An Irishman tried to learn Irish with Duolingo and it was a disaster...
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2021
- An Irishman attempts to learn Irish with Duolingo. Unfortunately the Irishman is me.
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I went and did my Duolingo after watching this , and it immediately said “more people are learning Irish on Duolingo than there are native Irish speakers “
😂😂😂😂😂
Me too
It’s said that before, I think. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it say that months ago. If not, someone please correct me, thank you 💙
Ikr! I downloaded duolingo yestrday and during loading it said that exact sentence and my mind went to this video right away and now I just have to rewatch it 😁
cant tell if thats depressing or not
Kevin, who is 100% Irish, struggles in Irish. To make matters worse, a green owl will now haunt him for eternity until he is godlike in the language.
"Call Me Kevin" will soon be "Was Called Kevin"
He's learning Spanish on there, he good the owl is happy.
@@chicknorton8839 more like qevin
he duo-ed his last lingo
Kevin trilingual :)
At least it looks like Duolingo's improved their Irish course. I switched to a different app a while back because every lesson after the basics just kept teaching me, "the lion eats the children," and, "what does the fox say?" over and over again lmao
Ding ding ding ding dingding ding ding ding
Cad a deir an sionnach? ;)
Really though I died a bit inside when I say that. My favorites from Duolingo Irish have been gems such as "the lion eats the sandwich" and "the deer speaks irish".
My absolute favorite though has to be "
Tá an fear sa chuisneoir." Why is there a man in the fridge Duo??? Do you have something to confess???
...also what other aps are there for learning Irish? Duolingo is the only one I know of.
@@ZombiesOhMyGod Do Rosetta and Babel not have it or something?
The courses were made by volunteers, and repetition is very, very important in learning a language.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 I agree, but you can't just repeat the same two phrases for six months and nothing else. I'm not talking about basic learning repetition. I'm talking about every single slide on every single lesson. When Duo claims I've completed a course and learned a list of words that I've never even seen before because it just keeps asking me what the fox says, the courses need improvement.
Fun facts about Irish: there isn’t a word for ‘yes’ or ‘no’. (Like, someone asks ‘do you like dogs’ you would say ‘I like dogs’ or ‘I do not like dogs’). Also, the word order in Irish is found in only 9% of the world’s languages.
it’s swag as hell, though you can shorten your reponses by just saying the subject and verb. someone asks ar cheannaigh tú úlla? (did you buy apples?) and you can just say cheannaigh mé. (i bought) ! :]
Irish does have a binary yes and no now so that it can be used on computers and things but it isn't really used outside of that
I hear nìl and tà/siadh used a lot. I assume that modernisation or grammatically incorrect. (I said hear cause my Irish is so bad I don't think I can even claim to speak it)
@@thejazzy6012 same, haha. It's really just modernization, in the same way that you usually don't hear "dia duit/dhuit" or "dia is muire daoibh" because they're really REALLY old. If i remember right, it's something similar to "hallo," but im not sure. Also, the old greetings translate to "god be with you," and "god and mary with you," the latter usually is said as a 'hello to you too,' type thing.
Irish 🤝 Chinese
Not having a word for yes/no specifically.
ah yes the two genders:
1. fear
2. bean
perfect
@@ahhhhyes I mean in Irish it is literally how we say it sjbdhdbd
Don’t have words for all the new gender unfortunately :(.
- a sad agender Irish person
@@ahhhhyes lol not its male and female. Who calls it woman and man
@@whitelily6658 Can I still call you a Bean though?
@@whitelily6658 Nach bhfuil siad baininscneach agus firinscneach?
I'm Irish and I can confirm I am a bean
me, an australian who started saying "feck" because of Kevin's videos: yeah I'm somewhat of an irshman myself
I'm not even a native english speaker and I picked up feck from Kevin
Mood though 😂😂
Well considering most Australians were convicts who came from England and Ireland we are probably a little bit Irish except for aboriginal people
I'm british and I started saying feck too lmao
Honestly dude it’s not that uncommon here. My Ma says it all the time. Maybe it’s just the south who say it?
Sad thing is, Kevin's level of skill with the Irish language is typical for the vast majority of Irish people. School forces you to do Irish classes but Ireland as a whole rarely gives you the opportunity to use the language in everyday life. As I see it, our patria lingua is on life-support
It's because the curriculum doesn't make students understand the language, it encourages students to learn off answers to questions that are predicted to come up, and learn how to reply to super specific questions that come up in the oral. That's it. No understanding, no look at the structure of the language, just force fed things to just learn off and never use again
Learning a language solely based on what they teach at school has never worked, anywhere. To have it work, first you need to have it be the main language of teaching and you probably need to ban any other languages being spoken (the same way they ban students from speaking their native languages in international schools all around the world). Then you'd need like at least 5 hours of Irish language class everyday.
