Can Irish People Speak Irish? (Gaeilge or Gaelic) // Clisare

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
  • Seeing if Irish people can actually understand or speak their native language.
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  • @conorbreathnach8484
    @conorbreathnach8484 Год назад +90

    Haigh Clisare 👋 is mise an lad a raibh comhradh ceart agat le. Ba mhaith liom insint duit gurb é an fís seo an gá gur buail mé le mo chailín agus táimíd le chéile fós thar 10 bliana anois. Táim fíor buíoch asat mar ghá agus ceapaim go bhfuil sé íontach gur spreag tú an grá sin. GRMMA I gcónaí agus go deo!

    • @dayoldeggplant
      @dayoldeggplant 7 месяцев назад +12

      I would have loved to hear more of you guys speaking cuz it was lovely to hear the effortlessness with which you spoke. Hopefully your studies have gone well and you're maybe teaching?

    • @absolving
      @absolving 7 месяцев назад

      Awesome update! Hope all is well with you sir.

    • @pavstp8442
      @pavstp8442 6 месяцев назад +1

      Omg it is wonderful 😻

    • @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910
      @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910 5 месяцев назад +3

      Is as an Tuaisceart mé, labhraím í gach lá... go hiontach a chara! Mar a dúirt Conor GRMMA!🙂🇮🇪💚👍

  • @nyannyan123456
    @nyannyan123456 3 года назад +5116

    Irish people! Don't let your language die.

    • @Luv4pookie
      @Luv4pookie 3 года назад +125

      Dia duit táim siún táim 9!
      That means: hi I'm siún and I'm 9
      Our children are still studying Irish

    • @nyannyan123456
      @nyannyan123456 3 года назад +113

      @@Luv4pookie I'm glad to hear you're learning the language. That's real good that Irish children still learn to speak their native tongue.

    • @Luv4pookie
      @Luv4pookie 3 года назад +68

      @@nyannyan123456 ye most children in the country go to and English school and learn only a small amount of Irish everyday
      But I go to all Irish school so we only speak Irish, all my friends go to an English school so I can say things in Irish to annoy them

    • @Luv4pookie
      @Luv4pookie 3 года назад +7

      Also what I said is like- junior infants class Irish
      Just Irish spelling is confusing

    • @ariel_claire
      @ariel_claire 3 года назад +32

      As a foreigner this is exactly what I think about this situation.
      Look I'm a linguaphile who really loves and wants to learn Irish and I certainly hate when languages die. Even I, as a foreigner, do think that a situation like in this video is totally bad. It really is sad. There are already many dead languages on Earth and I don't want more🥺 Lots of love from me to you Irish people and your dear language. ❤️❤️

  • @anishapoorwakispotta7754
    @anishapoorwakispotta7754 3 года назад +3688

    Im not even irish and I want to protect this language

  • @MrNotebookguy
    @MrNotebookguy 7 лет назад +14695

    Result: Irish people speak irish as a foreign language

    • @nicolaramoso3286
      @nicolaramoso3286 7 лет назад +1424

      Yeah and I don't get it why. I understand that the language is much less useful than English but come on it's your own language: speak it!

    • @adolys5616
      @adolys5616 7 лет назад +557

      Don't worry! The girl just chose Dublin because it's know not to have many Irish speakers, she just chose Dublin for the views! If you looked up
      'people in Galway speaking Irish' then you'd be surprised by the amount of irish they speak!

    • @kooolkidninjamaster
      @kooolkidninjamaster 7 лет назад +272

      +Nicola Ramoso unless you're from a country where there's a language used more than your native language you can't really judge. if you're not raised speaking it every day its unlikely you're gonna feel as comfortable in your native tongue as much as English which is everywhere.

    • @fengshi4284
      @fengshi4284 6 лет назад +153

      Jewelled Pixel It's still sad that Dublin people can't speak their own language well. If you interview people in other capital cities like Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Berlin, Paris most people speak their own language perfectly.

    • @fengshi4284
      @fengshi4284 6 лет назад +153

      kooolkidninjamaster The schools should take the responsibility to revive the native language. It should not only be taught as a course but also be used to teach other courses in middle schools.

  • @patrickbbale
    @patrickbbale 2 года назад +200

    I’m French and have just started to learn Irish on DuoLingo; it’s quite hard, everything seems so different from the few languages I know! Word order, grammar, pronunciation...but at the same time it makes Irish fascinating and kind of mysterious! Please don’t let it die!!

    • @Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer
      @Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer 2 года назад +9

      It honestly didn't know people from other countries found Irish hard! I find french extremely difficult. Maybe neither are hard, they're just so different from each other!

    • @АндрейБогуславский-б9о
      @АндрейБогуславский-б9о 2 года назад

      êtes-vous de quelle région ?

    • @patrickbbale
      @patrickbbale 2 года назад +6

      @@Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer well as a French it’s hard for me because if I had to compare Irish to Italian, Spanish or English, it sounds like and look completely different. I live in a « Latin environment » and Irish is a Celtic language, so that’s why I guess. French isn’t easy as well..

    • @xcutepikax
      @xcutepikax Год назад

      @@Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer I find french so easy and Irish horrible! It's so hard to learn in school.

    • @autumnphillips151
      @autumnphillips151 Год назад +1

      ⁠@@patrickbbale Celtic languages are probably more closely related to Latin than Germanic languages like English are, though. But, as an English-speaker, all of the Germanic languages and Romance languages, as well as every other Indo-European language (when written in the Latin alphabet), are much easier to grasp than the Celtic languages-they’re just different. I don’t know why the pronunciation is so different (although I guess Portuguese is kind of weird in that way as well), why they use Latin letters so differently than other languages do.

  • @55jugalo
    @55jugalo 4 года назад +2443

    Why speed up the conversation with the man speaking Irish when the point of the video is to see who can speak said language.

    • @jacobburgess9439
      @jacobburgess9439 4 года назад +246

      marshall hill Yea, what the hell. The one guy who spoke fluent and they were like “let’s just skip this part”?? 😂😂😂

    • @davidlynch1958
      @davidlynch1958 4 года назад +134

      They don't care. They just want to rag on Irish people that don't speak Irish.

    • @renatobabka263
      @renatobabka263 4 года назад +51

      Exactly! I was here to listen the language, and when appear a good speaker, she speed it up lol

    • @Clisare
      @Clisare  4 года назад +300

      It was a vox pop, so it was trying to see how many people I stopped could speak Irish, and we just had a chat so I sped it up. Feedback noted for a follow up!

    • @dillon5155
      @dillon5155 4 года назад +5

      I was confused by that as well

  • @AlternateHistory
    @AlternateHistory 8 лет назад +5006

    I hope the Irish people start to speak more Irish and that it eventually dominates again in Ireland. Every nation has the right to preserve its own culture.

    • @adolys5616
      @adolys5616 7 лет назад +111

      Althistory Luxembourg
      Don't worry, it IS dominant. She just chose Dublin because its known to have very little Irish viewers (therefore getting her video more views)

    • @jackmckane8427
      @jackmckane8427 7 лет назад +259

      Jewelled Pixel I wouldn't necessarily say that Irish is dominant because there are almost no places left where Gaeilge is taught as a first language

    • @shaktipat736
      @shaktipat736 7 лет назад +146

      If all cared about preserving their culture, they would also convert back to Paganism, which has been in the island for far longer than Christianity even existed.

    • @oisinolochlainn4437
      @oisinolochlainn4437 7 лет назад +161

      Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. " A country without a language is a country without a soul.”

    • @rycooder9486
      @rycooder9486 7 лет назад +25

      Faith Emmanuel I think all Americans should forget English and speak think Irish...that way Trump will be babbling on in a different world from us....oh wait a minute there...tis too late

  • @Synystr7
    @Synystr7 7 лет назад +2348

    If you're gonna use white subtitles... please don't wear a giant white coat that blends perfectly into them.

    • @mohamud60
      @mohamud60 7 лет назад +11

      Synystr7 that what i was thinking 💀💀

    • @ambzcloud
      @ambzcloud 7 лет назад +21

      Right. So annoying as I'm trying to watch this video.

    • @beatz1252
      @beatz1252 7 лет назад +3

      Lol

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 лет назад +1

      Her coat wasn't white: it was her scarf.

    • @RoundenBrown
      @RoundenBrown 5 лет назад +4

      If a Canadian wore that jacket and walked into a restaurant, they'd say "Sorry, no shirt means no service."

  • @3poli
    @3poli 2 года назад +33

    Your language is who you are. Please dont lose it, much love for the Irish people.

  • @GeographyNow
    @GeographyNow 10 лет назад +3233

    This was fascinating however it was hard to read the white subtitles as they overlapped on your white clothing, maybe you should consider using outlined script?

  • @elonmusk7406
    @elonmusk7406 6 лет назад +2293

    I met an English boy once we got in a argument he said if it weren't for us in the second world war then you guys would be speaking german and I told him well if it weren't for you we would be speaking irish and have a complete country

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 лет назад +100

      It's a very silly "argument" anyway. The Germans would not even have attempted to force conquered peoples to speak German, even if it were feasible, which it isn't.

