This is very annoying and out of touch. The language can’t survive only as a second language spoken with wrong grammar and pronunciation and limited vocabulary. The Irish speaking areas and numbers of native Irish speakers are declining and that’s all that matters to the survival of the language not trying to get people in Dublin to use a few phrases.
This seems overly optimistic. While the Irish language isn’t about to die out completely anytime soon, imagining it having more vitality than it does isn’t helpful either.
Irish is taught in school from age 4 to 18.
To sum up how it’s taught:
Age 4-12 – learning words, numbers, basic grammar and reading.
Age 12 onwards (secondary school) – now you must write letters and answers questions about poetry/irish literature – what do you mean you don’t understand?!!! How can you not understand how to build sentences with your basic level of education you’ve received for the last 13 years?!!
Ok fine just learn how to reproduce these answers for the exam so you can get the points you need to get into college. Don’t worry about knowing what it means, you won’t be speaking irish after you leave school anyway
This was my experience as an irish person and then they wonder why no one knows how to string a sentence together. Irish was traumatic for me and I say that as someone who studied French and at higher level so I have no issue with languages.
Irish is taught not as a language but as a subject you must pass to get points towards college entry. Nothing else
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This is very annoying and out of touch. The language can’t survive only as a second language spoken with wrong grammar and pronunciation and limited vocabulary. The Irish speaking areas and numbers of native Irish speakers are declining and that’s all that matters to the survival of the language not trying to get people in Dublin to use a few phrases.
This seems overly optimistic. While the Irish language isn’t about to die out completely anytime soon, imagining it having more vitality than it does isn’t helpful either.
Irish is taught in school from age 4 to 18.
To sum up how it’s taught:
Age 4-12 – learning words, numbers, basic grammar and reading.
Age 12 onwards (secondary school) – now you must write letters and answers questions about poetry/irish literature – what do you mean you don’t understand?!!! How can you not understand how to build sentences with your basic level of education you’ve received for the last 13 years?!!
Ok fine just learn how to reproduce these answers for the exam so you can get the points you need to get into college. Don’t worry about knowing what it means, you won’t be speaking irish after you leave school anyway
This was my experience as an irish person and then they wonder why no one knows how to string a sentence together. Irish was traumatic for me and I say that as someone who studied French and at higher level so I have no issue with languages.
Irish is taught not as a language but as a subject you must pass to get points towards college entry. Nothing else