Online Irish teacher Mollie Guidera: ‘I think Ireland is going to be bilingual in my lifetime’ | Irish Independent

by WickerMan111

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  1. ![gif](giphy|mrn71bpe35j6U|downsized)

    … says the person that would benefit greatly from that.

    Great bit of marketing there

  2. Probably won’t be English and Irish in fairness.

    My bet’s on Esperanto and Flemish.

  3. A great by-product of a united Ireland would be combining the Irish language movements on both sides of the border. It goes hand in hand

  4. Assuming she lives to the average life expectancy, I would say there’s less than zero chance of this happening. Even getting to 20% bilingual would be an unbelievable achievement in that timeframe.

  6. More chances of me winning the lotto and I don’t even buy tickets

  7. I agree. We’re all fluent in English, but recently I’ve noticed a lot of the kids speaking American.

  9. Really hope so. Would love to see Irish become our main language again.

  11. I’m on Inis Óirr right now. I was brought up in Dublin speaking both Irish and English and did my primary and secondary school education *as gaeilge*.

    So here I am on a gaeltacht island and the few locals I’ve spoken to as gaeilge are dismissive of my Dublin Irish, or maybe they’re fed up of tourists.

    The island schoolkids walking by are speaking English.

    I despair!

  12. Fun fact her courses cost a lot of money, when I saw her open day, we were all interested till she mentioned the cost.

    Literally a Mike dropped it was hundreds of euros

    Edit: Mic,

  13. First thing to do, get rid of these English names for Irish places.

  14. Optimistic much. Just saying this to make headlines and get free advertising at the expense of the native language of this island

  15. Theres actually a much stronger chance that Hindi or Arabic would be the second most commonly spoken language in use everyday (that bit being important) by the time Guidera passes onto the next realm. People need both a connection and a motivation to speak a language and most Irish people just dont have that about Gaeilge.

    A good place to start is teaching Irish as a foreign language. I can speak more French, Spanish and Italian than I can Irish. I loved languages at school. Irish was the only one I sat at ordinary level

  16. “I think Ireland is going to be bilingual in my lifetime”.

    It is its hole.

  17. There is a 0% chance of Irish people being bilingual in Irish. It’s just not going to happen.

  18. Her market has gotta be USA. She’s very pricey even among other Irish teachers online.
    Aside, I feel like Irish in Ireland should be free. They should be ramming it down our throats. Meanwhile I’m here trying to find a reasonably priced refresher course.

  19. I haven’t paid more than €240 for any course, also discounts for existing subscribers. Checked out other courses of similar standard, all were of similar maximum price (without discount).

  20. Tá súil agam go bhfuil sé fíor! Is é ár teanga an-tábhachtach.

  21. I really hope so 💗 I’ve been inspired to get back into the last year and was surprised how much I retained from school

  24. Whereas courses cost £50 for the whole year for Welsh in Wales. The government should be subsidizing courses

  25. There’s no doubt we will be there in one generation, English & Hindi or English and Arabic.

  26. Are we all in complete agreement that the way it’s taught in schools (under either FFG government) over the last 50 years that’s been a huge part of the problem. Also as others have said the third language our youth seem to be picking up is ‘roadman’ .

    this has to start at schools made fun, cool and have some utility.

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