    • @erdemkaya2735
      @erdemkaya2735 5 лет назад +65

      English people are German migrants

    • @tropicanahana
      @tropicanahana 5 лет назад +53

      my family was born in german conquered poland, though they were lucky to not have just been shipped off and killed, they were put into a germanic school to learn german and nazi ideology, their polish language became forbidden. So Germany clearly would have “germanized” conqured people and lands nearby, given that the people matched the “vision” of german aesthetics or something... That’s what colonization is and it’s not “we own your land but you are free to do what you please”.

    • @robroux6074
      @robroux6074 5 лет назад +64

      Plot twist..English is a Germanic language. Gaelic/ Celt is actually a native language of the isles.

    • @gnuling296
      @gnuling296 5 лет назад +28

      @@robroux6074 how is that a plot twist?
      Also, you should keep in mind that Celtic came from the Continent, too.

  • @-lada4360
    @-lada4360 6 лет назад +1951

    Keep your language alive, good people, it's part of your identity, don't lose it. Greetings from Serbia! :)

    • @seanegan8150
      @seanegan8150 6 лет назад +59

      The youth of our country don't cate about our history, our culture or our identity as a nation and as a people. It's really sad to see some of our own people forget their own native language.

    • @mim6306
      @mim6306 5 лет назад +28

      @@seanegan8150 well you're wrong there, I just turned 18 and have been learning the Irish Language over a year, I believe some of the youth do actually care but they struggle to learn the language.

    • @anthonyfox585
      @anthonyfox585 5 лет назад +8

      Seán Michelangelo Charles Egan that's really sad honestly, I'm an American of Irish descent and I'd like to see the language brought back

    • @algonzalez6853
      @algonzalez6853 5 лет назад +13

      @@anthonyfox585 well start to learn it yourself

    • @leaderbad1548
      @leaderbad1548 5 лет назад +9

      @@algonzalez6853 yup, gandhi once said, *You must be the change you wish to see in the world*

  • @jfarmerswatermelon6061
    @jfarmerswatermelon6061 2 года назад +116

    I noticed that Welsh is preserved more than Irish and Scottish. All those languages are very beautiful and I feel sad about their situation

    • @Yan-tz9pn
      @Yan-tz9pn 5 месяцев назад

      It’s not actually. About 500k people speak Welsh, whereas about 1 million speak Irish.
      This video took place in Dublin, there would be fewer Irish speakers in Dublin than anywhere else in Ireland, particularly the west of Ireland.
      In terms of everyday use, it’s very common to hear 1 or 2 Irish words in every other sentence. I’ve noticed they thing it’s humorous to say somethings in Irish.
      General Irish words I heard all the time
      1) mobile phone
      2) bed
      3) toilet
      4) nose
      5) fun and music
      6) cake/sweets
      7) please/thank you
      Etc
      You’d often hear normal conversations of (forgive my spelling in both Irish/English.)
      ‘Well how are ya?’
      ‘Ah not too bad, yourself?’
      ‘Grand sure, was out for a bitta craic agus ceole there on the weekend, didn’t hit the labba until about 4, gwan gis me fone poka there masadehullay (that’s 100% so wrong lol, I meant please), I’ll show you a gas video from the night’
      They sprinkle it in like that. Also every official document is in Irish. All the government buildings, road signs, public transport, school buildings, basically everything public is in Irish.
      They have Irish radio stations and tv channels that broadcast entirely in Irish. Even their English radio stations may do the weekend broadcasting through Irish.
      It’s a lot more prevalent than people think.

  • @tFighterPilot
    @tFighterPilot 8 лет назад +3235

    White subtitles on mostly white background? GOOD JOB!

    • @rebecca-yr8cm
      @rebecca-yr8cm 8 лет назад +140

      they had ONE JOB

    • @iriskedmylifetowritethisna1154
      @iriskedmylifetowritethisna1154 8 лет назад +114

      That ruined the majority of the video for non-Irish speakers...

    • @avada0
      @avada0 8 лет назад +31

      +tFighterPilot
      Yeah, that sucked. Why can't they just put a frigging outline on the text.

    • @LastGuardian98
      @LastGuardian98 8 лет назад +4

      You're right, I couldn't understood either what were they saying, all for the subtitles were white color, in mostly white background like you said.

    • @q0w1e2r3t4y5
      @q0w1e2r3t4y5 8 лет назад +7

      i was searching for this comment.

  • @eloisagarcia3300
    @eloisagarcia3300 8 лет назад +2885

    Don't let your beautiful language die!!!! Noooo!!!!

    • @katiemcmahon7069
      @katiemcmahon7069 7 лет назад +76

      Eloísa García yeah we're trying lmao

    • @eloisagarcia3300
      @eloisagarcia3300 7 лет назад +6

      katie mcmahon well, that's good news n.n

    • @dacelticcross
      @dacelticcross 7 лет назад +40

      The unionists up here in the North of our great country try to do that whenever they can.The irony of it is that it was Presbyterians that saved our language.

    • @katiemcmahon7069
      @katiemcmahon7069 7 лет назад +1

      tell me about it ⬆ they should just leave

    • @katiemcmahon7069
      @katiemcmahon7069 7 лет назад +1

      junior torres what the fuck are you on about

  • @waasar
    @waasar 8 лет назад +850

    Love the unreadable subtitles, great touch!

    • @ALLIWANNADOISCOMMENT
      @ALLIWANNADOISCOMMENT 5 лет назад +58

      and when she fast forwards through the only person who can hold conversation

  • @Snowhite-tx4sm
    @Snowhite-tx4sm 2 года назад +174

    I'm not an Irish but as a South Asian, i feel really sad how much impact colonisation made and english took so much control that both are cultures and languages are starting to disappear. In my country nowadays, if someone couldn't speak in English our own people make fun of them and call them "uneducated". It's truly very sad.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 Год назад +18

      ' if someone couldn't speak in English our own people make fun of them and call them "uneducated".'
      Yes, avery similar attitude arose in Ireland. I Ihave heard that some young people in other countries {Malta for example] are rejecting their own languages for English.If that continues and spreads, what happened to Irish will possibly happen to those languages

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 Год назад +1

      South Asia already has a huge variety of languages tho

    • @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ
      @ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ 7 месяцев назад +1

      @Snowhite yes I agree, the fact a singular language has dominated the world stage to thi extent is already bad enough, but why should it even be a germanic language with tons of French words originally spoken in an isolated island

    • @FreeMind...
      @FreeMind... 6 месяцев назад

      Are you a Singaporean?

  • @zeldagamer7477
    @zeldagamer7477 8 лет назад +1065

    Irish has three uses. Going to the Gaeltacht, reading the odd sign and talking about foreigners with your friends

    • @Lou-gz1lv
      @Lou-gz1lv 8 лет назад +15

      +Agathor747's gaming An' to talk to Irish people who don't speak much English ;P

    • @RyanHayes98
      @RyanHayes98 8 лет назад +1

      +Agathor747's gaming Seo é, go dtí an bar le túsa

    • @lilcasement
      @lilcasement 8 лет назад +110

      Don't forget liberating the north

    • @leadymore2057
      @leadymore2057 8 лет назад

      very true very truenand it is a bummer

    • @jhrewekasjdsfh
      @jhrewekasjdsfh 7 лет назад

      Agathor747's gaming I love this omg

  • @jamesmccauley0746
    @jamesmccauley0746 6 лет назад +862

    So im irish
    We speak english
    Me personally am pretty shite at gaelige
    People fought for our country so the least we could do is speak our native language
    Im gonna make it a life goal to become fluent in gaelige like I am with english
    Slán👋

    • @cuntasstaire6403
      @cuntasstaire6403 5 лет назад +9

      Maith fear

    • @mim6306
      @mim6306 5 лет назад +4

      Maith thú

    • @ciaranmurray3280
      @ciaranmurray3280 5 лет назад +6

      kinda got the impression u were shite at irish when you spelled gaeilge wrong in the third line 😂

    • @elgranlugus7267
      @elgranlugus7267 5 лет назад +15

      @John Ster
      You sound like a salty lad, who failed learning Irish

    • @faelan1950
      @faelan1950 5 лет назад +4

      @John Ster Faighimid toraí Sasannach, a leaids! Tabhair íde béil dó!

  • @WolfieVenturi
    @WolfieVenturi 8 лет назад +1342

    Do you even contrast bro.

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday 3 года назад +22

    I literally cried watching this!!! Never ever let our languages die.

  • @Lol-ok9kl
    @Lol-ok9kl 6 лет назад +1241

    It’s still possible to revive Irish as the main language of Ireland. Change the language of instruction at school to Irish and teach English as a second language.
    All migrant children learnt languages this way and adapt perfectly fine. People won’t be forced to speak Irish, simply taught in it.
    People in Scandinavia speak excellent English while keeping their mother tongue. Children will use the language that they’re taught in as the main language and pass it on to their children. A language that is not a language of instruction will die out eventually as these children grow up and the older generation passes away.

