Speak Irish Gaelic like a native (Part 3): Pick a dialect, and stick to it until fluent.

Within the three main dialects (Ulster, Connaught and Munster) there are several variants.
If you choose one you will achieve a more authentic speech, more conducive to natural conversation.
Then once fluent, you can decide to stick to that variant, or fairly easily learn to adapt to one, some, or all of the others.

[@yanaraitt3451]

My mother tongue is Tatar. And learning Irish language has been my dream since I was a teenager. Hope to visit this beautiful country soon and learn more about different Irish dialects. Thank you for your videos, I’d kill to have a teacher like you 🫶🏼

[@iontach9844]

Thank you for complimenting Irish. :)

[@vampyricon7026]

I would definitely be interested in videos of the various varieties!

[@jcharcoal]

For Ulster Irish, see Now You're Talking.

[@neebeeshaabookwayg6027]

​@@jcharcoal oh, yes, I love it!! 🎉❤ someone steered me there... past grandfather, were from donegal... I wanted ulster dialect..

[@vicentepintadoiborra6959]

Please make more videos of the different dialects spoken in Eire, but show a few examples.

[@sula1529]

Very interesting and thank you very much for this video

[@mollymcnaughton3133]

I'd love an opportunity to get totally immersed so I can work on a dialect, because my beginning "dialect" is going to be Lexington county South Carolina with a pinch of Central Midwest..😁 I guess that since my ancestors were born in Cork, Munster would be my dialect..🤔

[@PaulO-rr1gz]

My goal in my Scottish Gaelic is to gather as much vocabulary as I can from everywhere and at least understand Irish but I want to try get to Islay dialect. I started Irish 10 years ago with limited resources and never progressed past basics with that but it’s been burnt into my mind with intention to learn since I was a teenager and it’s hard to replace the basics with other words that are so similar I’ve been learning every day for 6 months but I still count in Irish not Scottish Gaelic. As long as I’m understood

[@d.k.7570]

Are there online resources on Islay Gaelic? I haven't been able to find any information on specific Gàidhlig dialects apart from a few of the differences in pronunciation between them.

[@donovanfoto3263]

I was in Ireland last year (2022) and tried to spend time in County Cork and County Kerry. I got to spend a few hours in Dingle. I also managed to get to Lurgan, on their first day of class. I wasn't able to spend enough time there, because of Brexit and COVID. I couldn't arrange a car.

[@ErykKrzeminski]

Hello, thanks for the video! Also, I'm trying to learn Silbo Gomero. Are you planning to make some more videos about it?

[@cnuasachanbharraigh]

Haigh a Phatchy, I came to say that I couldn't agree more - pick a dialect, and make it your own. You'll learn about the nuances of the others as you go along. Físeán ar dóigh.

[@katooloughlin]

Oh good you have learned about dialects. This is a much better video. Thank you

[@SodaGod1337]

Do you know any good Munster books/channels/resources to look for?

[@Peru-fc3bi]

An bhféadfá físeán eile a dhéanamh faoi fhuaimeanna na Gaeilge? Fuaireas post i nGaelscoil le déanaí. Deinim mo dhícheall chun Gaeilge na Mumhan nó Gaelainn a labhairt (sinsir ó Ghaeltacht Mhúscraí). Ceapann na leanaí go bhfuil an 'ch' agus an 'gh' fuaimeanna greannmhar! Ba mhaith liom clár a dhearadh chun na fuaimeanna a mhúineadh i gceart...is mór an trua go n-úsáidtear fuaimeanna an Bhéarla..

[@disappointedenglishman98]

Is maith é sin, a Pheru! Lean ar aghaidh leis sin. B'fhéidir go mbeidh Gaelainn nádúrtha ag do mhacaibh léinn agus iad a fágaint na meánscoile - rud ná fachtar ach go hannamh ins na Gaelscoileanna eile!

[@pmhcare]

Love your videos. I'm trying to learn the language and I have noticed a lot of native Irish KZbinrs under the age of 40 or so seem to all pronounce the name of the language with a hard g at the end and it sounds to me like you're saying it with a c at the end. I'm curious if I'm just hearing it wrong or if there is a reason why the pronunciation sounds so different to me. Sorry if this is a dumb question😅

[@patchy642]

The name of the language does end with a hard C, similar to the names of some other languages (Arabic, Icelandic, Runic). The word is "Gaelic". I'm not familiar with hearing it pronounced with any other sound, unless they're saying it in another language. For example, one of the Gaelic words for Gaelic is "Gaeilig". Would it be that you've heard it said actually in Gaelic?

[@joshadams8761]

I am curious how well you can understand Manx and Scottish Gaelic.

[@grainneoconnor]

grmma for your videos, i really appreciate them. im an absolute beginner and was wondering how soon you think i could become fluent in irish?

