary sounded an awful lot like old timers in their countries. One person in particular was like, "Why does this guy sound exactly like my grandpa, who's never left Ireland in his life?" lol Personally, I don't hear it. Appalachian accents to me sound NOTHING like Irish or Scottish accents. But it seems others think otherwise, so who knows. But that's what you get in what's still a very young country full of immigrants: a whole lot of people trying to find their identity through their ancestry. I think that's pretty cool, actually, and if it leads to people developing an interest in other countries and cultures, more power to 'em.
I think because of the universal story, an engaging and nuanced screenplay, the inventive use of color, cinematography and set design, and the high watermark of one of the best, if not the best, young actresses working today, Brooklyn is a future classic.
The cinematography was very nice. I remember it looked kind of like a moving painting in some scenes (especially in Ireland or when they went to the beach at Coney Island). The story is universal in some ways but it's also very specific in ways that might not be as transferable to today. It's more about the white ethnic American immigrant experience of previous generations then the more modern multiracial immigrant experience of today. European immigrants, especially if they already spoke English, were obviously more able to "assimilate" (i.e. become white) and more quickly and easily become and be considered "American", especially by the time of the post-World War II era that the film was set in.
Yes, it is a look back to the Ellis Island as opposed to the border or refugee experience today. Chaplin was obviously a big influence in the earliest scenes. John Crowley had obviously spent some time watching _The Immigrant_ before filming.
As someone trying to learn Gaelge (Irish), I find his reactions to the names relatable. Almost every word in Irish Gaelic doesn't sound like what a monolingual English speaker would expect, or ANYBODY who isn't familiar with Gaelic for that matter! But if you take away that writing system and only focus on the sounds of the language, it sounds so melodic in a "welcome home" kind of way.
*americans love the irish* Also the Americans when they see somone Irish: OMG my cousins brothers dogs cats owner mothers sisters cats kitten is like 0.00001 % Irish so yeah we’re like related
@@MM-gp9mb Nearly every American I’ve met (a lot, I worked part time in a travel agency) said they were basically Irish, I would say “oh really that’s great, may I ask how?” And their response?? “Oh my great great grandma, her father’s second cousin three times removed married my great great grandma’s and blah blah blah” like literally if they took a DNA test it probably wouldn’t even mark Ireland because the percentage of Irish in them would be so small 🙄😑
+jimbobeire Both "bh" and "mh" are pronounced like both V and W depending on a few things. mostly the broadness/narrowness* of the vowel/consonant. GENERALLY, if the nearest vowel is broad then both "mh" and "bh" are pronounced like an English "w". If the vowel is narrow, then it's time for a good auld "v" sound. In "Domhnal", the vowel is broad, so it's "Dow-nal", "Doe-nal", or similar. In "Caoimhe", the vowel is narrow, so it's like "Kwee-Veh" or "Kee-Vah" depending on your accent, what part of Ireland you're in, and a little bit of personal preference. (ao is ee for REASONS, the "i" in the middle there is to warn you that the "mh" is narrow and so is silent, and I say "it's like" because this name is said in variety of ways depending on who's talking, some people would say it ends with an "ah" sound some with an "eh" sound. ) However! Niamh has the "mh" at the end so it's a "v" sound ... so Niamh is like "Neev", even though the closest vowel is broad... *the board vowels are the one that make your mouth round, the narrow make your mouth narrow... i, í, e, é are narrow; a, á, o, ó, u, ú are board. The couplets ("ae", "ea", "ao" "ui" "iu" and so on) are tricky, and sometimes have a subtly that's lost on people... like some nationalities trying to get their L and R sounds right. Why not just use "w" or "v"?! Those letters aren't in the Irish Alphabet, and within the Irish Language there are many reason to distinguish between "mh" and "bh" as the 'h's come and go in many words depending on case, tense and so on...
Wren Wisp-Wings You do have an Irish accent just probably not a very broad, strong one. But other nationalites would be able to tell your Irish, it's the way we speak
She is the sweetest, loveliest, most Irish little thing on Earth! I love how she never tires of having to do this sort of bit every time she's on a show!❤❤❤❤
Not being able to read Irish phonetics makes one feel like an uncultured peasant/swine, doesn't it? I actually watched pronunciation guides by native speakers on YT to stop being a complete donkey. Now I can pronounce like half of it decently.
Forget Irish names - Try and pronounce their country's governing system: Their head of state is called Uachtaran Na Heireann. Their parliament is called the Oireachtas. Their Prime Minister is called An Taoiseach. Their deputy Prime Minister is called An Tanaiste. Their lower house of parliament is Dail Eireann and their upper house is Seanad Eireann - Good Luck!
Caoimhe must be one that is pronounced slightly differently depending on the region because I know 3 girls named Caoimhe, and they all pronounce it like KEE-va. Not that that makes any more sense than Quiva...
I once had a teacher named Caoimhe, we learned her name as Queva since we never saw it written. In the middle of the year she said that if anyone could write her name, they would get extra points. No one could...
This is a late replying but i have a classmate and we pronounce it as “keeva” i thought that saoirse was wrong but maybe there are different pronunciations throughout Ireland
@@seang3899 that’s right and different pronunciation, like dubh, black, up North it is doo others say duvv - how are you can be different things like cad é mar atá tú? Or conas atá tú?
Irish is an insane written language. If you take the phrase "níl a fhios agam" you would actually pronounce it "Neal iss UGH-um". That's right kids, fhios = iss. Why is there an f, and h, or an o in that word? The world may never know. Níl a fhios agam!!! Ní Thuigim!!!!
@@dalekelly7639 Not really. Gaelic refers to the language family it's in and the modern word for the culture it originated in, but the modern language's English name is Irish. The Irish word for Irish is Gaeilge (look up a pronunciation) though, so you can use that to refer to it as well.
Kamikaze Scotsman yes but a Scotsman doesn’t speak Irish, nor does an Eastern Canadian, they speak Gaelic. It probably just depends as to whether or not the language is spoken where you live
Her beauty is definitely there. Any one that’s blessed with good looks actually most of the time are horrible people. She’s really just a genuine kind person. That’s what makes her stunning!
at one time there would have been a dot over the letter m this would have put an accent on it to be pronounced as a v,there is no v in the irish alphabet it only goes as far as u.the dot was replaced by the letter h,sometime in the 50's i think,but it does the same thing it can make the preceding letter either silent or be pronounced as a v in most cases.
Only reason I know this is because I have an American friend who dug up his family roots/heritage for fun. His name is Kevin and changed his online handle to Caoimhein or something similar. He explained it was pronounced "kweeven". It's the only name on that list Colbert was showing that I got right(ish) and was tickled by that.
