reasons for wanting to teach Irish

nikii

Hi I have to prepare notes on why I would like to teach Irish.

So far the main reasons I have are:

I want to change the negative outlook towards Irish
I love the culture and history of it

Can anyone else give me other reasons? just to get my brain running

Thank you:)

"I want communicate through Irish" after all, that is what a language is for in the first place.

Múinteoir

Bi-lingualism/multi-lingualism is known to be good for your mental development. It's recognised to improve children's learning of additional languages and is even reckoned to help prevent mental decline in later life (provided you're using/learning more than one language when you're a senior citizen).

Tourists come to Ireland because of our history and culture, not because of the weather! Anything that can help strengthen that in our society has a potential economic benefit for the country, both in terms of tourism in Ireland and cultural exports abroad (media, films, music, books etc. that are sold abroad). What makes us distinct and unique is what attracts people to visit Ireland and explore it.

pog it

Why you would like to teach Irish..
Well by teaching Irish you can show your students the joys of learning this language and will give your students a love and respect for Irish and so that would be personally fulfilling as well as beneficial to them.
You can have a part in changing Ireland's present and future and bringing on good people who will be proud of having Irish.
You can contribute to an increasingly bilingual Ireland.
Because you believe that you can make so great an impact on your students that they will themselves carry it with them for the rest of their lives.

danoboy254

I'm a student (secondary) and i love irish, everyone else in the class thinks i'm crazy because i wnat to talk to the teacher in irish and i try really really hard.
so from a students view, the reason i think people should want to teach irish ( and i hope to do so too) is to stir a new attitude in your students towards irish, to get them to see it as not a sensless translation from english, but a language with is own meaning, in it's own right that cannot be translated back, but takes on a whole new meaning. English translations are only a guide to what irish phrases mean, the real meaning is something you learn through proper use eveyday because it's our native tongue. and after all....Tít gan teanga, tír gan anam


........hope that wasnt to patriotic for ya!

Micilin Muc

danoboy254 wrote: »

Tít gan teanga, tír gan anam

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danoboy254 wrote: »

I'm a student (secondary) and i love irish, everyone else in the class thinks i'm crazy because i wnat to talk to the teacher in irish and i try really really hard.
so from a students view, the reason i think people should want to teach irish ( and i hope to do so too) is to stir a new attitude in your students towards irish, to get them to see it as not a sensless translation from english, but a language with is own meaning, in it's own right that cannot be translated back, but takes on a whole new meaning. English translations are only a guide to what irish phrases mean, the real meaning is something you learn through proper use eveyday because it's our native tongue. and after all....

........hope that wasnt to patriotic for ya!

That's a very mature attitude If only it would rub off on your classmates!