Talking to a NATIVE ULSTER IRISH speaker 😃 🇮🇪 (as Gaeilge)

[@seanmc1470]

"Iris will be the language I have until my last breath, with the help of God." Well said, Brian!

[@Minnie11chula]

Would be great if Father Brian had a KZbin channel and read prayers in Irish. 🍀

[@ademitoeae8356]

This guys has a clean Irish pronunciation. I`m waiting for his channel

[@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910]

caithfidh sé é a dhéanamh! 💚👍

[@crustymeliodas9605]

It's cool seeing irish speakers having a normall conversation even I'm still practicing my irish I could understand a bit of what you said😅

Mar a dúirt Brian - coinnigh leis! 😁

[@crustymeliodas9605]

@ beidh mé😀

[@awkward-stranger]

Father Brian is a national treasure!

Cinnte!

[@fabermcmullen1]

This guy speaks so lightning fast I had trouble understanding much. But, I loved it. And....your Irish is lovely. Obviously, your comprehension is over the top as well. MAITH THÚ!

[@eleanorchapple8772]

How lovely this dialect sounds!

[@frobinson6876]

Wonderful video. It can't be overemphasised how valuable this kind of content is. Keep up the excellent work!

[@NoName-yw1pt]

Incredible! Always wanted to hear Ulster way of speaking. Greetings from Eastern Europe, dear Celtic cousins 😊❤️

[@theonesickman]

Thank You so much. It puts the wind back in my sails. I am n older Irish person learning our native language. The prayer was very cool too.

[@MarkGrago]

I so wish I could speak like this! My mother was Irish! She would love this...thank you! ☘️☘️☘️

[@andrewjennings7306]

Could she speak it?

[@MarkGrago]

@@andrewjennings7306 Yes, not quite like these folks, though.

Keep at it! 😁

[@pompikaushal4604]

Dia duit, Molly!Wow,a fhiseân urghnách! Thaitin sé go mór liom! Labhraíonn d'aioi Gaeilge go han-mhaith!Táim an-tógtha! Coimeád sé suas! Go raibh míle maith agat agus slán!

[@drewc981]

Father Brian's Ulster dialect sounds lovely! I've been reviewing sentences on the Bite Size Irish audio website for a while which uses primarily Connacht and a bit of Munster I believe. I find some of the pronunciation challenging but wonder if that's because I don't try to "put on" an Irish accent when trying certain words or sentences of if it's just that my mouth isn't pronouncing properly in general - I'm Canadian, just to point that out. As a side note, Father Brian has this Irish John the Baptist look about him and I definitely dig it lol Great conversation.

Glad you enjoyed it Drew 😊 It definitely would help to change your accent, I do that when I’m speaking other languages too. It will help your pronunciation sound more natural particularly with where you place emphasis, I have noticed that when people don’t change their accent at all, they often put emphasis where it shouldn’t be. Try it out!

[@drewc981]

@ Thanks, I will! However I'm still worried about sounding like I'm taking the piss out of any varied Irish accent and that's just not right in my head but I'll find a way to manage around that worry 😄 just don't want to go around sounding like the stereotypical North American Irish "fiddle dee dee po-tay-toe' nonsense y'know? 😁😆

😂😂 yes don’t do that! you don’t even have to “do” an Irish accent but try to neutralise your own - or listen to set words or phrases said by a Gaeilgeoir and pay attention to the tone and where the emphasis goes 😊 hope that helps! And also don’t be too worried, the important thing is speaking it and giving it a go, practice makes perfect “cleachtadh a dhéanann máistreacht”

[@vel0_rouge]

@@drewc981 I don't think that would sound like you are taking the piss at all, so go for it! The accent is an important part of being understood and sounding natural. It would only be weird if you were putting on an Irish accent when speaking English as you already speak English. An English speaker from Ireland still needs to "put on" an Irish accent when speaking Irish. If someone moved from China to Canada and made a real effort to assimilate not just by learning English on Duolingo but the actual vocabulary, accent and style of talking in their new city, no-one would ever accuse them of taking the piss out of Canadians, eh?

[@drewc981]

@@vel0_rouge I suppose that's true. Thanks for your input, I appreciate it

[@Pat-Van-Canada]

Great to see the language alive, I have been to Ireland since I was 12.

[@calvinrieder5312]

Even though I'm trying to learn Munster Irish at the moment, I've gotten tons out of your videos. Thank you!! Your channel is very well done!!

[@internetual7350]

Agus conas a tán tú ag déanamh le do Ghaelainn foghlaimeoir Mumhneach eile? 😊

[@vel0_rouge]

If you could manage to do one of these with a few other native speakers of different dialects it'd be really appreciated. Go Raibh Maith Agat.

[@NicolasRomeroVilla]

The "Spain" part made me laugh a lot XD Great video!!!