CEWIIH I can't think of any that are 'ridiculous'. Just because they don't go by typical british bland and boring phonetic pronunciations, it doesn't mean they are 'ridiculous'. I love the spelling and meanings of Irish names, much more unique and attractive than the boring names we have in Spain.
Los Scangers agreed! It's not ridiculous. It's a different language. It's in Irish not English so it's pronounced differently. You wouldn't be giving out to a Spanish person called José for not pronouncing it like Joe-see or something. It's a different language completely.
I like Saoirse-she’s a proud Irish woman (I know she was born in the US!!) Keep your history strong, girl-it’s an ancient history n it brilliant. From a Limerick man 🇮🇪
Most Irish people I've seen are very proud. In the best ways. I like how confident that kind of pride can make people. "You're tougher than DeNiro" made me think of that- it's because of her strong Irish pride. I know growing up in the U.S. it's always been something many people want to have heritage in. Even I'm glad my child is only about 12 % irish it makes me giddy. lol
I have lived in the republic of Ireland for 10 years,in Dundalk,Dublin and Naas(County Kildare). Have made the nicest & sweetest friends and in touch even after 18 years. Those 10 years were THE BEST! The Irish are the friendliest people I have ever met & to the honest I too had a wee bit of an Irish accent but now it's unfortunately all gone. Ireland is so beautiful and green esp the countryside 🤗! It's a MUST visit place if you haven't seen it. You'll meet friends for life like I have done..🇨🇮💚
Her accent is lovely. It might be hard to understand some words but I'd not change it. It always impresses me how actors can mask their natural accents for roles they play.
I learned a lot of new things in this vid. My sister-in-law is Irish and she still has an accent. I'll try to remember to pronounce these names and check out her reaction. It will be funny since she knows I'm totally ignorant about Irish things.
What I've learned over the past few months is that the irish are VERY VERY hard to please with a fake irish accent! even IRISH people sometimes get accused for putting on fake accents!
Isabella Brand I live in England n I can’t win: when I say things they say my ‘fake Irish accent’ is shit n when I go home to Ireland some people say I’ve not lost it n some say I sound English!! I wouldn’t mind too much but my accent is ‘regional’ Limerick City 😎
Isabella Brand Yes, idk why and we're not self-aware about how unnecessarily proud about protecting the accent we are. Irish people are quite cynical and we tend to say everything is bad but put on a charade when we go out or when we're abroad to keep up the stereotype of happy go lucky Irish. It's a mixture.
The Irish accent is dying, really. Her accent, while incredibly charming, is a bit old-school - that is to say a little put-on. The modern Irish accent is heavily influenced by American English and British English. It's very sad, to me.
My nationality is Scottish- Irish so I’ve got a weird one, i seriously don’t get it with our accents ahah. They’re not even that interesting 😂 I will say that they’re hard to imitate though. I have a Scottish accent not Irish as I’ve lived here since I was like less than a year old, I have a slight twinge of Irish due to my mums accents and like all my grandparents but yeahhhh.... also my name was in this video and it made me laugh. I pronounce Caiomhe as keeva like most people do but it’s just her accent x
Irish accent. Any of them.... "Melodic" is the right word. Like I'm listening to you, I have no idea what you are saying (my English could be better but it's not terrible) but it all sounds like a beautiful song I've never heard before..... Continue while I shake my head in awe.... ✌️
Yeah, both girls were in Atonement as sisters, Saoirse played the younger, socially awkward sister who falsely testifies that James McAvoy raped her friend.
she was nominated for the Oscar for her role in "Atonement" and "Lovely Bones"...an Amazing Actress , since childhood she has chosen her roles very carefully in very good movies like (The Way Back - Hanna - The Grand Budapest Hotel - How I Live Now - Brooklyn - Byzantium) but her favorite role for me remains in "Death Defying Acts" with Guy Pearce & Catherine Zeta-Jones , I saw her lately in the music video "Galway Girl"of Ed Sheeran
I recently watched the old Dick Clark American Bandstand interview with Abba, where he asks Benny to pronounce Agnetha for him, and basically treats the whole group like they were from another planet. The parallels abound.
Poor Saoirse, every show she goes on she has to do this bit.
As someone who doesn't know Gaelic, it's both fascinating and enlightening to hear of another's culture.
+Red Whovian Gaelic is more Scots Gaelic, but the Irish version is called Gaeilge which translates to Irish.
Yeah, but people are fine going up and sharing their culture.
Blame the irish or her parents!
The english spelling of Gaeilge is not gaelic it's just 'Irish', the term you are looking for is the Anglicised version. Besides nobody uses the term Gaelic to refer to the language because there is more than one gaelic language. People try to sound intelligent when actually the correct way to say it is either 'Irish' or 'Gaeilge'. Nowhere in Ireland do they refer to it as Gaelic, that is something foreigners seem to do... I mean I don't know if your Irish or not but I do know that that is actually something that really irritates Irish people..
Irish and Scottish are such beautiful accents.
Bruno Scopel they're also completely different
Well Northern irish accents and Scottish accents are more similar.
Sam Magee who said they were the same? Fucken idiot
Irish yes, british accent is terrible.
Calm down, everyone.
I love how she became a star and now has to answer for all the Irish.
Oh, what did the Irish do?
I mean Liam was doing it for years so it’s her turn now 😂😂 plus I swear there are a lot of Irish actors like michelle Fairely aka catelyn stark shes Irish so is little finger and Varys all Irish .
@@isaacolivecrona6114 what didn't we do ;) ??
she speaks for fuck all irish ya tool
It’s better than Connor mcgregor representing the Irish.
As an Irish person, I find the confusion of non Irish people reading our names hilarious!
Pls same
Honestly, they (you) could adopt katakana as writing and it would have as much sense as Latin alphabet in Irish.
Yeah
I’m not Irish but my husband is and I find it hilarious too XD His name is Tadgh XD It made me happy to see his name in the video though!
As an Irish person I am confused almost every time an Irish person tries to pronounce their own names. Miss Ronan is a perfect example. Her name is pronounced always as SEERSHUH.....never SERSHUH.
Now I want a 60 minute video of nothing but Irish names and how they are pronounced.
Poison Kiss that's exactly what I am looking for now 😂
Let me take a stab in the dark here...by any chance is it pronounced ee-fa? Could be totally wrong but thought i'd try it anyway
Poison Kiss Try Welsh names
Caoimhe is quee vuh
So funny from an Irish person's perspective
Her eyes are really pretty
Expressive eyes that dance when she is excited. I know some people like that.
That's sweet...
Overall shes just average tho
She is insanely beautiful, not just her eyes
sami6291 are you okay?
There's something about this girl that is unique.
