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Irish Oral OL/HL Reception

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  • 24-11-2014 8:25pm
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    readystudypass
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭


    So when you go into the oral, the examiner looks for 5 pieces of information. Problem. How do I find out my name and address in irish ?


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    coolerboy
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    readystudypass wrote: »
    So when you go into the oral, the examiner looks for 5 pieces of information. Problem. How do I find out my name and address in irish ?

    Theres a site called http://www.logainm.ie/ga/ just type your address into the searchbar or use the map beneath :)


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    IncognitoX
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭IncognitoX


    Ask your teacher.

    Surely you know your name in Irish anyway?


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    readystudypass
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭readystudypass


    coolerboy wrote: »
    Theres a site called http://www.logainm.ie/ga/ just type your address into the searchbar or use the map beneath :)

    Brilliant. Thanks. I got my county and town but not my street


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    readystudypass
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭readystudypass


    IncognitoX wrote: »
    Ask your teacher.

    Surely you know your name in Irish anyway?

    I don't have a teacher. There's a few variations of my surname none of which are really right I think.

    So what's happening? The examiner has my actual name and address in front of them in English ? So I have to give my real address ? Because I live in an estate and that scuppers my chance of giving a story that I am living on a farm which could take up a minute naming all the animals.


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    Cr4pSnip3r
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    My name is essentially already in Irish but why on earth would I give it to them in Irish if it wasn't? That wouldn't be my name.


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    readystudypass
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭readystudypass


    Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »
    My name is essentially already in Irish but why on earth would I give it to them in Irish if it wasn't? That wouldn't be my name.

    Ah so I give my name and address in english and my age, date of birth and exam number in irish ?


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    Cr4pSnip3r
    Registered Users Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Cr4pSnip3r


    readystudypass wrote: »
    Ah so I give my name and address in english and my age, date of birth and exam number in irish ?

    Everything in Irish but your name is your name. I would give that as it is, and if that's in English - so be it.


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    IncognitoX
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭IncognitoX


    Give your name in Irish!


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    PeterJC!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭PeterJC!


    Yeah definitely give your name As Gaeilge! No point in being pedantic, you want to win you're examiner over!


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    Cr4pSnip3r
    Registered Users Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Cr4pSnip3r


    Listen to those fellas, I guess. I absolutely despise the idea of changing one's name as part of language revival (even if it was probably anglicized in the past) and I may be a little bitter. Don't want to be an ass and affect your grade, though.

    EDIT: Just to be sure; I didn't tell you to say your name in English before as some sort of self satisfaction thing. I had never heard anything about this changing your name business until recently and not from any teachers I know.


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    readystudypass
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭readystudypass


    Thanks for all the advice. I will get an Irish name for myself and if it's wrong sure it's only 1 mark :)


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    DarraghF197
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭DarraghF197


    I know this is a little OT, but I have an oral this day week and have the whole package coming up.

    Problem is is that I have only done about 3 sraithpictiur and of course there's seventeen others that I barely recognise. Anyone know what's the most efficient way of covering all of them in say 6 hours? Or even a link to where I could find some notes on them would be greatly appreciated.

    All the vocab that is required is all areas which I haven't looked at since the JC, holidays, birthdays etc which are all extremely rusty, annoyingly.


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