Irish English: How we actually talk 🇮🇪☘️💚

How do the Irish speak? This video gives you a taste of how Irish English sounds in natural conversation, with subtitles "translating" it for you!

Here you'll see natural use of Irish terms like "at all at all", eejit, gobshite, lad, whisht, c'mere, amn't, giving out, savage, craic, fair play to ya, and many more.

For a more guided approach, see my two blog posts about how to speak Hiberno English:

Video recorded at the YouTube Space in New York

[irishpolyglot]

Hey everyone - I hope you enjoy today's video! To mix this up, you'll notice a few combinations of slang, Irish phrasing, and words that we use in Ireland that would be familiar to the Brits as well (to give a bell for a phonecall for instance). Usage of these words depends - some are regional (you wouldn't hear "How's she cuttin'?" in Dublin much) and others (spa for foolish person) are falling out of use, but the majority is something closer to a casual Irish conversation. Just recorded this for fun, not to be thorough :)

For an actual guide on How to speak English like the Irish, see my two blog posts on the subject:

[stationshelter]

"feck" and "shite" are my favorite. I adore this dialect.

[majidakbari]

I'm about to immigrate to Dublin, I was concerned not to understand a single word people speaking in Ireland, then I watched this video hoping I had been mistaken, guess what? Now I'm freaked out 😱

[HuyQuangBui]

S + to be + after + V-ing = Irish present perfect tense

[rosebud]

Thank you so much for posting this! I was looking everywhere for a video down to the point for how the Irish speak so I could add more authenticity to the way an Irish man is speaking to my character in a book I’m writing. I desperately wanted to capture more of that feeling with the accent through his sentences rather than just putting it in plain English whilst insinuating he’s Irish. This has made my job significantly easier!

[juggerNOTtoday]

Me: *Watches video to learn about irish english from an actual irish civilian*
Also Me: *verifies in comments this is true because i'm untrusting of everything*

[abdelruhman]

As a one who try to learn English
Now I think it's a completely different language

[kaylajane]

im trying to learn how to speak in an irish accent (not to mimic it or anything, but because im geniunely interested in the ways different accents pronounce vowels and the general tone in each one) and this was so good to watch and learn from

[ashley__c]

such a creative way to do this video and to explain and give an idea of what this kind of english is like!

[ChaCha-tmfp]

Ok.
I can't even understand english very well (i am Italian) so i don't know what i am doing here 🤔🤣 however, really interesting! I like discovering new things 🍀
greetings from Italy 🇮🇹

[ravenandpawprint]

I'm writing a story with an Irish character in it and this very helpful!

[GraveTales]

Beautiful thanks Benny. Just what I needed for a character I'm writing!

[gustavomarquizeppe]

Please! Recording more videos like that. It’s so nice

[MasterMichelleFL]

Great craic!!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
💚from south Florida, USA!

[topnotch]

Thanks for the translation I would had been lost

[blu]

As an Irishman I can say this is very accurate, only problem is that every bleedin' county has a different accent and then there is about a billion sub accents and so on, otherwise 100% accurate

Some parts reminds me of Scottish. That was a lovely fun video. Thank you!

[mjswisher]

The video seemed natural and real! Wanted to hear an Irish accent to compare to a recording I heard earlier. Definitely Irish! Thanks

[girleyborer]

I like how you present this video, finally I can understand what some Irish slang meant!!! Thanks. I just subscribe

[afiah]

eejit kind of reminds me of Jamaican Patois. We say eedyat.