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For those that speak Gaeilge, can you understand this Scots Gaelic?

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  • 22-01-2012 1:39pm
    #1
    Broads.ie
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    I'm not fluent in Irish but I can recognize a few words from this. For those of you who are fluent though, can you follow what this lady is saying?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lktt_DlpsJA


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    #2
    Enkidu
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    Maybe others are different, but although I can follow simple sentences, I find full blown Scots Gaelic difficult to understand. It's simple in writing, especially if you know the classical Irish spelling system.


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    P. Breathnach
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    I found it interesting to watch the video.

    First, part of my mind was occupied with observing my own experience, with questions like "do I understand this?" and "what are my aids or barriers to understanding this?". Such questions probably lowered the degree of my comprehension of what was said.

    Yes, I did get the general gist of the piece. I was aided by the visuals and the general conventions of televised weather forecasts, but I could also get my head around much of the language.

    I also had a minor hiccup with my reliance on visual cues when I saw some placenames in Gaelic, and found them interesting.

    Were I to holiday in Scotland and see such a weather forecast, I think I should be better equipped to plan my activities for the following day - except that I am of that generation that was accustomed to unreliable forecasting, and I have never managed to overcome my scepticism.

    [I watched the video only once before responding, because in ordinary circumstances you get only one shot at broadcast material.]


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    Aard
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    Like P Breathnach, I only watched it once. I understood most of it. Like him too, I found myself thinking a lot -- things like "huh, they use fíor too" as in fíor-mhaith. There were parts of it though, like stretches of about 5 seconds where I literally understood nothing. But it wasn't like wow this is some incomprehensible language, it was the kind of lack of understanding when somebody from Kerry speaks extremely fast -- sorta like I should know what this means... but don't!

    I've listened to Gaidhlig before, but I gotta say that this was more understandable. Tuning into a radio news progamme OTOH makes things more difficult. No frame of reference.

    I wonder how the Gaidhlig speakers get on with understanding Irish...


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