Speedrunning Duolingo Irish / Gaeilge / Gaelic Until I Crash & Burn

Speedrunning Duolingo Irish / Gaeilge / Gaeilic (until I crash and burn). How well does Duo Lingo know Irish? How well do I know Irish? Let's find out!
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[@Clisare]

If you like Irish language videos, I have loads! Check them out here: clisare.rocks/Gaeilge ☘️

[@kgdalley]

I was trying to "play" along to see how much I could get as well. Your reaction to "Sinn fein" cracked me up. :D

[@KP762a]

I though Sinn Fein was a political party....however, that may explain her reaction

[@eugenielegrand8590]

It's the only one I knew (I'm not Irish, and don't speak any Irish, but I have spent far too many of my lunch breaks reading wikipedia pages about the history and political system of Ireland).

[@GhaithnEire]

​@@KP762ait is a political party, they are called Sinn Fein because we wanted to govern ourselves and not have the British govern us

[@HuyQuangBui]

@@GhaithnEire It used to be a much bigger one, yes.

[@davidkelly9594]

'Sinn Féin' means 'ourselves' in Irish.

[@aliwantizu]

I'm really glad that you did this. I have been relearning French via Duolingo for over 18 months, and in between lessons it has always said that "more people are learning Irish on Duolingo than there are native Irish speakers." Which...wow. So, to see a native Irish speaker run thru it was really kewl to watch. BTW, one "hint" is to look for the Capitalized word as that usually starts each sentence, although at times they do give you more than one capitalized word, but usually not until further along the program. Slainte! ~Be Blessed

[@ISJuliaCorrer]

I'm trying to learn Irish in Duolingo for no particular reason since I'm brazilian and I doubt it's going to be useful for me but I'm having a pretty fun experience and a hard one too because the app rarely gives pronunciation examples, so this video is really helpful for newbies like me that have no clue off how the words sounds like

[@whatdoievenputheretbh]

I'm also a Brazilian doing Irish lol, but this was 2 years ago

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I highly recommend learning Irish 2gether with Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Manx / Breton / Scottish Gaelic / Cornish / Forn Svenska as these languages are the prettiest languages ever that are just too pretty not to know - I am learning them 2gether and am using the prettiest accent in Gaelic and Irish which isn’t like the pronunciation that is usually on those ws etc, because most of the time the pronunciation and emphasis aren’t correct or the accent isn’t one of the best, so I recommend trying to find the best accents for each language, for example, I am modeling my Irish accent to the Gaelic accent that I heard in a video about Celtic languages without accent, as I heard a really pretty accent, and in that accent in a word that has letter combinations like ionn / aonn / eonn etc the emphasis is on the first vowel like í-uhn and é-an etc and agus is pronounced uhgás with the emphasis on the á or something like that!

[@christopherl436]

Duolingo Irish has some odd examples, usually involving some fear named Pól. And I always mess up the nuachtán/nuachtáin answers if there are no particles like an/na as clues, because the distinction is only then heard in the pronounciation of the slender n of the plural form, and that is so subtle it's easy to miss, at least for me. Was fun to see you do this, Clisare!

[@Autisticbanmeforbeingdifferent]

I’ve often wondered why that’s the only name it seems to use

[@keitherik124]

@@Autisticbanmeforbeingdifferent Are there no cailíní or mna in Duolingo’s Ireland?

[@kammymarie13]

Watching you try to remember "autumn" was a whole ass mood 🤣 I died when you said "Samhain! ..... In ENGLISH thankyouverymuch"

[@timothyodonnell8591]

This was great. More like this please.

[@loca4crafts]

You've inspired me to start my daily Duolingo practice again. Thanks.

