How Often do you Use/Hear Irish In your Everyday Life?

deise go deo · 27-11-2010 06:27PM #1

Simple as,
How often do you Hear or Use Irish and would you like to Hear and Use it more or less than you do as is?

Crann na Beatha · 27-11-2010 06:29PM

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Asphyxia · 27-11-2010 06:30PM

Maybe a bit everyday my father still says things in Irish sometimes, he's fluent in it. He loves giving out in it mostly haha

Other than my father I never here anyone else saying it unless I turn on TG4

alwaysadub · 27-11-2010 06:30PM

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I hear it a bit,maybe every few days on average,but unfortunately amn't very good at speaking it. It's on my list of things to do-learn conversational Irish.

Dowdy20 · 27-11-2010 06:31PM

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I try and use a few words most days....me and a one of the lads have started to speak what we can to try and learn the language..

have to start somewhere and you would be surprised how much you know.

OutlawPete · 27-11-2010 06:31PM

When I'm fapping to the weather girls on TG4, I might shout .. thanaig aris.

That'd be about it.

sonic85 · 27-11-2010 06:32PM

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not really something i can answer definitively - i only hear irish when i turn over to TG4 so it could be once or twice a week or maybe once or twice a month

deise go deo · 27-11-2010 06:34PM

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Should Clarify, I ment Out on the street more than On the TV or Raidio

Jaxxy · 27-11-2010 06:34PM

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A lot of my friends would use conversational Irish daily, being fluent speakers. I try to keep up but sometimes can't completely manage it, I stopped using Irish after the Leaving and as a result am out of practice. Hoping that will gradually change though.

Mr Benevolent · 27-11-2010 06:37PM

The only time I hear Irish spoken in Dublin is usually followed by the phrase 'So loike Saoirse said she couldn't lend me her iPhone, and I was loike tewtally annoyed at her.'

sonic85 · 27-11-2010 06:38PM

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deise go deo wrote: »

Should Clarify, I ment Out on the street more than On the TV or Raidio

sorry man. that would be never for me then.

r3nu4l · 27-11-2010 06:39PM

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I hear it every day but only because I'm actually hearing myself speaking it to my daughter every day. I'm in no way fluent but I have enough Irish for her (she's 7 months old

).

When I was in Galway last June (city) I was delighted to hear people speaking it fluently to each other conversationally. It wasn't put on, it was two old biddies

4zn76tysfajdxp · 27-11-2010 06:41PM

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Native speaker. Use it and hear it every day. Unfussed as to if other people should speak it though.

tenchi-fan · 27-11-2010 06:41PM

At work a few french people were talking in the lift.
After they left, a guy in the lift said "ah it's great to hear the cupla focal"
There's two Irish words right there.

deise go deo · 27-11-2010 06:42PM

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tenchi-fan wrote: »

At work a few french people were talking in the lift.
After they left, a guy in the lift said "ah it's great to hear the cupla focal"
There's two Irish words right there.

As it happnes, I know a french Guy who is learning Irish so you Never know:eek:

Star Bingo · 27-11-2010 06:43PM

dunno about nationwide but in dublin only the privileged speak irish.. and they keep it hush as 99% don't understand n it'll reveal their well heeled upbringing n they'll be the subject of jealousy.. else theyre nationalist nuts with simple minds/glasgow celtic tattoo'ed on their neck

- but the school system got it very wrong as i know more spanish than irish

sonic85 · 27-11-2010 06:45PM

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its a great language to be fair but speaking it serves no purpose whatsoever in my opinion. the only reasons anybody would learn it would be if they really wanted to or just to try keep it alive

deise go deo · 27-11-2010 06:45PM

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Star Bingo wrote: »

dunno about nationwide but in dublin only the privileged speak irish.. and they keep it hush as 99% don't understand n it'll reveal their well heeled upbringing n they'll be the subject of jealousy.. n what not but the school system got it very wrong as i know more spanish than irish

I know a good few Speakers from Dublin, They Dont seam any more well healed than the rest, Most Irish speakers only speak Irish amongst themselves out of politeness. Nor were they the grubby tattooed type.

El Horseboxo · 27-11-2010 06:46PM

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I'd use it most weekends as that's the greater chance for me to see other mates that speak it. But i watch TG4 most days. I'd use Spanish more so than English on a daily basis though as work usually requires me to.

Jaxxy · 27-11-2010 06:48PM

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Star Bingo wrote: »

dunno about nationwide but in dublin only the privileged speak irish.. and they keep it hush as 99% don't understand n it'll reveal their well heeled upbringing n they'll be the subject of jealousy.. else theyre nationalist nuts with simple minds/glasgow celtic tattoo'ed on their neck

- but the school system got it very wrong as i know more spanish than irish

Bull**** tbh.

