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@moreartthantime6 жыл бұрын
I've been using Duolingo for three months now, and I feel like I just learned more in twenty-four minutes than I did in that whole span of months. Thank you sir. I hope you make a lot more videos. Appreciated the little lessons about historical context and how it relates to Irish people speaking English, too.
@avananana6 жыл бұрын
This is mainly because Duolingo is very flawed when it comes to learning. It's way too systematic and it so heavily relies on you repeating things you don't even like. Learning a language the way Duolingo teaches can work, but it's really boring and can take a very long time. And this is due to the fact that you're locked from most things up until you reach a certain point.
@johncook72813 жыл бұрын
@@avananana Duolingo is not systematic in the following; in grammar you will now learn verbs to be, to go, phrases 'for have' tá mé,tá sé, etc and Is è Is mé. A student of Irish or French, Italian has to make their own group systematic.. I take a load of notes and they are all over the place, a mess
@brenainnmacthomais3 жыл бұрын
A Sheáin, mo chara, you absolutely must do more and more videos! It is so great to hear the Ulster dialect (Canúint Uladh)! Is as Dún na nGall mé, ach tá mé i mo chónaí i Na Stáit Aontaithe Mhériceá anois. I miss Irish and my dialect-speaking and listening to it. I was brought up speaking it, but I wouldn’t consider myself a native speaker anymore. I’m always trying to get my American friends to learn the language. I was looking at the resources on the market now. Looks like mostly Munster followed by Connacht. When I was taught it, I learned the true sounds of the broad and slender consonants with the w- and y- offglides, the hidden unstressed vowels, etc. I noticed Irish is being taught with more English phonetics than true Irish pronunciations-in the phrase “Dia duit,” the first “d” is like a “j” sound while the second “d” is a “d” sound. Also, “t” is pronounced “ch” like in “church” because of the slender “i” vowel. Please keep these videos up. I was thinking about creating a social learning FB page that teaches traditional Irish. We need to promote our language as much as possible!
@reemsuleiman14837 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. The clearest explanations I have found online to date. Thank you.
@irelandserverferrersegura40213 жыл бұрын
On honor of Enya irish❤️
@nitramnagev79977 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Seán! You're a natural teacher. I've learnt a lot from these videos. Thank you.
@kevinlamitie82107 жыл бұрын
I so garee best on u tube.
@briganfree36563 жыл бұрын
I am an English person trying to learn Irish. I found this useful. I am in my 50s so finding it slow going to learn a new language now. Putting the verbs up and explaining it exactly as you did is exactly what is needed. Thank you. Slán.
@alsandaromaolain77216 жыл бұрын
Hello Seán, these videos are so good. I love that you teach people how to build and understand the foundations of sentence structures instead of just learning phrases. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod and he will eat for life.
@whatthehell49174 жыл бұрын
Super helpful, thank you! I'm german, learning irish cause in my head there is this dream that someday I will live there. Yeah, it's weird. Never been there. But somehow feel connected. And wanna prepair myself in learning the most beautiful language I have ever heard :D
@brenainnmacthomais3 жыл бұрын
Good on you, and even more so for immersing yourself with the Ulster dialect!
@yrosarosas30932 жыл бұрын
Don't feel weird I know my reply is tooooo late but I felt happy to see your comment as I'm from Spain and I feel the same way about learning Irish! And this gentleman explained so well and helpful!
@sodafarl09786 жыл бұрын
Go raibh mile maith agat a Sheán. I'm learning Ulster Irish and your video is the clearest and simplest explanation of the basics I have come across. It's a great help. Go raibh maith agat aris.
@faecreature216 жыл бұрын
This was incredibly helpful, thank you. I've been trying to pick up Irish but I couldn't grasp the syntax. I figured out that Irish is Verb, Subject, Object but there were all these other words that I couldn't understand why they were there. You answered nearly everyone in this video. Thanks so much!
@kendrom3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I’ve been studying Duolingo and Rosetta Stone for months, and really had no grasp of sentence structure at all. This has been very helpful.
@paulbustion12915 ай бұрын
You did an excellent job of explaining the material. I never understood what 'ann' meant when using DuoLingo or Rosetta Stone, you have clarified the meaning of it for me, your explanation of the grammar was much better than any previous explanation of the grammar that I have seen.
@daisypeters32165 жыл бұрын
Thank you for send me this vídeo. Sean Mor. I want So much to learn irish language because I will go to Ireland, next year. Sean, you are a great teacher. Thank you once more time.