@@juch3 you sir, should be Ireland's Minister of Education.
@@juch3 also you need a lot of Irish content like movies, newspapers and etc.
@@Foxtrot6624 it's roughly how English is taught in Italy
For example I have to remember computer science both in English and italian but we don't study English literature or everyday things so it's really difficult to speak English outside of the school context
I've been saying it for years, and I won't stop now: Duolingo tests more how well you know English than teaches you the language you're trying to use it for.
When duolingo doesn’t accept bike as an answer and you have to remember how to spell bicycle
@@jadedesigns6171 I got a mistake for typing "Jon" instead of "John", which made me quit, because in Japanese (which I was trying to learn/maintain), they're both spelled "Jon" smh
@@twrd7126 oop
@@twrd7126 I typed Jon and it worked fine :0
It's nice practice for a language you already know but don't get to speak often.
Kevin is Irish yet he is somehow more fluent in Simlish.
Sul sul
Shadooby!
Flarbin!
Tbh Irish kinda sounds like Simlish
My guess is that's because the English systematically murdered Irish people in order to wipe out their language from common knowledge.
It's fascinating watching an Irishman-who is currently not in Ireland (theabsolutetraitor)-trying to learn Irish.
He learned Gaelic,
No such thing as 'Irish' the absolute f to the Ann + y.
@@gram. it’s Gaeilge or Irish
@@jamiehalleran6421 Both of you are only half right, its Irish and Gaelic, in the language itself there are 3 main names for the language, in Connacht it's Gaeilge, in Munster is Gaeluinn and in Ulster it's Gaelag, the Connacht version became standard when the language was standardised but it was originally grammatically incorrect. Gaelag, the Ulster varient is the oldest form of the language's name, Gaelic is an Anglicisation of the word Gaelag and Irish is used by the majority of Irish people so both are equally acceptable.
@@gram. It is actually Irish
Gaelic is a Sub-set of the Celtic language family of languages derived from middle Irish, Irish or Gaeilge, Scottish Gaelic or Gaidhlig, and Manx or Ghaelgagh. It's like saying "He learned Slavic, no such thing as Russian"
Irish is the first language of Ireland, Gaelic is a sport we play
@@gram. I mean the Irishman himself called it learning Irish in the title
The “fear” pronunciation in irish is very similar to “far” in Norwegian, meaning “dad”
Every man is now your dad.
Likely influenced from Viking settlements
@@Pallethands More likely that the Vikings caused sound changes that also happened in Norwegian.
@@Pallethands "Likely influenced from viking settlements" Ok ok lets stop trying to sound smart thats not even remotely plausible
@@GAMER123GAMING you do realize the vikings invaded ireland... right? This is middle school history
" I would be an alcoholic too if this was my language"
Sir, this IS your language.😂
Now that he's in Spain, naturally Kevin has to polish his Irish skills.
Read this as “Polish his Irish”
@@lennongrad13 Me too this Comment section is too Europe
Why is he in Spain just wondering.
@@brotherhogan6880 the s is silent
@@brotherhogan6880 he did a video on it. Basically the weather is nicer. I think his girlfriend is from there too.
The duolingo owl is ALMOST as scary as Jim… almost.
@Anna thank you anna
Maybe Jim should have an owl familiar whose name is Duolingo?
@@shoutarho6081 there's bear costumes, there needs to be an owl suit noo
He was doing really well, it saddened me to hear him say that not saving the results is probably for the best. I had a similar situation living in an autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in Russia where all kids, regardless of ethnicity, learn Tatar along Russian, but because I wasn't Tatar myself, and the way they were teaching it was super boring, I felt it was useless and barely passed all my exams and could never pay attention. But once, just once, when reading a Tatar text aloud, I was complimented by the teacher on how good my pronunciation was. She said I sounded just like a tatar girl. I was SO flattered. Even though I did terrible at the language. Even though once as a kid I said to (another) teacher's face I hated her subject. Much later I understood that being multilingual is a huge asset and there are no "useless" languages. So, Kevin, don't get discouraged, language learning is never a fast process unless you're a genius or practice constantly, which most of us can't afford to do. If you really want to learn Gaelic, you can. It even has a Latin script which makes it much easier. Good luck to anyone learning a language, the trick is to make it enjoyable and personal to you.
