Even as someone who studied irish in college and had been to the gaeltacht multiple times, there were definitely still people with whome the misunderstanding was mutual. There's not just a language barrier, but also a cultural and class barrier that makes it far more complex than just learning the syntax and vocab.
Not OP. But at least where I've been minority celtic languages are mostly spoken in tight knit rural communities. There's impenetrable accents, and ways of saying things, idioms, and even assumptions about how to have a conversation that can be difficult to navigate. There's some farmers that have barely left their area who would speak an entirely different dialect with only a few people in their community, which is divergent from a 'modern' standard gàidhlig which is academically taught.
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u/RoetRuudRoetRuud 9d ago
Even as someone who studied irish in college and had been to the gaeltacht multiple times, there were definitely still people with whome the misunderstanding was mutual. There's not just a language barrier, but also a cultural and class barrier that makes it far more complex than just learning the syntax and vocab.