Irish is spoken by about 2 million people, most of whom learned it as a second language. 1.87 million people report being able to speak Irish. About 72,000 speak it daily outside the education system, and that number fell while the first one rose.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Scots Gaelic, Ethor and Manx. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Irish sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,571 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 864 hours of study. Read how it works.
Most apps only teach Irish through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.