[@dequidaqwadoa1553]

Love it !! However, I could never learn to speak that fast. 😳 Such a beautiful language ❤️

[@codyporter4680]

I just love this channel, I have huge respect for what you’re doing.

Go raibh míle maith agat a Chody 🥺

[@PeterPeadar]

Go raibh maith agat Molly agus Father Brian. I didn't understand much but I loved the conversation. And Molly did a super job editing so I could get an idea of what was being said.

Go ndéana a mhaith duit a Pheadair! 😊 please tell me you used the subtitles I worked tirelessly on 🥺

[@PeterPeadar]

@ Defo!! They were so helpful! I would’ve been lost without them. The topical segues were super helpful too!

Go hiontach 😊

[@ty7778]

Same here. Those subtitles were amazing. It really helped me follow along and keep up with what they were saying. I've only just recently started trying to learn Irish and this was a great video.

[@jarlathmurray]

That's the priest that blessed the nightclub in Gaoth Dobhair before opening tomorrow night lol what a hero

[@eleanorchapple8772]

Thank you Molly. I actually understood a little bit of that.and him a native speaker. I understood you better because you seemed slower and more familiar to my ear. This is from an old lady in her second year of Duolingo and random Irish suiomh ? And of course Gaeilge i mo chroi.

[@user-jd1vq7ip3c]

Amazing. I wish I was brought up speaking our native tongue 🇮🇪

[@soulsurfer639]

You could always learn it and raise your children with it 🙂

[@liambyrne591]

​@@soulsurfer639are you daft ,don't you know which language is the most useful, Shure won't they pick up the cúpla focal in school

[@kiri101]

Dual subs would be great for native language conversations in the future, having to switch between English and Irish subs all the time limits the video's utility for less experienced learners. It can be pretty confusing breaking down sentences from differently structured languages for dual subs, but Dane on Learn Irish has done a pretty good job if you'd like an example.

Viewers who are more advanced learners don’t like seeing the English. Some of my content is more focused on intermediate/advanced, such as this video.

[@kiri101]

@ Fair enough, I suppose it would be a lot of work to just have many people not use it.

[@mcgoose258]

thanks for the Gaelic subtitles! i'm often frustrated when only english are included, I'm trying to learn and sometimes i don't need a translation, i just need to figure out what I'm hearing

[@ridif]

wonderful !! thanks for sharing this !

[@brianogmacgabhann6913]

That’s unreal! 🇮🇪

Go raibh maith agat a Bhriain 😁

[@nadiadiatel2013]

I'm not too good in Irish yet, so I get not so much, but still thank you a lot! It's such a great thing you do✨

[@johnpurcell7525]

Amazing how much of the Scottish we can understand here in Kerry must be some link or is that taboo subject

[@webbg6]

Thanks. Very enigmatic man and an interesting conversation. Well above me but every little bit helps. GMA

Glad you enjoyed Graham 😊 keep at it and one day you’ll come back to this video understanding much more 😁

[@carloseduardojimenez7656]

Tá an físeán go hiontach! Chonaic mé san sraith "Turas bóthar" le TG4 é. I hope I said it correctly, Tá mé ag foghlaim, is breá liom an Ghaeilge! Greetings from Mexico.

Thuig mé thú! 😁 coinnigh leis an Ghaeilge 💚💚

[@webbg6]

I notice 'Rangana' is required for the zoom sessions. Is a recommended book required for that please?

Sorry Graham not sure what you mean?

[@rosehipowl]

It would be interesting to know what he thinks about "Urban Irish" as a native speaker. I know that as I learn more Irish, I'm basically learning and speaking in Urban Irish, not in a traditional dialect. I know that bothers some native speakers, but as a linguistics student I see it as language changing (which it needs to do in order to survive - a static language is a dead language). But yeah, would be interesting to see how he perceives it!

I agree that a language needs to evolve to stay alive but I think that the dialects are beautiful and need to be preserved!! Irish is Irish but I do prefer the uniqueness of the dialects myself and I don’t want them to die out

[@rosehipowl]

@ I completely agree! I just don't think that a new dialect should be stigmatised or considered to be less legitimate because it's not traditional. The traditional dialects will change, and have changed, and new dialects will be created (especially if Irish gets more widely spoken again). It's like people who argue over different accents of English speakers like there's obviously one superior version, or complain when "new" language features arise, like h dropping or vocal fry (side note that a lot of language change is driven by young women).

