Genuinely curious – how often do non native speakers of Irish actually speak using the Irish they learn in schools?
Chester_roaster on
They can’t make it worse
SeriesDowntown5947 on
Funnybto see the students leave thevirish school hanging out. All speaking english. Sums it up for me. When the options there its not taken. What can you say
t-licus on
Godspeed, it can’t be easy to empower a threatened national language when the dominant language it’s competing with is ENGLISH.
Even languages that are well-established and comfortably ingrained have a hard time competing with that juggernaut of a global lingua franca.
PoppedCork on
They can plan all they like, unless they drastically change the method of teaching its doomed to failure
jaqian on
Needs an overhaul. Stop pushing reading and writing and just get the kids to speak it first.
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Genuinely curious – how often do non native speakers of Irish actually speak using the Irish they learn in schools?
They can’t make it worse
Funnybto see the students leave thevirish school hanging out. All speaking english. Sums it up for me. When the options there its not taken. What can you say
Godspeed, it can’t be easy to empower a threatened national language when the dominant language it’s competing with is ENGLISH.
Even languages that are well-established and comfortably ingrained have a hard time competing with that juggernaut of a global lingua franca.
They can plan all they like, unless they drastically change the method of teaching its doomed to failure
Needs an overhaul. Stop pushing reading and writing and just get the kids to speak it first.