"Living in Tatarstan I had to learn Russian and Tatar growing up..."
*Proceeds to write a comment in perfect English*
Whenever I run in to someone who has learned multiple languages it always makes me a little jealous haha. I'm from England, I did learn a little French in middle school but I dropped it when I chose my subjects in upper school I did take German though, I was pretty good at it. This was many years ago though and unfortunately I've since forgotten a lot of what I learned.
I at least take some solace in the pride I feel that the language most of the world chooses to learn after their own is the language from my country.
@@Gohka At least in scandinavia it's obligatory to learn english in school. Here in Sweden we also have a bunch of culture from England or the US and we mostly dub movies or series meant for kids. Kids as early as three years old learn basic english thanks to games, youtube videos or music.
another irish here and through all my years of irish i think kevin did so well
like i know foods, drinks random phrases and swears, the anthem and how to go to the toilet
thats literally everything from like 10yrs of learning
at least i know all the names easily
That's unfortunately because they don't *actually* teach the language. They're primarily just teaching vocabulary by rote learning, and simple phrases that are ridiculously specific, and can't be used outside of certain contexts. But people can recall on tests. That's not actually learning a language. You need to learn the grammar and syntax as well. This has been a constant complaint of Irish language enthusiasts for years, and unfortunately the government has completely ignored their suggestions to revise the method of teaching for years. Because they don't really care if the language dies out.
The language could honestly be revived in just a few decades, completely, if they just followed the successful Israeli example of reviving a dead/dying language.
I'm not Irish but also learned it for 10 years which is actually really sad tbh I do know a good bit of Irish though since I grew up speaking German and English so I retained language information pretty easily
The trick is to actually use it when learning it.. Kids should have more regular conversation in the language outside of class.. It would be enough with just 45 minutes a day.. And you would retain the language into adulthood.
According to duolingo, there are more people learning Irish on duolingo than there are people in Ireland who actually speak it.
That's sad but I 100% believe it since only 2 people I know can speak it fluently
True sadly, it's mainly a small amount of the west that speak Irish, I being in that part. Generally just a small bit of Donegal, mayo, Galway and Kerry, that's about it. Even so, almost everyone will speak English so there's almost no reason to know the language other than to talk shit about someone
@@sponge260 Póg mo thóin is something I use nearly every day which is kiss my ass in irish
@@sponge260 are the people from mayo called mayonnaise?
Probably people in the US or Canada learning Irish to get more connected to their culture.
“Because, let’s face it, we’re all beginners here” Me, an Irish secondary school student, who is watching this video instead of studying for an Irish test: *ferocious nodding*
This is studying the fun way
I second this lol have a test next week
im surprised they got into the aimsir laithreach so quickly. the boy EATS an apple? start with the past tense like normal irish lessons
it would probably be easier if he was listening to the correct dialect
@@ewe3221 omg yes! My test is specifically grammar and Duolingo doesn’t know the meaning of grammar 😭
I love when Kevin does something “a little bit different” 😂
I'm half Irish and have been learning on Duolingo. I am really amazed at how well the lessons have been working for me. I can now speak it better than my dad (my Irish parent) to be fair though he also hasn't touched the language since High school.
Kevin is completing his Irish courses the way I got through my Spanish ones. By not actually learning or retaining what words meant but just figuring out context clues and seeing what answer would be a coherent sentence.
Exactly. How is there any other way to do it?
@@doodlebyte7964 the method works for sure but if the same thing is done in the right environment you have a much better time retaining the information because its important and applicable at the time of learning
I did the exact same thing for Chinese and it was hell
Languages being taught for a grade just sucks
Language Transfer seems like a good app for learning Spanish, but I don't know for sure
someone: say apple in spanish
kevin: man's anna
you're doing amazing sweetie
Well i suppose he does have a mans anna too 🤔
Ive always pronounced it as maansaana so it’s kinda similar
well he is Anna’s man after all
Spanish is my native language and honestly Kevin's doing great. Sure he can't say many things but like, he pronounces really well especially comparing to how literally ever single other native Spanish speaker speaks English. It's just atrocious, so really they can't judge him doesn't matter how much he might mispronounce given how they mispronounce English. Also manzana is pronounced Man's Anna. The "Z", even in argentinian accent, which makes the z significantly closer to an "S" is still a " 's " rather than just the " s " and Ana, name or not (Ana is a Spanish name), is the same as Anna, in English.