@Seanchai596 жыл бұрын
Just discovered these videos and am using them to scrape the rust of my schoolboy Irish. You're a natural teacher. Looking forward to many more videos. Míle buíochas.
@serviceuservoice6 жыл бұрын
GRMA :) You're a natural teacher.. I love the 'building blocks' approach. Your lessons are very well crafted and have been really helpful so far!! I'm 'Craigavon' area of NI and find your accent easy to relate to as well. Challenged by my unconventional learning style, and have found beginners conversational classes fun but unsuitable and formal classes would be too restrictive. So - until I can finally find a one to one tutorI, I'm trying to learn completely on my own. I need personally contextual and free form learning due to my health condition - need to establish my own patterns and my own links between sound and text - or it doesn't stick. YOUR stuff is intuitive enough to stick! Can't thank you enough !
@hamedmohamed85945 жыл бұрын
Go raibh maith agat! Tá lá maith Ann! Greetings from Egypt
@vacaspen4787 Жыл бұрын
so glad these are still available,, practical phrases
@dolgy37627 жыл бұрын
good video. I find proffessors usually explain things too elaborately, learning a language through normal people is so much easier. I moved to spain and I've learned Catalan and Spanish in less than a year. My family is originally from Cork, I've always been interested in learning the language of my ancestors. Shame they moved to the U.S. XD
@kevinlamitie82107 жыл бұрын
so right.this guy didn't drone on like some teacchers n professors.hpe said it fast n perfect pace.with understandable explaining.cead thumbs up.lol
@dequidaqwadoa15535 жыл бұрын
Dia duit a chara ! Cad é mar atá tú? Heartfelt thanks for these lessons! And for keeping them simple and for using examples that we can use everyday!! Excellent job !! 😁👍 Go raibh maith agat!!
@estocadatx8172 Жыл бұрын
Excellent, Sean (sorry, cant fogure out fada on new keyboard) !! Very useful. I'm blending your lessons into some of the other sources I have and really enjoying attacking Irish now Im in my 60s! Go raibh mile maith agat!
@anbocmor8 жыл бұрын
Tá scáileán níos mó de dhíth orm! I need a bigger screen, to counteract my head. :-)
@eilisdoran72947 жыл бұрын
Seán Mór, Thank you, again and again and again. I just came across this wonderful presentation which takes the mystery and agony out of learning Irish. Sean, can you be contacted via email. Eilis, Sedona, Arizona
@Aannan4 жыл бұрын
I've been enjoying my course on Duolingo but I am glad to have this as well. In my view, the best way to learn a language is to gather information from many different sources in many different styles. It keeps things interesting and provides different angles from which to view the language. Thank you so much, Sean, for this interesting lesson.
@marymurphycreates4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fabulous, thank you. You are a wonderful , clear and personable teacher.
@addictedtocraic2 жыл бұрын
These literal translations are exactly what I need as a returning adult student 🙃.
@steph.anie.travels6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sean! You are helping me so much. Keep them coming. I have subscribed.
@mediocrerunner34083 жыл бұрын
Sean I have to agree with the poster below. I’ve been teaching myself on Duolingo but your videos are bringing me on loads. I’m in love with the language. Going to a Protestant school we weren’t taught Irish and no real history of Ireland from the Irish point of view. I’ve had to educate myself as an adult and as you know strongly identify as Irish. Go raibh maith agat 👍🏻
@stenwillander5426 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic tee shirt!
@bethbacken6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, these videos are helpful. I'm studying Irish in America and these are great lessons to add to what I'm learning in class. I'd love to see more of these.
@marysibayan56437 жыл бұрын
Step one, understanding someone from Ireland speaking non-American English. Great lesson. I agree with you that many language texts don't let you "play" with the verb to be. Thanks. Giving myself two years to learn as much Irish as I can before visiting.
@anbocmor7 жыл бұрын
Mary Sibayan thankyou Mary. There's plenty of people in Ireland who have difficulty with my speed of English too so you're not on your own there! Glad you benefitted from it.
@froggo613011 ай бұрын
The best part is that we Irish have quite a few accents, you never know how different someone from just down the road is going to sound
@kennyinliverpool2 жыл бұрын
Thank you -- this was genuinely very helpful
@stephenwalsh44812 жыл бұрын
Im 43 and just started, im picking up a bit wanna be able to understand and speak a little by next year!
@ryanmmaderry6 жыл бұрын
Excellent, we need more from you
@knockfola4 жыл бұрын
clear, concise and informative. Maith thu Sean!
