Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone :) I hope you enjoy this very Irish video!! This entire video is based on the "9 Reasons to learn..." series that Lindsay has over on her channel. Thanks so much to Lindsay for the great collaboration! This video was recorded at the KZfaq Space in London. Check out Lindsay here: lindsaydoeslanguages.com kzfaq.info Otherwise, some resources that came up in the video worth checking out include the following: TG4 for streamed Irish TV: www.tg4.ie/en/ Ros na Rún: www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/ros-na-run/ Streamed Irish radio: www.rte.ie/rnag/ www.raidiofailte.com/ www.raidionalife.ie/en/ I was actually on that last one myself (Raidió na Life) and I have the video of the experience (subtitled of course) right here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtSEarySmNOyZps.html Go raibh maith agaibh (Thank you)!!

I am fluent in Irish and I am sad to see this language die. It is a unique language and I wish it is used more, but it is not because anyone who can speak Irish can speak English. It is considered 'useless' by lot of people and I wish it was not because it is part of the culture.

Reason 10 - You can sing Irish songs in the original language without butchering the pronunciation and forgetting everything, like I'm currently doing. Won't stop me from learning them though!

I've been learning Irish on Duolingo for two months coz I've been planning to go on a working holiday to Ireland for years since I love Celtic music. I know ppl in Ireland mostly use English to communicate nowadays but I still wonder how Irish language sounds like. The grammar is very different to English but I'm working hard on learning it coz some country is now killing my mother language in anyway possible, and I don't want Irish ppl to abandon their very own and unique language too coz every language has its own way in helping ppl to express themselves. I'm a Hongkonger and Cantonese is my mother language. I thank all foreigners who'd decided to learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin when they came here. Bless anyone who's trying their best in preserving any language.

i cant believe a part of my irish Lineage is fading....this is why i embrace my lineages not just by learning the history and the food but as well as the language. I shall Learn Irish to help it stay alive

I'm Indonesian and now trying to learn Irish and Welsh but what so difficult to me is I can't find material or books that provide enough information and lessons about Irish. I find that Irish is quite rare and yet so beautiful to listen and not many people speak it. And as Indonesian myself I'll be so lucky if I can do study about this one of the ancient language

Irish is the most beautiful language. So much more beautiful then French of something else

I'm Italian. I love Ireland, I love the Irish language and I'm trying by myself to learn it.. but it's sooo difficult for me! Pronunciation's laws drive me crazy 😅

Quick correction - There's more than 50,000 native speakers of Irish. In the last census - 73.8k reported speaking it daily outside of school and 111.4k more reported speaking it on a weekly basis outside of school. That's 185k people who speak it on a daily or weekly basis, not including the north - which probably has another 40k to 50k speakers. At a very conservative estimate, we have about 200k speakers of Irish on the entire island who are conversational to fluent. There's also a decent number of speakers outside of Ireland.

I'm trying to relearn it when I'm not busy cause I was really bad at it in school. I want to try keep it alive :)

I recommend going to the Aran Islands if you want to find native speakers of Irish. I met some native speakers there & had fun trying out some Scottish Gaelic with them which they were able to understand due to the similarities with Irish.

I need to learn this Great Language

You inspired me to learn irish language even I m Turkish :)) love you ❤️❤️

Another reason: I used to live in Ireland by my mom didn't want me to learn Irish because she said you wanted to move to America so she taught me English until I moved there. Or a shorter version of this reason ; I'm irish

I will learn the Irish language as my daily language, and then spread it to my friends, I live in Turkey, I'm bored of learning "most powerful languages in the world", I don't even like them, I like the Irish language and culture

Just started learning Irish via Duolingo, and found this video in my hunt for more resources and information: just wanted to say thank you for it, and to let you know how wonderfully helpful it is to someone still 6+ years from originally posting!

I'm Irish and honestly school wasn't that helpful when it came to learning irish. It was more about passing the exams. Áfach, labhraím as gaeilge gach lá. Mar a deir an seanfhocal "beatha teanga í a labhairt" agus ba mhaith liom mo chuid scileanna teanga a fheabhsú.

