How many languages do you speak?

@SW-User What percentage of people in Ireland can actually speak Irish? Is it growing?

@REMsleep Most people learn some in school here, but the number of people who can speak it fluently is small. The number of people who speak it regularly is tiny and limited to a few small areas.

I think that the number of people who can speak Irish is growing, but the number of people who actually use the language in day to day life is decreasing.

@SW-User when i was out there. it was awesome to see the signs both in English and Irish. yall did a great job restoring your culture

@SW-User I had a taxi driver in Dublin who spoke only Gaeilge. Or maybe he was pretending he couldn't speak English, but I don't think so.

@SW-User I understand perfectly. This is exactly the same case as french creole in Louisiana. There is more intrest to preserve it now but its like really too late to get people to speak it in their daily life again. Some small towns have older speakers.

@empanadas Ironically, it was the British empire's attempts to stamp out our culture that led to it being revived. Although I wish I could have been there when our language was still spoken in my part of the country. Now it's more of a novelty than anything else.