1. Are you English ethnically, 'cause you look stereotypically Scandinavian?)))
2. I'm sorry for all your bad comments D: I just wanted to say though, you look a lot like "France" from the anime Axis Powers Hetalia! If you don't know what I'm talking about, that's okay! You can look it up~ Or don't. Your choice C:
3. Con not disagree.
4. He's creepy ):
5. Du er så tøff du. Jeg tror jeg begynner å forelske meg.
6. Sorry. Du var så kjedelig at jeg ikke gadd å se delen der du forklarte hvor dårlig dømmekraften din er når det kommer til dine egne engelsk kunnskaper.
7. Det sa jeg heller ikke. Jeg sa jeg ANSER meg selv som RELATIVT god i engelsk. Og så bruker jeg resten av videoen på å fortelle om hvor feil jeg tok. Så hva er poenget ditt?
8. Du er ikke så fantastisk god i engelsk altså
9. He's weird as hell :|
10. It's quite a common occurence that foreigners don't pick up on everything that us Irish are saying. Mainly due to how fast we often speak. Of course you may have just overheard a few culchies conversing, in which case many native Irish would find it difficult to interpret too!
11. Haha! Don't feel bad you couldn't understand a load of Irish people talking. We tend to talk over each other, mumble & use a lot of slang. When I was travelling I had to speaker quite slowly, even to native english speakers so they could understand me. Ps look up 'Handy Sandie' videos on youtube. If you can understand them, you'll understand anything.
12. rcb0683 im irish and i find that VERY ofencive so if you dont like irish people then you can go fuck yourself you rasist bastard
13. rcb0683 1. Lots of people speak Irish, it's there first language in many towns. 2. Don't like it? don't read it 3. who gave you the authority to tell everyone else what to do?
14. You're cute ^^ love your hair.
15. @rcb0683 Actually a lot of people speak Gaelic in Ireland . (Not the majority but a lot) There's an island off the shore of Ireland and their main language is Gaelic .
16. you seem like a really really cool Norwegian guy! so interesting to hear your accent. I'm from the American South myself so you can only image what I sound like.
17. I'm Irish and I have to soften my accent abroad because I know it can be quite difficult to understand, but its interesting to here how we sound :)
18. A message to all the Irish people who have written here: Sort yourselves out. 1) Since Gaelic is an almost extinct language, it's not likely they spoke Gaelic. 2) Sort out your spelling, grammar, punctuation and general composition. It's fucking embarrassing reading for another Irish person. 3)Saying "I'm Irish" doesn't make your opinion any more relevant or insightful than anybody else's. Being Irish does not make you an authority on all things Irish.Especially pseudo-Irish- 2nd gen Irish.
19. I'm Irish and I think what you heard was them speaking as gaeilge (in Irish). Hope this helped :)
20. Judging by your impression I think they were speaking Irish (Gaeilge)! I'm an Irish speaker and, well, that's pretty much what it sounds like to an untrained ear. That or they may have been from an area where the accent is quite thick. Your grasp of English is great. I wouldn't be too concerned about finding Irish people talking amongst themselves difficult to understand if I were you. I'm Irish myself and I can't understand some dialects at times!
21. Oh my....
22. A lot of irish people would speak in Irish (a Gaelic language, completely different to English) amongst themselves in foreign countries if they don't want the people around/ eavesdropping to understand them. It's really handy, like having a secret language.
23. They could have been speaking Irish, which is a language completely unrelated to English. That'd be why you wouldn't have understood them.
24. Very good.sounds a bit Northen Irish though.

Thoughts 15: Irish Accent

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UPDATE, MAY 2008: In the two years since I uploaded this, folk from Ireland have both told me how much they laughed and how offended they were. Why anyone would be offended by some Norwegian making fun of himself is beyond me, but to each his/ her own. To all the supporters: Thanks, you're awesome. ^_^ -- No offense, Irish folks. I know the "imitation" is terrible. I haven't been watching enough Black Books, so it's a very clicheed and silly.
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