Yes, she's beautiful but also has an incredible down to earth and fun loving personality with a brain and maturity beyond her years.
well thats because she is lad
@@mr.timjohnston546 *laid
Her weird face?
Yes. Talented. Outstanding actress. All her film characters are marvelous. Especially when younger. Camera loves her.
American: are you Irish?
Irish: Yes
American: Okay, do you know Conor Mcgregor?
No not this.
To be fair, went to Dublin last year overnight for work and sat across from him in the pub for lunch. My colleague went over and asked him for a picture and he told him to f**k off because he was eating his lunch. Though dissapointing, it was satisfying in a very stereotypical way....
@@Wsupermain2 He's a jerk. He'd likely have been obnoxious no matter what he was doing.
I do only have one Irish friend and he actually used to train with McGregor years ago.
GIMME YA BELT!!
Theres over a thousand accents in Ireland...her one is a middle Dublin accent
True I'd laugh if there was kerry or Cork accent
@@frostyblade8842 oh god😂😂
Yeah especially some rural regions. Some people in my school even speak in a similar tone to the Dublin accent(from Southern England).
I agree.... Each village changes.... So many accents....
@@markhenley3097 The standard Irish accent developed as part of a dialect continuum stretching from west country England to Dublin in the 15th/16th and 17th centuries. And it slowly spread from Dublin to the rest of the country.
(Ireland is known for it's many regional accents, but experts on the English of Ireland say that the regional accents are dying off and being replaced by the standard 'RTÉ' accent originating in Dublin, which is the way people with status tend to speak. This is especially noticeable in younger women, even as far south as Kerry very few women under 35 will have a regional accent, and as all experts in linguistics know, women are generally the forebearers of language change across cultures as they always adopt the higher status way of speaking and carry new trends).
And I'm not surprised that people in the south of England have a similar tone, because the south Dublin accent developed from people trying to sound more English years ago. Add in to the mix the effect American mass media has had on the speech of young people everywhere and it's not surprising at all that there are similarities!
Am I only one who:
- Just. Shut. Up. For. A. Second. And. Listen. To. Her.
Yeah, most hosts of shows like this are like that. They are conditioned to fear even one instant of dead air, so they yap like toddlers on meth. Plus, they are self obsessed attention whores by nature, and they want the spotlight and for everyone to think they are clever at all times. The best at avoiding those issues is probably Seth Meyers.
Yes he was so annoying
Same here
Dont blame him. She us on the show to sell herself.
They are having a perfect conversation, dumba---.
Saoirse means “Freedom” in Irish.
I just clicked to hear how it is pronounced.
Nope it's Toi T Toi t Toi t toi T
Can William Wallace back this up?
@@koshaz3x yup! They mae take oor life, but not oor saoirse RONAN!!
@Salwa Iqtait we used to have our own language known as Irish but we got colonised by the English a long time ago and we lost our language and now we all speak English but we all are still taught it in schools. I know a fair bit of Irish.
My favorite part of Stephen Colbert is how he'll ask someone a question and just immediately start talking over them constantly
It's actually so annoying
@@adambe1126 yes thats the point they were making
Ik, I was agreeing with them
So everyone is agreed he is a dose and Saoirse is a wee dote / darling.
I thought they had great rapport. Wasn't interrupty at all, just a funny back and forth.
i'm so glad saoirse kept her ethnic name and didn't change it to make it easier for others bc it's beautiful!!
just write sershe
@@carlosandleon but that's not her real name
@@KayColeLynn doesn't matter. Phoenetics is more important than how it's spelled
@@carlosandleon to some spelling is more important then phonetics. I'd rather someone screw up saying my name then spell it wrong but that's also because you should be able to spell to my name give or take a letter based off of how its pronounced.
@@KayColeLynn You don't Talk to people by spelling. Phoenetics can cross cultures and languages. Spelling not so much. You can't spell your name as ypu want in Japan
Irish Spelling Vs Pronunciation was developed with one specific goal: To confuse the sh*t out of the English!
Come to the south in the US.
It worked.
@uildanach2010 you re just completely besides the point saying "The names don't sound the way the are written in English": it's just that in both those languages there are letter combinations that make a sound different than how it is written. nothing to do with it being a name or with latin origins (especially because english is a mix of latin and germanic and on top of it latin actually works like english anyways, with no letter combinations).
It worked😂
Or you know, the names could’ve been spelt with the Irish alphabet but now I’m just talking crap...
DONT INTERRUPT HER WHEN SHE SPEAKS
@tinwoods no he isn't. he's just being plain rude.
She is not interrupted, they are having a conversation, you are too slow and dumb, spamming your standard interview hate (for Trump or whatever...).
For real, in many shows and conversations I see, people talk over each other and I feel like I'm in the wrong for not liking it.
IF SHE BREATHES
Let Stephen mansplain himself for gawd sake! 😉😂😂
My grandfather who passed away on Saint Patrick’s Day in 2009 was 100 Percent Irish, I was only about 7 at the time so I really don’t remember if he had an accent or not !! He was an amazing man and I really wish I could have gotten to know him better and for longer than my first 7 years of life !!! Miss and love you pop corn !! So proud to be Irish !!!
If he was 100% Irish, that means he was inbred. Conan O'Brian did a DNA test and came out as 100% Irish. His doctor told him NOBODY is 100% ANYTHING without inbreeding 😂😂😂😂
This woman will never leave behind the talks about her name. Any talk show she goes, she is subjected to this.
Her choice
Britt Volkonskaya that’s rather ignorant of you it’s not her choice my name gets brought up every day of my life because people butcher it I’m not going to keep my mouth shut about correcting people on my name
No, it's "not rather ignorant". I get my name butchered all the time. I know it's because most English speakers don't know. Get over yourself
Britt Volkonskaya them not knowing is the definition of ignorance because they are capable of learning and knowing. I am American my language is English I know of those speakers you talk about but there’s still no excuse when someone corrects you on how to pronounce their name three times for them to mispronounce it again because they feel like it’s close enough. I’m done talking you can have your opinion all you like and excuse people for it all you want.
@@ashleytrueblood2200 people butcher the name Ashley? Really?
Jeez. Can he shut up and just listen until she’s done explaining
fakin amehikan aksent
@@antonishedsp2036 😅
Maybe he loves his own voice
Conan always interrupts guests
Every TV talkshow host is trash
There are dozens and dozens of Irish accents. Every county has it's own accent, and some have more than one depending on where you're from in that county. Hence why all the comments saying "she's pronouncing this wrong" are wrong. The way you say it, will depend on where you are from in Ireland. Slight differences, but you can hear them all the same.
Ah sure what's the chraic with you lad you little bollocks?
