Just curious as a foreigner, how typical is it for the common Irish person not from Kerry to be able to understand this guy ? https://youtu.be/CONaEO8ZCe8?si=cIyWtFvdRg1KlWqc

by DefiantAbalone1

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  1. He’s a bit muffled given your recording it via phone then playing from my own phone but I get what he’s saying although I’m from Kerry so easier for me I guess.

  4. Never in my life have i seen such a crowd up here…. it starts with…

  5. I get him, he’s saying he’s never seen such a crowd on that beach but it’s making for a nice day. You wouldn’t imagine with the size of the whale that it could make it up and along onto the beach, but sure it did and all. Crazy how diverse Irish accents can be.

  6. I’m about 20 km from where this was filmed and I struggle to understand some of it on first listen.

  7. I think English is his second language. He’s a native Irish speaker and wouldn’t use English much I think.

  8. I’d have to tune into it alright but I’d get it consistently after 10 or 15 minutes

  9. Yes. I can. About 90% really. And he does mumble a lot.

  10. Nice to hear a genuine accent. Instead of the west brit /American accent that is becoming so prevalent

  11. I come from a part of Scotland originally that has a pretty strong accent, I usually have a decent ear for a thick accent but I only got about half of what this lad was saying, he’s talking pretty quick.

  12. He’s as he’s as he’ as big as a ship, lenght and the width of em!

  13. I can understand it.

    I’ve spent a lot of time in Kerry with work, it just takes getting used to.

  15. Myself and the kids were walking home and stopped to let an elderly man pass us (path was a bit tight with cars) he thanked my eldest (7) for letting him pass. He had the thickest Kerry accent. After he left my daughter asked me if he was french because she couldn’t understand him.

  16. I can understand him, but I have to listen very carefully.

  18. Yes, I understand him. It’s a strong accent but you’ll pick it up with enough time and exposure.

  19. No probs understanding him here but grew up near people who spoke like that, if they go too fast it is incomprehensible haha

  20. It’s bad when the auto generated subtitles on youtube half way through just go nope and give up.

    Is this how the rest of the world hear all of us?

  21. He’s not saying much to be fair just that the whale is a big fella and that he’s never seen so many people come out. His accent rolls a lot of his words makes them sound longer.

  22. I understand the first sentence or so and then it drops off completely apart from a random word here and there.

  23. Ah ya, and if you spend a bit of time in kerry you’ll become fluent too. I always say that anyone who learns English in Ireland, can speak English anywhere in the world to anyone, has to be the toughest place for beginners.

  24. As someone from this part of the world, I always find these videos funny because he just sounds like one of my neighbours so I’ve no problem understanding, except for the occasional mumble.

  25. Depends on where you’re from op. I didn’t have much of a problem but most of the older people where I’m from speak like this to a lesser degree.

    I’d imagine dubs would struggle.

  26. I’m shocked by how many people claim to understand him here. I’ve listened to it again and again and it just sounds like Dutch mixed with Irish.

  28. In all fairness, it’s not always the country accent that makes it harder for others to understand.

    Believe it or not ! Hear me out now hear……

    IT IS indeed possible to be from the West of Ireland , and ALSO have a speech impediment .

    These two handicaps and/or misfortunes can actually exist at the same time 😂😂. Maybe uncommon. Possibly as rare as a goat without another one tied to him .

    Serious now. Ive witnessed in my own family even.
    I’ve an uncle from Tyrone that speaks like no man, woman, nor child to ever set foot on this earth.
    Not even in his own village – never mind the county, or the Island for that matter .

    Many extended family think that it’s some tick rural Tyrone accent, and that’s why they don’t always understand him.
    But its not the story .
    He just has an impediment.

    The accent is the least of our worries though 😂😂😂.
    Fuckin hell .
    As far as light impediments go – ones speech or accent; its not the worst like 😬🥸🤣.

  29. I’m a native English speaker, been here 10 years. I can understand maybe 3 words of his interview (the second Twitter link, so I gave it a fair attempt!). It sounds beautiful (almost musical) but I wouldn’t want to be talking to him in an emergency

  30. I got all of it but you’d know he’s a Gaeilgeoir for sure!

  31. I’m not a hundred percent sure but I think it might have something to do with the all Ireland final in 1974 when Kerry were in the final , finna fail weren’t destroying the country and aliens were in the country although that might have been people from Cavan like I said I don’t understand the dialect very well

  32. Im scottish and could barely understand anything, think i caught him talking about how big the whale was

  33. I’m a foreigner (I’ve been in Cork almost five years) and I have no trouble understanding him.

  34. Ah this brings me back to a trip I had to dingle pre-covid when the world was more normal. Went to Dick Macs pub and few other bars with my new wife, distinctly remember watching the world champion or world record holder for Irish dancing fastest feet or something- lots of Americans. Good craic. We were only staying a couple of miles outside the centre but were starting to contemplate how we’d get home around 2 or 3 in the morning.

    Fear not; a very obviously regulated, tax paying and licenced one man taxi company pulled up in a 90s transit van and started speaking in an alien dialect something similar to the gentleman in the video. I understood nothing but the words taxi, €10 and cash but we talked the whole way home and I exited the transfer with a new friend.

    Drink is a wonderful social cohesive.

  35. I got “you would never imagine” and possibly the word “weekend” but not one other word.

  36. Wait, is this not what r/ireland wants? Zero American influence on the accent.

  37. I could understand the original interview. Your link is difficult to understand though. I’m from wexford

  38. Ah man. Not a clue.

    I’m a Sullivan too. How far I have strayed from my ancestry 🙁

    Also RIP to the dead whale

    Edit: I misread the post, I’m English sorry 😬

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