Gaelic

Webmistress Says:

Oct 23, 2008 - Dublin has been speaking english since the Brits invaded, it was the first place taken over so naturally it would have the least amount of speakers, Grafton Street jaysus why would you go there? Its in the north and west of Ireland that it is spoken. Labhraím Gaeilige go líofa so níl tú in ann a rá nach labhraíonn Éireannaigh a teanga féin, fiú d'fhreastal mé ar dhá scoil lán gaelach agus mé i mBaile Átha Cliath. Caithfidh tú an rud a fheiceáil ón dá thaobh!

sonho1234 Says:

Oct 29, 2008 - Gaelic is a fantastic language, but its really hard to learn, but still, give it your best shot :D that's what I'm doing :D

whokilledoisinwoods1 Says:

Oct 29, 2008 - 'am i supposed to understand that?'' stupid girl has had at least 8 years of tuition and it was a simple scentence most irish teens would have understood that

booksbooks Says:

Nov 4, 2008 - Gaelic sounds German.

dechetsdailybs Says:

Nov 7, 2008 - LOLOL

kmfw72 Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - It's called Irish, not Gaelic - the Dutch reporter calls it that 'Iers'. Only English fogeys and dumb Americans call it 'Gaelic'. A hundred years ago, Hebrew was a dead language - today it is the native language of millions, the language of commerce, parliamentary debates, daily newspapers, advertising billboards, product packaging. The Irish could have done the same if they wanted to, but they didn't, and it's their fault.

kmfw72 Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - If Kevin Myers is English because he was born in England, does that mean that James Connolly was a Scot and Eamon de Valera was an American? What should make you so mad is that the majority of your countrymen and women still speak English as their first language, 86 years after the founding of the State. If Irish were as important as you think, you'd be learning English as a foreign language, like the Dutch!

gjanerbris08 Says:

Nov 12, 2008 - 250 Aboriginal languages have been lost here in Aust.since 220 years of British Settlement starting.More than 1language lost per year.Problem is they were never written down as they were only spoken.Shame.I must say as an Aussie I only know it is as 'Gaelic'.We have no other way of knowing what it is called as that's the only term we have ever heard. But i would like to know what i should say.I still think all languages should be preserved.Welsh nearly died too.I believe Hebrew died for1000yrs

BamFor07 Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - I grew up in Ireland. We called it Gaelga which is of course just Irish for Gaelic, much like Germans calling their language Deutch instead of German. Calling it Gaelic is perfectly reasonable. The Irish themselves call it both. It is easily one of the most fascinating languages on Earth.

deil321 Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - I have always wanted to learn Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic) :D

maisoncarree Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - it sounds like german

japkomienta Says:

Nov 23, 2008 - I've always been wondering if it isn't strange to be Irish and speak English even though there is the Irish language? I think I'd feel pretty uncomfortably if I, being a Pole, spoke frinstance German or Russian...:|

BaldOldWhiteGuy Says:

Nov 24, 2008 - kmfw72, Dumb Americans call it Gaelic? Well, I suppose we dumb Americans might call it Gaelic, or we might call it Gaeilge, but only someone as smart as you would chastise us for not calling it "Irish"..even though that is the ENGLISH name for the language... kmfw72, you are a know-it-all who strives to be an idiot. Keep studying and practice being civil. In about a dozen years I expect you to be acting like a grown up. Off you go.

Xtro2005 Says:

Nov 24, 2008 - for a "barbarian tongue" its quite intelligible. Its rather easy to discern where one word begins and another ends. Norse and Hindi still confuse the hell out of me.

EvBoii1 Says:

Nov 27, 2008 - It Sounds A Bit Like A Mix Between German And Welsh

goerinbragh Says:

Dec 2, 2008 - Gotta to love the Dutch, covering stories like this. Keep it up, save the language. Erin go bragh!

Mamakayi Says:

Dec 10, 2008 - Wat sounds a bit like Plattdeutsch (Lower German)... ^^

gariadara Says:

Dec 10, 2008 - Gaelic doesn't sound anything like German. I think people might be hearing the Dutch intro and mistaking it for Gaelic. Celtic languages don't really sound like anything else, they may sound more Northern European (nowadays), but any similarity ends there.

Zeebrugge1918 Says:

Dec 11, 2008 - that'll be dutch- the language that the report is in

DesertEagle404 Says:

Dec 16, 2008 - Many of us can though, I think it gets blown out of proportion sometimes, I remember an American consoling me on the loss of our "dead language" over the internet 2 days after I had picked up my leaving exam results and had passed Irish with an honour, I thought that was pretty funny, I just said yeah it's a pity lol

cjlives Says:

Dec 19, 2008 - how on earth can you call it a 'barbarian tongue'! the 'intelligible' part of it is just the recording! talking about the connection between each word just shows it to be a lot less harsh than the english language. FYI, Gaelic (Scots) and Gaeilge (Irish) both have more in common with Latin than English does, I bet that'll surprise ya!:D

Audiomuse Says:

Dec 23, 2008 - Wow such a neat language

ScionT2B Says:

Jan 4, 2009 - Irish is an interesting language :3

bellerina88 Says:

Jan 5, 2009 - that'll be Belgian.

Zeebrugge1918 Says:

Jan 5, 2009 - that'll be Flemish then