+RavensSarora True, like in Cork City you can almost tell what street somebody is from, by the way they lilt and sing at ya :P
For the record though, Saoirse's accent is all over the gaf. As a Gaeilgeoir nothing makes me cringe more than hearing a fake Dublin accent wrap itself around the finer points of a triple vowel sound. "Sertia", ffs lol.
+W Lingwood roscommon mayo sligo leitrim and offaly all have a very very similar accent
+Darth Irish Bit ironic that you've a picture of an English football teams crest as your profile picture but sure...
Dylan Mc Donald So I can't follow a team that I like because I'm irish? Fuck off lad get back in your biscuit tin.
Unlike ANY other "Teach me your accent" moments on talk shows, this was actually cute. Stephen tried.
The last name just threw me off. "You go to hell" hilarious
Kristine Ahn its acc pronounced "key-vah" not "crwee-vah"
Theres rhe traditional Irish "cwee-vah" and then everyone I know says it "Key vah"
in our oldest province, ulster, it is often called Creevagh.
just like the irish lingo word for hill (kinnock) is often called Crock in irish!! yeah, crock!! and ulster should know ... it is a ncienet, after all.
My nieces name, but pronounced "Keeva" in Donegal and the west... The east of the country pronounce it "Queeva".
That’s my cousins name
"Americans love Irish people." Amazing how much things can change in 150 years, eh? =D
+ZhangtheGreat Huh?
+SallyTheSeahorse Irish immigrants were heavily looked down upon when they first started coming to America in large numbers. Racists and anti-immigration types (but I repeat myself) claimed the Irish weren't actually white somehow, and some segregated places forbade Irish people from using the "Whites" facilities.
+kewlpc what?
SallyTheSeahorse Kate Hu As kewlpc already explained, back in the 1800s, Irish immigrants (who were the largest in number arriving in the US pre-Civil War) faced huge discrimination for being poor and Catholic. In many parts of the US back then, people were grouped into four main "races": white, black, Native American, and Irish. This kind of discrimination actually lasted well into the 20th Century and didn't really go away until the Cold War. Remember when JFK was elected president and how so many people feared having an Irish Catholic president for the first time?
+ZhangtheGreat that's something we don't learn in school
I'm obsessed with her accent. Gorgeous!!
Delana Trujillo-Johnson j
It's ridiculous, nobody in Ireland actually sounds like that, completely fake
strawberrykicker2 yes they do lmao what are you saying?
Obsessive mind aka The Sad Rapper no they don't,she sounds like an American/British actor trying to do an Irish accent, 'ah jaysus, sure little auld me from oireland with me potatoes and me shillelagh, I'm in a little filum begorrah' she's ridiculously fake
Delana Trujillo-Johnson ya can't beat the fecking Irish accent
I think her accent is not from where she's from (since she traveled so much during her formative years). It's actually her parents' accents. Her parents are her anchor, her roots, her identity and her guide. She never lost it because it probably makes her feel grounded, plus, everybody loves it so she jokingly says that it's too late to change it now. I don't get why some Irish people call her out on her "fake Dublin" accent. How can she fake something like that? She's had it since she was a child. Is she supposed to have a Carlow accent? She grew up everywhere. The only stable accent she's heard were her folks'.
It's a fake Dublin accent.
It is possible to play up your accent.
My name is Caoimhe! ( Pronounced "Qweeva" for everyone asking), traveling is fun! :)
I can spell your name easily it sounds beautiful honestly i like the way saoirse pronounced in my native language is Kuivë
You go to hell
Sup, Quiver.
It's pronounced as "KEEVA" right?
the problem with the names is not how they sound, it's that they are written differently from the way it is pronounced, which is clearly their sadistic way of torturing us... =P
I think I love this woman
im actually 70, so i look pretty great for my age
No fucking way you're 70
hahaha bitchass you believe him
No f**king way he's not a pedo, either.
Hey look! A cancerous reply section! Great! 😀👍
"You go to hell" ahahahahahahahaha
+jerome go Literally my thought when she first pronounced that name. I was wondering where your quote comment would come from. :)
Now you know :) haha!
+jerome go yeah that was awesome
Offended 😂😂
+caoimhe carrie Its a struggle
2:38 actually there are blondes in Mexico.
And Suárez is an European name.
@@Gabo.G.Bautista lol that's true
Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson and Saoirse Ronan should all star in a film together. "The Unpronounceables"
They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.
They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.
They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.
+SallyTheSeahorse 99.8% of Americans can't speak Gailge and the vast majority of major languages are pronounced phonetically. It's only natural for non-Irish to call him Sillian.
I love lamp
Irish kindergarten school be like
Teacher - A for?
students - apple
teacher - spell apple
students - chmioarzxt
teacher - how is it pronounce?
students - Apple.
😂
LOL :-)
Tf is kindergarten
@Anarchist nah i actually don't know what kindergarten is?
@Anarchist Well, in Germany we do have kindergarten, but we don't learn how to spell there, the kids only play and learn social skills and at a maximum learn how to draw within lines and how to use scissors properly. Letters and learning how to spell is reserved for primary school.
@Ben Ski it's the place young kids are usually send to before they start going to school. But what you do there varies (maybe from country to country?).
Irish pronunciation does make sense according to Irish orthography. Most people in North America already know how to pronounce the name Seán ("shawn") - in Irish, the letter S is pronounced "sh" when it's next to an I or E, but as "s" everywhere else. So the "sh" sound in Siobhan shouldn't surprise people too much.. and when you see the name Saoirse, it begins to make sense that the first S is sounded like a "sh" while the second is "s". (I'm not going to get into vowel combinations like aoi, though, because it may make your brain hurt.)
And the name Saoirse is beautiful - it means "freedom" in Irish Gaelic.
And for others is confusing of how "mh" sounds, you know, if next to "a, o, u" sounds like a "W" and next to "i, e" sounds like a "v"
@@elgranlugus7267 Might be easier to just say "h" isn't a letter in Irish, it's just a modifier to the previous letter, so whenever you see an "h" in Irish, you should expect it and the previous letter to make a different sound than it would in English.
For those curious, "h" takes the place of an accent marker (a dot above the letter) on previous letter that was standard in Old Irish. I don't know this for sure, but my guess is they made that change to make things easier with the introduction of the printing press (since they had plenty of "h"s lying around, but consonants with dots probably would have to have been specially made)
So a name like Siobhan using the old orthography would be Sıoḃan. (I hope RUclips uses a font that renders that correctly…)
@@PucaCiuin
It all comes to dialects, if you say Siobhan like "Sho-van" it's correct, same as "Shoe-wan".
However, in other sentences, names or words, slender "bh" is like a "v", and broad bh is "w".
