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what is the most irish you have ever spoken

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  • #32
    wow sierra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭wow sierra


    The most I've spoken is when on holidays in the Gaeltacht. After a few days it seems weird speaking English.

    In Dublin it would be a few hours on an evening out.

    I love speaking it abroad when you want to talk about people:D


  • #33
    tadcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    MultiUmm wrote: »
    Third year Irish teacher had a ban on speaking English in her class. It was a proper ban, if she heard you speaking English she'd correct you straight away and make you repeat the sentence as Gaeilge. All conversations were through Irish, so spoke a fair bit (albeit broken/ fairly shocking Irish) then. It seemed to have worked, ended up with a B in the junior cert. New Irish teacher for the leaving, haven't spoken it in months, I'm now ****ed once again. :(

    I wonder if their is a service to link people up, like a pen friend, except use skype for people who want to learn Irish to speak with each other or a native speaker.

    There is probably an Irish section on the board where you could post in Irish.
    wow sierra wrote: »
    The most I've spoken is when on holidays in the Gaeltacht. After a few days it seems weird speaking English.

    In Dublin it would be a few hours on an evening out.

    I love speaking it abroad when you want to talk about people

    There was a story on the Gerry Ryan show many years ago, that may be an urban legend. Two girls are on the tube in London saying in Irish, 'Theres a good looking fella, etc'. when he gets off he asks in Irish do they want his phone number.


  • #34
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I live in the Gaeltacht, so I speak Irish almost on a daily basis.
    tadcan wrote: »


    There was a story on the Gerry Ryan show many years ago, that may be an urban legend. Two girls are on the tube in London saying in Irish, 'Theres a good looking fella, etc'. when he gets off he asks in Irish do they want his phone number.

    :D
    My friend and I used to do that frequently in London, but unfortunately never got a response!


  • #35
    lily09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭lily09


    There is probably an Irish section on the board where you could post in Irish.



    There was a story on the Gerry Ryan show many years ago, that may be an urban legend. Two girls are on the tube in London saying in Irish, 'Theres a good looking fella, etc'. when he gets off he asks in Irish do they want his phone number.[/QUOTE]

    Ha same thing happened to me and my friends in states on j1 discussing the merits of a particurly handsome looking man on the subway. Would have good Irish so was quite long indepth conversation . At his stop
    he stood up and threw a bag over his shoulder emblazoned with a crest for a Kerry gaa club turned to us winked and said slan cailin!! Could have swore he wasnt Irish ... He had a tan...


  • #36
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    tadcan wrote: »
    There is probably an Irish section on the board where you could post in Irish.

    :D

    click on After Hours at the top of the page.....then look down. What do you see after Cool Vids???

    :D :P


    Anyway, the most I spoke was at my adult Irish class - realisied that I'd never learnt coversational Irish. Not one of us -all Irish people - in the class could think of how to say "Where are you from?" at first. Our kids were attending the local Gaelscoil, which is why we were there and it wsa great fun.


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  • #37
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    tadcan wrote: »
    I wonder if their is a service to link people up, like a pen friend, except use skype for people who want to learn Irish to speak with each other or a native speaker.

    There is probably an Irish section on the board where you could post in Irish.

    Look Up. ts a subforum of AH.:)

    No need for a pen friend, you could just go to a Ciorcal Comhrá.

    They are Everywhere

    There was a story on the Gerry Ryan show many years ago, that may be an urban legend. Two girls are on the tube in London saying in Irish, 'Theres a good looking fella, etc'. when he gets off he asks in Irish do they want his phone number.

    Of course, Everyone who speaks Irish is good looking, Havent you ever seen the weather on TG4?:D


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    So Moroccon textile markets and subways are the only places Irish has been used outside learning institutions and gaelteacts.

    Awesome.


  • #39
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Ní thigim an chéist seo.


    (appologies for the spelling)


  • #40
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Daddio wrote: »
    On holidays in Morocco last christmas and some local fella in the market heard my accent and immediately started speaking Irish with me. I bought some textiles off him for his efforts. That's probs the most use Irish has gotten me since the leavinc cert.

    Ha you were duped into buying carpets. :p

    I was backpacking through Morocco in the 80' with my brother, we spoke Irish with each other to try and throw off the locals from hassling us at the markets. We were amazed at the amount of people that knew where we were from. The Moroccans are very good at languages, thats how they make a living.