    • @Mandobird1
      @Mandobird1 5 лет назад +73

      This is the obvious answer. But it seems that the Irish don't have the will for it. Too much national trauma?

    • @mountainmaster4river398
      @mountainmaster4river398 5 лет назад +56

      I mean we are still thought Irish all the way up to graduation school but it’s just not a useful language to learn nor is it a simple one, I’ve been learning Irish far longer than the five I’ve spent learning Spanish yet I’ve far surpassed where I am in Irish. The schools also focus too much on writing Irish and not enough on actually speaking it. Even though it’s part of our major exams, most see it as a nuisance, that’s only really there to stop you from getting the points necessary. I personally am sad that it’s got to point where Irish is seen like this but it’s just not useful language, particularly when you consider that our neighbours to the west and east both speak English as they’re first languages.

    • @Ash-uv2ck
      @Ash-uv2ck 5 лет назад +3

      @@Mandobird1 we have the will for it.

    • @revan4130
      @revan4130 5 лет назад +45

      I agree. Look at Sweden for an example where English is the second language but nearly ALL of the country can speak English perfectly fine. I wish they would do that in America. Take 4 years of Spanish in highschool and these kids will remember 15 words...sad

    • @algonzalez6853
      @algonzalez6853 5 лет назад +9

      @@revan4130 except teaching spanish has an evil agenda, since its to accomodate to south american invaders

  • @ryanfields3777
    @ryanfields3777 6 лет назад +3768

    We lost our language when the Brits took over , they wouldn't let teachers teach Irish in school , it all became English

    • @lorikibraimi8889
      @lorikibraimi8889 6 лет назад +360

      ryano 99 In 500 years under turkish rule Albanians had no Albanian schools but we still speak our language...

    • @gameloveryt1438
      @gameloveryt1438 5 лет назад +153

      ryano 99 I’m English but it doesn’t look like England has done any thing good at all for Europe

    • @Cris-hd1wb
      @Cris-hd1wb 5 лет назад +207

      You simply gave up on it. In Romania we used to be dominated by the Hapsburg, Ottoman and Russian Empire for more than 500 years but still we retained our language and culture

    • @aslhanylmaz2942
      @aslhanylmaz2942 5 лет назад +90

      @@Cris-hd1wb and Indians still know they real language and also english

    • @Cris-hd1wb
      @Cris-hd1wb 5 лет назад +19

      @@aslhanylmaz2942 Exactly !

  • @DarkBrawlerLink
    @DarkBrawlerLink 7 лет назад +442

    Too many people bashing the Irish because they let their language die. Do you know for how many centuries were the Irish colonized? Grab a history book if you don't mind.

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 7 лет назад +34

      Most here are aware of Irish history, at least enough to know that. It's not as if it was any different in other countries, in France, the regional languages have suffered a great deal, too, and in Spain, all but Castillian (=main Spanish) was banned under Franco. Now, Catalan, Galego or Basque have returned on the set. Saami languages in Northernmost Europe have been discriminated against for centuries. Morocco still has a difficult relationship with Berber languages, and most indigenous languages in America are endangered. Some languages have made a comeback, others haven't, and colonisation is only part of their story. It's also about the ability to study in your language (Flemish was under threat in Belgium because for a long time, higher education, even higher secondary education, was in French only), because there's no government pushing the language (which Ireland has had for over half a century, and even before when it became a dominion), and not in the least because of a lack of uniformity, if you can only understand your neighbours, but not some random people from 3 villages up the road, it doesn't help to make the language attractive, and that does seem to be a bit of a problem in Irish.

    • @DarkBrawlerLink
      @DarkBrawlerLink 7 лет назад +13

      Exactly. All the examples you gave show that these people didn't let their languages die because of lack of national pride, but because of colonization and many other complicated reasons. People should be aware of that.

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 7 лет назад +11

      They did manage to overcome it, though, even without many of them having their own country, unlike Ireland.
      Estonia, as with the other Baltic nations, has a long history where it belongs to other empires, for most of the last centuries, it was Russian, and even before, it wasn't Estonian which was the language of those in power (it was mainly German, some Swedish, too.) Already before their first independence in the Interbellum, they had a Russian minority, that minority has only grown with the occupation by the Soviet Union, and yet, that country is firmly Estonian, speaking Estonian, and not Russian.
      It would have been so much easier to just switch to Russian, as so many did, it allowed you to study at the best universities in Moscow and St-Petersburg in stead of a regional university in Tartu or Tallinn, you could have a career easier, and you could talk to anyone, not just your fellow Estonians, but also the many Russians living there, who often didn't bother learning some small regional language (in their optic). But they didn't.

    • @TheGreekAstoria
      @TheGreekAstoria 7 лет назад +27

      We Greeks were enslaved by Turkish for about 500 years (only a small part of Greece got independence after 400 years). We still kept our language alive. I believe now with the internet and tv people can greatly improve their irish skills.

    • @potato1d346
      @potato1d346 6 лет назад

      ikanian preach!

  • @makenamurray8527
    @makenamurray8527 3 года назад +16

    I’m American, but I just recently started learning Irish Gaelic (and a bit of Scottish but I decided to just focus on Irish first before moving to Scottish). It’s hard because I have never heard anyone ever speak it here and a lot of people don’t get why I’m learning it (“why don’t you learn Spanish?” Is a common phrase), but I just love the language so much.

    • @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910
      @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910 3 месяца назад

      @@makenamurray8527 Ar fheabhas a chara ,lean ar aghaidh lei. Tá mé brodúil asat! 💚☘👍🏻🇮🇪🌟😊👏

  • @marlidaisy
    @marlidaisy 4 года назад +792

    The Brits took over, and tried to destroy the Irish way of life, including the language. I say we show the world just how strong Ireland is. So many people died fighting for Ireland, for their way of life. I say we bring it back, and never stop fighting for what’s ours.

    • @user-qi5jw2hg1c
      @user-qi5jw2hg1c 4 года назад +34

      That's strange because the south has completely lost its irishness today. There was a better sense of being Irish under British rule than there is now in the Republic. The North is more Irish than you lot

    • @user-qi5jw2hg1c
      @user-qi5jw2hg1c 4 года назад +7

      @Iamdmonah 322 Maybe consult a history book about 1800s Ireland and its cultural movements, and contrast that with the present day Republic. Then it'll make sense for you
      Edit: Perhaps I'll bother to explain myself. I have experienced both parts of ireland. There is more sense of being Irish and what that means to he an irishman in the North than the pro-European South. Dublin is a European city. It has little distinguishing feature that makes it Irish. If you disagree, you've been living in the modern Republic far too long to know what true Ireland was like

    • @user-qi5jw2hg1c
      @user-qi5jw2hg1c 4 года назад +3

      @Iamdmonah 322 If you don't know the relevancy of 1800s cultural movements in Ireland then you completely misunderstood my original comment. And hurling is non existent in ulster? Please, don't be silly.

    • @adamender9092
      @adamender9092 4 года назад +10

      @@user-qi5jw2hg1c burning the union Jack isn't being irish and neither is petrol bombing cars

    • @adamender9092
      @adamender9092 4 года назад +4

      You can't blame it in the past for not speaking it in the present.
      It's the peoples fault and the goverment

  • @Sergio-fu7mv
    @Sergio-fu7mv 4 года назад +697

    Being half Irish this is incredibly sad. My mom always made sure my sisters, and I spoke Irish. I speak, English, Spanish, and Irish. I wish we could stop speaking the language of our oppressors... long live Ireland. ✊🏼🇮🇪

    • @clefabletable
      @clefabletable 4 года назад +21

      Soy 100% irlandesa y hablo irlandés , inglés y un poco de Español! Did your mum speak Irish to you all the time at home or just cúpla focal? Tu historia me interesa mucho. ¿Tienes fluencia en irlandés? No tengo fluencia en irlandés ni español, solo inglés 😢 jajaj

    • @Sergio-fu7mv
      @Sergio-fu7mv 4 года назад +13

      alea hey! Tu español es muy bueno sabes.
      Mostly just at home. The screaming was horrendous. 😂
      Also maybe sometimes when we went out to the store and stuff, but I remember at night she would tell my sisters and I stories about the old country (mostly had to do with the English 😂) and she would do so in Irish. No, no tengo mucha fluencia en Irish. Ni en español haha, nomas en inglés porque es mi primer lenguaje por decir: pero eso está cambiando. Me a estado metiendo a la cultura irlandés y hispana mucho so a estado practicando muchísimo los lenguajes. En poco tiempo tendré fluencia en todas mis leguas! Thanks for being interested! I’m not the only half Hispanic half Irish where I’m from actually which is Southern California. I am one of the only ones with an Irish immigrant mother though. My mom’s straight from limerick, where as some friends are American Irish mix so they don’t hold on to Irish culture as much as I do. My parents literally met at a Catholic Church so that should tell you how hardcore we are. 😂
      That’s why my Irish grandpa loves my Mexican dad so much because when my parents met he was studying to be a cardinal or something like that in the Catholic Church. Haha.
      You should really keep practicing! I absolutely love going in deeper into cultures. I’ve learned so much in the past 6 months, It’s honestly really great. I hope you get better at it! lol.