The word bhaile, needs to be pronounced as "wah-leh" yes or yes.
Broad MH - "w"
Slender MH - "v"
Sean Shane is the most typical Irish name Etan
cha mekke 'aoi' is pronounced *ee* in Irish. For example the word 'naoi' (nine) is pronounced *nee*. Any Irish person could look at any Irish name even if they've never seen it before and would still be able to pronounce it. Names like caoimhe oisin siobhan saoirse and roisin are very common in ireland
imagine being sarcastic and saying "i got the skin tone to go with it" but when you go to mexico you legit see that skin tone and hair colour along with the eye colour
That was a very ignorant joke, I'm so dissapointed on her.
@@myBquest That was very rude, its sad to know she is that kind of person
that was very racist, it disappointed me
@@verm7148 call the wahhmbulance crybabies. soft as shite.
@@verm7148 You completely picked that up incorrectly. In Ireland because we are so pale and most of us like tanned skin she was being self deprecating about her pale skin and nothing racist to Mexians. It was more her way of saying she would like to have tanned skin tone like Mexicans than anything against them.
Everything needs to be framed within the particular cultural reference. And to us that was her taking the piss out of being so pale
I had an Irish classmate once. I asked for his name and was confused because I thought it was strange that a boy would be named after a dance involving tutus. Then he spelled it and it was "Billy", not "Ballet".
This just made me think of Billy Elliot.
I suspect he was from Belfast in Northern Ireland… that part still connected to the U.K.
In the Irish Republic, Liam (LEE-um) would be the equivalent of William and Billy is the diminutive.
Being an Ulsterman and living here all my life, I have heard quite a few names and understand what you are saying about “Ballet”.
For the others reading this who don’t understand…
Ballet (bah-LAY) is the dance.
Billy (BAL-ay) is the Belfast pronunciation.
We have some rare words and phrases.
Quare geg. Kwer gay-g = very funny
Quare craic Kwer krak = very enjoyable
Boutye? Bough-t-yee (Bough as in tree branch) = How are you?
Grand = fine or good as in I feel fine, I am good.
And we tend to talk too quickly for people to understand us.
Ziaheart I'm 300 % Irish and have never heard that name in my Life
Pierce McManus you've never heard the name Billy... Let me tell you right now, you defiantly have.
Aye yis are wile hard to understand hi.
Her personality adds onto her beauty and I’ve never seen such a great person I want to be like her 🥰
She is absolutely beautiful! And i don't usually comment that on youtube.
+hamsterpoop What? What the hell are you talking about? What videos?
+hamsterpoop link?
BLACK_WOLF welcome to youtube comments
+hamsterpoop Ok... And, i still don't understand what you were talking about...
+BLACK_WOLF He's trying to throw you off. Its Internet speak.
awesome!
i love how in-depth and technical they got, instead of the usual superficial fun time talkshow thing.
This is very superficial
Here's a simple phrase to practice: whale oil beef hooked. Not an Irish phrase at all at all, but say it a few times then emphasize oil. See how it sounds then.
Geoff Webster took me awhile. 😂
hahahahaahahahahaha got it
Geoff Webster good one... Hahahaha
Great!
We'll all be foocked?
She is adorable girl. I love her
I love her more
I love her more and more !
hahaha
I love Saoirse in a way words can't describe. She is THE GIRL that comes to my mind whenever I think of who would I like to be with me.
Same here. Epitome of the perfect girl :)
For all you wondering: Eoin is pronounced the same as Owen, Cian is pronounced the same as Keane, Micheál is pronounced Mee*hawl*, Pádraig is pronounced *Paw*drig, Tomás is pronounced Tuh*mawss*, Darragh and Daragh are pronounced the same as Dara, Róisín is pronounced Roe-sheen, Aisling is pronounced the same as Ashling, Sinéad is pronounced Shin*aid*, Cathal is pronounced Caw*hil*, Fionn is pronounced Fyunn, Áine is pronounced *Aw*nyah (the N's pronounced like ñ is Spanish), Gráinne rhymes with Áine, Orlaith is pronounced the same as Orla, Eimear is proceed Eemuhr, Clodagh is pronounced Cloe-dah, Máire is pronounced *Moy*rah, Diarmuid is pronounced Deer-mid, Méabh is pronounced the same as Maeve, Ailbhe is pronounced Al-vah, Sorcha is pronounced Sore-sha, Sadhbh is pronounced Sive, Eabha is pronounced the same as Eva, Laoise is pronounced Lee-sha
Thanks for taking time to write it all 😁
In my accent, the name of Máire sounds more like "Mawreh", the "Moy" speallin i often use it with names like "Maige"
@Ray Kah
Because, "v" though it comes from Proto Indo European, most of cultures, would use an alternative consonant.
Germanic languages use the "V" , however, it seems that, in proto-germanic, commonly the use a "W" sound.
Éabha is Ava in some cases too, though, since a fada on an E gives it an “ay” sound.
Máire can be pronounced “maw-ruh” either, as a fada on the A gives it an “aww” sound.
Rachel B. Ok yeah, I just screenshotted this for future reference. Thanks!🌸💕
That was hilarious! The Irish accent has to be the best, with Scottish being a close second.
I could literally listen to her recite the dictionary, I love her accent
Literally for months upon months I have been calling a friend of mine who's name is Caoimhe, "kay-mee" and she neeeeever corrected me until I came to her house and her mother called her "quee-vuh". I honestly didn't know how to act, at first I thought she was calling upon someone else but well....apparently not. 😂
(I still call her Kay-mee today)
yea, but it's (Kwee-vah)
but sometimes i hear (kee-vah)
+caoimhe Mccay so, you can speak Irish Gaelic (Ulster) ?
This is why Americans who've changed their names to sound American should change it back to make their names unique.
The name in translation is actually Kevin in English.
I get that a lot of you wanna talk about the whole Irish thing but OMG can we talk about her face?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It's perfect.
Taylan Safak The song is 'Star of the County Down', I fear, and she has not lived there. She has lived in County Carlow and County Fingal.
+roguishpaladin county fingal.....
She is american
Bella Bennet She's from the Bronx. Born there but grew up in Ireland.
fun fact - pronunciation of Irish names is incredibly regional sometimes so if she was born in the southern province of Munster it would be pronounced "see-or-sha", the other ones seen in this clip stay the same
Saoirse is also the Irish word for freedom
at 0:40 she sounded like Luna Lovegood
Omg yes!!
Well, Evana Lynch is Irish.
She was considered for the role of Luna Lovegood but it ultimately went to Evana Lynch.
Probably why most people bring up their voice to sound irish :D
Leyya Ahmed She actually auditioned for Luna Lovegood.