  • #41
    davepatr07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭davepatr07


    In the Gaeltacht spoke it for 3 long weeks. On the 2nd last day someone ran off with me sun glasses so I shouted after them to give me my bleedin glasses back only for the head munteoir to hear me. Wasn't allowed to go the the disco that night in the main hall instead had to write about a 4 page essay on why I think Irish language is important to learn (as Gaeilge) :o Overall it was the sunniest 3 weeks I've been in Galway! 95 summer was the best.


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  • #42
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    my irish oral lol


    :D


  • #43
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    A reading at mass when I was about 10. A whole paragraph.


  • #44
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Níl a fhios agam.


  • #45
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,804 ✭✭✭Setun


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Ha you were duped into buying carpets. :p

    I was backpacking through Morocco in the 80' with my brother, we spoke Irish with each other to try and throw off the locals from hassling us at the markets. We were amazed at the amount of people that knew where we were from. The Moroccans are very good at languages, thats how they make a living.
    I was had, true, but you got to hand it to the bloke - he knew more than most people in Ireland.

    Lovely carpet all the same :P


  • #46
    BraziliaNZ
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    Sé bliana as gaeilge nuair a bhí mé i mbunscoil. Níl me in ann morán a remember though!


  • #47
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    I speak Irish fairly often, at least once a week, Its weird though If I go for a visit to the gaelthacht and spend most of my time speaking Irish that when I go to speak English with someone I find my self starting the sentence as Gaeilge and I have to stop and think about what I want to say in English.


  • #48
    tadcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    Ok, trying to see how much I can understand. Correct me, I'm sure I'm wrong. Might help the blow-ins to get the jokes.
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Ní thigim an chéist seo.

    I don't remember how much I spoke now
    Min wrote: »
    Níl a fhios agam.

    Don't have a clue.
    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Sé bliana as gaeilge nuair a bhí mé i mbunscoil. Níl me in ann morán a remember though!

    Something about the year I was in school and speaking Irish.
    davepatr07 wrote: »
    In the Gaeltacht spoke it for 3 long weeks. On the 2nd last day someone ran off with me sun glasses so I shouted after them to give me my bleedin glasses back only for the head munteoir to hear me. Wasn't allowed to go the the disco that night in the main hall instead had to write about a 4 page essay on why I think Irish language is important to learn (as Gaeilge) redface.gif Overall it was the sunniest 3 weeks I've been in Galway! 95 summer was the best.

    If you had said that in Irish would you have received a gold star or an essay on why its wrong to curse in Irish.;)

    I heard about a couple, two native speakers, one was from west cork and the other from Donegal. Their Irish dialects was so different they have to speak to each other in English, otherwise they couldn't understand each other.


  • #49
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    tadcan wrote: »
    Ok, trying to see how much I can understand. Correct me, I'm sure I'm wrong. Might help the blow-ins to get the jokes.



    I don't remember how much I spoke now

    I dont understand the question.;)
    Don't have a clue.

    Spot on.
    Something about the year I was in school and speaking Irish.

    Six years through Irish in primary school, but I cant remember much now.
    I heard about a couple, two native speakers, one was from west cork and the other from Donegal. Their Irish dialects was so different they have to speak to each other in English, otherwise they couldn't understand each other.

    They probably only barley understand each other in English too.:pac:

    The difference between the Dialects in Irish is exaggerated greatly


  • #50
    nermal15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭nermal15


    My leaving cert oral exam, which was fairly dire. Couldn't remember the word for uncle. Which is uncail. Yeah.

    Hopefully it won't all disappear from me but I don't know when I'll get to use it again, really.


  • #51
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    If Sinn Fein get anyway into power in the general election we might see a revival in the language. Possibly a manditory playing of Amhran na Bfiann agus a seas suas at the end of every function. :p


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  • #52
    tadcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    deise go deo wrote: »
    The difference between the Dialects in Irish is exaggerated greatly

    That is interesting. I was at a historical event in Roundwood and some of the older folks remember the Grandmother/father who were the last native Irish speakers from the Wicklow area. I was told if I learned Irish it would either learn the official Irish that was standardized later or a dialect from the west.