Sorry that I didn't give the example that the diminutive is based on. A word with '-ín' would have helped, but my point is that English doesn't have that concept that can be applied so globally (how would you apply it to 'house'? "Housy"?) so Irish/Scottish people speaking English work around that by using the word 'wee' as an adjective to imply the diminutive (instead of 'small', which English already has). English's diminutives are way more restrictive. Otherwise, I know the origin of 'craic' isn't Gaelic, but that doesn't change from the fact that its only modern use is in Irish or Hiberno English.

I’m today years old when I learned that Irish is a language 😊

I'd like to learn Irish so much but I don't really know where to start from, I think I need to give me lessons and exercises to improve what I'm studying just like if I was at school!

Now I’m about to find a video of Spongebob speaking in Irish tongue 👍🏼

Thank you guys so much for this, truly

Lá fheile Pádraig shona daoibh. Bhí mé i Londain an seachtain seo caite agus thosaigh mé ag caint as Gaeilge le mo mhathair ar an tréin. Chonaic mé daoine ag féacaint orainn. Tá seans go cheap siad go chlois an teanga suimiúl. Tá Gaeilge an-dhifriúl ná teangaí eile.

I love the Irish language. I am currently studying it. some day I hope to be fluent in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic. I really like some of the Scottish pronunciation, which is a little different than the Irish. my first exposure was through music. I think that both of them sound better than English(my native tongue) for saying the same thing. like the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, in English, my father sent me to the house of sorrow. in Gaelic chuir m'athair mise dhan taigh chariteach. I apologize if I messed up the spelling. I have only seen it written a couple of times, a few years ago.

"The" Irish tv station. Dying. I legitimately would have thought there would be more than one.

Is Meiricanach me! I am trying to learn Irish and have been here and there since I found out 10 years ago that the Irish had their own language and that my great grandfather spoke it before coming to the US. I love the language and have been trying to find ways to use it in my daily life, so I love this video! I learned a lot more too!

I am a German and a learner of Irish. It is right that there are not that many native speakers. Native speakers in the Gaeltacht and those who were raised there might make up about 50.000. However, you have to take into account the Gaelscoil movement and children raised through Irish all over the island. This number is hard to make out exactly. I myself would estimate the number of persons with Irish from birth at 100.000 - 150.000. However, there are furthermore a few 100.000 of fluent speakers on the island to speak the language. As to dialects, it depends on your life circumstances which of them is best to learn. The differences between Munster and Connacht Irish are not that great deal. Ulster Irish proper is markedly different. I would not advice to learn Ulster Irish unless dealing mostly with Ulster people. Ulster Irish seems as strange speach to many people outside Ulster. It does not matter to choose Connacht or Munster Irish in my point of view, unless you have strong links to the west or south of Ireland. Connacht Irish is the speech of the west, while Munster Irish is the speech of the south. The east does not have a dialect of their own. Both are common, with Munster Irish being a bit more common. Around Dublin, the strong accent from local English translates to the Irish spoken. As soon as there are some locals to have it as native language, it will be a new dialect.

Been using Duolingo, and every source I can get is helpful and appreciated. My grandmother's folks are from CO. Cork

I'm trying to learn it though I don't live in ireland. Many of my family members spoke it, and I would love to go to Donegal some day

I started learning gealige recently to get in touch with my heritage. My little sisters name is "Ciara", my family have been pronouncing is "sea-ah-ruh" all her 15 years 😂 i had to tell my whole family her name authentically sounds like "Key-rah". She does indeed have dark hair though so the name at least holds true to meaning 😂

Ros n rún! !!!!! Omg it's my life in love it so much

This video is really interesting and I love the music :)

I'm in love with Irish Language!

My late husband was Irish. Greetings from Spokane, Washington, United States.

