Gaeilge: interview in Irish about learning the language, with a native speaker (subtitled)

PRESS YOUTUBE'S SUBTITLES BUTTON!! There's a human made translation to English AND ORIGINAL IRISH there ;)

After a couple of weeks in the Gaeltacht, I took Raidió na Life up on an old offer for an interview on the air, entirely in Irish. My Irish is still not fluent (this level is after 2 months of work in the language as an adult, after a completely disinterested childhood ending with doing the Lower Level examination), but I was happy to have covered a few topics.
I'm hoping that other adults with very weak Irish will see this and perhaps be inspired to give it a try too!

[irishpolyglot]

Update: I had help from a wonderful Irish speaker, and now you can read the subtitles as Gaeilge :) Try it out!

[klunny]

we speak Irish at home and it is going to happen everywhere in ireland

[lunacresentmoon]

This is the first video on YouTube I have found with proper Irish subtitles. It becomes very helpful for me in learning Irish

[AddictofFilm]

Got to learn this language, its going to piss off all my loyalist relatives in Northern Ireland.

[cannonballkid]

Celtic languages still have many speakers! Yec'hed mat eus Breizh (regards from Brittany)

[LisaHerger]

What a wonderful video! I had an Irish roommate in college and learned quite a bit about Irish English and the Irish language then. It was great to learn more and to HEAR so much Irish spoken well. It's fascinating to hear the special Irish "melody" and intonation in the language it comes from. Thanks for making this!

[donnasteinberg]

Cool. Thought I'd have a listen now that I've been learning on Duolingo and I was pleasantly surprised how many words or phrases I was able to catch and understand. I am excited for the day I can actually understand and speak within a conversation completely in Irish.

[ajusted]

the radio presenter has such a great radio voice

[hockeyme]

I'm going to Ireland this year and I'm super excited to learn a little Irish before my trip, hopefully I'll be able to use some of it!

[ruth]

I've always wanted to learn it but people drilled it into my head that it was a dead language. Like bloody hell! I know more Japanese than I know of my "native language"

[thomasmccauley]

It is actually a very important language . Celtic was spoken before the Romanization of Europe. French is a Gallo-Romano language. As a very ancient Indo-European language it has connection to Greek, Latin, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Russian, Farsi, and Sanskrit.

[carllove]

Great job on both the video and learning the language. I am trying to learn Irish now, but I live in the USA and there aren't that many places that offer classes. The nearest one is about 3 hours away. But I have bought and went through the three levels of Rosetta Stone, and needing more, I have ordered Turas Teanga and other book and CD combinations. I can't wait to get them. You are very good at learning languages if you learned that much in only 3 months. I speak Spanish very well but it took me years to be able to speak it well. Anyway thanks for the video.

[MykKlemme]

GRMA for the subtitles as gaeilge! Learning on my own so it's super helpful to hear it spoken and read along.

[irishpolyglot]

Right. If people want a background and summary of the Irish language, check out the link I've just added to the description. I wrote that post a while back and it summarises Irish/Gaeilge.

[klothildelammerschwanz]

I learn it actually (I'm from Germany) and it's hard but I want to learn it even if it would takes 24 hours a day! I'm so in love with this lovely language! Coinnigh an Ghaeilge beo💚

[tainahollo]

Kaii Yoshida, I have the same problem - I live in Finland. I went to the nearest big library and borrowed a language course with CD:s and a booklet, and I think it will give me a good start. But I often feel I would need to have a live teacher. For example, all language courses and books I found in the library (and on the net, too) seem to be meant for English-speakers. So the sounds and grammar have been explained from an English point of view. And of course it would be nice to be able to practice the language with somebody, but I think I will have to wait until I can travel to Ireland!

[irishpolyglot]

Yes, but it's spelled "Bhuel" as used in Irish, so it may as well be considered an Irish word. The same way English has so many French words in it, but we'll still consider them English. Its use is only as an interjection. "Well" the adverb is translated as "go maith".

[towelsniffer]

Im looking for more resources like this where there are english and irish subtitles. Are there any other good videos

[Lillyoak]

If you want to learn correct Irish and the richness of the language then yes you do have to go to the Gaeltacht

[naomiseraphina]

Go raibh mile maith agaibh faoi video sin a deanamh!! Is brea liom gach rud a d'uirt sibh. Bim ag foghlaim Gaeilge le ocht mhi deag anuas, agus ceapaim is teanga an-fhurasta a fhoghlaim i an Ghaeilge. Nior mo Ghaeilge go foirfe go foill, gan amhras, ach ta me ag feabhsu de reir a cheile. Is achaini liom mar lan duine agus is feidir Gaeilge a usaid. Anois, beannachtai, agus slan.