How Well Can An Irish Person Speak Irish? (Irish / Gaeilge / Gaelic)
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This is awesome. I'm native American so I am familiar with pronunciations being different to spellings and from watching this is seems Gaelige (God I hope I spelled that right) is a bit breathy when it comes to what we see as English consonants like th, tg ot bh ( I think, I'm writing this only having watched it initially and am doing it from memory).
It seems they're either silent or breathy, I think. Sorry if I'm misrepresenting any of this. I'm just a guy from Albuquerque so that being said not trying to cause offense.
Will say this though. I came across a song called linn oro se do bheatha bhaile by seo linn. Again I think that's right from memory. Please have mercy if I'm wrong but my friemds and I all like to get drunk and mimic the lyrics like we know what we're saying for fun.
Love ya and have a great week!
Joshua from Albuquerque.
I love Seo Linn! "Oro" is very fun to sing. Some of the guys in the band started a program for young people where they translate pop songs into Gaeilge and the kids cover them. Those can be pretty fun, too.
Everybody does that my friend. You're definitely one of us!
This is Sinead o Conor singing it very moving
The letter combinations BH and MH in Irish and Gaelic are pronounced like a V sound and sometimes like a W (u) sound when there are before another consonant like n or sometimes when at the beginning of the word, and most other letter combinations with h after the first consonant are pronounced H, for example, th and ch and sh etc are pronounced like an h sound - I am beginner level in Irish and Gaelic and Breton and Cornish and total beginner in Manx and mid intermediate level in Welsh and advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and German, and am also learning many other languages, and I know most Irish and Gaelic pronunciation rules and still learning the others, but I am pretty familiar with the mh and bh sounds tho, and I know that sometimes there are extra H sounds in pronunciation that aren’t included in spelling at all, tho I am not sure about the dh and tg yet, but the th is not like in English at all, as the th sounds in English are approximants of T and D aka the thorn þ sound and eth ð sound that are also in Icelandic and Norse and that are less obvious T / D sounds, whereas the TH in Irish and Gaelic is pronounced H, so the T sound is completely ignored when the H is added after the T, at least in the words that have the consonant changes, like, I am not sure if the two languages also have some words where the th is naturally pronounced like the thorn sound that is not due to the consonant change, but so far I have only heard the th pronounced h in both Irish and Gaelic!
I love hearing the Gaelic language and it's complexity is astounding!
Loved this and I can’t thank you enough for posting it. As someone who has just started learning Irish your explanation on some of those grammar rules will come in handy. Thanks!!!
Conas a bhfuil sé ag dul ar aghaidh?
i agree! she's super helpful in all her irish-speaking based videos especially as a begginer and i get super excited when i recognise words :D
Gaelige is so different from the European Romance languages, I would love to study it. You are lucky you were able to study your native language in school after what the English did. I'm glad to see it is being taught again.
Wow..... What an incredibly unique language in itself. And for you to be able to translate it into English, and also speak both languages is amazing, y'all are incredibly brilliant. I can speak English and some Spanish, enough Spanish to eat and sell auto parts. 😂🤣😂
I started Duolingo 11 days ago. My plan is to stick with that and then look to channels like this to craic the pronunciations. Great video
That test is hard! I knew some you didn’t but didn’t know plenty as well. Not from Ireland myself but I’ve been taking classes with native folks for years & you’d think my Irish’d be better lol
Well, sounds a better than the geography test (your confidence level) 🙂
Ahh the memories- I'm actually surprised how much I remember when I see questions like this - like you say Clare some I cannot explain either other then I remember how a particular verb is conjugated after it being banged into me by Irish teachers over the years😃😃😃
Also guys do join up to Clare's Patreon- the extra content there is well worth it as well as the Patreon only livestreams!!! While you are at it, why don't you join us all over on Clare's Twitch as well where she is currently bossing it on Elden Ring!!!😃😃😃😃
Definitely would love to go through the whole thing with you here. I took the test and ended up in a B2 Gaelcultúr course. It’s actually super challenging (read: I’m in a mental puddle afterwards, I’m the only American in there and a seriously over my head) for my level because speaking is even harder than reading, and recognizing the correct grammar. So, I think I’m probably at the B1 level as well. I highly recommend the Gaelcultúr course though, it’s really well taught and has a reasonable ratio of grammar lesson to conversation practice. Slán, Lizzie
If you happen to encounter it in your travels, I found the TEG placement test much harder than the Gaelchultúr one - I got B1, studied for a year, thought I had gone up a level, but did the test again and still B1!