[@amymorgan4891]

Please oh please make Irish learning videos. Duolingo has made me fluent in saying the men are in the fridge

[@sarahsings8468]

Watching you trying to remember autumn was entertaining haha

[@Autisticbanmeforbeingdifferent]

Thanks, I no longer feel bad about my confusion learning Gaelic with duolingo since you had to stop and think a few times lol

[@saec1997]

Clare, would you try the Scottish gaelic duolingo to see if its really that similar to Irish? Would love to see that

[@DonP_is_lostagain]

I'm learning the Scottish Gaelic and the main difference (to me) is the spelling. Most of the words are pronounced either the same, or extremely similar. For instance, Sidhe in Scots Gaelic is Sith but is pronounced "she".

[@Clisare]

It’s a different language. Might try it on twitch but wouldn’t make a video about it

[@tomasbyrom3954]

As someone who has done à fair bit of the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo, I could get most of these right

[@brianboru7684]

@@Clisare It's the same language according to Brendan Behan, only they say "tá" in Ireland and "tha" in Scotland. They say "thá" in Ring in Co. Waterford, so they must be speaking Scottish Gaelic there not Irish.

[@Jay-ql4gp]

I always enjoy when you do ones like these. Thank you!

[@daithi1966]

That was really cool. Now I'm going to have to look through your youtube page to see if you've done more of these.

[@emiller760408]

Fantastic you're keeping Irish alive

[@mrdorkomatic]

That actually looked pretty fun!

[@Greg_Watchorn]

Never have I enjoyed Irish more than watching this vid!!!!😅😅😅😅. My housemate was looking at me roaring "autumn" at my phone!!!! (I was wearing headphones)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍁🍁🍁🍁. Really enjoyed this Clare, brilliant fun😃😃😃🟢⚪🟠🟩⬜🟧

[@lorrainethomas8797]

Same! My husband was all, "Why are you yelling 'autumn' at your phone?"

[@GrumpyOldBastard]

Could never do a speed test like that between typo's aka fat fingers, actual misspells and the occasional reversing letter order/sequence I'd be screwed.

[@faiththomas1749]

Learning Irish bcoz I found out I have Irish blood ( I am African American );

[@seandaniels9168]

Na, your Irish! :) every single human being on this planets forefathers & mothers after all came out of Africa! :) Its what made us human!

[@NeinCookiesforu]

@@seandaniels9168 wow your grammar…

[@lorrainethomas8797]

I've been struggling with Gaeilge nearly two years now. My pronunciation is shite and I don't comprehend the grammar much at all. But I know what fíon means and really, isn't that half the battle?

[@eleanorchapple8772]

Or half the bottle

[@lorrainethomas8797]

@@eleanorchapple8772 🤣 You're right; that's the correct spelling.

[@OzBeefer]

I’ve only been learning Irish for a month or so and it was very enjoyable to get a few correct!!!! slan;)

[@Sinsearach]

I'm back learning Irish daily nearly a month on that app, this was great to play along. Duolingo has jogged so much of my memory of the language from school. 🧠✨💚 Still a way to go to be a decent conversationalist 😆

[@briannabee812]

You did a lot better than I did Claire. In fact this was quite humbling for me!

[@timjohnson3877]

More of this please :-))

[@dustinrosenau2733]

I've been using duo lingo to learn German. And they definitely use phrases you really would never need to use. But it is fun learning new things so I've been sticking with it.

[@aguy4247]

Yeah, seems to be regular on that app. I'm an Irish speaker and I checked out the Irish program in this app as well, and saw a few really goofy sentences that nobody would ever use in real life.

[@Rebecca.ogrady.2010]

I learned a good bit of Irish in that. I’ve learned loads of French off Dulingo. I’ve been learning French for a month in school and I still know everything we’re learning. I tried out French Spanish and German on dulingo as they’re the languages offered in my school and i liked French’s o much that I kept doing it. I’m shit at Irish. I probably know more French than Irish! You’re amazing at Irish though!