    • @bigyoshi7134
      @bigyoshi7134 4 года назад +59

      England aren't our oppressors any more. Irish is a language, that shouldn't die out, for sure, but it shouldn't be forced upon people. There is only one family I know that speak Irish to each other a lot, but even then they mostly speak English. It's a language that nobody speaks, most people hate being forced to learn and isn't useful on a global scale.

    • @Louisef22
      @Louisef22 3 года назад +4

      @@bigyoshi7134 big brain moment

    • @bigyoshi7134
      @bigyoshi7134 3 года назад +1

      @@Louisef22 What do you mean?

  • @osmosys808
    @osmosys808 9 лет назад +629

    Don't lose your language!!!! KEEP SPEAKING IRISH. I'm not even Irish but it sickens me to see people losing their own language.

    • @AnCS.
      @AnCS. 9 лет назад +12

      Ceart go leor, taim ag caint as Geailge anois. An bhfuil tú sásta? Is cuma liom go bhfuil nach feidir le a lán duine abair as Gaeilge a abalta, mar ní raibh sé do fadhb.

    • @Aine4779
      @Aine4779 9 лет назад +5

      Tá mise abalta Gaeilge a labhairt, bíonn me ag Caint é a achan lá. :) Níl me Sasta mar níl maran daoine ag caint e níos mó D:

    • @jennimurphy252
      @jennimurphy252 6 лет назад +42

      Bruh I’m as Irish as I can get but never in my 19 years on the planet have I ever gotten an opportunity to speak Irish. The person I’ve ever found that spoke Irish was my French Teacher in school...French.

    • @petercarolan9416
      @petercarolan9416 6 лет назад +1

      osmosys808 prefer speaking english but ill always keep a little irish if i can remember. In school im doing higher level irish atm and i am considering dropping to ordinary because of how hard the subject is

    • @deeeenisttv
      @deeeenisttv 6 лет назад +18

      I'm Irish and still in school, literally everyone in my school hates learning Irish and consider it useless, You don't need a language to have a unique culture

  • @demolitionlxvrs3627
    @demolitionlxvrs3627 4 года назад +29

    I just learned that Irish was a language a few months ago and it’s really interesting !! I saw one of my favorite Irish artists Niall horan speaking Irish and I was like “ THATS A LANGUAGE?? “

  • @Emersongaming99
    @Emersongaming99 4 года назад +4382

    They sound like they're speaking the sims language lol

    • @strxwberrymvlk
      @strxwberrymvlk 4 года назад +106

      Omg that's exactly what I thought lmao

    • @peach_mango_pie
      @peach_mango_pie 4 года назад +277

      Considering the fact that Simlish is based on Ukrainian, Navajo, Romanian, Tagalog, and IRISH.Yes, it really does sound like Simlish to a foreign ear like mine lol.

    • @akhan4727
      @akhan4727 4 года назад +8

      Omg yes! I was wondering where I headed this before

    • @jf5419
      @jf5419 4 года назад +23

      nothing sounds more like the sims than dutch!!

    • @Clisare
      @Clisare  4 года назад +72

      ruclips.net/video/FXL2aE5uUXc/видео.html

  • @milindbebarta2226
    @milindbebarta2226 4 года назад +271

    From an outsider, the irish language sounds so good.

    • @krystiankowal7088
      @krystiankowal7088 3 года назад +13

      It really doesn’t

    • @borzmir9326
      @borzmir9326 3 года назад

      @@krystiankowal7088 nie pieprz

    • @Sycks
      @Sycks 3 года назад +1

      @@krystiankowal7088 Я ирландец, и я говорю по-русски

    • @purrformance
      @purrformance 3 года назад

      @@Sycks Somewhat true.

    • @trevr423
      @trevr423 3 года назад +9

      @@krystiankowal7088 no need for that, maybe to it doesn't but we all percieve things differently. Why come here to hate? keep it positive, how would you like that said about your people. very uncalled for, grow up.

  • @jacobburgess9439
    @jacobburgess9439 4 года назад +82

    Finds the only guy who spoke fluent Irish. ::fast forwards through entire segment::

    • @ramosjunior8679
      @ramosjunior8679 4 года назад +8

      Yeah that was bullshit.
      I wanted to hear the conversation between 2 fluent irish speakers :(

  • @dylanlizardman2186
    @dylanlizardman2186 Год назад +13

    I promise to learn my ancestors language as much as I learn my American Indian languages! Love you my Irish brothers and sisters! 🇮🇪💚

  • @elizajooman8982
    @elizajooman8982 5 лет назад +290

    I wish irish wasn’t takes for granted as much as it is - it’s part of our heritage like

    • @bengoodhart6075
      @bengoodhart6075 4 года назад +8

      You should really be speaking it at home with your family members like the welsh do.

    • @MikhailKalashnikovMiG
      @MikhailKalashnikovMiG 4 года назад +1

      They need to start taking in immigrants so they can start blaming them for the loss of their culture

    • @bengoodhart6075
      @bengoodhart6075 4 года назад +2

      Master Debater the shouldn’t take anyone in and naturally increase by getting rid of media and start having children and get away from English.

    • @MikhailKalashnikovMiG
      @MikhailKalashnikovMiG 4 года назад +1

      Ben Goodhart it’s definitely a good idea to get away from a language that’s widely used and start learning a language that’s dying out.

    • @sponge260
      @sponge260 3 года назад

      It's also the Language we are meant to speak as our primary

  • @jellyrolly
    @jellyrolly 9 лет назад +521

    This is really sad :( I hope Irish becomes more prevalent as time goes by.

    • @wainber1
      @wainber1 9 лет назад +16

      +jellyjay I hope Irish one day becomes as prominent within Ireland as Ukrainian and Kazakh have within Ukraine and Kazakhstan, respectively. That's although Russian is, within Ukraine, an official language in name only (and, within Kazakhstan, is official).

    • @Kwonghun
      @Kwonghun 9 лет назад +21

      +jellyjay The sad thing is that I seldom see anyone who is able to pronounce Irish like a native speaker -.- They all have this weird English accent and this kind of upsets me. I absolutely appreciate that awesome people like Clare are learning and supporting the rich Irish language but I really have to question myself whether there is any competent Irish teacher outside the Gaeltacht who would not stop trying to give their students the best possible pronunciation. The problem with this strong English accent is not that well known among the Irish people: the Irish speakers from the Galltacht have problems in understanding the native speakers from the Gaeltacht and, obviously, vice versa and thus the efforts in retaining the linguistic heritage of Ireland are somewhat "adulterating" or "falsifying" the original quality of the language. It starts with pronouncing the words with the English "r", and using "k" instead of "ch" and goes on with literally translating English phrases into Irish. I'm sorry to be so strict in this case but for me it is not tolerable.
      Ach go háirithe, ní stopfaimid le cur leis an dteanga dúchais na hÉireann feasta, agus ní ligfimid d'aon phobal eile arís an teanga so a thruailliú in aon chor!
      Éire go brách

    • @wainber1
      @wainber1 9 лет назад +2

      +Glao na hÉireann Learning Irish should be fun. Yet although a lot of Ukrainian cities, towns, districts and oblasts have their sites in Ukrainian (or at least give users the option to switch to Ukrainian-language pages), a fair # of cities and towns in Ireland don't have webpages in Irish.

    • @anrd8595
      @anrd8595 9 лет назад +5

      +David W in Kazakhstan most of native kazakhs speak both language from childhood: kazakh as native and fluent russian.
      Is it the same in Ireland? I think when the language dies the nation dies as well. Irish sounds very beautiful, you should use it more often :)

    • @WWEFREDSimpletrout
      @WWEFREDSimpletrout 9 лет назад +5

      +David W im irish and its harder than it looks

  • @malcolmsepulchre7713
    @malcolmsepulchre7713 9 лет назад +139

    Quick tip: When you wear a white scarf, don't use white subtitles. :P

  • @vuvuvu6291
    @vuvuvu6291 3 года назад +10

    I love watching people having a conversation in their ethnic language, especially if it is your acquaintance. It feels like they coming from another planet :D

  • @missymoo191
    @missymoo191 5 лет назад +80

    Wow I had no idea the Irish has their own language, simply beautiful I could listen to it all day

    • @graceh-gx4qg
      @graceh-gx4qg 5 лет назад +10

      Missy Moo this is the nicest comment I’ve seen in the comments section so far😂

    • @thingstodo4736
      @thingstodo4736 3 года назад +2

      Gora mátha got

    • @missymoo191
      @missymoo191 3 года назад

      @@thingstodo4736 what does that mean lovely

    • @jackryan2612
      @jackryan2612 3 года назад +2

      @@thingstodo4736 *go raibh maith agat

    • @Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer
      @Average-Cacodemon-Enjoyer 2 года назад

      While I am sick of hearing this, you saying it sounded lovely softened the blow

  • @BlackWarriorsFA
    @BlackWarriorsFA 8 лет назад +56

    For anyone who's interested in learning Irish, there's a free course on duolingo for english-speekers.

