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How come he's seen Taxi Driver but he's never seen anyone use a fork?

Message of the movie is china’s misinformation of the language spoken at Ireland.

Back when migrants were a social oddity. Now they’re everywhere. Can’t walk down any street in Ireland without seeing them.

"An bhfuil tusa ag labhairt liomsa?" 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🔥🔥🗣️🔥🇮🇪

Just me who needs to watch this in english class?

The made the pub scene in the oak bar(Thomas Read) where I used to work. I was there when they were shooting the scene.

I wanted to learn gaelic and couldn't find any Irish person who properly speaks gaelic. 😅

I was told of this film storyline some time back. I thought it a great idea. Well done all. 🍀🇮🇪🎊🎉 If You do not like it, You are free to turn it off!

I resemble this film >.< Went to a Gaelteacht in nDun na Gall last year (Oideas Gael) - none of the Irish speakers could understand my terrible pronunciation (a native tutor has really helped with this.) Then, In Dublin, no one could understand Gaelic at all (except my tutor, and one friend of his we met on the street near St Stephens Green)! "Did you know old Paddy there could speak Chinese?" LMFAO (BTW if Yu Ming only studied for 6 months and he is that fluent then he is a prodigy!)

got so emotional as soon as the elder man responded to him in irish...i think it's so important to keep regional languages like this alive..my family is karachay and our language is also not as widely spoken as it used to be, due to occupation by the russians and even the soviets banning the use of local languages in local schools - allowing only russian. we need to preserve our cultures & languages

came here after watching RTGame play pokemon in irish

What a great story!

LOL x10 from Iran!!

The real joke is on us, the Irish!! The old Irish History books warned us.....they said the foreigners invaded us and "became more Irish than the Irish themselves"😁🤔🤔

Take him the Gaeltacht he'll be fine. Pull pints everyone'll love you.

06:00 c'mon he would know what a fork is. You're telling me they don't have forks or knives in China?

I'm not Chinese but I'm Korean and Irish and I this makes me so proud to know the language

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OMG THIS IS SO GOOD (the opposite of bad) !,,

6:00 anyone know what song this is?

This was very good

W movie

That’s why the language matter.

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Apologies if any offensive comments popped up in my name. I was hacked...😢😢😢

Didn't recognise Father Jack at first glance! RIP Frank Kelly

I know! I’ll randomly point to a spot on the globe, learn the language of that country and absolutely nothing else, then move there! So many damn questions that this movie doesn’t answer. Is this guy some sort of idiot savant? He mastered the language in six months. He’s able to get a work visa to move to a new country despite being a market cashier and ending up working at a bar. Putting aside the utter insanity of not bothering once to read up on the history and culture of Ireland so as to be informed that English is spoken there, how the heck does does this never get mentioned at least in passing in any of his studies? If he’s so brilliant why has he never attempted to learn English which is already taught as a foreign language in Chinese schools? Why didn’t he start learning English as a backup at the end of the film?

Yu Ming has the same experience as me crossing Wales in its entirety looking for one Welsh speaking place

An Irish lad, whom I met on my way to the airport, after missing my flight, he gave me some blessings, affirmations, and made my day, and suggested this film after giving me some phrases in Gaelic told me to watch this film. Lovely, spread the ❤

Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge anois, agus spreagadh an scannán seo mé.

You can tell by the taps he filmed the shaving scene in Ireland.

Yu Ming is the goat

I like coming back to this video when I know a few more words, I can understand a little more each time 😊

Acting the maggot!

