Irish Aural

Kersmash

You'd swear Oxegen were paying them for advertising! how'd ya get on?

echoindia756

well my nose started bleeding in the middle of it! other than that, it was grand!

Shanotheslayer

Dreadful...

Got a guarenteed two right answers though!

Oxegen and Raidio na Gealtachta:D

NufcNavan

I thought it was quite hard. (Honours). Paper 1 itself was easy enough though.

cleirigh06

Honours.
Paper one was ok.
Tape was f***in dreaful
I couldnt understand their retarded accents and I felt like storming out of the room
Worst tape I have EVER done
They should get people that have at least mastered the art of talkng, to be featured in the tape
Is that too much to f***in ask?
I might fail Irish now all because of oral and aural. For my talking exam I had a retarded examiner who barely knew Irish

PARARORY

Got a guarenteed two right answers though!

Oxegen and Raidio na Gealtachta

Sorry ro ruin in your day... but Radio na G wasnt an answer??!

yesno1234

Ordinary.
I'm good at tape, say I got upwards on 80% in it. Thought it was very easy.

PARARORY

I'm good at tape, say I got upwards on 80% in it. Thought it was very eas

yeah same , almost sure i got +95 % ( honours btw)

unknown13

Did OL. Very happy with it normally I am rubbish at it but it went well and I didn't lose my concentration at all which is a first aswell.

L.C.Deirdre

What was the 'Cnoc' in ciarraí in the sectionA prt.2???, I could not catch it!
Overall, I liked it though!! Oxegen one was like my script for oral!!!

iWeeze

Haven't a clue what I wrote. OL.

Peter03

I thought it was ok, started of pretty hard and a a part in the middle was hard aswell, and my phone went off

zam

Ugh it went terribly. In a massive centre, people timed their pen-clicking/yawns/page turning very well with exactly when the answers were being said... I got myself into a frustrated rage about it :P But I suppose I can't blame my misfortune on them!

RooneySRFC

PARARORY wrote: »

Sorry ro ruin in your day... but Radio na G wasnt an answer??!

It was, in OL.

Cliodhna.

Not to burst anyones bubble id say you'd have to say oxygen- baile na foinse (or whatever it was ) I thought it was a lot easier than most years??

bubblz

aural was awful... especially the 3rd comhra... couldnt make head or tails of it..!

PARARORY

It was, in OL.

My bad! :rolleyes:

What was the 'Cnoc' in ciarraí in the sectionA prt.2???, I could not catch it!

It was pronounced Cnoc Bhreanduin.. (which im nearly sure is Bhreandain when written out...

JellyBeans92

That had to be one of the easiest listenings I've done in forever!?

It was funny at the start because my examiner, who doesn't speak Irish was looking at us all when we hadn't started writing at:
"Leamh anois go curmach ar do scrudpapear..."

And she didn't know what to tell us on Paper 1 when we asked do we tick Irish or English!?
XD

Peter03

Cliodhna. wrote: »

Not to burst anyones bubble id say you'd have to say oxygen- baile na foinse (or whatever it was ) I thought it was a lot easier than most years??

Nope, she said oxygen on the tape so obviously it is acceptable as an answer.

Ferris_Bueller

Don't mean to sound cocky, but I'd be expecting 100% in that, I go to an Irish school so obviously that's going to be one of the easiest bits of the Leaving for us, but even so I thought it was a LOT easier than anyones we have done in the past.

monaghanmissus

thought the aural wasn't too bad..

only answer I left blank was the one where they were looking for the Cnoc in Kerry..?

ceol18

clean toilets at oxegen?? ehhh????

validusername

ugh, mine went bad as expected.
the aural always bring me down in irish.

greener greene

I thought the aural was fairly nice (higher),
Didn't like the first leamhthuiscint about your man walking to sandiago though.

tracker-man

ceol18 wrote: »

clean toilets at oxegen?? ehhh????

Maybe she was in Green camp haha

Blerdiii

that just made me want to go to oxegen more XD .handy out ..god i love pass XD

Victoria.

I'd say I got about 10 answers in ordinary. It sucked.
I was sitting so far away from the tape recorder and everyone was making so much noise. Nearly stood up to tell them to shut up for just half an hour. It's the leaving cert people!

MyHair

Mine was okay, but their retarded accents really made it harder than it should have been:mad:

Cliodhna.

Peter03 wrote: »

Nope, she said oxygen on the tape so obviously it is acceptable as an answer.

ya but it said oxygen baile na foinse (don't have a clue how to spell it)
all the better if ya dont have to say that!!