Could listen to an Irish accent all day. ❤️
Oh really? You know there's a lot of variety in Irish accents? In that case, I challenge you to listen to MissElayneous, an Irish 'rapper' from Finglas, an area of inner city Dublin :)
MsAsh3070 challenge accepted
Mon Lemon I used to have to listen to Irish accents all day, and I do not recommend it. Some nice people, etc., but the accent? Good Lord, NO.
Mon Lemon...Although you are correct in saying Irish accent, it is a very broad term. There are many Irish accents, at least one for every county. The accent she´s using is a Dublin accent. In Dublin there are several accents and they tend to be strongly linked to social class and education. Her accent could be described as low-class Dublin.
@@MsAsh3070 you mean "Doblin"
CAOIMHE ITS A GREAT NAME *cough*
🤣😂
Caoimhe {Quee-va} LOL “Quee-va”
Yes
Love it
Kao-meh!
As an Irish man myself, Irish accents are my favorite. Saorise is now my favorite Irish actress
Agreed, cheers brother!
Oh, which accents of Ireland?
What a wonderful actress. Saoirse deserves an Oscar.
she's so fucking lovely
Holy shit those names are hard.
I know right I kept laughing every time a new one came I screen. I'm just sitting here like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
+Merc With A Mouth Try Medb or Meadbh! Or the most Irish name of them all... Brian.
+toyotaprius79 The Brian one is just unfair. As an Irish person living abroad I'm so glad I dodged a bullet. Meanwhile the poor Eoghains haven't a hope
+Merc With A Mouth
Harder than my phallus? I think not!
The Irish language is really difficult, it's lovely though
She is one of the most charming young women that I ve ever seen. If the acting career slows down, she would be great in her own talk show. S
I love how Americans always say they are Irish. They might be 50% German, 30% English, 10% Chinese, 5% Native American, 3% African but that all gets ignored when Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Sean was a Dublin man!!! haha
Aldo Zilli exactly!
No, they always say they’re Scottish! Atleast in my experience
Let us be proud of are small connections to a great country such as Ireland!! :P We say it out of nothing but love! lol
@@aonghaspringle7822 I don't run into too many people who claim Scottish only. It's almost always Scots-Irish, it seems, and at least where I'm from, that's probably more accurate than not. A LOT of Scots (and Irish, to a lesser extent) ended up settling in Appalachia back in the day, to the point where in some of the more remote hollers, you still have words in common usage that come directly out of Scots vocabulary. I watched a documentary once about the dialect here, and there were a surprising number of people commenting that the people in the documentary sounded an awful lot like old timers in their countries. One person in particular was like, "Why does this guy sound exactly like my grandpa, who's never left Ireland in his life?" lol Personally, I don't hear it. Appalachian accents to me sound NOTHING like Irish or Scottish accents. But it seems others think otherwise, so who knows.
But that's what you get in what's still a very young country full of immigrants: a whole lot of people trying to find their identity through their ancestry. I think that's pretty cool, actually, and if it leads to people developing an interest in other countries and cultures, more power to 'em.
There are many Americans who still are very irish
Anyone whos not seen Brooklyn, _go._ It is simply one of the all time best films.
It's a decent film but hardly one of the all-time greats.
I think because of the universal story, an engaging and nuanced screenplay, the inventive use of color, cinematography and set design, and the high watermark of one of the best, if not the best, young actresses working today, Brooklyn is a future classic.
The cinematography was very nice. I remember it looked kind of like a moving painting in some scenes (especially in Ireland or when they went to the beach at Coney Island). The story is universal in some ways but it's also very specific in ways that might not be as transferable to today. It's more about the white ethnic American immigrant experience of previous generations then the more modern multiracial immigrant experience of today. European immigrants, especially if they already spoke English, were obviously more able to "assimilate" (i.e. become white) and more quickly and easily become and be considered "American", especially by the time of the post-World War II era that the film was set in.
Yes, it is a look back to the Ellis Island as opposed to the border or refugee experience today.
Chaplin was obviously a big influence in the earliest scenes. John Crowley had obviously spent some time watching _The Immigrant_ before filming.
Thanks for the advice. I'll try to see some more good ones soon....
I will marry anyone with that accent
a leprechaun?
+Vincent Phan even that crazy irish guy from Braveheart?
marry my Dog!
*****
Umm, no, the crazy Irish guy wasn't scottish.
+Thom Yanks Think he's referring to the mad Irish man Stephen.
As someone trying to learn Gaelge (Irish), I find his reactions to the names relatable. Almost every word in Irish Gaelic doesn't sound like what a monolingual English speaker would expect, or ANYBODY who isn't familiar with Gaelic for that matter! But if you take away that writing system and only focus on the sounds of the language, it sounds so melodic in a "welcome home" kind of way.
*americans love the irish*
Also the Americans when they see somone Irish: OMG my cousins brothers dogs cats owner mothers sisters cats kitten is like 0.00001 % Irish so yeah we’re like related
No one says that
A lot of cats
@@Last-Lap-Lando4 dam right there is
@@MM-gp9mb
Nearly every American I’ve met (a lot, I worked part time in a travel agency) said they were basically Irish, I would say “oh really that’s great, may I ask how?” And their response?? “Oh my great great grandma, her father’s second cousin three times removed married my great great grandma’s and blah blah blah” like literally if they took a DNA test it probably wouldn’t even mark Ireland because the percentage of Irish in them would be so small 🙄😑
@@L.C123 I guarantee u the amount of americans u met is less than 1% of the population 💀
You left off Domhnall. General Hux will be displeased.
+2ndRatePetronius DOE-nall... How the fuck do you leave out the 'm'?!
+Turbo9987 Mh is an E sound, Bh is a V, and É is an A. Crazy, I know.
+2ndRatePetronius H = V therefore phonetically it is spelled "DoVnAWl"
+RedPaintedTable
"H" is not "V" "bh" would be the "v" , but "mh" is more like a "w" so it's "Donal" - rhymes with "tonal"
+jimbobeire
Both "bh" and "mh" are pronounced like both V and W depending on a few things. mostly the broadness/narrowness* of the vowel/consonant. GENERALLY, if the nearest vowel is broad then both "mh" and "bh" are pronounced like an English "w". If the vowel is narrow, then it's time for a good auld "v" sound.
In "Domhnal", the vowel is broad, so it's "Dow-nal", "Doe-nal", or similar.
In "Caoimhe", the vowel is narrow, so it's like "Kwee-Veh" or "Kee-Vah" depending on your accent, what part of Ireland you're in, and a little bit of personal preference. (ao is ee for REASONS, the "i" in the middle there is to warn you that the "mh" is narrow and so is silent, and I say "it's like" because this name is said in variety of ways depending on who's talking, some people would say it ends with an "ah" sound some with an "eh" sound. )
However!