    • @KBYTE
      @KBYTE 8 лет назад +5

      thanks! im just 15 but i really want to try!

    • @trachtaire
      @trachtaire 8 лет назад +6

      Been learning it on there for a couple of weeks now. It's really fantastic. Super website and a fantastic language! Is maith liom!

  • @nappybunny8221
    @nappybunny8221 8 лет назад +347

    I think it's interesting that the Irish say "Do you HAVE Irish?" instead of "Do you KNOW Irish?" Interesting cultural difference

    • @chiuri21
      @chiuri21 8 лет назад +46

      They say that for every language. I just came back from a two week holiday in Dublin and my host family there asked a kid who just arrived "Do you have any English?"

    • @johnnycolin4895
      @johnnycolin4895 8 лет назад +25

      It is derivated from gaelic An bhfuil Gaelige agat

    • @solobit
      @solobit 8 лет назад +21

      Andrea C Every language? I speak 3 languages and in none of those do they say "Do you have any 'language'"as a literal or meaningful translation

    • @chiuri21
      @chiuri21 8 лет назад +43

      Adam Something ...that's not what I was saying. What I meant is that the Irish say "Do you have any *insert language here*?" for every language, not just Irish.

    • @trachtaire
      @trachtaire 8 лет назад +29

      It reminds me a bit of the German "Kannst du Deutsch (sprechen)?" Often the final word is left out, meaning it is simply translated as "Can you German?" The little quirks are quite funny but really endearing.

  • @ponyxaviors4491
    @ponyxaviors4491 Год назад +4

    I love Irish ❤️ I just started learning it this year. For some reason, Irish pronunciation feels more natural to my tongue than my own language. And it's so much fun to learn!

  • @claudiodidomenico
    @claudiodidomenico 9 лет назад +1092

    What has England done to you.

    • @martpast1
      @martpast1 9 лет назад +31

      ***** said Russian stupid goat without understanding of the problem

    • @fkinglolwow
      @fkinglolwow 8 лет назад +38

      +martmart1 The russian guy with the biggest country in the world yeah you stupid shit

    • @HazleGames
      @HazleGames 8 лет назад +13

      +Sergei Ivanovich Mosin too right man

    • @kaleneyu6749
      @kaleneyu6749 8 лет назад +1

      Agree

    • @shaktipat736
      @shaktipat736 7 лет назад +75

      The problem is one: Irish hasn't been made the official language. When they got the independence, they should've done just that. There's no use in speaking the oppressor's language, when you got rid him for most of the territory.

  • @FamyNguyen
    @FamyNguyen 10 лет назад +92

    im from vietnam. my country was colony of china for over 1000 years but we dont speak chinese, we still speak vietnamese. irish people should do the same

    • @gayvideos3808
      @gayvideos3808 6 лет назад +65

      Shane Park
      That was rude. Her English was almost perfect. Don't chastise someone just because they're not completely correct in a language. She made herself understood, didn't she? She worked hard to make it that way.

    • @candletabletop154
      @candletabletop154 6 лет назад +40

      Shane Park if you've never had to learn another language, shut the fuck up.

    • @fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186
      @fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186 6 лет назад +6

      Amy Feehily yeah because we were shot if we spoke it fuck off you don't no nothing it's not as easy as ok let's all just speak gaeilge Aon bhleach ta me gó maith agus conas ata tú

    • @fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186
      @fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186 6 лет назад

      @Pepe the Frog clearly

    • @bostonshanghai377
      @bostonshanghai377 6 лет назад +4

      What are you talking about? 1000 years a colony? In what world you live?

  • @ultrakwon
    @ultrakwon 3 года назад +9

    I had no idea Irish folks had a native language. I thought they just spoke English with an Irish accent. But this is a really elegant sounding language. 😊

  • @veritasdei6047
    @veritasdei6047 8 лет назад +51

    I am only half Irish and was born and raised in Turkey until I was 18, yet my mom taught me Irish since I was a baby. It is sad many people cannot speak it without throwing 4 english words to a supposedly Irish sentence of 5 words.

    • @erebos3990
      @erebos3990 5 лет назад

      Turkce konusabiliyor musun? Ben yunanim

    • @abidanielson2747
      @abidanielson2747 5 лет назад +4

      Ye well considering our teachers are shit says enough

    • @algonzalez6853
      @algonzalez6853 5 лет назад

      your mom is a traitor who ruined her lineage

    • @ronaldweasley4016
      @ronaldweasley4016 5 лет назад

      What do u mean only?! Half or quarter is a lot

    • @dazpatreg
      @dazpatreg Год назад

      Gabh i leith go fóill is dearcadh an-suimiúil go brách é do chionn-sa, ní mhór duit físeán nó rud éicint a uaslódáil díot fhéin ag labhairt na teangadh agus ag déanamh comparáid idir an dá chultúr agus ag léiriú cén chaoi gur éirigh leat an teangaidh a labhairt le do mháthair is tú ag éirí aníos nó mar sin. Chuirfinn fhéin spéis mhillteanach

  • @westsideisdabest7825
    @westsideisdabest7825 5 лет назад +101

    Ah man, I actually had feels when that guy felt that he was letting down his country :(

    • @DiamanteDea
      @DiamanteDea 4 года назад +3

      West Side is da best he is

    • @ecksit7637
      @ecksit7637 4 года назад +1

      Meet a real Irish man. Probably won't so beautiful

  • @ChrissyCollins7
    @ChrissyCollins7 6 лет назад +42

    I can speak a little bit of Gaeilge. I'm from England but my dad is Irish and he taught me some of it.

    • @jowoker2
      @jowoker2 5 лет назад

      Conas ata tu?

    • @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910
      @saoirseclarnimhuiris7910 3 месяца назад

      @@ChrissyCollins7 oh maith thú a chara ar fheabhas ansin!👏👏🎻🎶🎶🎵😊👍🏻

  • @billy1680
    @billy1680 4 года назад +24

    We were taught Spanish in school in belfast and no irish history at all.

    • @billy1680
      @billy1680 4 года назад +3

      @The Conservative Britain isn't British fs

    • @adamender9092
      @adamender9092 4 года назад +2

      @The Conservative Are they part of britain? No.
      While you're here I think you should respect the half of the population that is native to the island mainly identify as Irish.

    • @Sergio-wn4sp
      @Sergio-wn4sp 3 года назад

      It's so sad and annoying, don't they study it in Ireland either?

    • @Aithis.
      @Aithis. 3 года назад

      Same here went to a prod school in NI we were taught French and then you could pick between German or Spanish. In history we went over Irish history for only 3 months in 1st year when I was about 12 (so good luck remembering that shit naturally). After those 3 months it was off to learn about nazi Germany and the Anglo Saxons until the end of 3rd year. 4th and 5th year was Cold War, Berlin, Vietnam and the Korean War.

  • @saoirsehamilton9947
    @saoirsehamilton9947 5 лет назад +196

    I'm irish and recently spent 2 weeks in irish college(where you can only speak irish). I'm in second year and in my opinion its our own fault we don't speak irish. Sure the British didn't let us speak irish but that was over 100 years ago. So many people died for our language yet almost no one can speak it fluently, it's such a shame people don't realise its dying out and try make more of an effort, my irish isn't the best I'm pretty good at speaking but not writing which is why this is in english. Even by saying "go raibh maith agat" to a shop keeper or saying "anseo" instead of "here" in class. Thx for reading my rant😂 slàn go foil mo chara👋👋

    • @peskymagser9943
      @peskymagser9943 5 лет назад +9

      Saoirse Hamilton I get what your saying but most people like me find it really difficult to learn which is why it’s not spoken as much as it used to

    • @saoirsehamilton9947
      @saoirsehamilton9947 5 лет назад +26

      @@peskymagser9943 it is a very difficult language to learn but also because of the way schools try to teach it. You can't learn a language by learning a list of verbs being tested on them once and then forgetting about them. I think that while learning irish in primary school and 1st year you should only speak irish to gain fluency and from 2nd year on classes should be more about doing reading comprehensions and learning poetic techniques. But it is sooo hard to learn💙slán go foil.

    • @TT-Freak
      @TT-Freak 4 года назад +3

      Yeah very sad. When I lived in Ireland I allways said: "Irish is your language, so you should speak it not english, at least not as your 1st language. Of course you shouldnt loose your english, but still Irish is your language, your heritage and your culture. You speak the language of your former opressor. Even I would learn Irish if I had to." It allways had an impact.... Btw even I understand "go raibh maith agat" as a German;) It's all about the effort.