@michaelleahy38903 жыл бұрын
This was so informative! I learned a lot from this wee video, Go raibh maith agat, Sean!
@bogdanbelskii75227 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Video is very informative. Greetings from Russia!
@johnnycurry66187 жыл бұрын
Sean, I just recently found your videos. They are excellent. you are a great teacher. you take your time and explain the pronunciation very well. Thanks and pleae keep making these videos!
@nothingbutmilk65767 жыл бұрын
Kudos for covering the "Ta .... ann" construction - which native speakers are more likely to actually use Nearly all of the Irish textbooks (and KZfaq videos) ignore it completely and teach the "Ta an aimsir go maith/dona/etc" construction instead. I guess that's because most textbooks are written by non native speakers who learned their Irish at the university and teach the Irish that "should be" spoken rather than the Irish that is actually spoken.
@FireRupee4 жыл бұрын
Is it academic vs conversational Irish?
@stanleyblack19836 ай бұрын
likewise Tá mé ag foghlaim gaeilge anois and learned more in that video than weeks with books. Go raibh maith agat Seán
@Original504 жыл бұрын
I'm 3 weeks away from finishing the CELTA certification and learning the Irish is up next... Subscribed!
@kobito6104 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the lesson! I just started to learn Irish and this is helpful!
@roberthamilton23346 жыл бұрын
Well presented and explained Séan, trying to learn a bit of the language
@TroyKC3 жыл бұрын
Go raibh míle maith agat... I'm learning so thank you. This is very helpful.
@eleanorchapple87723 жыл бұрын
This is great. I’m sorry I didn’t know about this earlier.
@jamesoshaughnessy83306 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the help Sean I learned a few things from your video
@tomasfay88433 жыл бұрын
Ta maidin bhreá ann ì LiosnagCearrbhach. Grma Sean, great stuff👏💚
@yrosarosas30932 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video you explained so well! Go raibh maith agat
@paudsmcmack3117 Жыл бұрын
I love the push to revive and it is working only getting bigger...However, if you're not taught from birth the fluency will be patchy and you'll sound like Gerry Adams. I can imagine a whole country fluent in Irish and English with talented speakers of all other worldly languages.
@seanobrien78115 жыл бұрын
Very clear and stress free learning
@ShiningNoctowls2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing; take care
@rayonsx16 жыл бұрын
I have been working through your Irish videos and in them you have suggested that pdf files of your lessons are available at fonn foghlama on facebook. I have not been able to get there and would appreciate guidance on how to do so. Along with all your other students, I greatly appreciate the broad scope of the lessons and am looking forward to any new ones you manage to produce. Thanks for the lessons and I hope you can guide me to the pdf files.
@themaggattack5 жыл бұрын
Tá an mhúinteoir maith ann. Go raibh mil maith agat, Seán!
@dennisdelany90986 жыл бұрын
At school we were taught never to say Ta se fear this was the worst error you could make! As I was taught, it would be Is brea an la e. I think Ta is related to stare/estar and Is to essere/ser in Spanish and Italian and presumably this distinction comes from Latin. I would be interested in a lesson on Ta and Is. For example, Ta fhios agam, Nil fhios agam but Is maith liom Ni maith liom.
@anbocmor6 жыл бұрын
Dennis Delany thanks for your comment Dennis. Yes I will do a lesson on that soon. I intend to upload many more lessons now as part of Bliain na Gaeilge. I will do it in a manner that non-grammarians can easily grasp!
@dennisdelany90986 жыл бұрын
Someone I worked with who was a fluent Irish speaker made a very acute observation - Irish is "obsessed" with prepositions (and they are inflected). So "you are welcome" is Ta failte romhat (like a welcome mat in front of you) and Ta a thios agam, is feidir liom, is cuma liom, go raibh maith agat, ta bron orm, etc. - those pesky prepositions are everywhere but if you memorise the combinations they are easy enough to learn.
@frizzyred12925 жыл бұрын
Great videos, thank you! Im a beginner so all of this is extremely useful.
@chrisjezovnik3308 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@jjc3po3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful I'm English so this helps immensely 👍
@annmclaughlin18326 жыл бұрын
great video sean,i have always wanted to learn irish,hopefully,i will now,as i intend to follow your course
@Wokingtown116 жыл бұрын
That was a great video with great info. thanks
@Inkdraft5 жыл бұрын
Dia Duit from New Hampshire, USA! I've just started learning Gaeilge agus Tá mé sona le feic seo. Tá mé dean liostáil ann. Go raibh maith agat agus go n-eÍrÍ leat!