[@jessicavilleneuve6336]

This video was quite fascinating and entertaining! 🙌 Just begun learning gaeilge to reconnect with this part of my identity. I never thought I’d swear so much just to figure out how to prononce Irish words. I’m up for the challenge It would be great if duolingo offered more audio. it’s lacking :/ You made it look so easy! It was great to watch! Thanks! 😊

[@al.n.darodda6183]

How do you say ..... “I broke my finger playing Tag Rugby ?

[@sukondisawontym7460]

Good stuff 👍

[@philomelodia]

I see my children’s future in this video. But, with Spanish. 🤣 enjoyed it. Beautiful language.

[@daithio]

Maith thú, a chara - sár-iarracht déanta agat!

[@jeffmcdonald4225]

I love to hear you speak Irish. I wish so much that I could.

[@adzgaming5324]

The plural you "sibh" and singular you "tu" always get me as well. They could do with yous,yis or ye in there.😂

[@irishveganwitch7847]

Love your brain freeze at autumn 🤣🤣🤣

[@ellw7830]

as an american learning gaelic for the first time in duolingo, this was very validating & also informative lol

[@A9.9.]

When referring to Irish you would say Gaeilge rather than Gaelic, pronounced gwayl-gah. sorry for saying this 2 years late XD

[@jamieswafford977]

Having been doing Gàdhlig on Duolingo, I can understand some Irish words here and there. I know they're pretty close, so it's interesting to see.

[@Clisare]

The fuck is Gàdhlig😂😂

[@seandaniels9168]

Clisare, you should do an entire duolingo Irish course from start to finish just like the one youve done here, there is a great rise in interest in the oul tongue & as well as being very helpful to newcomers it would i think become extremely well followed and used if you advertised it as such. GRMA, Seán p.s. it does help that you dont always get it right also because we are all after all human & it encourages us that also fail to get up & have another craic at it. Bless be..

[@Baughlin]

Keep it up. 👍

[@FionaM17]

I’m trying to learn Irish for my Irish grandparents and other family over there, but Duolingo doesn’t make it easy 😂 I’d have better luck just getting my dad to start speaking to me in only Irish and trying to figure out what he means lol

[@ManMan23016]

Clisare is such a joy and I love hearing/learning about Irish speaking from her vids

[@bryanbrasher6011]

You got me beat!

[@luciano609]

consider yourself lucky that the AI voice wasn't around 2 years ago - i'm learning Gaeilge on Duo Lingo to help my daughter with homework and i'm going nuts with the app hopping between Ulster and AI accent 😱

[@timjohnson3877]

Thanks!

[@Clisare]

Thank you so much!

[@Bob_just_Bob]

Did this confirm for you that you’ve attained the level of proficiency in Irish you thought or did it surprise you by showing you that you’re better at it then you thought you were? Learning a language on your own is a struggle. I have been struggling with Chinese for many years and it’s endlessly frustrating. I applaud your dedication

[@Clisare]

It confirmed that I haven’t lost what I learned in school and college. I’m not really learning it on my own, I’m just really out of practice

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

For what it's worth you blew me out of the water

[@doranconall9995]

don't hurt yourself banging on that desk Superstar

[@massivearsehole]

i loved the sinn fein part lol

[@oliverdobes6618]

XD "Except for the wine" "...for once, the truth" hahaha. They go hand in hand. It's like "I'm cutting out all beverages but water....except for the wine." "For once, the truth".

[@alexconnor9680]

I've been learning Irish on Duolingo since last August so this video is extremely up my alley. It was your videos about Gaeilge that partially inspired my desire to learn the language. Go raibh maith agat! Also I was getting really bored being stuck at home. I'm really enjoying it nonetheless and I've learned a lot. I got most of the answers in this video right!

[@edwardthomas6956]

Always remember that us foreign learners will be mostly taught by Duolingo... It is all I had in the way of accessible material, having given up when first attempting other offline materials like buntus cainte

[@legojenn]

I'm learning Irish on DuoLingo because I can, but I should try to see if I could speed run French, tabarnak.

