How are you(pl)?
- Hey, how are you guys doing?
I am here with Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages.
and I love her YouTube channel,
she's got some great videos there.
One of my favourite series that she does
are Nine Reasons to Learn Languages.
So, while I'm stopping in the UK
I wanted to make sure to do a video with her
about Nine Reasons to Learn Irish.
- Let's do this.
Reason number one.
Irish has around 50,000 native speakers.
Now that may not sound like a lot of people
that you could use this language with.
But that's actually quite a good thing
because, if you go to Ireland and you're speaking Irish
with a native speaker and you're not a native,
they're gonna love you, am I right?
- [Benny] Oh God yeah, we love it
when people try to speak Irish.
- [Lindsay] Nice.
- Reason number two.
You can listen to a lot of stream Irish radio online
and even watch some stream TV shows.
So, for instance, if you access TG4,
the Irish TV station, you can even watch
SpongeBob SquarePants in Irish.
- Cool. - Uh-huh.
- Do you have a favourite TV show in Irish?
- Yeah, I do.
Ros na Rún.
It's this crazy soap opera
that takes place in a village,
an Irish-speaking village,
but like any soap opera you have ridiculous stories
and that's what you want in your kind of soap opera.
And it's all As Gaeilge as we say in Irish.
- Nice.
And that is what I want in my language learning,
ridiculous soap opera.
That's what I need.
- And you can check out loads of radio stations
that stream from Dublin and the Gaeltacht,
that's the region of Ireland that speaks the Irish language.
And you could actually listen to it
all day long if you wanted.
- Cool.
Reason number three.
Was that right?
- Yeah. - Yay!
Irish is an official EU language.
This means that if you want to get a job
within the EU, you've got that advantage.
- Yeah, that's right 'cause we hire translators
to help, and it gives you that extra edge
because it's recognised formally,
which is not the case even if you speak Mandarin,
for instance, if you wanted to get a job in the EU.
So Irish gives you that little boost over that.
- And I guess there's less speakers than there're,
such as something like French or Spanish.
So less people applying for those jobs.
- [Benny] Exactly.
So you've got an advantage over everyone else.
- [Lindsay] Nice.
- [Benny] Reason number four.
Irish will help your with Irish English.
For instance, you might hear me say something
like Stop giving out!
And initially that sounds to other English speakers
like to give out is to distribute.
But it only is used in Ireland to mean to complain.
And it's because it's a direct translation
of tabhairt amach, to give out,
which is that way of saying complain.
We have a lot of these really fun words and terms.
So if you wanted to understand
how Irish people like myself are speaking,
even when we're speaking English,
it'll help a lot if you can figure it out
through our language.
- [Lindsay] Reason number five.
Learning Irish could help you discover your heritage.
Do you have an Irish ancestor
deep down the lines of your family tree?
Perhaps.
And if you do, this could be a great way
to find out more about them.
- [Benny] Yeah, like for instance,
two very famous starts of Irish surnames O' and Mac.
You understand these better if you know some Irish
because Mac is the Irish word for son.
So it's son of, so MacDonald is son of Donald.
O' can mean multiple things but in this context
it can mean the grandson of.
So O' whatever is the grandson of,
like the same way with Mac.
So you will understand these names
a little bit better as well.
Reason number six.
You can discover Irish culture through the Irish language.
For instance, we have a lot of folklore,
we have Irish stories.
And you know what these words mean from understanding
the language like, for instance, banshee.
And there're even some words from Irish
that we use internationally in English.
For example, galore.
And that's because it's from go leor,
and that's our way of saying many.
Yeah.
Reason number seven.
You actually have ways of saying things in Irish
that you can't do so well in English.
I always feel like I need this word in English.
You might hear a lot of Irish and Scottish people
use the word wee with two Es,
when they want to say something small.
Like "Oh my wee house!
"It's a great place."
- [Lindsay] My favourite is Scottish English is
"In the name of the wee man!"
That's my favourite.
Do you say that in Irish?
- [Benny] Um, we might actually, yeah.
It's probably more Scottish.
But yeah, it's a good example
'cause that wee is what we call a diminutive.
You have that in Spanish, you have it in German,
but we don't have that in English.
- [Lindsay] Reason number eight.
Irish has something called initial mutation.
For example, in English we say chair
and then chairs for the plural, right?
But we do have some odd ones.
So we might say man, and then men.
The middle of the word changes.
And in Irish, the beginning of the word changes?
- Yes. - Okay.
- It changes in many situations.
For instance, the word for his is a,
the word for dog is madra.
But if you put them together it's not a madra, it's "a wadra",
and that M changes to a W.
So you can also use this with, for instance,
when you're calling somebody.
So my name in Irish is Breandán.
I go by Benny most of the time
'cause it's easier for people.
But when you want to call me,
you don't say ah Breandán,
you say ah Bhreandáin (Vrendawn).
- Ah, okay.
- That's because the B changes to a V.
Reason number nine.
If you learn Irish, you'll be able
to pronounce Irish names.
- Argh!
Okay, you need to tell me this one.
- Yes.
So, for instance, if you see the name A-O-I-F-E,
how would you pronounce that?
- Definitely ay-o-fay,
and I would know I'd got wrong immediately
and I'd be in shame and it would be terrible.
- Yes.
But it's not actually that bad.
It seems complicated.
It's pronounced ee-fa.
- Okay. - Now bear with me.
Essentially there's just a few rules
that you can learn very, very quickly.
For example, ao has the ee-sound.
So once you know that, then it's clear that that's ee-fa.
Another one, I just mentioned that Bh
like when you're calling ah vrendon,
that Bh has the v-sound.
Now you start to see this H comes into things a lot
when you're changing consonants.
You start to see that pattern,
and if Bh has the v-sound
and you now the name Seán, very popular,
that's one people tend to actually get right,
it's because S before E and I has the sh-sound,
so, how do you think the word
S-I-O-B-H-A with an accent-N,
how do you think that's pronounced?
- Okay, so I notice now.
So the S with a H, the B with the,
so shee-von.
- Perfect.
You see?
You can actually learn this very fast.
I really hope that we've given you some inspiration
to dive into the Irish language.
I love inspiring people to learn some Irish,
but I got inspired to do this video from Lindsay.
Because on her YouTube channel Lindsay's got
loads of videos, not just about why to learn languages,
but how to learn languages,
sharing her own journey learning languages.
Links are in the description.
Click Lindsay right now and you'll be sent over there.
If you like this video, I've got loads more videos
about and in Irish and about many other languages,
so click Subscribe to subscribe to my channel.
And that's about it.
So thanks a lot for watching and...
- Slán. (Bye)
- Slán. (Bye)
- Yes, I got it right!
- See you guys. - Bye!
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