Lebanese man develops an Irish accent after working with Irish soilders in South Lebanon for over 30 years!

Lebanese man develops an Irish accent after working with Irish soilders in South Lebanon for over 30 years! from ireland

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  1. I instinctively hate any post that includes the words “can we make X go viral”

    But I like this one

  9. Worked in Australia and a Lebanese older man delivered to the restaurant, he always wanted the chats Ireland

    I get talking to him and begins telling me about the Irish troops that were in the Leb, his face lighting up while talking about his home and locals integrating with our peace keepers in games of soccer and rugby.
    Great people he tells me the best we could have asked for at that time of rebuilding our nation.

    My knowledge of that war was limited until that day, his openness was touching people who have been to war often don’t like talking about because of trauma in my experience.

  14. No way, that’s khalel Joyce, he’s from carrig-on-shannon not the Lebanon!

    I do have a good family friend that went to the Lebanon in the 80’s I hope he gets a good kick out of this!

  15. He learned English from the Irish Soldiers, that’s why he speaks English with an Irish accent, I’m sure in Lebanese he speaks with a local accent.

  17. This kind of thing apparently happened in Liverpool. A lot of the port workers picked up Irish phrases and ways of speak.

  25. It’s pretty common to speak a language with the same inflection and sometimes accent as the people you learn it from. Some people I know from non-english speaking countries speak english with an American accent because they learned to speak it from watching tv shows.

  26. I’m working with a lad from Poland for 10 years and is all .. “ah lad ” and ” what’s the craic lad” and” no bother at all lad ” .Its second nature to him now.

  27. Was there as a finnish peacekeeper a couple years ago. There were multiple lebanese locals that spoke finnish, having grown up next to the finnish camp, and while many of them worked in the camp, sometimes on patrols you’d just hear the coffee stand dude yell out “tulkaa hakemaan kahvia perkele!” – come get coffee perkele. He’d speak perfect finnish, almost no english.

  28. Hope this doesn’t come across as racist, but I left Ireland in the mid 90s when I was 17, ended living abroad for nearly 20 years, was only back once in that time.

    And the biggest culture shock I got when I cam home was meeting black people(children of immigrants) with heavy irish accents, particularly if they were from the west coast.

  30. I have a Danish friend who looks stereotypically viking with long, bright red hair, pale skin. Only she learned most of ‘er English in the north of England, didn’ she? Fookin’ ‘ell!

  36. When I first moved from Quebec to BC I hung out with New-Zealanders for 6 months and fully spoke English with a NZ accent.

    It took a while for it to subside.

  37. The 4 Romanov Princesses of the Russian Royal Family who were killed in 1917 [had a governess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaretta_Eagar), who was originally from Limerick and apparently all spoke English with a detectable Irish accent.

    Ironically so did one of their murderers, Lenin too had a slight Irish accent, as he’d learnt English in London, with someone from Dublin.

  39. “Never seen Ireland on a map” bet whoever made that tiktok couldnt find Lebanon on a map themselves since they seem to know so little about it

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