Cian92

It was a fairly easy one. I reckon the question, why didnt your man get the ticket for oxegen, according to Sile? will catch people out. People won't realise it was Siles opinion and not your mans.

LadyGaga!

Peter03 wrote: »

Nope, she said oxygen on the tape so obviously it is acceptable as an answer.

She said Baile na Phoinse (I spelled it right on the paper lol) right after oxegen so I'd say it was needed or else it's a 1 marker.

BarnhallBull

Lads the accents were no different from any other year! 3 parts to each section, one done in Connemara Irish, one in Munster Irish and one in Ulster Irish, same every year. Supposed to give us a broader understanding of the language or something :rolleyes:

I've no problem with the different accents, I do wish they'd use younger speakers though... 60 year olds discussig what they did in school yesterday kinda creeps me out

Viva La Cozzy

twas a very handy tape i think..i'd say i got most answers, maybe 4 wrong at the absolute most i found the convo between eoin and maire hard though..i said they were talking about teenagers, the second one was hard, i didn't know what the answer was tranlated but i said somethin like mar a bheic a curratais ró fhuar....i said scannán for the third one, and the fourth one was hard i just said he doesn't read it it.

The_D_Man

They got a new fella in to do the voices too, he was daecent at it!!!I hate that lad with the Donegal accent though, It might as well be another language with the way he pronounces everything!

Seloth

One fellas accent was woefull.

Are tape fecked up,Takign huge breakes of say 7-8 mins every time it stopped....ended up starting the at 5 to 5!!!.

Twas grand though me thinks

cork*girl

Thought it was deadly. I was banking on it to bring me up a bit to get a C3 which I need for primary teaching fingers crossed I do ok..

muffinz

omg i wanted to murder that one girl that was tlking so slowly, and that man in the cuid c that sounded bored beyond belief!! the ones that you only hear twice i didnt do too well on, they asked you to get the phone number which was like 13 digits long or something in 2 listens? f*ck off this is ordinary irish!!

johnmcdnl

L.C.Deirdre wrote: »

What was the 'Cnoc' in ciarraí in the sectionA prt.2???, I could not catch it!
Overall, I liked it though!! Oxegen one was like my script for oral!!!

Cnoc Bréanainn thank you god for having my granny live right beside that mountain i've heard that name so many times

YungJoshy

Horrifying.

Wolfe Tone

I wish I went to a gaelscoil. Went ok though. Paper two will be a bitch.

TimeClock18

We had a power cut in our school half way through the tape, out for nearly 10 minutes and then he couldn't find where we where when it stopped.

Longest Aural in Ireland

PARARORY

Cnoc Bréanainn thank you god for having my granny live right beside that mountain i've heard that name so many times

ha snap , maybe we're related loL!

Eire-Dearg

It was alright, I'd say I got the majority right. For me there's always a couple of questions where I just can't make out the answer, but ah sure.

The conversations ones are always the easiest, the halves in the second play make it so much easier!

maisiedaisy

Cian92 wrote: »

It was a fairly easy one. I reckon the question, why didnt your man get the ticket for oxegen, according to Sile? will catch people out. People won't realise it was Siles opinion and not your mans.

I dunno...you couldn't understand yer man though!!

and its oicsegeain not oxygen!! Or something like that anyways:)

muffinz

in the ordinary paper it said how much did she spent on her oxygen ticked but she didnt pay anything? sly question! and she never said clearly "it didnt cost anything" i just said "nil costa se aon rud"...yes i suck at irish :P

Cliodhna.

actually did ye say 24 for the last answer??

Eire-Dearg

I said 4

Cliodhna.

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

I said 4

i thought 4 too but then i thought is said ceithre is fiche?

PARARORY

Yeah its 24...

they said 4 scholarships were given out ten years ago in 2000 and then "i mbliana" = this year there was 24... it caught people out because there was no mention of 2010 on the tape just "i mbiana"

Mr Cawley

Peter03 wrote: »

Nope, she said oxygen on the tape so obviously it is acceptable as an answer.

Did the question not in fact begin 'Ca' /where?

oxygen isnt a place

baile an wherever then should be the answer:pac:

muffinz

Mr Cawley wrote: »

Did the question not in fact begin 'Ca' /where?

oxygen isnt a place

baile an wherever then should be the answer:pac:

i said "sa cheoilchorm oxegen" that should be acceptable as a concert is a place!!