Krusader · 27-11-2010 06:49PM

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OutlawPete wrote: »

When I'm fapping to the weather girls on TG4, I might shout .. thanaig aris.

That'd be about it.

Tá mé ag teacht, Tá mé ag teacht, ÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ

dafunk · 27-11-2010 06:50PM

deise go deo wrote: »

As it happnes, I know a french Guy who is learning Irish so you Never know:eek:

Tons and ton of foreigners speak it in the west. They make up the majority of all the people taking classes. You hear it spoken daily over here.

Krusader · 27-11-2010 06:50PM

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Star Bingo wrote: »

dunno about nationwide but in dublin only the privileged speak irish.. and they keep it hush as 99% don't understand n it'll reveal their well heeled upbringing n they'll be the subject of jealousy.. else theyre nationalist nuts with simple minds/glasgow celtic tattoo'ed on their neck

- but the school system got it very wrong as i know more spanish than irish

I'm from Crumlin i have some Irish, most Gaeilscoils in Dublin are in working/middle class areas,
and your generalisation shows you up to have a simple mind really

OutlawPete · 27-11-2010 06:54PM

Giovanna Dazzling Rail wrote: »

Native speaker. Use it and hear it every day. Unfussed as to if other people should speak it though.

Cad a fholaíonn, mé féin le cainteoir dúchais agus a bheith ag iarraidh i gcónaí chun freastal ar roinnt eile Tar éis fir Uaireanta a bheadh ag teacht isteach chugam do amanna gnéis, áit a raibh muid ag ól beorach agus amhráin a chanadh sa teanga náisiúnta.

Mhúineadh mé Yoga tantric le roinnt nymphomaniacs agus bhí siad go léir a rugadh ar Árann Oileáin agus mar sin de ach labhairt Gaeilge.

Mar sin, PM dom agus lig a fhios agam más mian leat a bheith páirteach mé féin agus mo mban nymphomaniac agus muid ag síneadh leis an oíche ar shiúl, ag comhrá i alguage ach an Ghaeilge ar ndóigh.

Bhuel, ar leith ón cailín amháin ó Essex a dhiúltóidh Gaeilge a labhairt agus cumarsáid a dhéanamh ach amháin trí primal gnéasach moaning, ó dhúchas di daoine, an chavs Londain.

bluto63 · 27-11-2010 07:01PM

Never.

I live in England so there's no one to chat to. The only time I get to use it is when someone goes asks me to say something Irish, so I give them to the old 'an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí on leithreas' poem from the Carslberg ad.

JuliusCaesar · 27-11-2010 07:03PM

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Try to use a few phrases at home on a daily basis - but am always being corrected by the resident ex-Gaelscoil teenager. Doesn't stop me though! Cá bhfuil tú? Tar anseo, tá ocras ag an cat.

Star Bingo · 27-11-2010 07:04PM

do these dubs that speak it take it upon themselves, or maybe their parents demand it of them and arrange em a place in 'Gaeilscoils' or is it just regular schools are **** for it? because lessons in clogher road circa 1994 were practically non-existent

Crosáidí wrote: »

and your generalisation shows you up to have a simple mind really

that itself would be a generalization that shows you're not exactly alive and kicking either; it was just my experience

Micilin Muc · 27-11-2010 07:05PM

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OutlawPete wrote: »

Cad a fholaíonn, mé féin le cainteoir dúchais agus a bheith ag iarraidh i gcónaí chun freastal ar roinnt eile Tar éis fir Uaireanta a bheadh ag teacht isteach chugam do amanna gnéis, áit a raibh muid ag ól beorach agus amhráin a chanadh sa teanga náisiúnta.

Mhúineadh mé Yoga tantric le roinnt nymphomaniacs agus bhí siad go léir a rugadh ar Árann Oileáin agus mar sin de ach labhairt Gaeilge.

Mar sin, PM dom agus lig a fhios agam más mian leat a bheith páirteach mé féin agus mo mban nymphomaniac agus muid ag síneadh leis an oíche ar shiúl, ag comhrá i alguage ach an Ghaeilge ar ndóigh.

Bhuel, ar leith ón cailín amháin ó Essex a dhiúltóidh Gaeilge a labhairt agus cumarsáid a dhéanamh ach amháin trí primal gnéasach moaning, ó dhúchas di daoine, an chavs Londain.

Google Translation Fail.

squeakyduck · 27-11-2010 07:09PM

Never.

Was asked Conas atá do Growler? A few weeks ago, sparked a very hilarious drunk conversation afterwards!

Enkidu · 27-11-2010 07:16PM

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My fiancée comes from a Munster Irish speaking family (on her mother's side), so she tends to use it quite often, even periodically in her English. Funnily enough this didn't come up too much until I started to learn it myself.

partyatmygaff · 27-11-2010 07:20PM

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At least five days a week...

/Leaving Cert...

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