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Help with Irish!

  • 03-01-2012 12:43pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭


    Hello
    Just a bit frustrated at the minute!!
    I would love to be a primary teacher after I finish my degree (B.A.) but I haven't good enough Irish and wouldn't be confident in an oral examination and feel this is just ruining my hopes of teaching! Has anyone else come up against this in the past? I just don't know what to do and I haven't anyone like a career guidance person to ask! Advice would be most helpful!


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    The Irish oral is there for a good reason - there'll be a lot of Irish content in the postgrad if you gain entry, and you will have to teach it for forty years. I know one student who successfully gained entry as a mature to a B.Ed course who is now seriously struggling with the Irish course content.

    I'd say a majority rather than a minority have to put a lot of work into their Irish before postgrad interviews. Most will get grinds, regardless of their level of Irish. Some need more than others.

    I wouldn't treat it as a hurdle which has to be jumped. It's an integral part of your training and teaching, and is not just a box which needs to be ticked.

    Listening to RnaG, watching TG4, and reading Foinse/Gaelscéal should help you. Even if you don't understand much of it. I had the pleasure of watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince completely as Gaeilge on TG4 over Christmas. It's not as bad as it might sound.

    Some hard work is all you need!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ocaoilr2


    Mary, conversational irish is what you need to get into course. Then once you're there you can improve your written irish/grammar. The above advice is good advice. I'll just add that in a lot of places now they have free conversational classes where people just meet up and speak the language. There would be people from all levels there...ask in your local library or if there's a Gaelscoil near you and they'll give you details...


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