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which leaving cert paper is the easiest for languages

  • 09-01-2016 12:49pm
    #1
    marleyjay14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    I understand all languages are hard and have respect for the difficulty involved in learning one but I've literally got between now and the leaving cert to learn a language and get a Hc3 in it so I'm wondering which paper would be the easiest to achieve this in. Thanks


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  • #2
    Roselm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Roselm


    marleyjay14 wrote: »
    I understand all languages are hard and have respect for the difficulty involved in learning one but I've literally got between now and the leaving cert to learn a language and get a Hc3 in it so I'm wondering which paper would be the easiest to achieve this in. Thanks

    Are you good at languages? Maybe have look at past papers and see how much you can deduce from reading the words(I found French has quite a lot of words similar to English eg arrivee means arrived, nuit means night, chat means cat). I think Spanish has quite a few similar words too. I don't know about German. I'd pick a language I could build up a vocabulary fairly quickly in because of the above. What languages are available to you? Are you doing this within school time?


  • #3
    spurious
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    Russian or Japanese are two year courses, while all the main ones (French, German etc.) are based on a five year course.

    If starting from scratch (and with more time), they would be the best choices, but if you already have some grounding in one of the main ones, you'd be better off concentrating on that rather than starting a new one.

    Make sure to inform the SEC early to get your oral organised, if they do not already know you intend to take a language.


  • #4
    qweerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭qweerty


    spurious wrote: »
    Russian or Japanese are two year courses, while all the main ones (French, German etc.) are based on a five year course.

    If starting from scratch (and with more time), they would be the best choices, but if you already have some grounding in one of the main ones, you'd be better off concentrating on that rather than starting a new one.

    Make sure to inform the SEC early to get your oral organised, if they do not already know you intend to take a language.

    But you'd have to learn their alphabets, which would be laboursome. Whatever language you did for jc is likely to be easiest. But it's going to be very challenging.


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