Learning irish essays word for word?

DublinArnie

Hey!

Just want opinions on this.

I have my own personal tailored answers (I've written them and teacher has corrected) for some of the essay topics for Irish. Would you people who done the exam recommend learning them word for word?

I have no problem with root learning answers, I can remember them quite easily after a hour or two.

endacl

^^

And that's kinda what's wrong with the LC...

Go for it if you can do it. If your question comes up, happy days.

Magnate

I'd recommend brainstorming a list of talking points for each topic with any relevant vocab and learning that as opposed to memorising everything word for word, but that's just me.

DublinArnie

Magnate wrote: »

I'd recommend brainstorming a list of talking points for each topic with any relevant vocab and learning that as opposed to memorising everything word for word, but that's just me.

Yeah, I think I'll do that instead. just make bullet points for every major point.

Tesco TripleChicken

Yup that's the way Irish is taught in Ireland - "Here you go learn all these sheets off by heart you don't need anything else."

Would be better and might make Irish more useful if we were actually taught how to speak the language! After about 10+ years "speaking" Irish, the majority of LC students can't even have a simple conversation in Irish fluently

Magnate

Tesco TripleChicken wrote: »

Yup that's the way Irish is taught in Ireland - "Here you go learn all these sheets off by heart you don't need anything else."

Would be better and might make Irish more useful if we were actually taught how to speak the language! After about 10+ years "speaking" Irish, the majority of LC students can't even have a simple conversation in Irish fluently

Yeah it's a shame.

quadrifoglio verde

It got me an a1 in higher level (without getting the poetry section finished) so it can work. I will say, if I was to read the irish in it now, I wouldn't understand it (think alan titley's column in the irish times). I always seemed to have a problem in both English and irish of thinking on the spot what I wanted to write, so that was the reasoning behind it, out of fear of going in and not being able to think what to write. I will say, keep them as broad as possible, it'll allow you to bring in a paragraph or two from a different essay.
for example, for an essay on youth of today, you can bring in the economy (corrector a must be pissed off about the economy at this stage), the education system, drugs etc.

While I can't really understand some of the words in the essays now (that being said, my teacher who worked in a Gaeltacht in the summer didn't either) I can still switch to irish no problem when I'm talking to my dad, the irish used in the essays were never words that I'd use in everyday conversation.
The main advantage I found was it was an easier way to learn new vocab as well as correct grammer, than to sit down and try and learn the words individually, or the verbs individually.