To the two commenters, (you know who you are...) you are welcome to write a comment here to share your feedback on the video, but please do it in ONE comment each, if you want to cover multiple points. I came back to a wall of text that the two of you had dominated repeating things over and over (mostly really small nitpicking, which is fine as long as it's listed in a single comment), taking over the entire discussion thread between the two of you. I'm sorry but I had to delete them. Feel free to write another comment, but please be concise and only write a single main comment and then reply to someone else's comment if your point is mentioned already, rather than repeating the point in comment replies. The point of this video is to encourage people to learn Irish, so seeing over a dozen comments nitpicking things that don't need to be (as I mentioned before, I don't claim that 'craic' is of Gaelic origin - the point is that the word isn't in modern usage in any language except Irish or Hiberno English) - takes away from that and makes people think that Irish speakers may all be that pedantic. Please don't give people that first impression... But feel free to offer feedback, if you absolutely think it's necessary... if you can be more concise! Edit: lol, you left so many comments that KZfaq had already decided it was getting spammy and left a bunch as waiting for approval under "spam"... Come on! :D Thanks!

I love this video!! Great job!!

I like the language and the people.

The diminutive in German is -chen, not -chein :) such a nice Videöchen ;)

I like the music in this video. I live in the UK, and am British. I have Irish ancestors. I'm currently learning Welsh as there are around 450,000 speakers. It feels like the most sustainable Celtic language - and it's simpler than Irish!?

One of my reasons is that I have ancestors from Ireland and so it's one way I can practice my connection to and Honor the the Land my Ancestors.

I'm trying to lear Irish! This has helped me. Thanks!

Dia duit go léir!!! Ireland is a beautiful country, full of magic crack and amazing people, all of a sudden the emerald isle became home for me, where I lived for almos 4 years, with new adventures, culture and language, I am from Brazil myself, and I want to state clear here that my experience living in this great county was unique, not only for me, but for my wife too. Ireland is a" bilingual "country, official papers are written in Irish and English, sings, street names and many other thing, however very few people speak irish in the many cities I've had the chance to visit, children learn it at school, but they are not able to speak it in the capital city, Dublin. A few villages in the country side of the country maintain their tradition of speaking it, which is amazing, a way to keep their identity! So, fair play to you sir for the good video, your intention to spread the Irish langue and your struggle to keep it alive.

American here of Irish ancestry 💪 I want to learn this lovely language and visit the Emerald Island one day

Great! thanks for making this video.

Just really enjoying the background music. Good video as well.

Beatiful languages. Please protect its

not sure most of these are actual upsides of learning Irish! But enjoying it anyway.

I’m directly related to the O’Sullivan clan. I’m learning Gaelige for when I go to Ireland.

I’m on a virtual tour of my ancestors homeland. Ireland being one, I’m following the (Thomas) Chestnut or Chesnut family line. My gg grandfather went to Glasgow for his bride Barbara Adam. Thank you for sharing your videos. I did find it quite interesting. I visited Wales also. Now onto Scotland.

Indeed, one of my grandma was Irish (never knew her and she probably only spoke English, but still). It's on my "to learn" list.

great production!

An interesting example of the diminutive is 'Bóín Dé' which is a ladybird but directly translates to 'Gods little cow' in English. Bó = Cow, Bóín = little cow. Adding 'ín' is the equivalent of 'wee' as Benny described it.

Thanks!

The hard part of learning a language is the social connection; even if you want to learn with the culture included and a holistic approach, people taking you serious as well and speaking to you only in that language....THAT seems to be the wall I hit. Your interview is really facinating when you have no idea what's being said, but listening to the rhythm and sounds :D

Loved when you got to the names since my dad is Sean, his sister is Siobhan, and my mum is Erina

In my opinion, the best reason to learn a language is having a love for the language. Any other reason and you will lose motivation quickly, but if you love it you will learn it eventually

Lovely video! My aunt and stepmom are Irish, therefore Irish English and Gaelic are really interesting to me. On a sidenote: In German we have the diminutives -chen (not -chein) and -lein. E.g. Mann (man) can become Männlein or Männchen, Baum (tree) can become Bäumchen or Bäumlein, and so on.