Everytime I even understood the majority of the words or picked the correct answer or pronounced something correctly I gave myself points. I'm trying so hard to learn Gaeilge and it makes my Béarla brain bleed. Love these videos. And also, I "blame" your Fancy" cover. So go raibh maith agat.
Tough stuff. It is really a language unto itself. Thanks Clisare. Getting close to St. Paddies day. Are we going to get something themed?? Please..... ps. some real tongue twisters here.
I enjoy learning Gaelic. Always want to learn more.
OMG!!! I have NO Francis!!!!! What am I to do?!??!?!?!!? Seriously....your videos are the best. BTW: you may not rock geography but you KILL IT on linguistics!!!! Love your Irish Language videos! Absolutely love them!!!!!
Happy Saint Patricks Day!🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Motherfoclóir by Darach O'Séaghdha is chock full of examples of those Irish language pitfalls when using 2 words similarly spelled but with wildly different meanings, even if the only difference is a fada. I looked up olc on Teanglann and first meaning is 'evil, harm' 😈😄
I love this podcast. I was so sad to hear him finish it up :(
I so enjoy your irish videos. They are so good. 💕
The relationship between Irish citizens and Gaelige is fascinating to observe from the diaspora. We're so hungry for anything that will help us connect to our ancestors and culture and this key aspect is often left out...thanks for including it.
Wtf am I watching lol.. such a wild language
This was fascinating! Irish seems like such an interesting language.
I do think you're getting stronger in Gaelic!! I'm sure that further cultural studies will be of great use to you, keep up the work. 😊
Goodness. Gaelic is indeed a whole different kettle of fish.
Gaeilge seems like Latin with so many different minuscule vernacular and proper dialects for distinct regions of every day and native to the area of tribe/ villages/ towns and so forth.
Please continue to the series
Maybe I take Irish someday?
Is there a revival of the Irish language? Like in Wales the Welsh government hopes to have over 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050 currently the number is over 700,000. Many speak Welsh as a first language and English as a second language.
That’s why we have Seachtain Na Gaeilge every year (Irish week) to help revive it.
@@Clisare Cool!
It _is_ on the increase. In the last few years a regular English-speaking primary school in Synge Street (in the heart of Dublin!) decided to become a Gaelscoil (Irish-speaking school) in order to boost numbers, because there is a great demand for Gaelscoileanna. Also, as Irish is now fully an official language of the EU there are real prospects for working in the language.
@@Clodaghbob That's so interesting to know! Thank you.
I would love a video of you spending the day staying in a Gaeltacht. Bring Alex. He can be your DD.
That would be brilliant. I recall a series by Manchan Mangan where he spoke only Irish as he traveled around the country, to see how well he could get on. That might be a great series for you to try!
The only thing I knew was uisce beatha (hic). The rest was all Irish to me. 😁🥃
Ah, you did grand! I'm at a slightly lower level than you, I think - I knew some you didn't, but didn't know some you did, but you have a greater confidence in speaking than I do. I've taken tests and classes that rate me on the edge of A2/B1.
I just took the same test, and got 26 right out of 40, so that seems about right - not quite as good as you :) It put me firmly in A2, so that's fair enough.
Is it safe to assume English is the language you spoke in the home as a child?
Yup!
Wow. I love these videos
I don't speak a single syllable of Irish, I'm a Mauritian Slovakian Australian but damn I love this so much. More than a little bit of a crush to be honest
See the problem with me is I can speak some or very little phrases not enough to have a conversation anymore maybe I need to do a class also or something like that
I did like this video. I like pretty much all of your videos and this one really stood out to confirm that I like your videos because in many but especially in this one it really shows what a stand-up self-effacing honest person you are. Knowing that the vast majority of your viewers probably hadn't a clue as to the meanings of the Irish words you were speaking, you still came out and confessed to mistakes and embarrassments that could've slid by the majority of us.
Great video as always!
Near miss on the one Irish term I know! (Two if you count Slainte.) (Three if you count rogue mahone.)