[@patchy642]

Which grammar are you referring to? Gaelic grammar and its acquisition, do you mean? I prefer to teach grammar as an integral part of the general immersive lesson, implicitly, as the studies and my experience show this to be the most effective method.

[@grainneoconnor]

@@patchy642 I do mean the acquisition of gaelic grammar. i'd like to be able to speak gaelic as soon as possible but i find it difficult to begin thinking in the language because i can only translate everything from english in my head. I'm attempting to immerse myself in it as much as i can but can only do so much living in the U.S. Thank you!

[@shadetreader]

Though a native anglophone, my own dialect & accent of English is an odd sort of mutant hybrid. As long as it's comprehensible, blending aspects of various dialects and accents doesn't feel at all strange to me. It might sound unusual to native speakers, but I'm well accustomed to sounding a bit weird at first to others 😅

[@patchy642]

What's an anglophone? A Canadian?

[@d.k.7570]

Patchy, what Mayo dialect do you speak yourself? If I understood you right, it's not the Achill dialect. Do you speak Erris, Tourmakeady, or another one?

[@patchy642]

I speak Partry Gaelic, the dialect that includes Tourmakeady.

[@d.k.7570]

@@patchy642 Thanks. I'll probably contact you in the summer on Italki for lessons! Would it make sense to learn Connemara Gaelic with Learning Irish first and then learn Mayo Gaelic as a list of differences to that variety, or are there too many and too big differences between the two for that to be practical?

[@patchy642]

@@d.k.7570 That depends on your level of motivation. If you have a passion for such knowledge, then yes, go for it. The differences are considerable, indeed, the Mayo variety being much closer to the official standard, but all knowledge is a bonus, so sure, learning one variety will always give you a solid foundation for adding other dialects on to it.

[@johnpurcell7525]

10000 dialects in a language spoken by nobody as everyday language try to revive that

[@DA-og4px]

Native Mayo Irish is moribund. Do you agree? I personally wouldn’t learn any form of Mayo Irish extensively because the number of native speakers in the Mayo Gaeltachtaí is very small - there are entire communities where not a single child is being raised in a habitually Irish-speaking home anymore. Even in Ceathrú Thaidhg very few habitual native speakers remain. It’s the same in An Eachléim, Fionnaithe agus Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, etc. The richest Irish and most robust Gaelic communities in the world are found in south/south central Conamara - Ceantar na nOileán above all, as well as around Camas, Ros Muc and further west, oileán Mhaínis and Na hÁirde near Carna. Irish learners and foreigners, I’d suggest that you learn the spoken Irish of the region(s) with the highest density of native speakers!

[@CCc-sb9oj]

That's no reason not to learn Mayo Irish. It still has native speakers, and it is very much mutually comprehensible with Connemara Irish.

[@DA-og4px]

@@CCc-sb9oj But why Mayo Irish when Galway Irish (particularly in south Conamara) has ten times as many native speakers?

[@cygnusmir1627]

@@DA-og4pxWell what’s the significance of the native speakers if you’re still mutually intelligible? People learn different dialects for different reasons, maybe you’ve ancestors from mayo or maybe you just like the features, the native population isn’t really that crucial to your decision

[@d.k.7570]

​@@cygnusmir1627If there are barely any native speakers of a dialect, it's harder to learn because there's not much people to practice with.

[@cygnusmir1627]

@@d.k.7570 That might be true but it still doesn’t mean somebody shouldn’t learn

[@rolomilis1946]

Three macro dialects? What are they? Never mentioned. Too many words. Little enlightment. Incoherent ramble through the sub- variants. Still no clue what dialect I should choose. Yes, you should have brought along some simple examples. No obvious preparation. Bewildered.

[@disappointedenglishman98]

Three macro dialects: Ulster, Connacht and Munster. Most people chose the dialect they are ancestrally connected to. Connacht is most similar to the made-up Standard, so if you don't have a particular preference, I'd choose that - and use Learning Irish by Mícheál Ó Siadhail.

[@LL----LL34]

Try to get to the point sooner, don't mean to be harsh.. In alot of your videos you take too long getting to the issue at hand.

[@patchy642]

Thanks for your opinion, but me myself I prefer not to hurry.

[@Chief_Brody]

Stop calling it Gaelic.

[@cigh7445]

uh ohh, here comes the 'Irish not Gaelic Gaelic is only Scottish here in ireland we call it Irish or Gaeilge/Gwaylga' brigade telling a native speaker of Mayo Irish what's what because their incompetent teachers and monolingual English speaking peers who did Irish for the leaving cert surely know best on the evidence of their sheer numbers!

[@johnboyce8279]

No.

[@nna1800]

You make no sense, it can be called Gaelic