@misemefein1007 жыл бұрын
Sean, this is great. I taught myself Spanish and doing French using Michel Thomas.....he just focuses on the grammar. This is the closest I have seen anyone get to it on Irish (which I have decided I really should know being Irish). What resources did you use to teach yourself. Great stuff again
@grandma.p6 жыл бұрын
Try Learn French with Alexa on KZfaq. She explains well.
@kestrile6 жыл бұрын
Is the Tá...ann structure found in all the dialects?
@patrickmcnally15325 жыл бұрын
Yes I think it is a basic structure in the Irish language. It is called a prepositional pronoun. As far as I know there are 15 of them and when you are using different pronouns with the prepositions you end up with 105 combinations! It just takes time to learn some of them. All the best in your Irish studies. Pádraig
@Anamcara19565 жыл бұрын
Hi Seán, I have just stumbled on your lessons and they are fantastic . I am struggling with the conditional tense endings . I remember learning these Donegal style but just returned to Irish class to hear them completely different . I want to hear them in Strabane/Donegal style . Any chance you could do a short video? Go raibh maith agat.
@anbocmor5 жыл бұрын
Gearóid, I will do this for you soon
@Anamcara19565 жыл бұрын
Go raibh maith agat.
@daltonmiller73083 жыл бұрын
Sean, can you do a video on the conditional mood?
@francislewsley42237 жыл бұрын
Go raibh maith agat a Sheáin, great resource many thanks!!!
@aonghuscooke52447 жыл бұрын
can you pleaze do a video on ALL THE TENSES
@patrickboyle31066 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Very concise.
@guilhermesobrinho13296 жыл бұрын
go raibh míle maith agat
@athensnike20157 жыл бұрын
mark the exsistance and place. the what and where. This verb is irregualar in any language, lol. This was helpful , perfect balance of explaation and visual. This means alot to people to get access to their ancesestors or minority language. well it doesnt come up first on popularity but is a two those year old language from a wise cuture.
@grandma.p6 жыл бұрын
This is such a good lesson.
@finbomartini5 жыл бұрын
These are great lessons man. Go raibh maith agat
@michealodalaigh53104 жыл бұрын
from strabane too, interested in literal translation from english to irish i find our native language very poetic, i love art and i find the irish language an art. do you do private lessons???
@k.r.murphy43015 жыл бұрын
GRMA! Is 60 bliana orm agus fogliamin na Gaeilge anois. Is liomsa é. I do it for those who fought and died to bring back the language and culture stolen from us. Slán!
@lauraburns47075 ай бұрын
Sean do you hold classes in Strabane if so where and when
@paulabowen8405 жыл бұрын
great gaelic learning for beginners!
@kristenclark94277 жыл бұрын
would it be possible for me to chat with you? I moved to Ireland recently, and my husband speaks Gaelic. I'd absolutely love it if I could surprise him with some Gaelic!
@artliom13115 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! It was very helpful! :)
@timflatus3 жыл бұрын
Great content. I will have to find some way of improving the sound quality because this is very tiring to listen to. I wish you'd recorded this in a room with some furniture in it.
@efthimiosmakris34764 жыл бұрын
Hi Sean, Could you please tell me the verbs you think more important,and useful in order to learn. Thank you.
@sosh50426 жыл бұрын
A Sean go raibh maith agat. Ta tu go hiontach as a muinteior. I wonder if it be possible to for you to be part of the irish language planning commission that plans to invest in Ireland's future. Please give me some feedback on this proposal le do thoil. Go raibh maith agat. Solomon is ainm dom
@irelandserverferrersegura40213 жыл бұрын
I Will try to learn on honor of Enya
@radix1335 жыл бұрын
Tá sé seo an-úsáideach, go raibh maith agat!