I am also American and I agree with pronunciation. We as a country butchered English to begin with. We also thought our citizens a European Latin version of English. While Europeans learned a more british style English. Now does Americans speak Irish? If you were to go to Boston and Maryland you will find citizens born in the 30's who speak Irish. In America we pride ourselves in freedom of choice. And speaking Irish is no longer a common language among Irish decent citizens. I myself pride myself in not only being Irish, but speaking Irish. Now if you were ever in galway ireland my family owns a hotel that was actually at one time a castle ruled by a king and queen. The king and queen that ruled the castle I am actually related to them. The castle is Leslie castle. I also pride myself in being related to brian Baru, and for 90% of ireland being ruled by my family. In fact in ireland my last name is Macduff. But there are also other last names I am related to. Duff, Duffy, Baru, O'Brian , Mackintosh, Stewart, Donald, Macthomas, Thomas, Thomson and Thompson. There are more about 250 last names in ireland my family is actually blood related too.
Interesting that you pronounce film as fil-um. The Dutch do the same thing with their word for milk - melk and pronounce it as mel-uk. And their eleven is elf which they pronounce el-uf. According to Henry Higgins we Americans cannot pronounce or use English in any way, shape or form correctly. Well, phuque 'em. We invented rock 'n roll. That's probably our greatest gift to the world. I mean besides jeans, t-shirts and the cheeseburger, of course.
Umm...You got 31 out of 40 correct which is 77.5% correct. The test scored you as 31% which is 31 out of 100. For some reason it shows the 100 and also shows the 40...so I'm a little confused. You got (approximately) 78% correct and here in the US that would be a C+ to B- grade on an A-F scale, where 74-76% is typically considered a "C" grade or "Average." ~Be Blessed
It's cuz there's 100 in total and i guess they didnt put a clause in there to grade based on q's answered.
The "Do you have a Francis" had me belly laughing!!
I really should learn Irish considering I'm half Irish but then I'm also Half Welsh too so if I was to try to learn both, things could get messy, lol! 😂
Delightful - all your screwups give us hope since you're a wonderful teacher and I'm delighted despite long absence I didn't do so dreadful on the test.
I was casually listening till ´do you have a Francis?’ Came up. English is not my native language but it sounded so wrong to hear that sentence. All I could think was what the hell is ‘Do you have a Francis?’ Then the funny edit came up.
Funny. I'm fluent in Gaeilge, so I have "mo chluasa gaelach" but then when you switch to English, it really confuses me because I don't understand it because my head is still processing it as Gaeilge 😅
Trying to learn Gaeilge through Duolingo. Hard, but learning.
I've been doing the Irish course on Duolingo for three years now. All these grammar tips are actually very helpful.
I love this video! It is so helpful. I’ve been learning Irish on Duo Lingo. I enjoy hearing you speak the language. I just ordered a work book and word search that I’m excited about.
I was just about to call you out on not knowing whiskey... 😉
Unrelated to this video obviously, but it's absolutely wild you're playing Elden Ring. I don't have as much time to play as I used to but I make time when a Souls game comes out. Watched a little of the stream. Be honest haha, how are ya liking it thus far?
Edit: BTW I noticed you're fat-rolling in the stream. Take that damn halberd out of your inventory haha. Highlight it and use square to unequip it. Your roll will be swifter and you'll move faster 😁
What’s fat rolling and what’s a halbard? Pls let me know and I’ll remove it! Is it the big long sword thing?
@@Clisare yes, that's the Halberd. Notice how when you roll using circle, how your character is slamming into the ground? Your equipment weight is high (heavy load). Everything you equip onto your character adds weight, from armor to weapons etc. Decreasing total weight improves stamina and speed. Leveling up stamina improves how much you can carry
I really enjoy your Irish videos. I wish I had the stamina to stick too it but it seems the words just keep slipping from my mind. I hate that. But I enjoyed you talking about all the grammar stuff, maybe I'll give it another try (would be the fifth or so)...
There's that jacket again, Editor Clare! I thought Alex hid it.
That’s a different one! I still have the original coat but I got a jumper too 😂
I'm still loving what these bangs do--they make your eyes pop!
Thank you!! 😭 they have their good and bad days but I loved them this day!