    Which i thought was a strange argument without knowing why. I suppose it would be no different then people from different areas using phrases and sayings that are mainly used locally.

    BTW I began this to have a light hearted discussion about Irish. Hoping not to derail my own thread.

    Another silly story. A school friend has an Italian father, who told us when he left Italy he first lived in the UK, despite knowing nothing about the country decided to move to Ireland. He fully expected to learn another language, but didn't know what it would be. And was surprised and a little saddened that people spoke English.


  • #53
    ricero
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    last time was my irish oral exam and i was shocking just completely blank i was shocked to get a d3 in ordinary level :). being honest i never want to speak irish again it sounds disgusting the language and im from dublin so its great nobody likes the language up here


  • #54
    snubbleste
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    Tógaim am as mo lá ar a laghad cúpla uair sa tseachtain le snas is smacht a choiméad ar mo ghuth taibhseach.
    Is mór an náire sibh bheith ag staidéar le breis sé bhliain is gan agaibh ach smidín bídeach.


    :cool:


  • #55
    tadcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭tadcan


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Tógaim am as mo lá ar a laghad cúpla uair sa tseachtain le snas is smacht a choiméad ar mo ghuth taibhseach.
    Is mór an náire sibh bheith ag staidéar le breis sé bhliain is gan agaibh ach smidín bídeach.


    :cool:
    Mr deise go deo, please sir, what does that mean?


  • #56
    Sungodbr
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Tógaim am as mo lá ar a laghad cúpla uair sa tseachtain le snas is smacht a choiméad ar mo ghuth taibhseach.
    Is mór an náire sibh bheith ag staidéar le breis sé bhliain is gan agaibh ach smidín bídeach.


    :cool:

    Ba chóir duit stoip, tá na cailiní ar fad fluich ag leamh é seo, chuir do uimhir guthain anseo dóibh a chara!!


  • #57
    snubbleste
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    Sungodbr wrote: »
    Ba chóir duit stoip, tá na cailiní ar fad fluich ag leamh é seo, chuir do uimhir guthain anseo dóibh a chara!!

    Creidim go bhfeicim locháin beaga ag forbairt ar an turlár snasta ós mo comhair ...nó an ba shinn leac oighear dubh ag leá?
    Meastú an dtosófaidh mé snáth ag fiosrú 'Cé mhéad is mó de theanga na banríona a labhair tú ariamh?'


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
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    Hallowe'en this year - Oíche Shamhna i mbliana

    I met a very nice boy in a pub and for some reason(drunk so can't remember) we started speaking Irish. We had great craic.I think because I was drunk, I wasn't self concious about accent or pronunciation. We both managed to converse as Gaeilge with only the very odd English word thrown in.

    Bhuail mé le buachaill an-deas sa teach tábhairne agus don fáth éigin(bhí mé ar meisce agus mar sin de, ní féidir liom cuimhneamh) thosaíomar ag labhairt as Gaeilge. Bhí an-craic againn. Cheap mé nach raibh mé féinmhuineach faoin mo blas nó foghraíocht mar bhí mé ar meisce. Bhíomar, an beirt againn, ábalta comhrá as Gaeilge agus gan ach cúpla focail Béarla a úsáid.

    Excuse the grammar - I am still all over the shop after 20 odd years with it!


  • #59
    Sungodbr
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 102 ✭✭Sungodbr


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Creidim go bhfeicim locháin beaga ag forbairt ar an turlár snasta ós mo comhair ...nó an ba shinn leac oighear dubh ag leá?
    Meastú an dtosófaidh mé snáth ag fiosrú 'Cé mhéad is mó de theanga na banríona a labhair tú ariamh?'

    Gan dabt tá na striopach seo ag tnúth le faide mór in áit éigin!! Ye sin é, nach chóir go mbeadh náire orthu ar fad a rá ar an idirlíon go poiblí leis an domhain ar fad, "hey féach ormsa, níl chultúir ar bith agam!!" sic!!


  • #60
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    A guy in class was told "suigh sios" by the examiner at the orals. His reply was "Suigh sios is Padraigh". :p


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  • #61
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    ricero wrote: »
    being honest i never want to speak irish again it sounds disgusting the language and im from dublin so its great nobody likes the language up here


    Wana bet?


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