I'd like to record myself to hear it if I could get a quiet place. roll on my own spot...

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I can't get any of those to play.

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I don't why that is.

Try the download button.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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All working fine; the volume was muted on my laptop!

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I think the problem is that there are sounds in Irish that English just doesn't have (and vice versa, of course). It's neither "kwee-va" nor "kee-va" the way an American, for example, would understand those sounds, but somewhere in between.

Redwolf

The sound people are mis-hearing as a 'w' is a glide. The lips should not move until you get to the 'mhe' bit

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It is not that people are mis-hearing anything. If anything, it is yourself who is misinterpreting what a w is or isn't.

The glide is somewhere between kwee and coy. The nearest thing to the glide in English is a "w" without rounded lips. Perhaps people round their lips more in other dialects of English, I don't know, but it maps pretty well to how we pronounce "Queensland" in these parts.

If you tell people it is pronounced KEE-va, they will end up pronouncing a slender c instead. KEE-va would be Címhe, which is further away from the correct pronunciation than KWEE-va.


... Bríd has now put her version up on Forvo. Again, it's closer to KWEE-vuh than KEE-vuh.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

If people are not interpreting the glide as a 'w' then why are they pronouncing it with a w and telling other people there's a double-u in it?

I feel like Lughaidh right now

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That's a good way to describe it. I usually tell people to start as if they were going to pronounce a "w" but not to commit to it...but I think I'm going to start trying to describe it in terms of rounded lips (usually, in our case, the word is "gaoth").

Redwolf

But there is no rounded lips -'gaoth' is [gˠɰiː] not 'gwee'. The glide can be formed by not rounding the lips

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