@@Clisare yw! With the lashes, I'm getting the "cat's eye" vibe (don't know if you guys got the Looney Tunes cartoons, but it's the one where the bulldog guarding the construction site finds and adopts a kitten, and the kitten falls into the mixing bowl 😄)
Oh I don't know, I think I'd enjoy having a talking mule. :p
Gaeilge is almost like if French and Arabic had a baby
Great video I can speak it great but I am terrible at reading or writing gaeilge
Slava Ukraini....
This makes me want to pick back up my study 😯
You're an inspiration Clisare.
Preserve your language, it is beautiful.
Well, who *doesn't* have a Francis (or want one)?
This video is very helpful to me as a beginner!
Irish people must never forget their native tongue.
Doesn’t everyone have a Francis?
I would have thought that all English speakers, not just Irish speakers said "quarter to 12" because of 12 hour clocks with an hour and minute hand. "11:45"only coming in with digital clocks and watches.
And yet all Americans seem to say it?
Actually I put up subscribe, I admire you, it's amazing all the work that you do for your language however I would like to suggest some tips, I expect not offend you. More practical videos about the languade by itself, I mean it's thought to people that really want to learn irish, you know; act like a teacher, recommendations of books, how was your experience learning, advises to learn... anyway. I' have a good methode and I can learn by myself but a little of help would be nice, god bless you and you have my support!
I’m not a teacher though - I’m an entertainer who learned Irish in school. So my videos about Irish are never going to be super serious! I am planning on some advice videos though.
No no no, I’m getting horrible flashbacks to the leaving cert aural! Níl is agam, Níl is agam, Níl is agam! 😂😂😂
'Níl a fhios agam' :D
Buail is very similar to Scandinavian languages where hitta is also to meet/find (like to hit up) or to hit something like in English.
The core idea is coming into contact with something or someone.
You have an Editing Clare. Diane Jennings has an evil alter ego, Editor Diane.
What if Editing Clare and Editor Diane met?
I would pay for this content.
Why does the Irish language still use Latin characters when the much cooler ogham alphabet exist?
Ogham is a different language
Do you come from a Gaelic speaking family? Or did all of it come from school instruction
School
Is it true that it's compulsory to take Gaelic in school in Ireland in your primary schooling?
And secondary!
After watching several Irish videos. Are there several letters that are ‘silent’ when spoken in words. Or is it simply how in context to when/how they are in the sentence. I find it a very fascinating language. It is so nice to hear spoken.
More so that two certain letters together make a specific sound eg bh makes an F sound in Irish
And also there are different dialects where the different letters are pronounced. Like 'mhaith' is different in Ulster than in Munster.
Question 18: Actually, the word "ina" as such is not plural, it can mean "in his", "in her" or "in their", depending on what follows. It's the "g" in "gcónaí" that puts this sentence in the plural. And whatever happened to question 19...? 🤔
My parents were taught Irish in school, but have forgotten a lot of it. My grandfather taught me some basics like thank you and kiss my arse. So trying to learn Irish through DuoLingo, but they don't tell you why things appear as the do, like adding a random g onto the front of the word. I know there's prob better ways to learn (I'm Canadian - immigrant parents). But I do laugh when it gives me phrases to translate like "My father drinks" or "My grandmother and your grandfather"... like oooooooh scandal in the household! Gettin' very personal.
There are a LOT of people in Canada who speak more than one language fluently. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. I am stuck with Canajun-eh (a mix of English, Breton French and a drop of Afrikaans, from the Boer War). My wife speaks Cantonese, English and Mandarin.
If you search UA-cam for the song "Ancient and Forever" you can hear it sung in Mi'kmawi'simk, the language of the Mi'kmaq First Nation, Acadian French, Nova Scotia Gaelic, and English.
This was great, thanks!!😊
Don't forget to tell us what the correct answers should have been...
I don’t find out till I do 100 lol
Hi Miss Clisare 👋👍
Never been taught Irish at school. The only Irish I was ever taught was "Ya big eejit", "Make us a fry", "Oh that's Tara", "What's the Craic" and "Yer man up da road".
I love these videos Clare! I started to learn Irish Gaelic on Duolingo about 8 months ago. When I actually concentrate on it I do pretty well, but I swear to god I get like ADD or ADHD to spring and it’s like…… SQUIRREL….. Yeah but I love these videos!
Ina isnt plural the way you find out if it is siad os the urú
G'Day Clisare ,The only Gaelic I know is "Erin go Bragh" my Gran had a piece of Irish linen with that in Needle Work on it with a Shamrock in each corner, it was in a frame in Grans front room!
