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Irish Lessons on TV

  • 05-12-2007 10:42am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    One thing that puzzles me, is that if the state wants to encourage the use of the (Official) Irish language at home/work instead of english.
    Why are there no Irish lessons on the television?

    For example, TG4 (or RTE) could broadcast lessons during the night, so people could record them to watch at a convenient time or have them as webcast. The BBC (NI) has (Ulster dialect) Irish lessons on their website.

    It would help those of us who want to learn/relearn the language but have limited access to lessons because of cost, availability & location.

    Edit: I wonder if anyone from the government has visited Wales to study how the Welsh have sucessfully revived the Welsh language, reversing the language shift in some areas.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7060486.stm

    Almost too sucessfully according to this article.


Comments

  • #2
    dranoel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭dranoel


    Smaoineamh maith, can't see why they couldn't show repeats of Turas Teanga at night.


  • #3
    Múinteoir
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    Both Turas Teanga and Now Your Talking were broadcast on the telly. There's probably only so many times you can constantly repeat things, but you're right that it should be available to watch on the internet.


  • #4
    dranoel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭dranoel


    Múinteoir wrote: »
    Both Turas Teanga and Now Your Talking were broadcast on the telly. There's probably only so many times you can constantly repeat things, but you're right that it should be available to watch on the internet.


    I'm talking about 3am in the morning like the BBC Learning Zone where it could be repeated ad nauseum. There's always a fresh supply of people who are looking for programmes like these.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    dranoel wrote: »
    I'm talking about 3am in the morning like the BBC Learning Zone where it could be repeated ad nauseum. There's always a fresh supply of people who are looking for programmes like these.
    Yes exactly, it's very easy to broadcast this type of programme during the "silent hours". As it is TG4 currently broadcats "France 24" & RTE broadcast "euronews" both available on satellite.


  • #6
    dranoel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭dranoel


    The reason why they don't do it is probably because Euronews/France 24 is cheaper than paying more royalties to the producers of Turas Teanga/Now You're Talking.


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