"Bha mi ag èisteachd ri eun."

Translation: I was listening to a bird.

[GreumachTo]

This gets me every time!! Bha mi ag èisteachd ri Iain!! ... Bha mi ag èigheachd ri eun ... sigh

[Anne93052]

Me too! My brother's name.

[LauraMcPeace]

I hear Iain every time. I would like to hear. Tha an eun aig iain. To hear the difference clearly. Thanks.

[Raibeart5]

I dunno. I think Iain would have more interesting things to say than some dumb bird, even if he is a jerk.

[jim371385]

Nobody likes Iain in this course so why would they listen to him

[Anne93052]

Yes, poor Iain gets picked on all the time!

[susan961004]

I GOT IT THIS TIME!!

[Ethelflead]

I'm glad I'm not alone in hearing Iain, instead of eun.

[Christina6894012]

A sentence with both eun and Iain would be helpful.

[susan961004]

Iian and eun sound the same. How would we differentiate in a phrase like this?

[S.Sol.5]

Iain sounds like ee-ain/ee-ayn, eun sounds like ee-un, in Scottish Gaelic, I mean. I suspect a lot of people's confusion comes from Iain being pronounced like ee-un in English, same as eun is in Gaelic, and/or people not realising Iain has a different pronunciation in Gaelic than in English because they think they know what Iain sounds like based on how it's pronounced in English. I have no problem hearing the difference between Iain and eun in Gaelic, eun in Gaelic and Iain in English however, I might struggle with as that can sound identical.

[Raibeart5]

We definitely need to hear a sentence like "Tha eun aig Iain", spoken by anyone other than the speaker from Éirisgeidh, with her weird pronounciation/dialect. Tapadh leibh.