Niamh has the "mh" at the end so it's a "v" sound ... so Niamh is like "Neev", even though the closest vowel is broad...
*the board vowels are the one that make your mouth round, the narrow make your mouth narrow... i, í, e, é are narrow; a, á, o, ó, u, ú are board. The couplets ("ae", "ea", "ao" "ui" "iu" and so on) are tricky, and sometimes have a subtly that's lost on people... like some nationalities trying to get their L and R sounds right.
Why not just use "w" or "v"?!
Those letters aren't in the Irish Alphabet, and within the Irish Language there are many reason to distinguish between "mh" and "bh" as the 'h's come and go in many words depending on case, tense and so on...
Irish is my favorite accent in the world
Wren Wisp-Wings how ??? How is that even possible
Wren Wisp-Wings You do have an Irish accent just probably not a very broad, strong one. But other nationalites would be able to tell your Irish, it's the way we speak
Thanks
I prefer Irish women's to their accent....
Lulu Love I’m Irish 🤘🏻☘️🇮🇪
She is the sweetest, loveliest, most Irish little thing on Earth! I love how she never tires of having to do this sort of bit every time she's on a show!❤❤❤❤
I was saying "Saoirse" as "Saweersay" instead of "Sersha."
Oh my God, I'm a filthy animal.
No, you're a normal human being who's not Irish. Nothing to be ashamed of, it takes one interview...
The first time I tried to pronounce her name I said SAY-YOURS and now I feel dumb too lol
I used to pronounce it as Say-or-say, like Beyon-cé
For some reason, when I first read her name I mentally read it as Say-o-rees
Not being able to read Irish phonetics makes one feel like an uncultured peasant/swine, doesn't it? I actually watched pronunciation guides by native speakers on YT to stop being a complete donkey. Now I can pronounce like half of it decently.
Domhnall doesn't sound that crazy now, does it?
+NezihBouali
I think you actually pronounce his name like "Doughnul"
+ZombieKilla I can confirm that.
Yes I know it's pronounced that way. Like "tonal". That's why I didn't ask.
+NezihBouali aye siwmae
+ZombieKilla
Donal.
Caoimhe = Queever = lol
cinemofo yup
Coimurhanlin = Can
cinemofo Queeva
It's either keeva or kweeva
Wren Wisp-Wings
My nan always said it like that
I used to say her name “saw- warse” 😂😂 I’m glad I now know how it’s pronounced because it became even more beautiful than I already thought it was.
But do you? She cannot pronounce her own name. It is not SERSHUH, it is SEERSHUH always.
Forget Irish names - Try and pronounce their country's governing system: Their head of state is called Uachtaran Na Heireann. Their parliament is called the Oireachtas. Their Prime Minister is called An Taoiseach. Their deputy Prime Minister is called An Tanaiste. Their lower house of parliament is Dail Eireann and their upper house is Seanad Eireann - Good Luck!
Well that’s the Irish language. Not supposed to be pronounceable to English arses.
The Skellige Isles have similar language lol
Taoiseach is pronounced tee-shech
Lmao
@@daniellashah7995 ?
CAOIMHE = Quiver???
WTF NOT A SINGLE LETTER MATCHES THERE!!! IT'S LIKE "TEMOHEP = JIM!"
lol
it doesn't match in our understanding only...
Caoimhe must be one that is pronounced slightly differently depending on the region because I know 3 girls named Caoimhe, and they all pronounce it like KEE-va. Not that that makes any more sense than Quiva...
Oi, my friend's name is Temohep. We call im Jim.
(naw just kidding lol)
Manhattan kaboul
I once had a teacher named Caoimhe, we learned her name as Queva since we never saw it written.
In the middle of the year she said that if anyone could write her name, they would get extra points.
No one could...
This is a late replying but i have a classmate and we pronounce it as “keeva” i thought that saoirse was wrong but maybe there are different pronunciations throughout Ireland
@@seang3899 there are as there are different dialects
@@barryoneill4996 when im in gaeilge class my teacher says that donegal irish has different wording than southern ireland
@@seang3899 that’s right and different pronunciation, like dubh, black, up North it is doo others say duvv - how are you can be different things like cad é mar atá tú? Or conas atá tú?
Caoimhe is pronounce Qweevuh.
Irish eyes is so beautiful her and Cillian have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen
Irish is an insane written language. If you take the phrase "níl a fhios agam" you would actually pronounce it "Neal iss UGH-um". That's right kids, fhios = iss. Why is there an f, and h, or an o in that word? The world may never know. Níl a fhios agam!!! Ní Thuigim!!!!
Ní dhéanfaidh is my personal favourite (pronounced nee yayn-ig)
Dún do ghlab, a chara
Isn't the language called Gaelic, or am I wrong?
@@dalekelly7639 Not really. Gaelic refers to the language family it's in and the modern word for the culture it originated in, but the modern language's English name is Irish. The Irish word for Irish is Gaeilge (look up a pronunciation) though, so you can use that to refer to it as well.
Kamikaze Scotsman yes but a Scotsman doesn’t speak Irish, nor does an Eastern Canadian, they speak Gaelic. It probably just depends as to whether or not the language is spoken where you live
Suarez needs to be on the show more, what a fun personality Suarez.
Hector Ramirez right, I wonder why is not there much biting!
Mayur Kishanchandani poldark
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Mayur Kishanchandani is
I hope the Irish language doesn't disappear anytime soon.
She is so beautiful, her beauty is like a beauty of an queen
the grand budapest hotel wouldn’t have been the same without her and her accent.
Her beauty is definitely there. Any one that’s blessed with good looks actually most of the time are horrible people. She’s really just a genuine kind person. That’s what makes her stunning!
Gabriel Torres, when you look good you realise how ugly is the rest of the world. And yeah, then you apear to be a dick.
I'm falling more and more in love with both her accent and her as a person
Still tryna figure out how Caoimhe is “quiva”
at one time there would have been a dot over the letter m this would have put an accent on it to be pronounced as a v,there is no v in the irish alphabet it only goes as far as u.the dot was replaced by the letter h,sometime in the 50's i think,but it does the same thing it can make the preceding letter either silent or be pronounced as a v in most cases.
Only reason I know this is because I have an American friend who dug up his family roots/heritage for fun. His name is Kevin and changed his online handle to Caoimhein or something similar. He explained it was pronounced "kweeven". It's the only name on that list Colbert was showing that I got right(ish) and was tickled by that.
C = K
aoi = ee
mh = v
e = eh
What you do is you take all the letters in the name and don't say any of them haha
It’s cool. But if the language uses Latin based alphabetic shouldn’t the pronunciations be close?