[@isbrealiomanghaeilge5624]

Do you atleast pronounce ch dh amd r caol right

[@rosehipowl]

@@isbrealiomanghaeilge5624 there is no "right" pronunciation of a language. There are different dialects with different pronunciations. This is like saying that traditional dialect speakers who say bh slender regardless of its position are pronouncing it wrongly - they're not, they're pronouncing it according to their dialect. If you're looking at the pronunciation of standard Irish, then that doesn't include many traditional pronunciations, which I think you'd be upset about. They were speaking that way before Irish was "standardised", after all. If you are asking if I pronounce them in accordance with standard Irish, then I don't know. I don't live near any other Gaeilgeoirí. I am pronouncing them as best as I can considering I don't have any critiques of my pronunciation. If I am not, then I will do my best to do so as I would at least like to be accurate to the standardised form of Irish even if it's not a traditional dialect, but I am not overly concerned as I don't even pronounce English according to the standard where I live (RP in the UK. I'm from the West Country, which sounds like pirates in popular culture, and I mix RP and the traditional dialect here). I love linguistics and I'd be more than happy to discuss this more with you, if you want. It's important to not hold languages and its speakers to specific targets of "right" and "wrong". This is how speakers (including native speakers who don't live up to that standard) get their dialects and accents stigmatised. If you are communicating through that language effectively, then your pronunciation is correct for you.

[@ersulhith]

The urban Irish spoken by native English speakers who have only minimal contact with native Irish speakers is almost certainly going to become the dominant dialect of Irish, and this is going to change Irish phonology rather substantially. I suspect that the Irish that will be spoken 100 years from now will be something that a native Irish speaker from 100 years ago would barely be able to understand. I think Irish will maintain most of its grammar, but the phonology will be very different. Irish has somewhere between 30 and 50 consonants, depending on how exactly you count, and only about 5 of them are essentially identical to English consonants. I think that no modern dialect of Irish pronounces sh and th differently, although I would be interested in learning more about when that distinction was dropped (and if multi-generational native Irish speakers actually pronounce them differently or not). Most Urban Irish speakers use the English labio-dental fricatives for f and bh/mh instead of the traditional Irish bilabial fricatives for those sounds (this is very obvious when watching high quality videos because you can see the speaker's upper teeth when they make f and v sounds, which is not true when watching videos of traditional Irish speakers, including this one). I think that most urban Irish speakers also do not distinguish between broad and slender b, p, f, c, g, or r - for example the difference between bó and beo is that beo is pronounced with a brief y before the o, rather than actually having a different sound for the b. Losing the phonetic distinction between broad and slender consonants is going to fundamentally alter Irish pronunciation and turn many words into homophones that have not traditionally been homophones. But most modern Irish dialects have already dropped the broad/slender distinction for most nasal consonants and initial r's as well as dropping lenited forms of l, n, and r, so Irish should be able to survive losing more of its distinctive phonology.

[@bompikaushal4194]

Dia duit Molly! Ceann de na físeáin is fearr a chaula mé riamh! Labhraíonn d'aíonna Gaeilge an-mhaith,is mian liom go bhféadfainn labhairt mar é!.Ach ná bíodh imní ort lá amháin labhróidh mé mar é! Go raibh maith agat agus slán!

[@Cormorant0512]

This video did my heart good. GRMA Molly

[@geovanniali6060]

Dia duit Molly agus Father Brian, really enjoyed this video I could listen to you both for hours. Go raibh maith agat agus slan

Go raibh míle maith agat a Geovanni 🤗 glad you enjoyed it

[@donaldmccormack7580]

Wow ! GRMMA - Tá an tAthair Brian an- spéisiúil . Thar barr ar fad agus níos fearr. Ba mhaith liom a bheith abalta a labhair as Gaeilge mar sin. Aontaimse leis go bhfuil sè tabhachtach a labhair agus ná beith inmí ort faoi na botúin.

[@francesmccarthy5205]

Is Irish his first language. Amazing!

Yes 🙌🏻

[@imperatorscotorum6334]

Amazing?

[@francesmccarthy5205]

@@imperatorscotorum6334 yes it was amazing to hear. I haven’t heard anyone speech so confidently. I haven’t heard many native speakers

[@maceain]

bhí sé sin go hiontach. Bhain mé an-taitneamh as. Barra anseo in Oxford, Mississippi.

[@lamarazmoe6438]

He is lucky to be born speaking the language of the land instead of having to learn it after English.

[@andrewjennings7306]

Man was speaking a thousand miles an hour.

[@Twittler1]

No he wasn’t. He was speaking at a normal pace for any fluent/native speaker of any language. It may sound fast to you, but that’s because you don’t know it, and it has unfamiliar sounds.

[@cianaodh-media]

I did have to slow the video playback speed down some to keep up but, yeah, I attribute it to my level of comprehension not being up to such a fluent level. Keep practicing. We'll all get there before we know it if we just keep at it.

[@maharencall3219]

cha raibh is the standard way of saying ní raibh in Scottish Gaelic. Cool to see

[@conordunlea5505]

Go raibh maith agat . Molly . Bhi an video go haoiteach Agus an agallamh le Father . Brian. Maith thu.. You are doing a great job At promoting gaeilge.