Nah the funniest part is the Australian fella in it. Love this short movie

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom.2003.[{‘George Gently’ Daniel O’Hara].Calder.ed.O’Hanlon.ph.D Costello.msc}}7.9_13m_ //Is there a place in the world for Yu Ming? He's a clerk at a convenience store in China, bored with his life. At a library, he spins a globe and stops it with his finger, which turns out to be touching Ireland. He reads about the country and teaches himself Irish, flies to Dublin, and finds to his chagrin that no one understands him. He assumes that his Irish is at fault, that is, until he walks into a bar looking for work.// Yu Ming is bored out of his skull. He's stuck in a dead-end job in China, tending a store for a grumpy grocer, and wonders where his life is going. On a whim he goes to the library, spins a globe with his eyes closed and jabs his finger on a random spot, which turns out to be Ireland. His atlas tells him all about the country, including the fact that the official language is Irish, so Yu Ming gets himself some audio tapes and goes about learning the language of Ireland.// Six months later, he flies to Dublin, checks into a local hostel and asks for a bed with "Ba mhaith liom leaba." [I'd like a bed.] The Australian clerk has no idea what he's saying, but with the help of another resident is able to determine that Yu Ming would like a place to stay. //Yu Ming goes out for dinner, and we see him struggling with knife and fork, which he has never used. It's too many for him, but he's a clever lad and comes up with an elegant work-around. Poor Yu Ming has disovered that nobody understands a word he's saying, and assumes that his language skills are at fault. He goes into a bar and tells the bartender "Táim ag lorg obair" [I'm looking for work]. The barkeep responds, "No, we haven't got any of that, how about a Guinness?" At the end of his wits, Yu Ming explains [in Irish] that he's just arrived in the country and he's sorry his Irish isn't better. The blank stares he encounters seem to spell doom for Yu Ming's aspirations until an older gentleman at the bar says to him, "Suigh síos, a bhuachill, agus ceannóidh mé dioch duit." [Sit down, son, and I'll buy you a drink.].//Delighted to find someone he can understand, he sits down and the man asks him his name. He answers proudly, "Yu Ming is ainm dom" [my name is Yu Ming], whence the title of the film. He tells the old man that he just arrived in Ireland yesterday, but he thinks it was a mistake, because nobody understands his Irish. The gentleman explains to him that he speaks Irish better than most of the people in the country, and educates Yu Ming to the fact that Irish is the national tongue in name only - everyone in the country speaks English, except in the few scattered Gaeltacht areas. Yu Ming is crestfallen, but his companion comforts him, and we see that he has a solution in mind. Astonished beyond measure, the barkeeper asks his colleague, "Did you know that old Paddy could speak Chinese?". //The last scene shows a busload of tourists driving into a Gaeltacht [Irish-speaking] area and entering a pub, where they are greeted by a beaming Yu Ming behind the bar, who welcomes them, in his best Irish, to Connemara./// Check out another Short from Garry Marshall. (2) Fluent Dysphasia.2004.(S Rea.Jayne Stynes.PC Courtney.R Morton.)[{‘George Gently’ Daniel O’Hara]}.Calder.ed}_ 2w.1n.16m_A father in Ireland goes to watch a football match with his buddy while his daughter has to study Irish, or Gaelic - the ancient language of Ireland. After over-celebrating his club's victory, he awakes in the morning and finds he only speaks Irish, and that he doesn't even understand English. His buddy is aghast at this situation, believing his friend to have become possessed, but his daughter manages to translate his friend's assertion that this change may have been caused by a blow to the head during the revelries of the past evening's celebrations. They decide to hit him again, and use a frying pan for the job. Disastrous results ensue.// This cute little short film stars Stephen Rea--a man you will probably recognize but whose name escapes you (it did me). Because Rea starred in the film, the film makers either had a relatively high budget or else he just loved the idea so much he agreed to do it. Considering how funny and effective it was, it was a good choice for him to make the film. Now you need to first understand that this is NOT sophisticated humor, plus I strongly recommend AGAINST trying the solution to Rea's amnesia that they tried in the film. Despite what happened here and in sit-coms, it is NOT a good idea to whack a guy over the head to cure amnesia--even though, in this twisted case, the original knock on the head made Rea only be able to speak and understand Irish Gaelic--a language he didn't even know before the head injury!! In addition to being a funny and strange idea that was exceptionally well executed, the film ends with a dandy conclusion. See this film and have a nice laugh, but DON'T try to cure amnesia at home--it's bound to cause more problems than you'd anticipate!!///

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

5:37 Can you translate with this guy he's saying? I don't speak chinese! What are you?

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

Taxi Driver at 3:15

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 !

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