Very good. Congrats. Slante

Que bien, que pones la traducción en español. La música del fundo es bella Gracias

It was always my dream to go to Ireland, so I traveled from the U.S. to Dublin and to Limerick in 2013 for my birthday. I had so much fun there and it didn't even seem like I was in another country. Last year I found out through Ancestry.com that I am part Irish. I have Irish ancestors as well as French and Scandinavian. So, I'm learning Gaeilge to add to my cultural heritage. One day I will proudly say "Ta Gaeilge agam".

Sadly my link to the Irish is through the norman invaders, my family name is Fitzgibbons, which is son of Gibbon? and my ansestors came from County Cork and County Mayo. Stumbling across this because I want to observe St. Patty's Day and figuring out ways of doing so (no real traditions thanks to American family, just have heard stories of St. Patrick going to Ireland) and I've --since I was a wee child :P --wanted to learn Irish but never have. Glad I ran into this video ^___^ I know some German and some of the numbers sound German! Like ein for one

What I did was make a conlang based on Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic because I love all the languages. I just didn't have enough time to learn all three, especially after Norwegian and Icelandic. Heck, I can't remember things half the time, my brain just blanks.

Wow this was a great video . I really want to learn this Im 50% irish and Id like to return.

This video is helpful and interesting! I'm learning Irish and it's really cool but it's difficult! The spelling, pronunciation, lenition, and eclipsis are driving me nuts! This helped a little. Thank you.

A bit of an old video, but I'll note that "v" and "w" aren't really distinguished in Irish. That might not be super obvious. You can use either and anything in-between. So, for a Spanish speaker, you can pronounce "bh" and "mh" in Irish like the second "b" in "bebo", and you'll sound just fine. You'll just sounds like you're from Mayo. You can pronounce them as a [v] all the time or a [w] all the time, and that's fine. You can prefer [w] between two vowels and [v] beside a consonant, and that's fine. Just as long as you're using something approximately between a "w" and a "v" and you're consistent, you're fine. If you're a more serious learner and are learning a dialect, things get a bit more precise, but for the language as a whole, both "bh" and "mh" can be treated as [w~v].

my favorite irish tv show is aifric

I wish i went to a Gaelscoil. Im horrible at languages and ive been trying to learn it for ages

reason #10 - cool party trick

Thank you Breandan

I miss so so so much my Esmerald Isle 💚

9a - Irish could date to the early Bronze Age. New multidisciplinary research suggests the Celtic languages started in the Islands between in the early Bronze Age, if not before and spread east, rather than having arrived here in the Iron Age. Throws a whole new light on the evolution of the language and its antiquity. @

I note that some Arabic names has "Ibn" for the same reason as "son of" the same for Scandinavian names having "-son" at the end like "Erikson" like "Mac". It's very interesting. In Portuguese some consonants followed by an "h" change them into having become consonant followed by an "i" or "y" when they are pronounced; piranha = pi + ra + nya, carvalho = kar + va + yo, etc..

Lovely video and thanks for making this! Side note: German diminutive spelling here is incorrect, needs to be -chen ; not -chein. You also have -lein as a diminutive in German (Ex. Schwesterchen; Schwesterlein).

My grandma’s family was Irish and I think it’s so interesting. I wanna reconnect to our Irish roots. She’s eligible for citizenship but I’m not

I am so mindblown! That's why Saoirse Ronan's name is pronounced as Sir-sha BOOM! actually i did not intend to study Irish in Duolingo but K find it interesting so I added it to my list...althoughh I am struggling with 1) pronunciation and 2) sentence structure. 😂 I hope I will be able to learn it.

I wish I was better at irish :( I think I might fail irish in my junior cert , I’m finding it very difficult to learn it at school but I want to put more effort into it

I start Gal8c this September. I was born in Liverpool (England)

"my name in Irish..." your name is the same in every language! Your name is the sounds your parents gave you. If your name is "Benny" so in Irish it is "Benny"! Everything is easy!

I love the Irish language but am having a terrible time learning. I will keep trying.

Great! My name in Gaeilge is Erin!