    • @rabbithearted444
      @rabbithearted444 4 года назад +3

      Saoirse Hamilton I know I’m still in primary school but literally NO ONE except me and my freinds speak Irish if teachers aren’t around it’s actually easy enough if you can speak well tigim cad a tá tú ag abair 🙃 Ní’lm an a maith ag deanamh è seo ar an idirlín (sorry if you can’t understand it I speak it fluently but its hard with autocorrect lol)

    • @feargalflynn7980
      @feargalflynn7980 3 года назад

      @@rabbithearted444 cad atá a rá agat. not cad atá tú ag abair

  • @ashleymanney450
    @ashleymanney450 8 лет назад +163

    it's such a beautiful language

  • @NoNameThoughtOfYet
    @NoNameThoughtOfYet 9 лет назад +77

    To Answer Some Questions In The Comments:
    Q1 - Is Irish Taught In School?
    A1 - Yes, Irish Is Mandatory For Children When We Enter School (Age 3/4) And Until We Leave Secondary School/High School (Age 17/18/19) Then We Can Pursue It In University But Most Universities Require You To Speak Irish As Well As A Second Language Such As French Or German, But There're's Certain Times Where You Are Exempt (Don't Have To Learn) From Irish Such As If You're Family Moved From Another Country And You Are Over 11 Years Old.... And If You Have A Disability That Makes Learning The Language Very Hard For You........
    Q2 - Do The Irish Hate The English/Vice Versa?
    A2 - This Is A Sensitive Question For Most Of Us As We Were Conquered/Settled And Murdered By The English For Almost 800 Years And The Troubles Made Our Relations Even Worse, But I Think Since The Good Friday Agreement Our Relationship With The UK Has Improved. To Answer The Question, No We Don't "Hate" The English Per Say, We Don't Admire Them For Their Treatment Of Us Or How They Deliberately Starved Us To Death During The Famine Of The Late 19th Century, Some People Don't Like Them And They'll Curse The Queen Or The Union Jack, But I Personally Have Absolutely No Problem With The English People. I Was Talking To One Of My Friends, Who's English And Has Lived Over Here (Ireland) For 11 Years, And She Said They Were Never Told Anything About Ireland In School And What They Did To Us, She Had To Look It Up Herself In Books And She Was Absolutely Horrified About What She Found Out... The Famine, Plantations etc. She Said She Couldn't Blame The Irish For Hating The English......
    Hope This Helped!! :-)

    • @jcgamer4648
      @jcgamer4648 9 лет назад

      M. Cloak i didn't start learning irish till i was 11 and i can stop when Im finished my GCSE so ur A1 is wrong unless ur talking about the republic of ireland i have no clue about what they learn there but in northern ireland it doesn't matter

    • @wainber1
      @wainber1 9 лет назад +1

      +M. Cloak Irish appears to be as mandatory, within the Republic of Ireland, as Ukrainian is within Ukraine (well, at least those parts of the ex-Soviet republic still under the effective control of the federal government).

    • @wainber1
      @wainber1 8 лет назад

      ***** JCGamer That said, even with the heavy use of Russian in Ukraine, the language of Taras Shevchenko is more widely used than Gaeilge is. Ireland has a thing or two to learn, from Ukraine, on learning languages.

    • @kriichan6100
      @kriichan6100 7 лет назад

      M. Cloak
      I'm British and live in the UK but my great great (or something) grandad (someone in my family) was Irish so I have Irish blood
      And my last name is apparently Irish
      I've searched it and it is but
      I ain't gonna say it

    • @MarcinKralka
      @MarcinKralka 7 лет назад +15

      dude it's hard to read when all words begin with capital letter.

  • @aprilking1530
    @aprilking1530 17 дней назад

    Hi there, i stumbled across your channel because i am actually learning Irish through Duolingo. I am Canadian, actually from a province called Newfoundland. A lot of my descendants come from Ireland, and i was very curious if there was an app that could teach me the old language, and i actually found one! Its amazing to see and hear it. I heard it a tiny bit from a few older family members. Its actually neat. Reminds me very much of french and another language mixed. You really should come back on and put more videos up, maybe try teaching a bit of the language. Either way thank you for wsnting to keep the language alive. ❤

  • @aladdinchaoui5307
    @aladdinchaoui5307 5 лет назад +156

    This is so beautiful language I'm Amazigh from Algeria and we have the same problem we have our Amazigh language but many peaples speak Arabic and This threatens our language to extinction😢😭😭

    • @ndesi62
      @ndesi62 4 года назад +34

      Meanwhile even the Arabic speakers are threatened by Frenchification... and France itself is worried about getting displaced by English. Hope all peoples around the world are able to resist these forces and protect their own respective languages

    • @harrisonthomas5723
      @harrisonthomas5723 4 года назад +2

      Uhhhhh.... not in Vietnam i gussed

    • @adamender9092
      @adamender9092 4 года назад +2

      :(

    • @zaynabhijou5995
      @zaynabhijou5995 4 года назад +9

      Yess i totally agree and i’m from morocco

    • @jellyyz6335
      @jellyyz6335 4 года назад +7

      I'm half Algerian and my Algerian family can only speak arabic, Algerian Arabic and French....😅 I'm not sure if they are of berber descent so... Yeah..
      And im half scottish... And no one in scotland can speak gaelic.. Its dead now 😅😅

  • @leoneabbacchio2098
    @leoneabbacchio2098 5 лет назад +100

    "Is mise Mammy"
    i love that woman

  • @impalabeeper
    @impalabeeper 7 лет назад +59

    Of course there is always one person that can speak Irish perfectly.

  • @charlessiegfriedlevy6973
    @charlessiegfriedlevy6973 2 года назад +6

    I am not Irish myself, but I want to protect this language. As a language, it is one of the symbols of the people and self-consciousness. Reading the history of the Irish people and language, I just wanted to cry.

    • @darius684
      @darius684 Год назад

      My Irish friend inspired me into learning irish its so interesting and bizarre i like it

  • @Justme-zo3jy
    @Justme-zo3jy 6 лет назад +82

    Im irish I speak irish and proud to speak and write it

    • @nitishsaxena1372
      @nitishsaxena1372 5 лет назад +7

      Great, I've immense respect for the Irish nation!

    • @Fiachcon
      @Fiachcon 5 лет назад

      Maith thú

    • @imjustacamel4190
      @imjustacamel4190 5 лет назад

      I'm better at writing then speaking :)

    • @nicesmile6162
      @nicesmile6162 4 года назад

      and now your speak an irish??

    • @khtoix
      @khtoix 4 года назад

      Is breá look Gaeilge mar tá mé go hiontach

  • @JonathanHeresOficial
    @JonathanHeresOficial 5 лет назад +15

    What a beautiful language. love how it sounds. I speak spanish and i really really like irish. Hope you manage to keep it alive!

    • @fizzyfaz7279
      @fizzyfaz7279 3 года назад

      Sé aer dóibh aer beag t-ó ha é tí stíl bé laige

  • @ll7868
    @ll7868 7 лет назад +16

    Beannachtai ó Ceanada,
    My great-granny came from Ireland in the late 1890s as a teen and she mostly spoke Gaeilge and my grandpa spoke it fluently as well. My dad never bothered learning it and I was never taught much from my grandpa beyond a few basic words & phrases. My grandpa died in 2012 and he was the last person in my family to speak it, anywho, last year I started learning to read & write it, which is coming along okay, but can only say or understand a few words verbally.
    Páirtí ar! 🤘

  • @mdbelalhossainsanto6523
    @mdbelalhossainsanto6523 2 года назад +5

    Do not lose your language, buddies.
    Language is the power & the symbol of unity.

  • @AnOriginalYouTuber
    @AnOriginalYouTuber 4 года назад +35

    Keep it up Irish! I'm an American who wanted to learn one of my ancestral languages. At the time, there were almost no resources online. With this resurgence, I might give it another try!

  • @andrewqazxsw
    @andrewqazxsw 5 лет назад +33

    This is so sad. Many people with Irish blood have no pride in the old ways. Doesn't give hope for the future of the celtic languages.

  • @Ray7227
    @Ray7227 8 лет назад +56

    Beautiful language! Please don't let it die! The Portuguese came to Brazil and abolished our native language which was Tupi-Guarani, and now it's lost forever! Preserve Gaeilge!

    • @_rafael_fr
      @_rafael_fr 6 лет назад +6

      Our native language? Are you native brazilian?

    • @eggchomp
      @eggchomp 6 лет назад +1

      Rafael Most likely and that was a year ago

    • @Mario-us7ds
      @Mario-us7ds 5 лет назад +1

      wtf are you talking about

  • @animefairy15
    @animefairy15 3 года назад +1

    This is an awesome video but for reasons I was most excited when I saw a Disney store in the background. I love and I'm jealous by the fact that you guys still have a Disney store.

  • @lasa4965
    @lasa4965 8 лет назад +80

    omg im middle eastern and i love how this language sounds! no seriously im going to study it until i know how to completely speak, write and understand it!!

    • @alexdesign1065
      @alexdesign1065 7 лет назад +5

      Dia duit agus conas ta tu inniu?

    • @terminator572
      @terminator572 7 лет назад +9

      la Sa …watch out friend… there are people who don't like Middle Eastern people in those parts.

    • @lasa4965
      @lasa4965 7 лет назад +7

      Dorvuzak Uzn oh thats upsetting to hear!

    • @borrburison648
      @borrburison648 7 лет назад +10

      la Sa Never come here we don't like you or any foreigners.

