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Why ain't Italian popular?

  • 26-05-2013 05:38PM
    #1
    DublinArnie
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    Not a lot of grinds avaiable and companies don't even bother making past-paper books or even mocks! It kinda bugs me that students that do Italian get an unfair disadvantage... I regret doing Italian because of this, I love the Language, but the help and material isn't there for us. I should of chose French:pac:. Anyone who does italian feel the same?


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  • #2
    Cr4pSnip3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Cr4pSnip3r


    Why do Italian? :L There's no point.


  • #3
    spurious
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    It's not alone with no commercially-produced past papers, the other minority subjects have the same problem.

    I suppose originally there were not as many Italian teachers as French and then as time went on, potential teachers decided on training for subjects they themselves had studied. I think there are probably people teaching Spanish or French who also have Italian in their degrees and 'could' teach it, but it's difficult to introduce a new subject without forcing people to take it.


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