La mela
3:03 I pretty much gave up on language learning when they implemented the lives. It killed my motivation 💀
I went to the Irish whiskey museum and learned that the word "whiskey" literally comes from "uisce", the Gaelic word for water. Glad they didn't lie to us lol
Interesting, same goes for vodka in Slavic languages 🤔😄
@monasabbat9733 I was about to say the same thing🤔
Kevin: *Leaves Ireland and moves to Spain*
Kevin: Now seems like the perfect time to learn some Irish!
Sigma grindset
He's going to return in Ireland full Irish speaking
@@alfredorotondo 900% Irish mode: on
Is there a video explaining when and why he moved?
@@ayekantspeylgud I have no idea, sorry. I just assumed he moved because he wanted to.
Who knew watching an Irish man learn his own language would be so entertaining.
Okay, I actually pronounced Eamon right, along with Fionn, Niall, and (believe it or not) Niamh.
I had a friend/classmate in school named Niamh (pronounced neeve), and every substitute teacher messed up her name... all but one...
...who had an Irish last name. And she pronounced it right!
Im called Eamon and yeah you very rarely get those names pronounced right the first time, not that i mind too much i still like my name. I got most of the names pronounced right but there were a few there that tripped me up
"I don't even know how to say I, and I studied the language for 9 years!"
That is legit me and French. I took it from grade 1 to grade 9, and I still can't speak French, so now I'm also on Duolingo to try to learn it, and the owl now keeps popping up in my day to day life to guilt/threaten me into learning more.
Me with Mandarin Chinese lol. Used to be decently conversational, even, but I forgot everything.
you canadian?
‘a bean’ will never get old it literally cracks me up EVERY time
Same with bore ragnarok, every single time man
Makes "Mr Bean" a bit weird as a name.
that's the goblet of fire video?
that's the goblet of fire video?
@@KlaximumSkroeft yes
I'll never forget two sentences this app made me learn
"I'm not a woman. I'm a seal".
Irish is beautiful
Prynhawn da, draig dw i - Good afternoon, I am a Dragon.
Duolingo always sets priorities when it comes to useful phrases!
@@hikariyumi9441 I can just imagine someone using Duolingo for a few months and going to a foreign country. "Excuse me sir, Megan does not like eating vegetables"
@@SEEYAIAYE that’s good information to have! My owl keeps calling me a bad girl! Not only is that rude I’m not seeing myself calling other people that 😂
@@hikariyumi9441 I think Duo knows us too well, It keeps making me repeat that I enjoy drinking beer but I don't like drinking water.
I've been doing spanish and irish at the same time too i feel you buddy
edit: the one thing i wish duo did better is explain WHY things are the way they are. dia duibh is "hello to you all" and dia duit is "hello to just you". also, I'm learning Irish so we don't lose the language!
12:32 knew it cause of song of the sea, it's just too memorable for me to forget Saoirse (The pronunciation not the spelling dear god the spelling is confusing
I'm realizing I would absolutely be invested in a series of Kevin relearning Irish to fluency
Yesssss
We could all learn along with him. That would actually be really awesome because I've been dying to learn Irish, plus it'd be doing a huge favor for the Irish language as it's almost in danger of dying off, although it has been coming back in recent years.
@@jeremyroland5602 it has died off for common use, my mom grew up in ireland and dosent know it at all
@@ducksongfans Have you not heard of the Gaeltacht?
@@jeremyroland5602 oh i hadn't hear of them
“The woman with the air conditioning is back”
Shouldn’t it be “the bean with the air conditioning”? 🤔 I’m learning so much from today’s video
I'm just surprised to hear evidence of an Irish person having air conditioning. She must have recorded that abroad, cause I've yet to see a single house with air conditioning here.
@@BurnsyMcBurn Yeah, I'm fluent and I didn't even know we had a word for air conditioning!
@@BurnsyMcBurn æm
@@ScutoidStudios Wait, *we have a word for it??* Is it crazy long like the word for CD, or actually reasonable?
I bet we only have a word for it because of air conditioning in cars and to talk about whether its broken or not, rather than the devices in buildings.
@@BurnsyMcBurn aerchóirithe, perfectly reasonable!