@broytingaravsol5 жыл бұрын
will it be more appropriate to add to the sample structured pattern with"...ann" for the following explained examples
@mairemaguinness89614 жыл бұрын
My sister Eileen has put me on to your brilliant site. We are both going to work together..... Go raibh mile maith agat Sean
@stevesewful6 жыл бұрын
very helpful . thank you
@pipdiddly5 жыл бұрын
Hey Seán! Thanks so much for these - I've been making practice worksheets from your videos, so I can have my sweetie mix up the beginnings and endings of phrases and I have to say them back to him in Irish, it's been wonderfully helpful! I have a question about the time of day/season bits, though, since you didn't give an example with the question/negative question/negation beginnings. Would you still include the 'an' with those formats? For example, you said in Irish it's common to say "It's the morning" or "Tá an maidin ann" - would you then also say "An bhfuil an maidin ann?" or "Níl an maidin ann"? Thanks for your help! Your videos are so dense it's taking me a few weeks to really work through these first two, make up worksheets, and get really familiar with the combinations so that I can just say them off the cuff, quickly, and also learn to improvise with them. I just want to make sure I'm not doing it wrong when I change the beginnings of these ones and get into a bad habit :P
@anbocmor5 жыл бұрын
Thankyou Joan. Yes, there's no reason why you cant say "níl an mhaidin ann go fóill" its not morning yet, or "an bhfuil an mhaidin ann go fóill?" Is it morning yet. It might not be often but it is grammatically sound. There is another connected structure that might be more common in this specific case. "Níl sé ina lá" ... I will return to this later.
@liammcooper Жыл бұрын
why is it drochla for bad day, but not 'fluichla' for wet day? or are they interchangeable
@anbocmor Жыл бұрын
Droch is an exception and attaches to the front of nouns. This is not the norm in Irish, but every language has its wee exceptions and irregularities.
@kayecorbin10895 жыл бұрын
Is there a link to download printable notes. I am unable to access them on the facebook page.
@colinemacfly55964 жыл бұрын
Hi! Your videos are great but I don't understand everything because of the accent..I am French and it's hard to understand your English 😅 But thank you for those videos, they are helping lots of people !
@kyleh5867 жыл бұрын
Go raibh MÍLE maith agat!!
@grideffect11936 жыл бұрын
go raibh maith agat .
@frizzyred12924 жыл бұрын
Hey Seán, is it correct to use, "ann" to round off a sentence when referring to yourself, for example, Tá mé sa bhaile ann? thanks!
@anbocmor4 жыл бұрын
The "sa bhaile" is enough in that case. Dont use the "ann". You could say something like this though "bhí mé ann" I was there.... as in I was present in some place, but thats a slightly different usage of 'ann' meaning 'there'.
@user-jm3xl7rg5k3 жыл бұрын
@22:05 -- "too much" in positive sense, or in negative? )))
@anbocmor3 жыл бұрын
Mostly negative but sometimes you could be praising generosity. Rinne tú barraíocht cheana féin. You done too much already!
@jaysmith-sq4dy6 жыл бұрын
thanks
@julioferrer186 Жыл бұрын
Erin Go Bragh 🤗🇮🇪✊
@martym9156 жыл бұрын
Nach bhfuil a fhiseán anois go hiontach?
@pentuplove65423 жыл бұрын
Big Seán.
@weareallfromafrica83734 жыл бұрын
go raibh maith agat a cara
@epi_sto_letes4 жыл бұрын
Go raibh maith agat, Seán. I don't speak Irish. But my mother, from Clare, pronounces 'tá' from you. Could it be a dialectical variance.? I was taught to pronounce the 'á' as 'aw', like thought or jaw or dawn
@anbocmor4 жыл бұрын
Yes, further south it's closer to Taw
@ND-dg2xo5 жыл бұрын
Have they changed the pronunciation of Tyrone since I left?
@anbocmor5 жыл бұрын
Not sure. But we can be sure all the English language versions are probably wrong. 😁
@brianmackenzie42045 жыл бұрын
I'm just confused by the use and meaning of init
@anbocmor5 жыл бұрын
That's understandable. It was difficult for native Irish speakers in the past when they first started using English. "It's a good day" and simple sentences like that may have seemed incomplete to them, so they started saying things in English like "theres a good day in it' etc. Have you heard the phrase "for the day that's in it" used? But as I say in the video think of it as meaning "exists" or "is happening" in a very general way. If I were to say to most Irish people today "Theres a fine day in it" the vast majority of them would find it quaint or peculiar, but somewhere in their dna it would resonate and they'd know what I meant. But while the structure is quaint and peculiar when stated in English, it is absolutely vital to Irish and totally natural in Irish.
@brianmackenzie42045 жыл бұрын
@@anbocmor Thank you that has cleared things up for me :)
@williamgifford834 жыл бұрын
I translate “init” ( or “iddnit”) as an extreme contraction of “isn’t it”. Not so much as a question but rather as a request for confirmation. It’s a nice phrase, isn’t it? Not sure if it’s an Americanism.