Sounds hard.
Would be interesting to see what you make of that course. I tried signing up for a Gaelchultúr course in January. The website kept throwing errors. I emailed them to see if there was any other way I could sign up and they never answered.😅 Ended up doing a Conradh na Gael course instead, which i’m enjoying.
I definitely enjoyed it. I liked seeing how the Irish spelling was pronounced. Repeated examples in different words helped. Enough of this I'll be able to read Gaelic. I can red Spanish very well. I do live in California! I can read Russian reasonably well, but I have no idea what I'm reading most of the time. I can read something written in Russian to a Russian speaker over the phone and they know what it means. That is about the extend of my language skills. I f I watch enough of these I'll start to learn to read Gaelic. :)
I enjoyed your video but I notice you pronounce words beginning with ‘s’ (súile) or ‘t’ (tú) as if ithey were beginning with ‘h’, e.g. hoola, hoo. Is this to do with your particular dialect?
Maybe that’s where there are séimhiús?
@@Clisare Sorry, I just meant the ‘h’ sound at the beginning. I know the séimhiú lengthens the vowel but I have only ever heard ‘Súile’ pronounced as ‘Soola’ and ‘Tú’ pronounced as ‘Too’. However, I’m not familiar with all dialects or colloquial pronunciation.
When I was in school, way back in the last century, we were taught a very formal pronunciation which didn’t include any ‘local colour’. Hence, it was quite difficult to understand native speakers from some parts of the country particularly when they were speaking very quickly and running one word into the next. So it’s helpful to know how people actually speak rather than how they’re _supposed_ to speak according to a formal set of rules.
Interesting that you learned Irish at school but you can't make the gaelic throat sound! I can make it and I don't speak Gaelic but it is included in my accent being from rural Scotland.
Do they even make the throat sound in Ireland? For example in Loch, Clue: it is not pronounced Lock.
So glad you're taking it in English!
But if you don't tell us each statement, we won't know 🙂
Thank you! Duolingo definitely needs more Irish speakers to pronounce the words correctly. 😆
When is the stream? Don't want to miss the final result
Haven’t done it yet! Seems to be some interest so will try it this weekend (after Paddy’s Day) if you follow on twitch you’ll get a notification!
Watching you do test reminded me of all the rules of the Irish language and why I hated it during school. I think this was because we were forced to learn it and it was taught in a very impractical way. But now 30 years later I regret that I am no longer fluent and it is hard to take it up again because I have noone to converse with.
Olc is means unhappy or angry, for example, 'bhí sé thar a bheith olc inniu' means he was very unhappy or angry today. Also 'cuma' has to do with the physical appearance of a person
I don’t think it does 🤔 especially when you consider “is cuma liom” is “I don’t care”. It’s definitely about the attitude of someone
@@Clisare well that's a very good point I must say but it must be our way of speaking where we use 'cuma' as both to care and for appearance
I'm confused
How do modern words translate
I know in many languages some words don't or can't translate so they use the English words
Can someone explain
Thanks
There are people whose job it is to create new words in Irish for new terms created in English. When approved, they’re added to the English-Irish dictionary
@@Clisare
That Makes sense
Didn't know that
Otherwise it would be mash up of Irish and English
Wait, isn't that the Ivory Coast flag in the background of the thumbnail, not the Irish one? Haha
Oops I flipped it by mistake 😆 fixing now!!!
@@Clisare No worries! Haha the video was great either way! Also just wanted to say thank you for these videos. You got me into learning Gaeilge. Go raibh maith agat!
At the 02:13 mark -
Priest: May the Francis be with you...
Congregation: “And also with your spirit” 😇
Sorry that’s what popped in my head during that bit
😂
Genuine question: Who pronounces "An maith leat Bríd" like "On MY lat Bríd"?
Me?
We never found out who has Francis. tee-hee!!
Uimhir 19... nach bfhuil sé 'sé ina gcónai' freisin? And uirthi is 'on her' right?
Probably!
Why did this give me so much anxiety?! I wasn’t the one taking the test 😂
An bhfuil nasc don scrúdú agat? An bhfuil sé saor?
Yes, thanks for the reminder, I have added to description box: clisare.rocks/irishtest