How to improve your Irish language at Home

[@jamiecampbell2637]

Hello! I love watching Ros na Rún Tuesdays and Thursdays on TG4. www.tg4.ie/ga/player/seinnliosta/?plid=6063046122001&ptitle=Ros%20na%20R%C3%BAn It has both Irish and English subtitles, and great for practising comprehension. TG4 has a section for students too. Thank you.

[@kennethtoohill6367]

It’s so nice to see your lovely smile during the midst of the storm we are living through. I’ve been listening to songs and working on my rosary. Thank you for the suggestions! Good health to you! Kenny

[@kaylajoe2791]

I have a lot of irish heritage and ancestors i unfortunately never got to meet but i feel like it's a lot easier to learn irish than any other language I've tried so far! Im taking that as a sign to stick to it❤

[@michaelbarnett1315]

The word PRECIOUS is often thought of as something beautiful or important or valuable. Sometimes it’s compared to something cute…at least here in America it is. But the word also describes something RARE. Irish, in so many definitions, is so precious to me. This helped so much as I am isolated linguistically. I don’t know a single person who speaks Irish even a little bit. Americans really just have so little to do with the rest of the world in most cases. With the exception of a clergyman in Dublin, I have no one to speak with. Even he is hard to reach. The only thing I know about my Irish roots is that my father told me we came to America because of a famine. He never told me where, I had to find this out for myself strangely enough. Everything you said in this video is so very true. I do speak German, and, as this too is difficult because few speak it here, I have learned to adapt to these strategies. I will also say this! I became a German teacher and found that teaching the language has been my strongest means of improving on my language skills personally. At present, I am teaching my four boys Irish. They love Irish, the people, the culture and Ireland’s history. Because of your recording of Óró, sé do bheatha ‘baile; I hear this being sung throughout the house. In fact, it’s driving my wife crazy 😜 Teaching is truly the best way in my experience. For those in America or other places where Irish is seldom spoken; I might suggest also-along with the genius idea of the Gaeilge audio books and reading them-reading books about Irish history in English. They are replete with the urgency for knowing the Irish language. You’ll discover as well that even Ireland’s greatest statesmen struggled to learn the language, so this will keep you from getting discouraged; for even the best of the Irish had difficulty learning. The key is not to quit! It is difficult, but not impossible! And it’s so rewarding! Thank you, Siobhán, for all of the hard work you do to preserve this most PRECIOUS language 💚🤍🧡 Éireann go brách!

[@bradchew7937]

Arrrr !!! Great to see u back Siobhan , i've missed seeing you all, I have been very slack with my language practice, but you've given me motivation. Brad (nth east Victoria)

[@bonzolo2358]

That accent is the best thing I’ve heard all day

[@Alasdair37448]

Thank you so much for the free links and useful resources it can be hard sometimes to learn a new language when you are not a person of means. These tool expand my capacity to learn Irish go maith raibh agat!

[@jasonheaden3055]

These are great tips! thank you! Also, I love your two icons in the background. Are they Saints Brigid and Brendan?

[@christopherrainbow3113]

Go raibh maith agat! I really appreciate your videos and professional manner and outlook.

[@dukederichleau3443]

This is such a great channel. Go raibh maith agat Siobhan!

