Welcome to the Polyglot Project. Livemocha. Chinese. Langues. Fluent in 3 months. How to speak English like the Irish — Fluent in 3 months. Ready to learn how to speak with an Irish accent in English? You may also enjoy my article about how to speak Irish (Gaeilge). Check out the most popular posts on the right for other topics you may find interesting, and subscribe to the blog for some unconventional language hacking tips! Ah English, you have such a wide range of dialects that can cause many hilarious confusions! I nearly got fired once for innocently suggesting that my 13 year old Mathematics students in New York “openly share rubbers without asking permission” (Rubber to me is an eraser to them, but in USA it’s a condom).
In Ireland we are lucky enough to be exposed to quite a lot of different versions of English thanks to television/cinema/literature. Other than poorly imitated Irish accents in films, the Irish dialect of English seems to elude a lot of people. Why do the Irish speak like that? Firstly, there’s no such thing as an Irish accent. Different grammar Yes you read that right: amn’t. Story? Story? Why?? Cheers! Speak with an Irish accent? Come here, boyo, let's not misunderstand each other: you're not going to be able to sound like a Dubliner by the end of this article. Many have tried, many have failed: Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own, Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness, Richard Gere in The Jackal, Tom Cruise in Far and Away.
God almighty, they were all bollocks! But it's not just the lads - the colleens are useless too: Julia Roberts in Michael Collins. But it's obviously worth trying - these notables were all too aware of the increased sexual allure of those of the Hibernian (that is, Irish) persuasion. And that accent is a powerful tool. It's all in the voice, and we're here to pimp you out to whomever it is that you're hoping to impress. 1.
We obviously don't have time here to go word by word through the dictionary, pointing out how Irish folk say things differently. Soften your vowels Perhaps the best example of how vowels in the Irish argot are softer is contained in the schoolhouse recitation of the alphabet.