I have tickets to a Rammstein show next year and I'm trying to learn as much German as I can. I already know some from their songs but I can't speak it good at all lol. Duolingo has helped a bit🤣
I’m learning german too! I started out with duolingo, but i found a fantastic online class for it, and its the best language learning experience ive ever had. I’m still very much a beginner but german is such a fun language and i hope i stick with it and become fluent eventually
I’ve been studying Japanese with Duolingo, though after a little over 5 months, I’m beginning to question its quality. I feel it really doesn’t test memory retention very well, and it tells me I’ve learned several hundred words when not even 1% of that total number reappear in lessons, so I couldn’t tell what those words I’ve “learned” are if my life depended on it.
I personally don't think duolingo is very good at teaching just because it doesn't teach important things like conjugation and grammar. The Japanese from Zero book series is what I used and I thought it was pretty good.
Ya learned Japanese on Duolingo for about a year before moving to better material,mainly books
Try memrise, I don't know if it teaches japanese, but it really helps with learning Russian
"you're the worst thing to happen to ireland since the famine" had me dying
Probably had kevin dying on the inside after they said that to him
As a former home-schooled kid who's spanish lessons consisted of watching every episode of Muzzy, I know your pain all to well
Same, but with French.
Mine was Italian
Muzzy is vaguely familiar, definitely something I tried to forget. It's creepy😆🙈
Mine was in English, i think at least, I think I repressed it
@@bddragon631 Same. I didn’t know it was originally British until way later.
9:02 i totally forgot about this show.. this awakened some ancient memories
i definetly didnt watch it in irish though, but idk what language it was
12:23 kevin my man thats literally the name of one of the members of a best selling boyband of all time
As a Gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker), this was the most blursed thing I've seen all week, thank you Caoimhín (Kevin)
Aye, exactly. It's gaylick.
Not Irish.
Then there's the supreme, gaelic.
Caoimhín 😳😳😂
Still cant understand how "mh" turns into "v"
@@inspector_beyond the same reason why spanish people turn j into h.
@@inspector_beyond depending on the part of the country you're in it can also turn into a 'w', and 'bh' is done the same way!
The amount of serotonin I get every time the Bean joke resurfaces is through the roof. It’s always funny.
I think I missed that video.
Do you by any chance remember what it's called?
@@desmondleguay1969 I’m pretty sure it’s from when Kevin played the Harry Potter: prisoner of askaban game
@@majahultgren5368 cheers
SAME OMG ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Fun Fact - In Ireland, more people speak Polish than Irish. Ireland is a very popular place for Polish people to emigrate too, for some reason
That’s not true. It may have been for a short time around 15-20 ago but the Irish language has undergone a bit of a revival in recent years.
This was very interesting to see from the perspective of an Irish person. I think you are being harder on yourself then you need to be. I could tell your background knowledge from school was helping you more than you realized. You at least knew how to pronounce words that I don't think I could ever manage to pronounce XD. Definitely would watch more if you ever wanted to delve into something like this again.
My favourite thing is when Kevin asks "what is this" and DOESN'T click the word although it would show what it is 😂
To be fair Duolingo isn't great at making sure you know this is something you can do
Took me quite a while to figure out
@@connis2299 it actually tells you in the little clues before you start a lesson
@@nataliaxo6239 Yeah, well, the app version tells you to click the tips section...which isn't on the app for Android.
@@connis2299 I was halfway through the second tree when I figured it out.
@@nataliaxo6239 Not in the mobile version, lol
Being Irish and knowing the language, this was the funniest thing ever
same lol
Definitely the best part
ye im only learning but now i feel like a god
@@beeznutz8017 conas a bhfuil tú ag dul air aighe leis?
yeah same with me
I really liked this video and the way you alternate the lessons with your previous experiences about learning Irish!
As someone doing the Scottish Gaelic course, this was a weird mix of familiar enough to recognise stuff, but different enough to be confusing 🤣🤣🤣
“You can see what the Irish language is like”
As a Gaelic Scot, I’m already laughing, god you’re in for a bloody rough time. Scots literally has 18 letters for the alphabet instead of 26, so letters like V simply don’t exist, but BH and MH are said like V… so… my condolences?
English: learning silent "e"
Gaelic: learning silent "ddhgh"
Irish is the same! I think they share an alphabet
That’s just Celtic languages in general tbh
@@alioc3298 Hey, no need to tar the Brythonic languages with the same brush as the Gaelic languages!
