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They seem to have a hard time understanding the mind of someone who has never seen the sport before. If you watch the hurling movie that they made, the number of assumptions, omissions and plain errors in the first few minutes alone is shocking.

"Hurling is one of the national games played in Ireland."  Objection: It's played all over the world.

"It traces its origins to Celtic folklore heroes such as CuChulainn."  Objection: Who the hell is that? When did he live?  Why are you telling me this?

Gawd I could go on for five pages picking holes in that stinker of a film!

Hi all. Asylum seeker from An Fear Rua here.

I've made an informational video explaining Gaelic football and uploaded it to youtube.  This is a compliment to the hugely popular hurling informational movie that's now getting about 400 hits per day.  These videos are for people to use in GAA overseas units who are introducing people to the games for the first time.  I know that the GAA did produce half-hour long videos for that purpose about ten years ago, but the only use I ever found for them was to use them as an example of how not to make an informational video that's supposed to get people excited about our games, but don't get me started on that!

With a bit of help from people around the web I got the hurling video translated into six other languages: Polish, Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch.

I want to do the same translation job for this football video, so if anyone could help I'd be eternally grateful. Any languages will do, even Asian languages if any of you can speak them.

Since there's no voice over, it's all done with captions so it's a whole lot easier.

The captions go as follows:

• The suspense and skill of soccer
• The high scoring of basketball
• The impact of Rugby
• Agility
• Speed
• Skill
• Gaelic Football
• Catch the ball in the air
• Chip the ball up with your foot
• Carry the ball for 4 steps...
• ..then do something with it
• Kick it back into your hands
• Bounce the ball...
• ...but not twice in a row
• Strike the ball with your hand or fist
• Kick the ball on the ground
• Kick the ball from your hands
• Shoot over the crossbar for one point
• Shoot into the net for three points
• Block his shot with your hands
• Flick the ball out of his hands
• Hit him shoulder-to-shoulder
  
• Above all...
• Be accurate...
• Be fast...
• And be brave

Please do not use automatic translation services like Google translate - they will surely misunderstand words like "chip" and "shot" as used above.  You don't have to get an exact translation, just as close as you can to make the point using the minimum number of words possible.  Brevity and accuracy are the key things here.

Also, please post your translation under the English line so I'll know what means what.

Feel free to post this on AFR if any of you have accounts there.

If you don't want to post publicly here then contact me through my youtube channel.

Thanks.