Heart warming to see and hear a living language!! Keep it up!

I would have a fada in my name, if youtube would bloody well let me.

@ 2:35 think thats the first time I've seen Dara O Briain get genuinely emotional.

I think this is very funny, even if the thing is actually a very serious one! Thanks!

re: poster I feel the need to point out that in Spanish, French, etc. accent marks are often left out of all caps text

I'd still use it. I don't care if its confusing.

"Y'now?" "I mean?" "Excuses?" Ní Gaeilge iad! The problem is that Irish is devalued in Ireland itself, never mind Britain, and Irish names are anglicised. There's enough problem getting English-speaking people to spell and pronounce Portuguese names like José Mourinho correctly - God knows what it would be like if Portuguese in Portugal were a minority language like Irish in Ireland!

I mo thuairim, fadhb níos measa a bhaineann le Gaeilge sa lá atá inniu ná daoine ag rá píosaí Béarla idir abairtí cosúil le "ye know", "I mean" nó an ceann is measa, "just". Cad é an dochar má fhágtar amach an fada, fulaingeoidh an teanga ma thosaímid ag meascadh tuilleadh Béarla le Gaeilge. Ach is dócha go bhfuil an saincheist sin níos deacra a réiteach, mar deir daoine na focail sin ó dhúchas in ionad rogha.

Is mise Dáibhidh Ó Slatraigh. Who gives a shit if other people don't understand? It's their problem, not ours. XD

@musicman45805 Check out Bród club, you can tune in on the RTÉ player to help you with learning the Cúpla focal.

Put it back in! :D

As someone who has only heard Dara speak English, this is very strange to listen to...

Wow I didn't know Dara spoke Irish :D

Interesting discussion. In the US this issue comes up with Spanish/Latino names. But, as mentioned in this video, it's not easy using accent marks in English speaking countries. I have customers with names like Wojiechowicz, Nguyen and Berisavljevic. I can't imagine someone trying to describe diacritic marks over the phone. Then the differences in naming conventions, such as two last names in Spanish speaking families, gets confusing too. What do others think?

exátamente.

2:11 Is that Bláithín from the @Facts videos?

SIBHSE AG CAINNT FAOI'N FADA NACH BHFUIL AR NEAMH.

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Cad is anim dhuit?

Who? Dara Ó Briain? :)

Déan nóta de na sineadh fadaí.

Is cuma liomsa

They change their accent and prosody 0% from English to Irish. What luck that they found the one language on this world that has the exact same sound system as their native language! What are the odds?