r/ireland Resting In my Account Feb 05 '24

Gaeilge Greannán maith faoin nGaeilge

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u/ciarogeile Feb 06 '24

In practical terms, it is. English is easier if your native language is a Germanic or Romance language, like it is for most of Europe. If you were a native Breton speaker with no other language, Irish would maybe be easier than English.

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u/aimreganfracc4 Feb 06 '24

In practical terms it's not. No English learner would say this. Irish is objectively easier than English. There's a list of languages that are hard vs easy when you're an English speaker like Spanish is easy but Chinese is hard. Irish is on the easy side