[@injunsun]

What's funny? Sinn fein is the only one I knew, from the days of the Northern Irish troubles.

[@amber2212]

The Sinn Fein thing, usually the word they want you to use first is capitalized and the rest are lowercase

[@Clisare]

Oh that’s such a giveaway 😂 🙈

[@amber2212]

@@Clisare it actually helps me out a lot because my brain wants to arrange the words like we do with English. "The vegetarian eats vegetables" I immediately want to go "An veigeatóir" but then I see "an" isn't capitalized and then I'm like oh yeah I have to start with Itheann

[@itzthelegend27]

Scooter Magrueder pinned comments brought me here

[@Clisare]

Oh! From what video?

[@itzthelegend27]

​@@Clisare It was one of his Top 100. Top 100 First world problems.

[@danielskomp9072]

Nios fearr le SINN FÉIN!

[@Grassdia]

I feel like we need to get together and create “Nua-Gaeilge” which is Irish without all the séimhus and Uru bs

[@loriwilliams6981]

I’ve been using Duolingo to learn Irish for awhile I just haven’t figured out how to do accent marks and Duolingo sometimes counts stuff wrong if you don’t use an accent mark and I’m going how am I supposed to get this correct when I don’t know how to do accent marks?!

[@haydensnowbe9821]

That was so impressive. So jealous. I need to get back into my French. Since my Cajun Godfather’s passed I’m loosing my French.

[@Adamlol642]

I’m Irish, I go to an Irish school but I failed the Duolingo Irish test

[@murakami3602]

Really ? How ?

[@Adamlol642]

@@murakami3602 idk

[@NHPsychoticGoat]

Title confused me. You said Speedrunning. Your not running, your reading. Lol you got me Clair. Lol Your Biggest Fan-Tim

[@planetearth1705]

Which was harder, learning to speak or read Irish

[@randombaddie1767]

How often do you speak Irish in your everyday life? X

[@Clisare]

I don’t 😞

[@planetearth1705]

He? That should she hurts herself everyday! Lol

[@greendragonpublishing]

DuoLingo Irish is a bit weird. Pól is after putting women in refrigerators, and they only accept certain forms over other legit forms...but the app is useful for making you guilty for missing a day :) But I've gone through the whole course and it definitely helps. Now I'm participating in zoom classes to increase my listening comprehension. I'm about a A2 level right now, creeping into B1 for reading and writing, but that listening comprehension is crap still.

[@gaelle4328]

Where do you find zoom classes ?

[@anthonyellis1409]

O OK. Sorry

[@keriezy]

Yo tengo 1245 días de español en DuoLingo. Yo práctico cada día.

[@keitherik124]

Déanaim staidéar ar Gaeilge gach lá le Duolingo! Bhí sé seo an-greannmhar!

[@throne6675]

I use this app also but I’m not sure if it’s Irish Gaelic or Scottish having a little trouble figuring out if it’s the right language I am learning I bought some tapes recently, and it was Scottish Irish

[@Clisare]

There’s no such language as Scottish Irish, do you mean Scottish Gaelic? I actually met a guy this weekend speaking Scots Gaelic and it was quite difficult for us to understand one another. They’ve a lot of similarities but definitely aren’t the same language

[@Yews]

I think I hear ritual drums throughout or something?

[@darlenelipuma7769]

A lot of languages you can sort of figure out the gist of the words. But Gaelic is NOT one of those! Good heavens!

[@sandiedei2189]

Fall

[@dustingoad7433]

Sinn fein lol 😂

[@birgitrotter496]

I learn Gaeilge with Duolingo but I think I need to speak more

[@murakami3602]

I'm learning too ! Is cailin mé agus ithim ceapaire

[@robertdunsmore]

Lol'd a lot, I'm doing duolingo Scottish Gaelic and find *some* similarities, mostly the swearing heh

[@briandmaxime5412]

Why we can't do this for Breton language?

