An té a bhíonn siúlach, bíonn sé scéalach
He who travels has stories to tell · On tay ah vee-un shool-ukh, bee-un shay shkay-lukh
An té a bhíonn siúlach, bíonn sé scéalach means He who travels has stories to tell, and is said On tay ah vee-un shool-ukh, bee-un shay shkay-lukh.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads The person who be walking, be he story-ful. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it On tay ah vee-un shool-ukh, bee-un shay shkay-lukh, written the way an English speaker would read it.
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