Can anyone tell me which song is that? It's beautiful.

@Ricardo Torres. You may have an additional motive to learn Irish. Los San Patricios, who fought and died for Mexico in the USA 1840s invasion, were practically all native Irish speakers. One of the many monuments to their memory in Mexico is the newly erected Mexican/Irish Government one in El Angel suburb of DF - near the massive statue of President Obregon - said to be a corruption of the original common Irish surname O'Brien. Yo mismo - tengo hijo quien se caso en Guadalajara, y por eso, tres nietos irlandeses-mexicanos - y por supuesto, una querida famila politica mexicana. Hablo "Gaeilge" - ellos non, excepto unas palabras. "Cifidh me thu"(phoneticamente en ingles: "Kee-Hee may hoo" = "nos vemos." Saludos, desde Irlanda. Michael Murray.

Brilliant!! I have a dude , is the same the irish with gaelic in Scotland?

Where can I learn Gaelige? I want to be fluent because my family has a strong Irish tradition, and because I actually come across other Irish speakers in the US

Tengo ganas de aprender este idioma :O

Is aoibhinn liom Ros na Rún!

There is a lot of history to cover. My mother was born in Kildare and migrated to Britain to get work . The Irish people they worked hard just like the Chinese in B.C. Canada building the railroads. I worked in daycare here in Ontario and when I wanted attention from my co- worker I would say the following word to her "Korkymillish". i would get her attention. I believe that word means cake ( ? )I hope so. She was french Canadian. My granddaughters name is Kiera now I know another way of spelling it. As kids we would go to Roscommon. I remember the movie Cat Ballo which the kids went sent off to watch while the grown ups had a meeting and a dram. I would love to explore this language. Thank You or Shuran (Arabic )

I should speak Irish but I don't. It's a shame so few People speak the Irish language. This was an excellent video, very well done.

I’m currently trying to learn Irish, I’m finding it so difficult.

>Irish living in Canada. My great grandfather was from Dublin and brought over to Canada to colonize the new region by the British. I still keep the Irish last name even though im married. :) There is a lot of us over here!

I would like to learn it well because its important to keep it alive in case anything should happen to western europe.

I know Scots Gaelic.I tried learning Irish but I just found it really confusing.I found that it was very different although I recognised a lot of the words.

Hi Benny congratulations. Might you help me please? I want to learn a celtic language but i don´t know which of them: welsh, irish or scottish gaelic what they existing today and there are books for learning as far as I know. I feel more attraction for G. scottish but i have not seen books about. I saw irish and welsh on hippocrene's webpage. Well my doubt is which one do you reccomend me, I can see irsh, but which one is easier, "beauty"? has a "plus" like direct heir?. Is gaelic scottish really irish? old, middle, irish is gaelic too; what about welsh? if I learn scottish gaelic I learned really original irish? What do you think about this books: Hipocrene's begginer's series, teach yourself, Goethe Verlag book2. Altought I did not find a celtic one on book2. Thank you very much and Slán.

I've always thought that "galore" was a word of Latin origin or something. But the thing is the Irish numbers show the characteristics of general Indo-European naming. 4 seemed interesting among them, because to my ear it kinda seemed like the French word "quatre" for 4, and the oddest one out IMHO.

thanx

Another reason is when you are at a pub and you ask for a finger or pich of Lafroagh the barkeep knows exactly what you want.😉

My great-gammy was straight outta the South of Eire to Canada around 1897-98, she spoke fluent Gaeilge and so did my grandpa but it pretty much ended there. My dad knew some and my grampa taught me some, now I'm trying to teach myself. I can read/write okay but can't speak it very well. I slur and stutter so any language is hard to speak. My 2nd language is French.

was that cartoon richard ayoade?

I'm Spanish and I want to learn Irish so haaard

Sadly being from Antrim I wasn't really given a chance to learn Irish, looking back now I really want to preserve the culture. But where's the best place to start? Also is it even worth doing since I'll have no one to talk too while trying to learn? Or should I put that time into learning a more useful language?