@@Talarc24 hey I dunno about you but my Cornish ass is sure as shit seeing similarities here
As a native Spanish speaker, I would LOVE to see you do this again but instead of Irish, with Spanish
Amazing profile pic btw
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8:39 - Muzzy! 😻 I’m Italian and we had the dvd here too, iIrc multiple dvds were released, each one with different languages. It used to come out each week, but my parents stopped at the first one ‘cause it had the languages we learn in school. I wanted more tbh, I watched it so many times as a kid lmao I still have it 👀
Yoooo Muzzy is SUCH a throwback!! My brothers and I used to watch it on VHS all the time to learn Spanish
As an Irish citizen recently moved to Spain, using Duolingo to learn Irish was the obvious choice
It's fun to see similar grammatical rules in different languages. Throughout this vid I was like "That makes sense, it's like in German!" or "It's obviously that, kind of like in Polish" . Heck, it was enjoyable and I actually learned something
Being a polyglot is so rewarding! Unfortunately these aren't close to my languages but I'm glad someone gets to experience that here 😂
Hallo! Wie geht es dir? Też mówię po polsku i niemiecku :P
I know that Scottish Gaelic is western Germanic and they can have a conversation in their native tongue with the Irish.
@@soloscriptura7451 pretty much, like if you drop them both in Antarctica they'll make a new Gaelic tongue.
There was a few cases where I thought the same with French (and by extension the other romance ones)
that bit where you used asking to go to the toilet to remember please gave me flashbacks to when I started studying welsh a year ago and used may i go to the bathroom please (ga i fynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch chi'n dda?) to remember go, please, and may i. I'm glad they make you ask in Irish at school just like they made us ask in Welsh.
I love all your videos kev! No matter the content I'm here for you!
You know this stressed him out when it literally said "fear me" and he didn't comment on it
Me: pronouncing Aemon correctly
Kevin: you're wrong. Pronounces Aemon the same way I did
Me: ah I see
Yeah Eamon is actually my dad and my brother's middle name so I was just there like 😶
I knew that one from Dragon Age Origins lol.
Even if you're right, you're wrong.
I actually got Aoife correct because a mythical character by that name was mentioned in an OSP video.
I got Saoirse because of Séan lol. He names one of his dogs after her.
hearing that irish spongebob intro gave me so much nostalgia. I remember my nana putting on TG4 as a kid and watching it
Funny I knew the pronunciation of a bunch of the irish names you showed cause I've become super invested in this Irish book series and they have literally 80% of the names you show. Finding out the pronunciation was like a betrayal ngl.
I would just like to compliment Kevin's shirt. It's just nice.
i think its just neat
I think it's just def.
I wish i had that shirt
Title: Learning Irish with Duolingo
Kevin: Starts the video speaking Spanish
Classic Kevin.
Gaylick
@@gram. Nah man, Garlic
Muzzyyyy! i remember watching this in Italian!
Blast from le past! XD
Great vid btw
14:55 (basic translation of the instructions to the Irish exam paper)
Instructions:
There are 2 parts in this paper.
Part A - 45 Marcs - Listening- 3 questions
Part B- 225 marks - Reading, composition and literature- 8 questions
Answer every question
Answer in Irish except for when it isn’t needed.
Every question is worth different marks
Write your answers in the spaces left in this booklet. There is no need to use all of the space available . There is extra space to answer at the back of the booklet. Label any extra work clearly with the question number and part of the question.
"An Irishman tries to learn Irish with Duolingo"
I can already see that he will fail tragicaly and Duolingo will do what he has to do...
@Anna if you have no rights, self promote
Naw.
Gaelic.
Not Irish.
@@gram. In Ireland, it's called Irish, not Gaelic. It's much like saying English is called Germanic
@@gram. its gailge on irish not gaelic thats what scots speak
And then he proceed to forget that in the present tense you get to mash together verbs and mé
Alternate title: "Irishman exclaims 'what' in varying tones while attempting Irish Duolingo"
Make this a series!!!
Really enjoyed this video!
"I would be passed off too if this was my language"....but Kevin, you're 100% Irish. This is your language.
"Every sentence'd be a struggle,
it would drive me to the bottle"
-Kevin, the Poet (2021)
Muzzy gave me mad flashbacks to French class, thank you for this weird trip down memory lane
(Also, for any new Duolingo learners, I recommend reading the unit guide before starting a new unit! It’s easy to miss (and probably not as detailed as it could be imo) but it does help)
Muzzy was one of the first programs in USSR/Russia for English learning, it also had no subtitles, my mom used to watch it when she was young. That's so cool that they made it it Irish 😄
I love how 7 minutes in, Kevin even lost the ability to talk normal english, going
"YOU EATS APPLE" 😂
What can’t Kevin do? He’s handsome, has a beautiful voice, is funny, and is trilingual
Quadrilingual! He speaks Simlish, as well!
