Wanna Learn a Little Irish? (Slang Ramble Revisit)

Just getting to the rambles now, and this one is definitely one of my favorites! I love the way you get super excited about teaching us the slang, and I can say with some certainty that you could read the phone book and it would be awesome! I'd love to hear some more like this, if you're willing!! Much love, dear!

At 16:50, your example of compliments a fein would pay a beour reminded me of this lickle stand up segment from the hilarious Aisling Bea... https://youtu.be/z7hLql1SJ8I

LilacW

I love these kind of tidbits that introduce the Gaelic/Irish language. The only Irish I remember from uni is one word from James Joyce's books haha ("tundish" I believe it was). Lovely to hear you talking in a relaxed way, just talking off the cuff, more of this please.

I believe that many Jamaican slaves learned English from the Irish servants.

Shelley

This wasn‘t boring at all! „Confumbeled“ (I hope I wrote that correcty😅) is one of my favourite words. I find it even better than confused!

Dominique

This was really nice. I love listening to your voice.

Never boring. Loved it!

I really enjoyed this audio, thanks for sharing with us :)

Liz

Always love listening to your rambles and learning slang. And quite like the photo...

Oh, I remember now one funny incident revolving English and finding the right words: I was talking to an American lady, and I was mentioning this tobacco you put under your upper lip that's quite common in the Northern countries, called "snus", and I had only heard one translation of that word before, which was, a bit unfortunately named, "snuff". Needless to say the girl fucking lost it, and couldn't believe lip tobacco and hardcore SM porn could possibly be named the same. But I swear to god it's the only translation I know!

😂😂😂 I can imagine this scene so vividly!! 🙊🙊🙊 But to be honest, when I heard about this slang word here for the first time many moons ago, I was like whaaaat!!?? 😳😳😂😂😂

I quite like the many applications of the word cunt. You have "Ugh.. he's such a cunt!" but there's also " Aww.. what a lovely cunt!" And "Sucking Diesel" I heard Hazey Haze once use it, and then there was me shouting and pointing ", I know what that means!!"

I actually have a funny story to share wit-y'all.. I visited Edinburgh in 2019, and I was with my tour group in the lobby waiting for our tour guide to join us, so I asked one of the ladies in the group who's from US. I asked her, I wonder if the Scottish use "what's the craic" in Scotland? She looked at me 😳😳 and said you're asking for crack????? I said no, I'm just asking if the Scottish use the same slang craic which means the fun as the Irish and wondering if you know. She still looked at me like this 😳😳😳 and said, I'm a girl from a little town in Virginia and I don't think I would know any crack and she left me and stood far away from me!!! Clearly she thought I'm asking for some crack!!! 🤣🤣 And yeah, she didn't approach me or was near me the entire trip 🤭😆🤣

It's amazing how my brain feels like it's going to explode since my native language is not English. So the poor brain tries to translate everything two or three times into different languages haha. Still I adore listening to this specific audio and trying to understand everything ((and I have to say that I adore your accent, although sometimes I do not fully understand when you speak fast or when you drop the accent without trying to hide it as in other videos besides this, it is still beautiful for me, and I really like hearing it)

There were times I understood it and times when I was like, "What the fuck did he just say?" Regardless, I could listen to you forever 😉😘 Reminded me of the time I was traveling around Scotland by train and we were delayed on the tracks for a bit on the way to Glasgow. The Scotsman next to me had to call someone that he'd be late and I understood not even half of what he said 🤣 at one point he was politely making conversation with me and I had to ask him to repeat himself many times. He realized I was American then and tried to slow it down quite a bit, but even still. Languages are so amazingly fascinating though. The fact that we're all colonized by the Brits and are "English-speaking" countries, but sound so different. So many different influences on the language that you start to wonder if we are speaking the same language, hahaha.

Ohh I love the start very sweet of course I’ll take your hand and follow you anywhere...not the first time I’ve listened to this ramble but it’s still enjoyable...and let’s be honest you could read the phone book (are there still phone books?? Lol) and we would love it 💋👏🏻👏🏻☘️☘️☘️❤️

These are the stuff that gives me nerdgasms galore! But OK, I have a couple I've heard of that I love, and pardon if I'm wrong: I've heard "ossified" is still in use in Ireland, meaning "drunk", whish also was, apparently, slang in the USA in the 1920s! I also heard of "messages" for "groceries", which didn't make sense to me but I loved it I also heard "I could murder a Guinness (or your choice of drink)" for "I really want a beer". Idk I love brutal words for everyday things Btw, I also though Irish dialects occasionally can sound like Patwa/Patois! I super recommend looking for the videos on YT of this Jamaican lady and a Nigerian lady comparing accents and the Jamaican pronunciation is the coolest, heaviest shit, I swear

I loved this audio! I did understand almost everything that was said, but I have to admit that we say some of these in Australia, and also I’ve been influenced by others by my friends from the UK. PS: Listening to you is never boring, you have this way about you that makes these types of audios fun!

Great audio Gael and I can understand u when u talk quick haha xx

Emma Ranson

I admit I don’t understand a lick of it. It’s all beautiful nonsense to me, but emphasis on the beautiful.

I would love to just sit and have a conversation with G. His voice is just so comforting.

And here I am your listener from Austria trying to learn Irish/Gaelic from you while I need to focus on the English translation so that I can translate everything back to my own language, means German .... the struggle is real Gaelie 😂 but I love love love this ramble of yours. It’s one of my favorites amongst many others 😘

Great fun. Thanks. But here's something that may not be considered slang as much as casual speech. But the use of "so" and "la" at the end of sentences in English, Mind you it's Irish English, are confusing to me.

Love the rambles and relaxed atmosphere. Like a chat with a friend. They're always interesting and we get to learn some cool new words or things about the culture. We say "I'm just messin'" here too in my neck of the woods when we're just joking. Up the walls and leg it are two I find hilarious. <3

The joke at the end. 😂🤣😂🤣

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You have no idea how much I love your rambles super fun and entertaining and Irish slang is brilliant 😂 ☘️ thank you G!

First of all, it’s totally not boring. I’m listening to this almost 3am now and I don’t think I could go to sleep after all the craic and giggles. So yup! Keep on talking! 👍 Me from now on : can you give me that ass? 🍫 I bet people would throw me look and a machine gun rant from my Mom if ever I said that 🤣 Blaggard? but isn’t that the noise you’ll hear once you fell from the bed? *BLAGGARD* 🤣 I know, I know...I’ll see myself out 😎🤣 Thank you for the revisit! ♥️✨

Love listening to all your rambles , I think it is the first time on hearing this one... really enjoyed it! 😊💕

Tracey

Lovely gift for a Sunday night, one of my fav rambles from you! 💚💚🍀🍀🍀😊😊😊