    • @BlackSheepNara
      @BlackSheepNara 7 лет назад +10

      Wolf Der Nacht Wow. And Europeans used to give Americans crap for not liking Mexicans. .....

  • @davt2718
    @davt2718 7 лет назад +86

    The truth is, Irish is much harder to learn than let's say French or Spanish, for example. It's a Gaelic language, like Scots Gaelic and Manx (from The Isle of Man), and they differ quite a lot from European languages, even though they technically are, and most people learning the language come out of school hating it. Majority of primary schools are terrible at teaching it (From different accents in Irish, so it's not really their fault) and if you asked a first year to go and have a simple conversation, most couldn't. The best technique of getting kids to learn Irish is to send them to a Gael Scoil, where everything is taught through Irish.

    • @alex6027
      @alex6027 6 лет назад +6

      Not a chance. Granted I didn’t go to a Gael primary but I’ve just joined a Gaelscoil secondary this year and I’m shit at it. It probably works a lot better than an English speaking school but it’s having detrimental effects on my other subjects because 8 don’t understand them properly

    • @fengshi4284
      @fengshi4284 6 лет назад +9

      Kcaj Does Stuff That's because you are too old to do it. The progress would super fast for a 7-year-old kid.

    • @alex6027
      @alex6027 6 лет назад +8

      It could be, but it causes peoples english to be much worse. Irish is not needed for almost any job and if you are going almost anywhere in europe then the main cities will know english for tourists at least. You know how many other countries use irish? 0

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 лет назад +6

      And then what are they going to do with it? English is all over the Internet, the movies, the thousands of printed books (essential for higher education), the pop music world, etc. etc. Thousands of languages have died over the past couple of thousand years. Arabic, for instance, used to be a language spoken by only a small ethnic group in the Mecca/Medina area, and now it's the lingua franca of a huge swathe of North Africa and the Middle East, replacing lots of other Semitic and Berber languages. The same thing is happening with English. Irish and Welsh will be effectively dead in a couple of centuries at best. Language is first and foremost a practical tool for communication, not a badge or flag of cultural identity! Learn Irish as a hobby, sure, but it will be no more than that.

    • @rian-wf5lm
      @rian-wf5lm 5 лет назад +4

      gaelscoils are great for learning irish, but i know a kid who goes to one and he didnt start learning english phonics until 1st class, and he struggles with reading english now too

  • @czuser
    @czuser 8 лет назад +637

    So sims speak in irish?

    • @shaktipat736
      @shaktipat736 7 лет назад +32

      *Speed-slaps Captain America*

    • @LoveislouderDL
      @LoveislouderDL 6 лет назад +26

      This is all ironic enough, because Captain America supposedly speaks irish gaelic.

    • @AllySimCraft
      @AllySimCraft 6 лет назад +7

      Offended a we bit.

    • @Becca-vo5ug
      @Becca-vo5ug 6 лет назад

      What

    • @Becca-vo5ug
      @Becca-vo5ug 6 лет назад +2

      How do Sims sound like their speaking Irish because if they were it would be a bit annoying that some people would understand it and others just because they didn't learn the language couldn't, considering it isn't just an Irish game.

  • @NoxaClimaxX
    @NoxaClimaxX Год назад +3

    This is my second day of teaching myself Irish, and I’ll take this as motivation to keep at.

  • @compassion333
    @compassion333 7 лет назад +43

    really sad.. they've been assimilated.. the same thing is happening to us Kurds. The government needs to do something about this problem.

    • @BroadwayRonMexico
      @BroadwayRonMexico 5 лет назад +13

      The government in Ireland has taken action. The made Irish language mandatory in schools.
      Problem is, Irish is an extremely hard language to learn and has little practical use, so most end up hating it and never want to use it outside of school. Most would rather focus on learning French or some other European language that they may actually need at some point. At the end of it all, they often wind up being able to understand Irish when they hear it, but not speak it well.

    • @tsarnicholasii274
      @tsarnicholasii274 4 года назад +13

      @Gabriel English is already known, no one will lose the ability to speak it. A native language is culture. In Wales we have the saying "Cenedl heb iaith ydy cenedl heb galon" which means a nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 4 года назад +2

      @@BroadwayRonMexico I didn't meet any Irish person who can understand the Irish on the radio when I was there. So they mustn't really be able to understand much after finishing exams.

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 4 года назад +2

      @@tsarnicholasii274 I've been to both Ireland and Wales. Heard loads of Welsh travelling around Wales. Heard no Irish travelling around Ireland except for on the radio and one guy with a sign in Dublin who didn't sound like he was speaking it right (as I compared to the stuff on the radio).

    • @tsarnicholasii274
      @tsarnicholasii274 4 года назад +3

      @@cigh7445 Well like in Wales it depends where you go. There's plenty of Irish speaking communities in Ireland

  • @theonetheonlydeganthevegan4392
    @theonetheonlydeganthevegan4392 10 лет назад +26

    For some reason in the past few weeks I've been very been very interested in Ireland and its culture. I am also so happy that there are people that actually learn Irish I was scared that no one in Ireland could speak Irish but now I am happy to see that its not a dead language. I hope one day I can visit and perhaps speak Irish when I am in Ireland.
    In the end I hope English does not replace Irish and Northern Ireland becomes part of Éire!
    Bíodh lá iontach ó Toirc grámhara Éireannach ( Have a great day from an Irish loving Turk , sorry I had to use Google translate give me a months to learn Irish :D )

    • @eva-jp1hb
      @eva-jp1hb 6 лет назад

      The one the only Degan the Vegan if you came to Ireland, know English as well because pronunciations of Irish words across the country is super confusing! (and that's coming from an Irish person)

    • @jessicaoconnor1632
      @jessicaoconnor1632 6 лет назад

      Nearly everyone learns Irish in school

    • @thisnameiscool1232
      @thisnameiscool1232 6 лет назад +4

      Its very much almost a dead language, not many people can speak it only 2000 are fluent and most people dont understand/speak it

    • @deeeenisttv
      @deeeenisttv 6 лет назад

      The one the only Degan the Vegan as an Irish person I think it would be better if northern Ireland stayed a part of the U.K. we are doing fine without it and if it ever did rejoin Ireland we would have to eliminate all laws put in place by the northern Irish government and would have an extra 2 million people to look after

    • @schoooooools6680
      @schoooooools6680 6 лет назад +5

      Almost everyone in the republic can speak basic Irish, we were forced to learn it for 14 years

  • @yerdasellsavon9232
    @yerdasellsavon9232 4 года назад +31

    I speak Scottish Gaelic and this sounds like I've been awake for 5 days and I'm to high to fully understand people

    • @adamender9092
      @adamender9092 4 года назад

      Ahahahaha

    • @jackryan2612
      @jackryan2612 3 года назад +3

      We feel the exact same when we hear someone speaking scots gaelic, it's so similar but just beyond my grasp

    • @雪走-m7z
      @雪走-m7z 2 года назад

      Do garlic come back to school as the language of instruction now? Coz Schools are the biggest influence on children, and children are the future of this culture

  • @mohammedal3rbi631
    @mohammedal3rbi631 2 года назад +1

    Please do more Irish video, I just started learning the language and this video was very realistic and helped me to evaluate my abilities

  • @BEPrimAnim
    @BEPrimAnim 10 лет назад +44

    Please use stroke for subtitles next time, its really hard to read white text on the white background.

  • @jgg59
    @jgg59 4 года назад +12

    I felt so bad I wanted to hear the guy who was so good at speaking Irish

  • @LunarRaevyn
    @LunarRaevyn 10 лет назад +289

    After I learn Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, I'm going to work on learning Irish.

    • @fuzzie2000sh
      @fuzzie2000sh 9 лет назад +6

      Cool im learning danish right now :-)

    • @LunarRaevyn
      @LunarRaevyn 9 лет назад +5

      fuzzie2000sh Awesome!

    • @marconatrix
      @marconatrix 9 лет назад +11

      SlytherinSnake6886 Try Scots Gaelic (Gàidhlig) it's been more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than Irish ;-)

    • @LunarRaevyn
      @LunarRaevyn 9 лет назад

      marconatrix Oh, I didn't know that! I'll certainly try it learning it, sounds fun!

    • @marconatrix
      @marconatrix 9 лет назад +1

      SlytherinSnake6886
      The grammar is simpler than Irish too, more 'Norwegian' than 'Icelandic' if you see what I mean.

  • @alex-mc21
    @alex-mc21 2 года назад +3

    please don't lose this language , do something about it .it's lovely language with beautiful deep accent.❤❤❤
    love you from belgium.

  • @gregbrogan9061
    @gregbrogan9061 5 лет назад +6

    I was enjoying hearing the guy interviewed at 1:30. His Irish was so comfortable and fluent... and beautiful - really impressive. You should have let him continue instead of speed him up!

    • @conorbreathnach8484
      @conorbreathnach8484 4 года назад

      Go raibh míle Greg!

    • @gregbrogan9061
      @gregbrogan9061 4 года назад

      @@conorbreathnach8484 Tá fáilte romhat, Conor! Was that you? You're THE man!