Looking forward for the full walkthrough for this game
14:51 I went to a full on Irish school (like they would be like SPEAK IRISH every 2 seconds) and the whole class tried it in 6th class and like everyone passed. Ya.
Kevin's "WHAT?!" At the word for congratulations was comedy gold
I clipped it right away. My highlight and very relatable
Comháirdeachas!!
Kevin: Irish is hard, I only have 3 lives left & I’m depressed
Duolingo: NICE!
1:54 Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Welsh have left the chat
Big fan of languages.
Big fan of Kevin.
Teach us more Irish, Kevin!
Kevin playing Duolingo was the definition of "doing something different today" on the channel
My grandparents are 100% Irish yet all I’ve learnt is “póg mo thóin” which wasn't the best phrase to teach me when I’m like 8
"pog"
What does that mean again?
What does it mean
@@stayhomewearamask3318 it means kiss my ass, it’s very common in everyone in Ireland to say😂
That's what i learned from my step dad. He's full blown Irish. Accent and all. But he also taught me a little more stuff.
Verbs in Irish with -im or -aim at the end of them is me! It's basically taking mè being squished into the word. Like in English you say I am, but you can also say I'm. You did really well for someone who doesn't speak any Irish and hasn't for years!
Omg, thanks for reminding me of Big Muzzy! I've had this weird memory of the evil guy (wasn't he called Clever or something? We used to call him that) but I couldn't really remember where from. Finally some clarity on my life 😅
the fact that kevin is so entertaining that we can watch him learning a language via an app and still have a blast
As a Welsh speaker, Irish makes a lot of sense grammatically to me but the alphabet is a hurdle... Plus the Duolingo Irish woman is scary
This is kind of ironic considering that Welsh probably has the most intimidating spelling out of all languages written in the Latin alphabet (emphasis on intimidating though - my understanding is that Welsh orthography is actually remarkably regular and predictable once you learn the basics, whereas Irish spelling is way less intimidating at first glance, but it's certainly much, much harder)
Welsh: laughs in /ɬ/
Sutmae, bore da.
@@hrotha Welsh is very regular once you're aware of the sounds, but my struggle with Irish is difference between broad and slender sounds as well as all the digraphs that don't sound how one would perhaps expect them to based on how they're written
As someone who learned Irish for 12 years and only retained a bit more than Kevin, I am amazed that a Welsh speaker is probably putting more effort into keeping the endangered Irish language alive than I ever did.
I always wondered how English suddenly decided "nah, we don't need those things to help people reading figure out how a vowel is produced," but even more confusing is how Welsh at some stage just... didn't need vowels. I know it's not that simple, but I am curious how it still works without any (that I can recognise).
"Yes, I am a girl, I did it."
- Call Me Kevin 2021
Strength to you kevin! i am proud of people such as you that attempt to learn their mother language this late in life, kinda like an indian man learning sanskrit at an older age
Okay but the fact Kevin remembers Muzzy is EVERYTHING
yes that’s French they’re speaking and NOOO these children are not French, they’re aMeRiCaN!!
That just brought back some repressed memories. I watched it in French and I was absolutely terrified of it
I had the French version too. I remember I would watch it, not understand what was going on, then pop in the English version and watch that like I was watching a Disney movie or something, lol!
I watched the Spanish version in 8th grade and it was everything. It was a huge meme and we all loved getting to watch that instead of doing whatever we would have done instead, although we were tested on it a little
I watched the English version and we absolutely loved it and were very invested in it
Kevin, lo estás haciendo muy bien. Todo el mundo está orgulloso de ti.
Nah were not proud of him were fond of him
See yo speak Espaniol muy bien mi am es estudianta of Bilingual app with es el Loco how bad mi am at this lol donde esta el boinos?
You just taught me RUclips has a translate option in comments
@@supernova582 Que dijiste 🤨
@@parkycod you asked what did I say ok I said yes you speak Spanish very good I am a student of Duolingual app with is the crazy how bad I am at speaking Spanish were is the bathroom?. The crazy is not prouper English it's a mistake in the translation of Spanish to English also proper English it's not very good it's very well my bad 😅. I'm sorry for my bad Spanish
i’ve been learning Irish on duolingo for about 8 months and you really are doing so well 😅
You don't understand how many memories Muzzy gave me back god i loved ittt
I laughed way more than I should have about how this briefly devolved into watching Spongebob in Gaelic... although that Gaelic but subtitled in Spanish just seems like it was targeted to an Irishman who moved to Spain but decided to watch Spongebob, hmmmm...