Irish names are not 'ridiculous'. They are the most beautiful names in the world.
Some are truly lovely, but some are ridiculous too you gotta admit! lol
CEWIIH I can't think of any that are 'ridiculous'. Just because they don't go by typical british bland and boring phonetic pronunciations, it doesn't mean they are 'ridiculous'. I love the spelling and meanings of Irish names, much more unique and attractive than the boring names we have in Spain.
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your names are not ridiculous. you use of roman letters is.
Los Scangers agreed! It's not ridiculous. It's a different language. It's in Irish not English so it's pronounced differently. You wouldn't be giving out to a Spanish person called José for not pronouncing it like Joe-see or something. It's a different language completely.
I like Saoirse-she’s a proud Irish woman (I know she was born in the US!!)
Keep your history strong, girl-it’s an ancient history n it brilliant.
From a Limerick man 🇮🇪
thebomb78 come eer I want u sham ! Limerick lady here too x
Thats cool that she keeps her culture. Not a lot of proud irish in the US 🤔
Im from Limerick!
Some Irish people in the states don't embrace their backround
Most Irish people I've seen are very proud. In the best ways. I like how confident that kind of pride can make people. "You're tougher than DeNiro" made me think of that- it's because of her strong Irish pride. I know growing up in the U.S. it's always been something many people want to have heritage in. Even I'm glad my child is only about 12 % irish it makes me giddy. lol
I have lived in the republic of Ireland for 10 years,in Dundalk,Dublin and Naas(County Kildare). Have made the nicest & sweetest friends and in touch even after 18 years. Those 10 years were THE BEST! The Irish are the friendliest people I have ever met & to the honest I too had a wee bit of an Irish accent but now it's unfortunately all gone. Ireland is so beautiful and green esp the countryside 🤗! It's a MUST visit place if you haven't seen it. You'll meet friends for life like I have done..🇨🇮💚
She is SOOO loveable.
You are beautiful too
Her accent is lovely. It might be hard to understand some words but I'd not change it. It always impresses me how actors can mask their natural accents for roles they play.
Fun fact: White mexicans exist as well :O
And yes, some of them are of irish descent.
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Canelo Alvarez
✋ mexican from irish and scottish descent.
Couldn't let it go could you
So??
I learned a lot of new things in this vid. My sister-in-law is Irish and she still has an accent. I'll try to remember to pronounce these names and check out her reaction. It will be funny since she knows I'm totally ignorant about Irish things.
Nothing sexier than a woman with an Irish accent, HNNNNNNG
North of the Console thanks
Idk,how about 2 of them?
Now, this is a good accent, but we have a shit ton of different accents around the country
Basically, be Graham Norton 😂
JayPao or Craig Ferguson
Mike Candella
Craig Ferguson is Scottish
Be Graham Norton?! Not for all the money in the Bank of Ireland.
Her gorgeous dress stole the show.
She's so good in Brooklyn. I hope she wins something for it this year.
Saoirse is typically pronounced Seer-sha here in Ireland. Not Sur-sha.
Sean Ó Briain Depends which county your from
Like in Game of Thrones?
i heard the perfect Irish accent
by connor mcgregor
"my foot is a ballon"
"dana, dana, "mcgregor calling dana white
There is compassion and poetry in the Irish language.
Love Saoirse she is a real Irish Cailín.
Thanks for your love and support ♥️❤️♥️
I could listen to her speak all day long😌
What I've learned over the past few months is that the irish are VERY VERY hard to please with a fake irish accent! even IRISH people sometimes get accused for putting on fake accents!
Isabella Brand I live in England n I can’t win: when I say things they say my ‘fake Irish accent’ is shit n when I go home to Ireland some people say I’ve not lost it n some say I sound English!!
I wouldn’t mind too much but my accent is ‘regional’ Limerick City 😎
The Scottish are too haha. I though I could really do a Scottish accent and then tried it in front of my Scottish friend and said it was terrible haha
Isabella Brand Yes, idk why and we're not self-aware about how unnecessarily proud about protecting the accent we are. Irish people are quite cynical and we tend to say everything is bad but put on a charade when we go out or when we're abroad to keep up the stereotype of happy go lucky Irish. It's a mixture.
The Irish accent is dying, really. Her accent, while incredibly charming, is a bit old-school - that is to say a little put-on. The modern Irish accent is heavily influenced by American English and British English. It's very sad, to me.
My nationality is Scottish- Irish so I’ve got a weird one, i seriously don’t get it with our accents ahah. They’re not even that interesting 😂 I will say that they’re hard to imitate though. I have a Scottish accent not Irish as I’ve lived here since I was like less than a year old, I have a slight twinge of Irish due to my mums accents and like all my grandparents but yeahhhh.... also my name was in this video and it made me laugh. I pronounce Caiomhe as keeva like most people do but it’s just her accent x
Saoirse like Inertia :) That was adorable :) And I like her :)
Irish accent. Any of them.... "Melodic" is the right word. Like I'm listening to you, I have no idea what you are saying (my English could be better but it's not terrible) but it all sounds like a beautiful song I've never heard before..... Continue while I shake my head in awe.... ✌️
She is so beautiful, is she the girl from the movie Atonement?
beavertown2006 No, that was Keira Knightley.
Saoirse was in the movie 'Brooklyn'
Saoirse played Keira Knightley's younger sister in Atonement
Yeah, both girls were in Atonement as sisters, Saoirse played the younger, socially awkward sister who falsely testifies that James McAvoy raped her friend.
Do you know how the internet works?
she was nominated for the Oscar for her role in "Atonement" and "Lovely Bones"...an Amazing Actress , since childhood she has chosen her roles very carefully in very good movies like (The Way Back - Hanna - The Grand Budapest Hotel - How I Live Now - Brooklyn - Byzantium) but her favorite role for me remains in "Death Defying Acts" with Guy Pearce & Catherine Zeta-Jones , I saw her lately in the music video "Galway Girl"of Ed Sheeran
When he said 'Go to hell' in the end, I was like yeah, 'To hell or to Connacht'
im from Connacht...
@@chaotictrashpanda4263 eh, I'm a munster lad, no penny for guessing the county.
HAHAHA
As a person from Connacht ill just say "Damn you Cromwell"
@@frostyblade8842 too many insider info for me to get the joke
I love Saoirse and Irish accent, so LOVE this interview.
I recently watched the old Dick Clark American Bandstand interview with Abba, where he asks Benny to pronounce Agnetha for him, and basically treats the whole group like they were from another planet.
The parallels abound.
Although she is from Ireland, but she is actually a gift to the world. So please protect her for any cost ☺️