  • @BellumCarroll
    @BellumCarroll 9 лет назад +26

    Seems like a lot of Irish people are embarrassed to speak it.
    Should be proud that you can and that you still have it, so many cultures have lost theirs forever.

    • @eggchomp
      @eggchomp 6 лет назад +4

      We aren't embarrassed, we don't know it, and I think that's just sad.

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 4 года назад +8

    Living in the NYC, I was fascinated to learn the different languages my classmates could speak.
    My Russian, Chinese and Hispanic classmates were vocal with their friends and family using their own language when they talk to each other yet my Irish classmate didn't know how.
    He said he knows he has a language but didn't know how to speak it.
    From then on I became curious as to how it would sound like.

    • @whitealliance9540
      @whitealliance9540 4 года назад +1

      Its so weird... Watching a language die. Also im fellow new yorker. Harlem send you love

    • @zonk4817
      @zonk4817 4 года назад +1

      It's because the school system here is fucked. We dont learn the language but we learn it to pass exams. I learned German in school and I feel more confident speaking that then Irish. I feel in Primary School we were thought better as you had to day catchphrase to go to the toilet. In secondary school you do fuck all learning. You just learn to pass.

    • @bobbiedryden789
      @bobbiedryden789 3 года назад

      @@whitealliance9540 - Ireland hasn’t gone anywhere. You will never “preserve” a culture/language while refusing to live in it’s wholly viable homeland. Russians, Chinese, “Hispanics”: all people who refuse to live in homelands they claim to be preserving by imposing their presence in other places and then clinging to random scraps of so-called culture.

    • @雪走-m7z
      @雪走-m7z 2 года назад

      Do Irish come back to school as the language of instruction now? Coz Schools are the biggest influence on children, and children are the future of this culture

  • @random-_-dude
    @random-_-dude 3 года назад +3

    Great video, love it, but a slight tweak is when in a bright background or wearing a white scarf, it would be better to give a colored outline so we can read the word.

  • @rawanqurmet3795
    @rawanqurmet3795 10 лет назад +5

    Nice language, guys! So picturesque. Just keep on learning.

  • @R1NLO
    @R1NLO 3 года назад +27

    As an asian who grew up in Ireland
    I spoke Irish better than the Irish kids in my class

    • @王力-p6w
      @王力-p6w 3 года назад

      They worship English staff, brainwashed.

  • @MiltonFerreira97
    @MiltonFerreira97 3 года назад +2

    As a Brazilian i can say that i never heard a language that hard.
    It's AMAZING ! Protect your culture

  • @maxpuente6291
    @maxpuente6291 4 года назад +26

    I'm so sad to see this. In Catalonia same thing is happening with catalan. We still have 10M speakers (L1+L2) but just a century ago everyone spoke it perfectly and now...

    • @alalakjakaja5793
      @alalakjakaja5793 4 года назад +8

      Max Puente The problem with us is that the British conquered and ruled us for 800 years and Gaeilge was outlawed and it slowly faded away and now unfortunately the way we teach it in the school system is horrendous and it makes kids not want to learn it because of how it’s taught.

    • @gvtterslag
      @gvtterslag 4 года назад +4

      Yes it's too focused on grammar and not vocabulary or conversational. That's the main reason most people forget everything after school and we can't really hold a conversation.

    • @雪走-m7z
      @雪走-m7z 2 года назад

      Do Catalan come back to school as the language of instruction now? Coz Schools are the biggest influence on children, and children are the future of this culture

    • @maxpuente6291
      @maxpuente6291 2 года назад

      @@雪走-m7z Yes! Catalan is the main language in school. Used for all subjects expect Spanish, English, and other language classes

    • @雪走-m7z
      @雪走-m7z 2 года назад

      @@maxpuente6291 Great! But why the same thing happen in Catalan? It much better than Scotland and wales where banned their own culture in most of public schools.

  • @JustKaylaNicole
    @JustKaylaNicole 8 лет назад +243

    I'm sorry but I couldn't help but think of the sims Q_Q

    • @niamhfallon1384
      @niamhfallon1384 6 лет назад +9

      and that's how you offend an entire nation.

    • @blossomekoba1555
      @blossomekoba1555 6 лет назад +3

      Where u from cause that’s very offensive

    • @eggchomp
      @eggchomp 6 лет назад +2

      Lol
      Is it bad that I'm Irish, speak Irish and
      SAME

    • @blossomekoba1555
      @blossomekoba1555 6 лет назад +12

      ReptileMan 0912 you know Europe is really big and all countries in it are very different from each other

    • @kenna8503
      @kenna8503 6 лет назад

      Kayla N. Offended :/

  • @killerwhale1520
    @killerwhale1520 2 года назад +2

    My country was occupied by the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English & the Japanese in the span of 500 years. And I'm still glad we are able to preserve our language and it still remains as my country official language.

  • @enokaaka1123
    @enokaaka1123 2 года назад +13

    As a Native Hawaiian I can appreciate keeping your language alive. I WILL learn Irish Gaelic!

    • @ponyxaviors4491
      @ponyxaviors4491 Год назад +1

      I'm currently learning Irish and really hope to learn Hawaiian someday.

  • @AmitB
    @AmitB 10 лет назад +52

    The choice of font color was bad.

  • @elainesmith7263
    @elainesmith7263 10 лет назад +4

    I m Irish and live in Dublin. I speak Gaelic fluently at home

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic3000 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for posting!❤

  • @kse4707
    @kse4707 4 года назад +5

    I wish my people in Peru did still speak their native language (Quechua). If you'd do the same test on the streets in Lima, very few would be able to say something in Quechua and the few who speak it would probably ashamed and act as if they didn't. Hold to your language, people! Your ancestors would be proud.
    Actually Gaels and Native Americans share similar trauma. Love from Germany!!

  • @tatertot4224
    @tatertot4224 9 лет назад +18

    you need to put a black outline around the subtitles next time

  • @so_obsessed_
    @so_obsessed_ 2 года назад +1

    I am just starting to learn Irish on Duolingo; I'm American and have a little Irish ancestry but mostly I think the language and accent are so beautiful and it makes me happy to hear them. I couldn't make sense of much at the speed everyone was talking in this video but I did understand "agus!" :)

  • @totograne
    @totograne Год назад +3

    Scottish and Welsh are languages that are unfortunately dying, but Irish does everything possible to continue maintaining it, and that is greatly appreciated, it is a very beautiful language. But unfortunately for Ireland, English is being assimilated very quickly all over the world.
    As the Welsh said, *May the old language endure.*

  • @investigator9312
    @investigator9312 4 года назад +4

    "Ní gá Nations bás de taom croí, ar a gcéad teanga iad roghnaithe" (Lina Kostenko, scríbhneoir Úcráinis agus file).
    "Nations do not die of a heart attack, at first they are selected language" (Lina Kostenko, Ukrainian writer and poet).

  • @Kwonghun
    @Kwonghun 9 лет назад +6

    I think the guy in 1:39 (where the subtitles only say two question marks) says "le cúnamh Dé" which is an often used phrase and means "with God's help" :)

  • @perseus931
    @perseus931 Год назад +2

    I am not Irish but I want to visit Ireland so bad, I m in love with the culture and the mythology. Protect this language at all costs!

  • @FatheredPuma81
    @FatheredPuma81 4 года назад +87

    Speaking Irish in Ireland: *Yep*
    Speaking Scottish in Scotland: *Nope*
    Speaking Welsh in Wales: *Nope*
    Speaking English in England: ...

    • @ramosjunior8679
      @ramosjunior8679 4 года назад +31

      People do speak welsh in wales.

    • @ramosjunior8679
      @ramosjunior8679 4 года назад +18

      30% of People in Wales have the ability to speak welsh.

    • @randombaddie1767
      @randombaddie1767 4 года назад +16

      In Wales almost 600,000 can speak Welsh fluently which is roughly 21% of Wales. Some parts of West Wales speak Welsh as a 1st language. Also there are more Welsh speakers then Irish!

    • @aodhanmaccuinneagain7413
      @aodhanmaccuinneagain7413 4 года назад +13

      Speaking in Scottish implies that you're talking about Scots. Gàidhlig is the native language of the highlands.

    • @Malos_
      @Malos_ 4 года назад +4

      Ramos Junior 30% of people in Wales have the ability to speak

  • @bremo2059
    @bremo2059 5 лет назад +5

    I finally found out where ''The Sims'' language comes from.

  • @hencytjoe
    @hencytjoe 4 года назад +12

    It's so weird - I'm fully raised Swedish and I can't even imagine being born and raised here and not speaking Swedish. Imagine being irish, born and raised, to irish parents and their parents are irish yet not speaking irish. It's sad. Only like 30% speaking the native tongue.

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 4 года назад +4

      It's more like one or two percent actually.
      Lot's of people claimed to know 'some' Irish on the census, but the numbers of daily speakers were tiny.

    • @kylewilson5433
      @kylewilson5433 4 года назад +5

      Do you speak Arabic yet?

    • @cameronhowe1110
      @cameronhowe1110 4 года назад +3

      kyle are you dumb or not ?