Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003) - Short Film

What a blast from the past ! Cacá milis is next

nil maith liom gaeilge 🙏🙏

I love yu ming

You know it’s funny how they literally showed us a video on why Irish is useless and we shouldn’t learn as most of us most likely will never speak it again you know it’s also funny how we learn Irish for 14 years and we can’t speak fluently and just forget to language but this man speaks it fluent after learning for 6 months

I have homework on this right now

Me

It's amazing. Anyone can speak as gaeilge, however; is leath éirinn mé féin I am half Irish and half Australian indigenous. Yet when I come out as is Gaeilgeorí mé everyone gives me shite about the color of my skin defining my ability to speak Irish or even a connotation that I shouldn't. as Gaeilge is breá liom é! as Gaeilge I love it tá ghaeilge go hiontach ar fad é! Irish is beautiful agus táimse ag seinnim bodhrán féin agus is breá liom é freisin I play bodhran and I love it! too

Gotta love that grey Irish filter that makes the reds and yellows pop out while making every thing else look dull and dark

Ta me dubh doite den chacamas seo. Ni ga leithsceal a thabhairt do theanga fhein a labhairt.

It's out language. Leave us alone

Wow, I loved this!! That one scene felt so familiar but I couldn't remember the name of the movie. But I'm so glad I decided to watch the movie because this was so heartwarming and human.

The Irish, Scottish and even the Chinese experienced a similar fate from those dam British !

J'habite le Québec depuis 2006. J'étais un étudiant à l'Universite de Montréal. Je suis polyglotte et un francophone malgré mon nom "anglais". De tous mes jobs que j'ai fait ici à Montréal, le seul boss qui m'a donné une formation en français était un chinois de Gungzo. Les québécois de souche aiment switcher en anglais quand ils écoutent un accent ou voient un visage non-occidental. Ayant étudié l'histoire irlandaise, j'ai écrit un thèse proposant une loi 101 pour la langue irlando-gaélique. À ce point en histoire, la langue irlandaise est en train de mourir, c'est sur l'appuie de vie asteur. C'est désolant et décevant.

Am I the only one who feels sad?😟

☘爱尔兰☘Ài'ěrlán☘Éire☘☘

你叫什么名字？
Nǐ jiào shénme míngzì?
Cad is ainm duit?

making my american friends watch this

Looking at the pub scene, it’s honestly quite sad and disappointing that most of us can’t speak our native language well. While we can understand it to a certain degree, the majority of us are not fluent. And even more so, a lot of us have lost interest in learning the language. We should be very proud of our country and our culture.

Excellent film.

I'm a linguaphile from India who studies linguistics and language evolution, and Gaeilge is on top of my list of "special languages" that I aspire to master and understand thoroughly. This list is as follows:

Icelandic (Old Norse)
Gaeilge (as well as Old Irish 😊)
Gaidhlig
Old Sanskrit
Old Latin
Navajo
Kaqchikel (one of the Mayan languages)
Basque
Romany
Old Persian
Aramaic
Afrikaan
Etruscan
Alaskan Inuktituut
Burushaski
Shina
Khowar
Pashto
Tamil
Divehi
Quechuan

You can add / suggest additional languages as well for this "special" category.

May you all find / achieve whatever you're looking for 😊👍.

Erin go Bragh!

Anyone watch this in English class I did today

Instantly 100 times better than New Boy

As an American who wants to visit a lot of different countries I appreciate that English is the dominat language just cuz it makes things easier for me but I hope future generations pick it up as a secondary language to keep it alive.

An will tusa ag labhairt lomsa 🥶🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶💯💯

Me learning Basque to live in the Basque country

When I was backpacking in Florence this summer, I ran into 2 irish guys in 2 nights in a row and they both told me about this short film (cos I'm Chinese) and here I am watching it. World is really a funny place

I love Yu Ming shin chin wa

This was very cleverly done. I remember watching this in film school. 😊

This short movie goes so hard tho

I actually find this under a comment on Foil arms and hog chinese platform. (Yes, they do upload their videos to china.) And it is an interesting film hh. The time i meet irish i was wondering why they had england but not speaking irish too. I have to point out that fork and knife aren't hard for us to use though...

To my Irish Lads, please preserve your cultural identity🙏🏻 As a citizen of a nation that got colonized in the past, don't let them colonize your beautiful culture.

I recommend "In the Name of the Fada" if you want to see a foreigner learn the language.

An Aussie Backpacker running a Hostel in Ireland? Well well well how the Turntables

I feel like a little shorter and a tone shift this could easily be a light hearted comedy sketch on snl or something very good

They make you watch 4 ads for an indie short film, including 2 just before the last 20 seconds of the film?? wtf

Why would a librarian give a judgmental look about the book someone is withdrawing? 😂

Irish is such a beautiful language! ♥️🇮🇪
I am Greek and I am studying it. None in my family understands why since I neither live in Ireland, nor have I Irish roots. Slán!

Almost none of the story is believable lol… no Chinese will be allowed to land in another country like that and look for a job…

As far as I know from researching bits & bobs, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans & Filipinos/Filipinas take studying & learning more serious no matter the subject, including languages. If there's any in east Asia I missed, share. If only it was that easy to learn a language that good in 6 months, but in this day & the lack of places teaching irish it'd never be that fast.

Irish的演变和许多原住民语言有很多共性，在高压殖民统治或者文化隔离的情况下，会导致种族内部大多数人人对自己的文化不认同，不自信或者不了解，老一辈人不会或者不愿在年轻人面前说属于他们种族的语言。导致下一代人只能听懂这种语言而不会说这种语言，最后的结果就是这种语言彻底灭绝。很高兴看到爱尔兰语在现在的变化，语言的保护是需要使用这门语言种族自发进行的，也需要有一个属于自己种族的国家或者自治区等等。举个例子：印第安语，维吾尔语和爱尔兰语就是鲜明的三个对比...一个因为文化隔离几乎灭绝；一个虽然政府提供课程，却要靠维吾尔族的自发性学习；一个是政府的强制课程。作为一名中国人来说影片对于明（YuMing）这个角色是很成功的，尽管它有很多刻板印象，不过它只是一部2003年的影片，就能引起了爱尔兰人的注意，引起了中国社会对汉语方言和少数民族语言的反思，这部影片做的很好。

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This film would not go down well if it was made in 2023.

just watched this for the first time ever

hes so iconic

The brass on Yu Ming to just pack up and leave not knowing a soul and having no prospects in line and hope it all works out. He was Irish the whole time.

Very motivated and watching it in 2023

Thanks

Irish is a pretty hard language to learn...I reckon.

Great little short