But keep up the good work relearning garlic
Garlic.
gaeilge*
*GARLIC*
Irish*
Gaeilge *
Necesito ver a Kevin practicando Español, tiene que ser la risa.
Espero que ahora que está en España haya más comentarios en español
Ojalá que sí, sería genial que aprenda y un día logre hacer un video entero en español
Sí por favor. jaja
@Inti Nicolás Fierro Oroza no puedo siquiera empezar a imaginar a Kevin hablando español latinoamericano 😂😂
@Inti Nicolás Fierro Oroza pero dijo manzana como latino d:
Always like to see the "something a little bit different" videos!
I'm an American who has been doing Irish on Duolingo for a year. It's been really fun to be learning, but the pronunciation is always mindboggling for me lol. So I think it's cool that even though you don't remember the specific phrases from school, you still do the pronunciations really naturally, being used to how the sounds are supposed to sound, haha. Like I still can't say "Dia duit" right after a year 😂 and I really can't say "Táim go maith, go raibh maith agat" right after a year lol. So be proud!
I'm replying a month late lol but I hope I can help you a bit with the pronunciation. Of course, different regions in Ireland have slightly varied ways of saying sentences due to the influence of the different types of accents we have but I grew up learning the sort of "generic" Irish pronunciation haha
I would pronounce "Dia dhuit" as "jee-uh gwitch", "Táim go maith" as "tom guh moh", and "Go raibh maith agat" as "guh rev moh ugg-ut"
hope this made sense, I wish you all the best with your Irish studies and I really appreciate that you've taken interest in studying our language! tbh you seem to have more knowledge about the language than the majority of the people in Ireland do today!
I'm a believer that the way Irish is taught in our schools should be reformed. Students only learn the language to memorise material at a surface level to pass an exam, without actually fully understanding the language. The curriculum in place right now doesn't teach in a way in which Irish can be used for day to day conversation, it's more like learning (veryyy unnecessary) poems and literature, and that isn't the best way to get kids speaking the language because they lose interest in it quickly. There's a lack of enthusiasm when kids learn Irish in schools, and from my experience growing up, Irish class was the class that a lot of kids dreaded going to the most. People just aren't expected or encouraged to use Irish in day to day life, that's the main reason why English is the dominant language in Ireland and why many people forget the Irish they've learnt when they finish school, no matter how many years they spent studying it. Of course there are little regions in Ireland here and there mainly in the rural areas (called the Gaeltachts) where Irish is used as the main spoken language, but if you go to big areas like Dublin it's really rare to find a fully native Irish speaker.
Throughout the years tho, since Irish is still considered the native language of the country, the government has been actively trying to implement the Irish language in the bigger cities. For example, having street signs written in both English and Irish, and having both languages on the loudspeaker in trains and buses etc.
Irish is a very beautiful language (I might be a little biased haha), but I know some people would consider it "useless" since fewer and fewer people seem to speak it. Though, I love that more people worldwide are taking interest in Irish, I've seen a bunch of comments saying they didn't even know Irish was an actual language! I just really hope more people in Ireland realise how much of a gem the Irish language and culture is
Oh jeepers this reply was long, sorry for my rambling! But if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask. I'd be more than happy to help you out :)
Kevin: living in Spain and learning Irish
Also Kevin: Why would anyone want to watch this in Irish with Spanish subtitles?
God. As someone who has tried for years trying to learn Irish on Duolingo and having to restart multiple times, I feel so validated.
I have the same problem with Welsh, Duo is great for casual learning and repetition on basic stuff but you need to dig a lot deeper, get some books and listen to some podcasts/audio of your TL if you really want to really learn a language.
Yeah I've tried Duolingo for a few languages and it's just not very good. It's more so you can just say "oh yeah I know Irish "conas atá tú?"
It's very rarely actually useful stuff. But if you do want to learn it, get books, get classes, talk to others who speak the language. I know this sounds silly but if you can come to the country I'd say it's not a bad idea. Obviously you'd need some basic understanding, but actually using it in daily life does wonders for learning it. I feel the main reason Irish people don't remember Irish is because they never use it at home, at all and they never even have the option to most of the time.
But, if you want it, ná cuir stop leis an staidéar
We used to watch Muzzy in my French class, I totally forgot about it. And I really wanted to learn Irish as a kid because I had a friend who spoke it and it always sounded really cool
Never did I think hearing Kevin say "A BEAN!!!" would make me go from crying to laughing in an instant lmAo thanks kev