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

As a huge language enthusiast myself with quite a lot of experience in this area (slowly coming to understand “how one should go about independent language study“ in order to optimize「time/effort vs improvement」efficiency/effectiveness) that I’ve attained from varying depthnesses of study (thus highly varying fluency levels) of English (mother-tongue), Mandarin (native-fluency), French (“upper intermediate”), Korean (“intermediate”), Hokkien, Lenape, & Irish (very low fluency), I must say: MAD RESPECT for giving one of THE best discussions on the issue that I’ve ever heard. The advice you give is SOLID, and I can tell “you know your shit” when it comes to this topic area. You radiate a sort of “very high degree of professionalism” light/vibe in this video. So props 👏🏼👍🏼👌🏼💪🏼✌🏼 Also, if I may make a suggestion/recommendation: you should (actually, I *implore* you to do so 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😅😆 if not inconvenient or too cumbersome on your end 😁😉) make Irish language videos on literally any topic that you want (ie your topic of discussion in this video here) in which you speak in「typical, natural, authentic, fluent Gaeilge」; just like KZbinrs do in all other languages (people speaking in their mother-tongue), talk in normal-speed with typical native-like articulation/diction/wording/expression-usage etc. Then add Gaeilge (**not English**) subtitles that accurately & precisely effectively transcribe your full-length orally-spoken language content. If you could create such types of Gaeilge KZbin videos, even if they are just like 1-3 minutes long (whatever length is convient for you, or that which you feel is most appropriate ✌🏼😁 Ideally, though, “several minutes” (or more) would be better...) even that would still be SUPER valuable - an **incredibly useful** language learning tool! I’d watch ever single one of those from start to finish!! And would analyze every single sentence, vocabulary word, and utilized grammatical-structure in paused subtitles. Irish is currently severely lacking such resources (they seem to be virtually non-existent...) which is a huge shame, since it should be quite easy to do ->「official Irish-language-utilizing organizations」adding Gaeilge subtitles to all spoken Irish content, to as to help non-fluent speakers understand exactly what is said. If you are serious about making high-quality content to help people like me effectively learn Irish, then it’s really something I hope you can consider!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼😅😅 Either: (A) make your own relatively long-length (normal KZbinr video length) Gaeilge videos, in which essentially all spoken content is in Irish -> not English --or-- (B) re-upload already existent Irish language「TV series / talk shows / documentaries / movies / music videos / news broadcasts / etc」but add ***full-length, accurate + precise GAEILGE subtitles*** English subtitles are essentially useless, and actually had best not be included, imo. In this way, the brains 🧠 of Irish-language learners who are using such subtitled videos for the purpose of studying Gaeilge (again, if only Irish & no English is provided) than this - as a very major/significant positive consequence - will naturally make the Irish language learners’ brains「fully-enter into + *stay* within “Irish mode”」, both for passive listening comprehension + reading input, as well as non-passive/active “thinking in Irish” output. Of course, people studying Irish in this manner will (especially when still only at/within the relatively early stages of learning Gaeilge) need to frequently look up English translations for non-familiar Irish vocabulary that appears in the dialogue. But that’s okay - the point is to *minimize* (complete elimination is not possible at pre-advanced, pre-highly-fluent levels) the brain entering “English language mode” as much as possible. Have one’s brain spend as much time as possible in “Irish language mode” is especially important for people who don’t already speak some other Celtic language, since sentence formation & grammar is quite (if not considered *very*) different between「Celtic vs Germanic/Italic」languages -> the latter group, of course, native English speakers are much more familiar with and thus relatively easily accustomed to, in comparison to the former group (modern Celtic languages) Anyway, there’s really so much extremely useful & valuable things you can do to expand + enhance this channel!! Please consider my suggestion, regarding creating/uploading「“A-type” or “B-type” video content」🙏🏼🙏🏼 as described above 💪🏼💪🏼😊😊 I cannot overstate the immense help this would provide for not only myself, but ALL people passionately trying to learn “fluent” (an extremely subjective term; for me, at least, the ultimate goal & aspiration is reaching “native level language ability”, in all areas) Gaeilge And thanks + props again though for *this* (here) super high quality video! 👏🏼👏🏼 Please keep at it 💪🏼💪🏼 I myself, as well as many others, are all super appreciative for your channel / videos ✌🏼✌🏼

[@elifoster2502]

TG4的Seinnteoir有一些有爱尔兰语的字幕的节目

[@francescavmpagni]

A beautiful song to listen to is Amhrán na farraige!

[@m.a.2389]

Killed me :-( So wonderful, its from an animated movie

[@jwmulligan1]

Grand pep talk and useful hints.

[@tudormiller8898]

Love this video I could watch your videos all day.

[@NaomiAva]

Hi Siobhán, Thanks for all the Irish classes. Joy be upon you

[@laugau9097]

Very useful thank you👍

[@pompikaushal4604]

Dia dhuit! I will definitely try to follow your tips in order to speak and understand Irish language! Nice video!Slán agat!

[@TheodoreFrazier-f7p]

Thank you for the information 😊

[@BitesizeIrish]

My pleasure 😊

[@TheodoreFrazier-f7p]

@@BitesizeIrish how do you say baby in Irish ... thank you an have a great day

[@Rekeronse2543]

I love your channel so much! grma!

[@taylorrwbrown]

Go raibh maith agat! Some great tips and resources for my Gaeilge-learning journey.

[@sheajm]

Excellent!

[@malachymccloskey7839]

The first song I learnt so óro sé do bheatha bhaile. A very beautiful song.. Then lately I learnt what it was in english. And learnt about gráinne mhaol. a real warrior queen. Now I am starting to learn Irish. Celtic wwomen have great videos on youtube with translations.