[@m.oduinn1178]

Bhain mé sult as an bhfíseán seo, go raibh míle maith agat. Labhraíonn Father Brian Gaeilge go hálainn 🇮🇪 Uladh abú

[@wickedone6476]

He was talking about how there's two different ways the people might pronounce the word tábla for table , personally I prefer bord , an bord.....tábla or tebla, just feels weird to try to say , I understand just fine when other people say it but bord feels more natural to me..........I started studying some material on the old Rathlann dialect some time ago and really it feels more natural to say bheil instead of bhfuil to me now , I understand both but bheil feels more natural....... in the Ulster dialect I learned fan bomite wait a minute and I use it fairly often but I also use nóiméid a lot instead. I think being well rounded in multiple dialects is helpful but from my experience can leave you with a weird hybrid between two dialects if you aren't careful....I use cha almost as much as ní , it just depends on my mood I guess . Like the word for tired that most people use is tuirseach but I prefer scíth, tá mé scíth or thá mé scíth instead of tá tuirseach orm.....scíth just feels more normal to me yet not many that I've heard use it in daily language. I really would love to see the Gaelic be used daily by all Gaels , those in the isles as well as diaspora . I want to see the Gaelic thrive again .

[@caoimhenichathail5040]

¡Hola! Molly ¡me gusta este video!, estoy Estoy aprendiendo español

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Yo puedo enseñarte.

[@Thebestman-f1j]

Iontach, is Éireannach Uladh mé freisin!

[@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910]

Is grá liom mo chanúint Uladh💚🇮🇪☘

[@cathygarcia1230]

your patreon link doesnt work?

www.patreon.com/gaeilgeimochroi :)

[@eimeartully7665]

☘☘☘☘

[@marathonrunner1975]

Tá seo an-suimiuil ar fad. Ní mhór nach dtuigim gach rud a tá an beirt agaibh ag rá. Tha seo gu math inntinneach. Cha mhòr nach eil mi a' tuigsinn a h-uile rud a tha an dithis agaibh ag ràdh.

[@victorwinston4696]

How do someone get an irish speaking friend to help in better communication with the language skill

[@joshuaperry7199]

Im saying this as a Brit with celtic roots. The language is just beautiful, honestly more of an effort should be made to eradicate english making it a second language in countries like Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Claim it back guys. We had no right to come over and do what we did.

[@DontAssume123]

I think my ancestors were from ulster❤

[@daveterpening6801]

Bhí sí sin ionach. Bhí an tAthiar Brian suimiuil agus rinne tú sár jab mar agallóir. Go raibh mile maith agat as an obair!

Go raibh míle maith agat a Dave!!🥰

[@tainahollo8567]

[@gerryed43]

He’s a great priest

[@atomicdancer]

12:46 "Cleachtadh a dhéanann máistreacht" = everybody makes mistakes I see what you did there :P

[@paddymeboy]

Could have done without the irritating music. Otherwise, interesting - I did wonder what Bryan Ferry was up to these days!

[@eleanorchapple8772]

I find that every time I listen to this you are speaking slower!😊

Maith thú a Eleanor! 😁 👏🏻

[@CarlosOjeda-ig3zw]

Dios los bendiga en el Nombre de Jesucristo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@timothyrobson3325]

Go raibh maith agat.

Go ndéana a mhaith duit 😊

[@RobertSheerins]

A brilliant episode but the musical interruptions threaten to spoil it. They break up the flow, could it be reissued without them?

[@Islandicus]

It is so refreshing to hear a native Irish speaker. It sounds so natural and fluent compared to the standard Irish speakers who have learnt Irish as a second language and speak it like foreigners with that awful anglicized accent. As he said, Irish is his first language and it shows.

[@Patrick-xc4ul]

Intense understanding is the same thing as isolation. We may be capable of knowing That globalism is all pain no peace but, look how cheap I can buy my shit for!

[@jamesehoey]

It sounds like Scottish Gaelic

[@SpeakEasyIrish]

Go iontach, físeán den chéad scoth, grma.

Grmagatsa!

[@khoziemusic]

Tha Gàidhlig agam agus tha mi a’ tuigsinn mòran den dualchainnt seo

[@markaxworthy2508]

Sadly, the consolidated, homogenous Gaelic of the Irish school system is gradually eroding the diversity of Gaelic regional dialects.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Comhrá suimiúil a bhí anseo. Lose the title animations though - they are distracting and hard to read.

[@kingofsludge7262]

:.D

[@blueocean2510]

Go Raibh mhaith agat alig.

[@nyro1994]

So difficult to understand him haha

[@silverkitty2503]

i can never understand donegal speakers i think i will just stick with people from kerry and galway

it will get easier though, you have to keep listening to understand more :)