Dia duit agus fáilte ar ais, in this video I'm going to share with you some phrases
that you can use in a conversation about the Irish language, so for example let's
say you're talking to somebody about how your learning of the Irish language is
going and that you enjoy speaking it and so on, but before we start I'd like to
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via the link that I give you here on this channel, so anyway back to this
video on having a conversation about the Irish language, someone might ask you
An bhfuil aon ghaeilge agat? have you any Irish or do you speak Irish?
if you weren't particularly confident you could just
say cúpla focal which means a couple of words cúpla focal or
beagán Gaeilge which means a little Irish, beagán Gaeilge, but you could also
say Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge = I am learning Irish
Foghlaim is to learn, you could say on top of that
Tá mé ag feabhsú de réir a chéile = I am improving gradually (ag feabhsú = improving)
and then this would be a great time to bring in one of the
seanfhocals that I said to you in my last video a couple of months ago now at
this stage I think, a seanfhocal is a proverb and one of the Proverbs in my most recent seanfhocal
video was - De réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin - that means Rome wasn't built in a day
or literally it means that it takes a while to build your
castle - De réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin, a nice little proverb to
use in the context of you learning Irish perhaps. You could also get in there that
Irish is my native language - Is í an Ghaeilge mo theanga dhúchais, Irish is my native language
you could also adjust that to say Irish
is our native language by saying the following
Is í an Ghaeilge ár dteanga dhúchais, there's just an urú there which is the d before
the t in teanga because it's ár for our, Is í an Ghaeilge ár dteanga dhúchais Irish is
our native language. You could go on and say then the following
Le bheith fírinneach is breá liom ag labhairt na Gaeilge ach go háirithe = that means to be honest I love
speaking Irish anyway, so if we break down that sentence we will get a closer
look at the phrases, firstly le bheith fírinneach - that means to be honest or to be
truthful, le bheith fírinneach, Is breá liom - that means I love, ag labhairt na Gaeilge
speaking Irish, ag labhairt is speaking - comes from the verb
labhair to speak, and then a lovely little phrase at the end there - ach go háirithe
that means anyways or anyhow it's kind of like ar aon nós in Irish it's
another way of saying that (ar aon nós) and just means anyway so it's a nice little
phrase to add a bit of richness to the end or even start of your sentence so
so let's have a look at that sentence again in its entirety
Le bheith fírinneach is breá liom ag labhairt na Gaeilge ach go háirithe - to be honest I love speaking Irish
anyway, and after that then you could say
Tá i bhfad níos mó muiníne agam agus mé ag labhairt na Gaeilge - that means I've become more
confident when I am speaking in Irish - Tá i bhfad níos mó muiníne agam agus mé ag labhairt na Gaeilge
so Tá i bhfad is just another way of saying I am or I
have become, níos mó is more or increasing
muiníne is a version of muinín which is confidence, muinín is confidence and
níos mó muiníne in this context means to to become more confident
and then ag labhairt na Gaeilge as I was saying to you is speaking Irish, so let's have a look at
that phrase again - Tá i bhfad níos mó muiníne agam agus mé ag labhairt na Gaeilge
I have become more confident speaking Irish or I have become more
confident when I am speaking Irish, and let's say you've reached your goals in
terms of learning Irish or you've got to the required standard that you set
yourself you could say the following phrase then
Obair chrua ba ea é ach táim sásta go ndearna mé é - that means it was hard work but I'm happy
that I did it - Obair chrua ba ea é ach táim sásta go ndearna mé é
Obair chrua is hard work and then sásta means to be happy or satisfied so
and then go ndearna mé é sorry, is a version of the Irish verb Déan, which is
to do, that's an irregular verb and I've made a
different video on that so go ndearna mé é is to do with being happy that I did
it so particularly did it ndearna is to have done something in the
past tense. Obair chrua ba ea é ach táim sásta go ndearna mé é.
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Slán go fóill.