Irish Spelling Explained With This One Easy Rule! (EN)

Dia daoibh agus fáilte nó fáilte ar ais go Gaeilge le Eimear. Sa fhíseán seo, labhraím faoin riail simplí a mhíníonn litriú na Gaeilge! Téim tríd samplaí an-úsáideach, agus conas a n-oibríonn siad le hainmfhocail agus le briathra.
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Hi and welcome or welcome back to Irish with Eimear! In this video, I talk about the simple rule that explains spelling in Irish! I go through very useful examples, and how they work with nouns and verbs.
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[@sleepsmartsmashstress740]

Before Eímear there was no good Irish videos on UA-cam. Eímear is fantastic

[@sleepsmartsmashstress740]

@@gaeilgeleeimear4113 and Iris Exile !

[@aulcamedia]

Amazing! While I was out walking before watching this video, I worked out for myself that there was a broad/slender vowel on each side of a consonant at the end of a verb stem. I thought this was ground breaking for my understanding, and then same day I saw your video. Fantastic reinforcement. Books are very confusing on this issue which turns out to be fairly simple.

[@clumbus894]

I'd like to add that the exceptions are usually either derived from a certain pattern or are in compound words. So, anseo/sin is from adding an- to the front of words, the same thing happens for anuas/aníos, etc. And, it also happens with a lot of words from time, like aréir and anocht. For compound word as well, the rule doesn't apply.
Otherwise nice videos!

[@preasail]

The clearest explanation of broad and slender vowels is in sections 1.18-1.22 in A Grammar of Modern Irish.

[@giancastrioto3223]

Wow! Finally I get it! Thank you for the great video ☘

[@sleepsmartsmashstress740]

Thank you for this great video talented smart & beautiful Eímear; look into using Irish songs as material

[@auroraboraas]

Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful :)

[@whatdisd]

I had no idea this applied to nouns also. D'FMI (D'fhoghlaim mé inniu)

[@whatdisd]

@@gaeilgeleeimear4113 Chruthaigh mé é anois 😂

[@vondur.kottur]

Go raibh maith agat!

[@daledennis861]

Go raibh maith agat, a Eimear. However, I would like to proffer one correction to your verbiage from the video. Caol le caol (slender with slender) does not mean slender vowel with a slender vowel (as you said in the video) but means "slender vowel with a slender consonant". The same with the broad category. There are obviously places where a broad and slender vowel will be placed together (such as in your name!) but the slender or broad vowel next to the consonant determines the pronunciation quality of the consonant itself. Each vowel is either slender (e, i) or broad (a, o, u), but all consonants have either of these qualities, depending on the vowel next to them. I know this makes the explanation sound more difficult, but as explained in your video, it can actually be confusing......

[@eleanorchapple8772]

I found Eimear ‘s verbiage really useful. It may mean something different technically but I found it amazingly helpful with spelling. Consider ‘eilifint’!😀

[@CCc-sb9oj]

You are teaching it (as many teachers do) as a spelling rule while ignoring the pronounciations the spellings were based on.
For example, you used 'Cuir, cuireann' as an example showing that the spelling had an i (slender vowel) in it. The only purpose of the i there is to mark the consonant beside it as slender, but you did not use the slender r sound to demonstrate this sound change. So technically the pronounciation was incorrect for the demonstration of the leathan/caol pronounciation rule.
(I know you said you were working on your pronounciation, so this is more for the benefit of learners who come across the video)