Comments on: No Béarla http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/ An Irish Community weblog about everything Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: ...:::|| Yamato-Soft ||:::... ...:::|| Let`s Blogging Together ||:::... http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-255892 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:05:47 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-255892 [...] Is it possible to travel the length and breath of Ireland by only speaking in Irish? Evidentally yes if the following video clip is anything to go by. TG4 broadcaster Manchán Magan did it and this is his story. Here he buys condoms in a chemist, chats up some girls at a disco and finishes the night off by, well, watch the clip. It’s a bit funny. (via TCAL) [...] […] Is it possible to travel the length and breath of Ireland by only speaking in Irish? Evidentally yes if the following video clip is anything to go by. TG4 broadcaster Manchán Magan did it and this is his story. Here he buys condoms in a chemist, chats up some girls at a disco and finishes the night off by, well, watch the clip. It’s a bit funny. (via TCAL) […]

]]> by: Panu http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-253553 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:31:50 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-253553 To tell the truth, I do not recognise my own experience here. As far as I am concerned, people actually want to speak Irish with you if you are an obvious foreigner and show that you speak the language. In fact, even in places where I was not expecting anyone to speak it, I was accosted in it. And the majority of the taxi drivers that have given me a lift in Ireland have been able to speak the language. I remember when a friend and I were taking a taxi home in Dublin, we were speaking in Irish of course, and the driver actually started to speak it with us, and he was quite good at it. Actually, it was kind of "neamhshaolta", you know. It felt just like there being an entirely Irish-speaking Ireland there, under very little English for camouflage. Some day it will resurge. To tell the truth, I do not recognise my own experience here. As far as I am concerned, people actually want to speak Irish with you if you are an obvious foreigner and show that you speak the language. In fact, even in places where I was not expecting anyone to speak it, I was accosted in it. And the majority of the taxi drivers that have given me a lift in Ireland have been able to speak the language. I remember when a friend and I were taking a taxi home in Dublin, we were speaking in Irish of course, and the driver actually started to speak it with us, and he was quite good at it.

Actually, it was kind of “neamhshaolta”, you know. It felt just like there being an entirely Irish-speaking Ireland there, under very little English for camouflage. Some day it will resurge.

]]> by: danger http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-252190 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:15:32 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-252190 Didn't catch it at the time, but this is quite similar in concept to fantastic short-film <a href="http://tcal.net/archives/2006/02/09/my-name-is-yu-ming/" rel="nofollow"> My name is Yu Ming.</a> Didn’t catch it at the time, but this is quite similar in concept to fantastic short-film My name is Yu Ming.

]]> by: No Béarla in this country at Holy Shmoly! http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-251593 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:03:19 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/05/no-bearla/#comment-251593 [...] Is it possible to travel the length and breath of Ireland by only speaking in Irish? Evidentally yes if the following video clip is anything to go by. TG4 broadcaster Manchán Magan did it and this is his story. Here he buys condoms in a chemist, chats up some girls at a disco and finishes the night off by, well, watch the clip. It&#8217;s a bit funny. (via TCAL) [...] […] Is it possible to travel the length and breath of Ireland by only speaking in Irish? Evidentally yes if the following video clip is anything to go by. TG4 broadcaster Manchán Magan did it and this is his story. Here he buys condoms in a chemist, chats up some girls at a disco and finishes the night off by, well, watch the clip. It’s a bit funny. (via TCAL) […]

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