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Italian Leaving Cert

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  • 05-09-2010 2:35am
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    crimsonsunset
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    Anyone do Italian??? I know its RARE but how did ye find the results, good or bad? Its usually done as a language subject that you can get a very good grade in without much study. True...........................????????.:):):)


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    rainbowtrout
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    crimsonsunset wrote: »
    Anyone do Italian??? I know its RARE but how did ye find the results, good or bad? Its usually done as a language subject that you can get a very good grade in without much study. True...........................????????.:):):)


    What other way could it be done???

    Only about 300 do LC Italian. It follows the same type of course as French, German and Spanish


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    spurious
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    They do Italian in our school and the teacher seemed very pleased with how her HL class did.

    For a laugh, I took a past OL Italian paper during the mocks, sat it never having studied Italian (but having a fair amount of common sense and some French, Polish and German) and got a D1, even without the aural.

    I realise it was in the Ice Age when I did my Leaving, but since when do you answer large parts of a foreign language paper in English?? :confused:


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    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    spurious wrote: »
    They do Italian in our school and the teacher seemed very pleased with how her HL class did.

    For a laugh, I took a past OL Italian paper during the mocks, sat it never having studied Italian (but having a fair amount of common sense and some French, Polish and German) and got a D1, even without the aural.

    I realise it was in the Ice Age when I did my Leaving, but since when do you answer large parts of a foreign language paper in English?? :confused:

    It's crazy really. I remember having a conversation with our German teacher about this before. It's possible to get a B on a JC paper (don't know about LC) in German without writing one single word of the language. I know some marks have to go for comprehension and understanding, but surely being able to write in the foreign language is a way of showing competency?

    You should try the Russian paper next year :pac: Once you get your head around the Cyrillic alphabet you should have no problem with it if you have German and Polish!


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