[@Melvorgazh]

Yep! Tá súile mílis is álainn agat a Shiobháin 🌹💖

[@irachapman5824]

Can yous please do a video explaining diphthongs and how they are pronounced in the different dialects?

[@Melvorgazh]

Now one can download físeáin programs in the TG4 app, at least the Android one.

[@jeszyandrew419]

It's really a awesome tips thanks alot...

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Dia Duit, Siobhan. Thank you for showing us the way to learn Irish. I have just started to learn Irish. Thá sé go maith. Slainté.

[@alisoayd4630]

You mean " Tá mé go maith" ?

[@alanbrowne2529]

@@alisoayd4630 probably

[@christopherduncan9907]

Dia Dhuit is mise Christopher conas ata tu Siobhan agus Bitesize Irish ☘️ team and I'm learning more words in the Irish language and I speak the Irish language on a daily basis as well and I can learn more Irish and it really helps me a lot to improve more and the Irish language is important agus Go Raibh maith agat Siobhan and Bitesize Irish team for this video and God bless you Siobhan and Bitesize Irish team ☘️ and God bless Ireland 🇨🇮☘️🍀💯✨✨ and stay safe 🙂

[@soniaholmes5407]

Hi, Can you please do a video on double consonants and vowels. I'm learning Irish and I find this hard to understand. GRMA.

[@kaylajoe2791]

THANK YOU

[@hempenasphalt1587]

Is that St Ita of Kileedy behind you :)

[@cassaundramariac9075]

Dia dhuit! Which saints do you have in the pictures behind you?

[@auroraboraas]

Thank you :)

[@dronedruid153]

Dia Duit Siobhan. Could you recommend some good books as gaelige? At present I'm only a beginner but I'd hope to become good enough to read real classics before too long, so could you suggest quality books of various levels?

[@LadyNailz]

Can you help me with the pronunciation of "Scian?" A knife, correct? Any sized knife? Thank you for any help, and thank you for these fun videos.

[@Tjmce]

It is pronounced S- Ke-AN

[@paulJkiely]

Awesome tips... Go raibh maith agat!

[@kathyalberter5972]

I am looking for the Irish Language radio websites you mentioned. Anyone help ?

[@sierramarie1227]

I’ve done research into my last name history and it’s origin I believe is “Mac Maolchaoin” and I cannot understand how to pronounce it properly, can you help me! :)

[@johnnason2203]

Go raibh maith agat a Shiobhan. Faisnéis an-mhaith. (Seán)

[@heidimcgill5999]

I am not hearing the "th" sound. How would you write the word Father to show this? Fadder?

[@alanbrowne2529]

That’s just her accent

[@cjt28]

Super idol

[@mathonamoore123]

I can't learn words unless they are translated, in writing. I can't learn from just listening. I hated Irish at school. All we did was read boring books and our teacher refused to translate them. Peig was so boring. The only time I heard oral Irish was for about 20 minutes when, we were doing our intercert exam (junior cert). I failed Irish in my leaving but I got a B in French. Why don't we learn Irish for 12 years by using oral recordings and avoid tough, boring books?! Nobody, I know can speak Irish and that is after 12 years of it, being forced upon us, at school!!! It's badly taught in the school system.

[@rsmeditation5613]

Hello Mz Moore. I was very interested to come across your comment about having learnt Irish at school. I feel the same way, about how children should be taught any new language. I know children in the Waldorf Schools are taught German, for example, purly by listening to a native speaker, and can very quickly answer basic questions in fluent German. They are known as 'Steiner schools', colloquially, (after Rudolf Steiner) who started the first school in the Waldorf Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart,Germany. The technique seems to work very well. I once saw a group of 5 and 6 year olds being taught in this way, abd their comprehension was very good.

[@aranosaranos]

Best would be to have a girlfriend from connemara. But i don't think my present partner would be enthusiastic about that😂

[@KC-wi4gh]

Dia duit Siobhán . Tá mé i mo chonaí i Lorgain i Co. Ard Mhacha. Éistim RTE Raidió haon ag mo obair. Éistim an Nuacht :) and try to pick up what's been said in the news. Please forgive me . I'm sure there are a few grammatical errors in my message. Is mise le meas, Ciarán .

[@KC-wi4gh]

@@BitesizeIrish Go raibh maith agaibh.