[@edwardthomas6956]

The main reason is that the audience for Breton would be mostly French speaking, not anglophone alas - apparently the Cornish Duolingo is nowhere near either because it requires a volunteer to devote a year of work unpaid for the endangered language courses on Duolingo

[@brianware8934]

This hurt my brain. I’m learning French just because and oh man. Probably should learn Spanish, especially since my mom speaks it, but meh. I want a challenge.

[@greeneyedmimibostian3013]

Dear sweet Claire You put me in dispair I'm so jealous of your hair Color if I dare I wouldn't be so fair As our Claire.

[@anthonyellis1409]

I have to ask R you one of the young lady's from Beewitch, girl band.

[@Clisare]

No 😂

[@-RONNIE]

Nice job 👍🏻 you got 4 wrong but really only got 3 wrong because you wrote the text right but you didn't realize you had to write it in Irish. You said you're out of practice does not look like that to me. What does that mean for me when I got 9 right the entire video 😂 speaking some phrases I'm ok with but I can't read or write in Irish very few words. Maybe I should do this 🤔

[@Jabadaw]

Are you the Clisare on Duolingo too? Can we follow you on there as well?

[@Clisare]

Why would you want to 😂

[@Jabadaw]

@@Clisare it always helps encourage your own efforts when you see that others are working hard too. A friend of mine has spent A LOT of time on there, though I'm on an 18 day streak of working on Swedish.

[@loriwilliams6981]

Clisare can you tell me why if the clisare on Duolingo is you why it says you’re from Australia?

[@dobiebloke9311]

Clare - 'Autumn', of all the words you were tossing around?, this is the one that stumbled you? I don't know if I was laughing or crying harder than the other, but I was screaming at the screen, if not in some vein attempt to help, well, if not to warn you, then to commisurate, as you are not alone, in where you found yourself at the moment. Well worth the price of addmission (at least, for me), and believe me, I pay it forward daily. It's so easy to get such simple things so wrong, which is kinda what I like about them, both in the doing and observing of. It's sort of like 'sex' is, in that way, but I don't mean to get creepy on you about it (as I'm sure you and Alex already have a lid on that, enough, if you're doing it right), but just to be honest, which is often enough, just creepy enough, to admit one of the human condition, meaning, Ticket, please, either that, or just 'being' human, which at times, is hard to admit.Ty Llwyd That's an odd way for me to ask a favour, but I'll ask it regardless. What does the term 'Ty Llwyd Farm' mean to you? I know I've been told it before, but it is like 'Autumn' to me, as I seldom remember, and I'm due to go there soon and would like not to have to admit to the 'owners', that once again, I have forgotten what it means.

[@Patrick-xc4ul]

Clisare: do the speed rounds.(!) You have innate knowledge and you're scared to connect with it. ( To do the Speed rounds on duo click on the bottom right and then the bottom right again)

[@dave52612]

Ťa

[@someperson7]

I've always suspected even Irish people think Irish is hard. Like when the British aren't around they probably be like "Really? Why did we spell it like THAT‽"

[@EdouardTavinor]

Interesting to compare how someone who can speak Irish (you) deals with Duolingo with someone who learned Irish off Duolingo (me). I'd have got every one of those questions right, and i still can't speak a single improvised sentence :/ caithfidh me dul ar laethanta saoire go dti an gaeltacht ...

[@Sinsearach]

Do you read each sentence out loud? It helps 👍

[@101spacemonkey]

Sinn fein is ourselves alone

[@adamphilip1623]

This sort of thing would be much more interesting in my opinion if you talked more about the language. Not knowing much about Irish in all honesty I didn't find this engaging in the slightest as it was mostly just watching you click stuff on Duolingo which isn't really very interesting when there's barely any commentary and you're rushing through it.

[@Clisare]

That’s the idea of a speedrun, to my understanding based on the trend, but I’ll take on board the feedback 👌🏻

[@timjohnson3877]

More of this please :-))