In this Irish language video I'm going to give you some simple but effective

phrases that you could use if you are a beginner learning the Irish language

these phrases will be useful in terms of having a conversation with other learners and

and also, perhaps talking to an Irish language teacher if you have one

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The first phrase is Tuigim

Tuigim means I understand and Ní thuigim means I don't understand

Tuigim - I understand, Ní thuigim - I don't understand

If you wanted to flesh out those phrases a little bit you could use the following words along with them

Tuigim go maith

I Completely understand or I fully understand, Tuigim go maith

Ní thuigim thú - I don't understand you

Next we're going to look at a situation when you want to ask somebody to repeat that

Abair arís - say that again or repeat that

Abair arís le do thoil - Repeat that please

Abair arís go mall - repeat that slowly

that comes from the Irish word Abair to say

An Irish language teacher might say the following

Abair é seo i mo dhiadh - repeat after me

Next we have

Go raibh maith agat which you probably know as it's a very

common Irish

phrase

Go raibh maith agat means Thank you

But if someone has helped you with some Irish words or phrases or grammar, you could say the following

Go raibh maith agat as an gcabhair - Thanks for the help or thank you for the help

Another way of saying thanks is the following - Míle Buíochas

it just means thanks a lot or many thanks, míle buíochas

Next we have fan nóiméad

fan nóiméad means wait a moment or wait a minute

Mar shampla, fan nóiméad céard a dúirt tú? - Just a minute, What did you say?

So you could use that if you're just struggling a little bit to understand something or you've misheard something as Gaeilge

Fan Nóiméad céard a dúirt tú? - just a moment. What did you say?

Finally we have what could only be described as a proverb

Practice makes perfect