9 Very Useful Adjectives (1) - Learn Scottish Gaelic

jason and welcome to this first video lesson here today let's look at eight essential words eight effective and simple ways to communicate thoughts and opinions plus they're just a lot of fun to say so let's start off with what they actually mean that's what we've got to do first we've got to sort out what the gaelic words mean before we use them a bunch otherwise it's just a bunch of noise isn't it glaiva glaiva ok so our first one here mo it means big mo [Music] i'm going to be doing gestures like this because they make the garlic stick in your mind more because you're going to remember the long-haired hippie guy going like this and if you want to do the gestures with me you'll remember them better because you're using muscle memory yeah so that's a secret way to remembering these words very naturally very quickly muscle memory okay so more more more all right clever clever clever flavor okay we have more big big big pig peak more peak more more more more big more big big more okay more big big can kind of be tricky because it sounds a bit like big with time and with practice bake you'll just know oh that's small it'll be no problem but it does take a little time to get to that point all right we have more big something's nice the way i was taught way back when in nova scotia so this is a bit more of a traditional perspective snook was really for appearance someone looks nice or it means they look cute so traditionally snoke was really used for people people yeah maybe animals too come to think of it like pets pets yeah these days in a lot of places snook is used for you know almost anything like a nice house or a nice meal or a nice movie that kind of thing but traditionally it was mainly for appearance something looks cute something looks nice okay snook so we have so we have more big snack snack okay doing great it's come down to grot grout is very very expressive can mean horrible horrible or awful gross or rotten any of those grot is very useful grot so if you have milk that's been in the fridge for a long time it could be grot but if someone is being really unpleasant you know they're having a bad day maybe taking it out on other people they could be acting grumped you could say oh they're just grot today and of course if you don't like if you don't like something if you're not a fan of snow or ice or that kind of thing of winter weather it could be grot in your opinion grot is very handy and also grot is very similar to grati in scottish english grati yeah karate i'm not 100 sure which came first but they're definitely connected right because grati means the same thing in scottish english okay clever clever so more pig snook grotto and i'm rolling the r a bit more than i usually would so you can hear it better grot if rolling the r is tricky maybe do some practice with it i'm sure there are other videos on youtube about rolling that r so for some folk there are a lot of roll bars in their language already so it might come easy others it might take a lot of practice it took me a lot of work to roll that grot so if it's not so easy for you right now don't worry it will be it will be over time with practice all of this will become very natural to you the main thing is that you hear them a lot and understand what you hear that way it just builds up in your mind more and more and then one day it'll just come out very easily yeah all right doing great so we got the first four let's see what these mean this is one of my favorite garlic words actually beautiful or pretty you know whatever word this feels most natural to you this is one of many words for pretty in gallic this e is a little longer that's why there's the little mark above it little accent mark it means it's a long e it's not brilla these accent marks give gaelic a lot of the rhythm and the flow like the song-like quality that it has how or think of something you find beautiful for an outlander fan i'm sure you have several names already in your mind several images too probably maybe a pet if you think if you think your dog or your cat or whatever pet you have is beautiful i point to them you think i'm beautiful point to me go for it if i'm your cup of tea any connection you can make between these words and your life makes them come alive for you makes gaelic a real living experience for you and it's also a very quick way to remember them because if if you think bria oh that's like my dog i think my dog's perilla ah just like my dog you're gonna remember it very quickly because the dog is meaningful to you so that's another secret first secret is hearing these words a lot so that they just become natural so they get kind of stuck in your head the second secret is to if possible connect them with words with things that are meaningful to you in your life all right same with snook snook if you think your pet are a pet of a friend is really nice really cute think of that or maybe someone has a new baby or you think your niece is really pretty anything at all anything at all smoke making these connections between words all right this horrible looking word jiff yeah so this d i makes a kind of a j sound here and t e on the end that makes a ch sound gif freeh and once you get used to the sounds of this word like the internal sounds here the sounds in the middle you might be able to start hearing it as being similar to the word different gif different yeah yeah there are there are a number of spellings for this too there there's not just one way to spell it so you'll you'll see it in ways that are jeffrey all right one of my absolute favorite words blasta means tasty or yummy however you want to translate that like delicious anything like that so a connection you could make could be with a food that you really like or a drink that you really like blasta blaster one of my students came up with this really good example he said oh ha pasta blaster pasta is blaster pasta is tasty ha pasta blaster and that's just fun to say i mean say that 20 times it's a bit of a a tongue twister yeah blaster mmm you're doing great glaive if looking at these words and the spelling is stressing you out a little bit don't worry it stresses everyone out at first over time with practice it'll just become normal it'll become normal and you'll just be able to write it no problem but that will take a little while because gaelic is just so different at least in my experience from any other language i've learned yeah all right we're coming down to our last one here ma i tend to do a thumbs up from my ma and one of my students they made a they made a joke this was when i was teaching in scotland in high school they they looked at that and they said they really weren't a fan of maths they didn't like mathematics math class at all so they said math oh yeah ha ha well she said maths because she's scottish what hamath's ma kind of rolled their eyes a bit full of sarcasm if you're not a fan of of maths then this could be a way to remember it you know like oh yeah have math ma yeah right but if you do enjoy mathematics enough ma it's good it's good and i'm going to give you a bonus one here too it kind of connects with ma and luckily it's really easy to spell and to say dona dona dona you'll hear it sometimes usually it's part of um a longer phrase like i'm not bad like how are you oh i'm not bad that kind of thing how was the how was the trip oh it wasn't bad that kind of thing you'll hear it you'll hear it in that quite quite often yeah all right so here are your eight really useful and expressive words that you can use to communicate your thoughts and opinions quite easily okay clever clever

Channel: Gaelic with Jason

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Keywords: TPRS, CI, Gaelic, Gàidhlig, Scottish Gaelic, Scotland, Alba

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Length: 14min 41sec (881 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 03 2021