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Because, one day I want to live in Ireland, with only my knowledge of English. Is that possible?
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Most people in Ireland do not even know Irish.
English is the primary language used. You will be fine.
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No, unless you're from a Gaeltacht area (Irish speaking), we don't talk Irish among ourselves, most of us talk English from birth and badly taught, compulsory Irish at schools ensures that whatever wish to learn or love it is extinguished.
English is spoken in Ireland partially because of the conquest & the Plantations but also because it was viewed as the language of progress & commerce, if you were immigrating, you learned to talk English, if you wanted to do business, you learned English. Standardised education in the nineteenth century also played its part & the Famine which destroyed areas where Irish speaking was most prevalent and again, because so many immigrating also needed to talk English in order to get ahead in the countries they went to. The people who have been most successful in destroying the Irish language are the Irish themselves.
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no the language is obselete.
less than 1% of the population who live in the gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) use it in everyday conversation but the other 99% learn it in school and then forget about it
personally i think it is a large waste of money. the government spends millions of € each year translating documents into Irish even though 99% of the population cant comprehend a word of it.
you’ll be fine - no one will even notice that you cant talk Irish and aswell as that - no one will care
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Every Irish talks English albeit with subtle differences in pronunciation and term usage. If you talk native English all roads will be open before you…
Some people also know Irish (Gaelic). The zones in which Irish is predominant are known as Gaeltacht and are rapidly disappearing in spite of government 'protectionism'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht
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Hey okay iam irish living in Ireland.
English is the spoken language in ireland from when it was taken over by the english.
There are a few areas that talk irish knowen as gaelthatchts theese are mainly in the west.
Very few people can talk irish fluently so u really have nothing to worry about also its simple to learn a few words or cupla focal!!! lol
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No.Unfortunately most Irish people can only speak a foreign language.English.Irish-speakers are a minority.It's because our much larger neighbour,England,invaded us centuries ago,& forbade us speaking our own language.How-ever,that's all history now,so there’s no point in crying about it I'm sure you will have a great time when you visit us.
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Hey, english is spoken all the time in ireland except for a few places in the west. You’ll notice that signs on the road are in english and irish. No need to worry if you cant speak irish because you’re among a massive majority of native irish people that cant either.
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Of course it is possible. Irish is spoken on a daily basis in the Gaeltacht areas, and some families outside of these use it as their lingua franca, but generally the language is Hiberno-English. That stated, each region has a distinctive accent.
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Well most people in Ireland speak english. There are some that can talk Irish as well. I’m one of those as well as my Sister… Sometimes we would speak Irish to each other.. Also if we meet people we know that talk irish we would talk it… Very rarely tho..
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Michael K you are crying about it. Get over it or leave. Very few speak Irish because it isn't taught well and it is of no use in the international community.
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No we don't. But, Most of us know Irish. We talk English and We learn Irish at school. But, There are places in Ireland called Gaeilteacts and There's no English in Them place's.
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hi you
normally Irish is spoken in all parts of Ireland so you should have no problem with just having English
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People who can speak Irish would but other from that we speak English. The odd time we might throw in an Irish word but you’ll be fine….!
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I pretty sure they do just like any other culture Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList