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Give Leaving Cert Grinds? Pimp your warez here! [READ FIRST POST: updated 17.09.2010]

seamus — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:11:39 +0000

June '10: I have updated the rules and requirements on this thread.

Right guys, a thread for anyone who gives grinds and wants some exposure. If you know of someone who does, you can tell them about this and get them here too.

The rules:
One post per person. If you've already posted and know of someone else who wants to be here, tell them to register and post.
If you want your post edited/removed after the two day edit limit, PM one of the moderators with the details, and we'll sort you out. If you make a new post with revised details, please let me know.
This thread is only for contact details, so as such, the information you must provide is;

Subject(s):
Location:
Grinds in Students Home? Yes/No
Contact Name:
Email:

Any other info you wish to provide (Phone no., more precise area) is purely up to yourself.

Any institutions will be smacked quite hard if they post. I'm going to be a little more lax than in the past. If you post your rates, you must make an effort to keep them up-to-date. If someone PMs me saying that your rate is actually €50/hour, when your post says €20, your post is gone.

A guideline price is always helpful. Please state whether you have been Garda vetted or not, if you are offering private classes to individuals.

This thread will be periodically cleaned up and any posts over a year old will be removed. The thread is quite long now, so we need to enforce some form of turnover instead of people having to trawl through everything. If your post gets removed in a cleanup, please repost it. This also ensures that people's position in the list isn't static, for a bit of fairness.

PM me if you have any queries/suggestions. Don't post here.

If you would like to delete your post if you've stopped giving grinds, please go to your post, click the "report post" button (bottom left) and state that you wrote the post and you would like it removed. It's a lot easier for the mods to find your post if you report it than if you send a PM.- Piste

(17 Sept 2010)

Please do not use coloured fonts / oversize writing. It's not a competition to see who can create the
most garish ad!!

Mods are tired of cleaning these up, and if you insist on doing this we may just delete your ad altogether, you have been warned!!

Bold, italic and underline to add emphasis are acceptable.

Giving JC grinds? Post Here!

Múinteoir — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:53:14 +0000

Irish grinds available in South West Dublin/North Kildare area; Lucan, Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth etc.
All levels catered for. 25 euro per hour. PM me if interested.

Searching for an Irish maths teacher to observe how it is taught abroad

Nicolas85 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:26:37 +0000

Hello everyone,
First of all I wish you a happy new year 2025

Let me introduce myself: I'm a mathematics teacher at the Lycée (educational institution for students typically aged between 15 and 18) in France. We have an Erasmus agreement which gives me the opportunity to travel in EU countries. I'd like to take advantage of this to shadow a colleague, ideally a math teacher in Ireland, to observe and compare our practices.

Specifically, my request is as follows: do you know of anyone who would be willing to welcome me to their school to observe them, and who would be interested in discussing their teaching practices? I'll be self-sufficient in terms of accommodation. I'm aiming for one week in June 2025.

Also, if you're a Francophile and interested, I'd be delighted to welcome you back to France, even if it's just for a sightseeing visit. I live in a very pretty region by the sea ;)

I'm posting my request here because I saw that this was an exchange forum where teachers were involved. If you have any ideas of people or associations to whom I could send my request, I'd be grateful.

A pleasant evening to all

French Beginners Courses for adults in county Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim

porzadnyj — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:34:22 +0000

Hi everyone

I am glad to let you know that starting the end of January I will be leading 6 French Beginners Courses for adults throughout the region. These courses are aimed at total beginners or people who have already done some French but would like to freshen things up.

The classes are very interactive and practical so you get to chat in French in every class with myself and the other students. There are also some listening, grammar and vocabulary exercises than we do either in class (thanks to your weekly notes that are provided in class) or at home as home practice. All the notes taken during the class are uploaded on a Google classroom so you can give your full attention to the interaction in class and revise at home afterwards.

In Strandhill, Tubbercurry and Carrick-on-Shannon we will be starting right from the beginning with Module 1 on introducing oneself, sharing likes/dislikes, we will go through the numbers and the alphabet as well as some very useful tips regarding pronunciation.

In Ballymote and Boyle we will tackle Module 3 on Food so how to order at the café, explain a recipe in French and do some shopping at the market. Finally in Sligo we will explore the module 4 on Fashion and Sales.

So if you are interested to join any of these courses or simply want more info, feel free to get in touch (info@myfrenchteacher.eu or Whatsapp/call 087 785 6252). You can see the info on prices/dates/location in the picture underneath.

If you want to learn French in a fun and interactive class setting with different activities throughout to make sure you learn plenty and you do not get bored, this course might just be for you! And if you need some convincing you are more than welcome to check out the reviews that past and current students have left on Google and Facebook. Feel free to email if you want to be added to my Newsletter, I only send a newsletter twice a year.

Oh, and you get a €10 discount if you register before the 5th of January!

Voilà!

Hope to see you soon,

Julien Porzadny

French Oral Prep Leaving Cert Course in county Sligo and Roscommon

porzadnyj — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:40:49 +0000

Bonjour tout le monde,

I wanted to let you know that starting end of January I will be leading three 8-week courses aimed to help any Higher or Ordinary Leaving Cert Students to prepare for their French Oral Leaving cert exam.

This course will take place at three different locations:

Starting on 23/01/24 @ The Spool Factory in Boyle from 4:40pm to 5:40pm (max 10 students) - €95 (with a €10 discount if you register before 05/01/24)

Starting on 24/01/24 @ The Yeats Society buildings in Sligo from 4:40pm to 5:40pm (max 14 students) - €95 (with a €10 discount if you register before 05/01/24)

Starting on 25/01/24 @ The Family Resource centre in Ballymote from 4:45pm to 5:45pm (max 14 students) - €80

Each week students will get tips/best practices on how to tackle the oral exam, some relevant vocabulary/expressions and advice on pronunciation. There will be some very useful weekly notes provided to bring home and help students study for the exam. All students will be asked to do a weekly oral preparation based on the weekly theme which I will personally correct. But most importantly, every week there will be plenty of time to practice speaking French either with myself or other students from the course. On top of that the classes are quite small so you will get plenty of personal attention throughout the 8 weeks.

The usual topics for the Oral will be covered. From myself to my family, from my hobbies to where I live, my future, my holidays, etc. We will also talk about how to pick a good document and how to prepare for it. So usually there is about 20 to 25 minutes of what I would call "theory" (presentation, tips, pronunciation, etc.) and over half an hour of supervised practice time all in French (with relevant personalised advice to the students). By the way, there won't be any classes during the February mid-term and we will finish up with a 100% practice session the week prior to the actual exam!

Now what about me and why should you trust me with this? In very short: I am a French native with 17 years of experience as a French secondary school teacher in Ireland. Needless to say this means I am Garda Vetted and recognised by the Teaching Council. Most importantly, I have experience as an Oral examiner for the actual French Leaving Cert exam and I have ran (and improved) this course since 2007.

Voilà!

If you would like to register or have any questions at all regarding the course you can either email me (info@myfrenchteacher.eu) or Whatsapp/Text/Call (087 785 6252). Oh and I am also available for face to face (within 20/25km of Ballymote) and online grinds...

Un grand merci and all the best to you all for your Leaving Cert exam!

A bientôt,

Julien Porzadny

HDip French/Nua Gaeilge in UCC?

Guirimasguiri — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:12:31 +0000

Hi everyone. I finished my BA in Spanish and German back in 2016 and have been working as an ESL teacher in Spain ever since. I honestly just applied for the job because I had no idea what I wanted to do after I had finished college and this seemed like an easy way to improve my Spanish and earn some money. However, I soon realized that I had a genuine love and talent for teaching, which makes me want to apply for the PME over the next couple of years. The thing is, at least in my county there are very few schools that offer both Spanish and German, so I'm considering doing the HDip in either French or Nua Gaeilge in UCC to improve my chances of employment. Has anyone got any experience with either of these two courses?

Language exchange in Cork? (Spanish, French)

Creative77 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:17:13 +0000

Hello there!

Does anybody know a school / group / association for language exchange in Cork?
I'm interested in improving my Spanish and I have a basic level of French.

I know a couple of evening schools, but I'm mainly interested in a 1to1 or a group discussion group or something similar.

thanks!!!

Biotechnology NUIG

DennyMoriarty — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:21:55 +0000

Hi lads, just wondering if anyone here has done the biotechnology course with French/German in NUIG? I'd really appreciate if someone could answer a few of these questions!

1.How many hours per week is the course? Is it very heavy learning?
2. What career opportunities can arise from this course?
3.Are the language modules good? Has anyone done the year abroad?

Thanks very much in advance!

Freelance translators in Limerick / Munster

eoindmadigan — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:45:51 +0000

Hi everyone,

I've just started out as a freelance translator (FR/ES>EN) and am looking to see are there any fellow freelance translators in the Limerick or Munster area. Any language pairs at all. I'd love to know how others in the field are getting on and to establish a bit of a network / camaraderie if possible. It can get awful isolated sitting at home in front of the laptop most of the day!

Cheers,
Eoin

Irish DF or French Foreign Legion

preacher2 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:57:49 +0000

Hi all,

So basically I want to join military obviously and my real dream is to get into a special operations unit (which I am aware is one of the hardest things on earth to do but hey, someones gotta do it..). So i was initially looking at moving to US and then joining their military, SF is a lot easier to get into there (tier 2 units) however I really dont think US is for me so Im narrowed down to either Irish DF or British Army or French Legion Etrangere (FFL)...

So we all know the most amount of action you will get in the Irish Army is going to the shooting range, and we really dont fully know if the ARW actually get any action at all. The whole Irish Army just seems to be a practice practice and then keep practicing... for nothing.

Im not willing to sacrifice 5 years of my life to an army that is going to do F all..
(I dont consider sitting on a Lebonese border post with binoculers action).

Next option is British, but F that..

So next up we have French. Common misconception: The legion is full of murders. No. Not true. Interpol backround check everyone that enters the legion.
So these guys are very well respected and very very good when it comes to combat. I will be able to get some ACTUAL action, no high vis blue helmets, no sitting on my ass all day during deployments. The best unit I can join are the Commando Parachute Group (GCP) or Commando Mountain Group (GCM). These two units are basically tier 2 units however French SOC do not recognise any tier 2 units unlike many other countries. They only recognise tier 1 units. An example of a T1 unit for those who dont know are the likes of DEVGRU, 1SFODD, 22SAS etc. However, my dream is for a T1 unit, but T2 will do I guess... But the thing is, the legion is 5 years away from home, family and all my loved ones who I will miss growing older etc... Its 40 days leave yearly (after the first year).

So really just asking for anyone who has experience with Irish Army or FFL to help me, I'm struck. Anyone who wants to see what the FFL GCP is, just search French GCP and you will see a general idea of what sort of level they are on..

Thanks

JUNIOR CERTIFICATE BUSINESS STUDIES NOTES

JCHelp — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:41:16 +0000

Anyone need notes on a certain topic ... Post a reply and i will help a.s.a.p ... Feel free to add your own notes also

FRENCH REVISION

buba4635 — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:39:34 +0000

so basically im stuck on how to study french higher level for leaving cert. i would preferably appreciate response from people who have gotten a H2 or higher in their own leaving cert. Any help is appreciated. thanks

French/German are optional in my school...what should I do

naxmax9 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:02:58 +0000

I'm afraid if I don't put French as no1 I wouldn't get it. And I'm afraid if I do put French as no1 I wouldn't get Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

What should I do?

Which European language is most useful?

Quokka99 — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:12:26 +0000

Being a stereotypical 18 year old here, but I really want to travel. I'm doing Arts next year but unsure of which language to choose. French was the only one offered at our school, I'm pretty good at it. My cousin did her Erasmus in France & claimed they were unfriendly, so I feel wary of studying French- but I suppose you can't really judge a nation's people based on one person's experience. I also have an interest in learning German or Italian. In terms of careers, I have considered secondary teaching or a language school.

Geography and French Joint Honours?

e567 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:21:35 +0000

Hi, I'm in 5th year and I'm fairly confident I want to be a geography and french teacher, does anyone know of any (Dublin) colleges that allow you to do a joint honours with both? I looked at UCD but as they are in the same group I don't think I can pick them

Advice for Beginner

Bigfellalixnaw — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:04:16 +0000

Hello there, I'm a radio student from Kerry, 24 years old. I have been interested in learning French for the past or so, but didn't know how to go about it. So now I'm hoping to get some advice on how to go about learning French. One question I'd like to have answered is what are the best sites on the internet to help me achieve my aims? Also if I there is a French speaker in the Tralee area to help me to immerse myself in the language as much as possible please get in touch so that we may get some sort of a plan hammered out.
Merci...

Read this before asking "What to expect from [subject/course]?" ALL COURSE INFO HERE!

flyswatter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:07:40 +0000

I believe there is a music technology course in Maynooth. I would be interested in doing it. What's it like from the perspective of those who have done it or who have it completed?

G&P Magpul M4 and lots of extras

Sardonicus — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:15:34 +0000

G&P Magpul M4 CQBR (310 fps)
Magpul MS2 sling
Mags
Mesh goggles
Safety glasses
Speed loader
Mesh face mask
Shemagh
Set of new French woodland camo (large) top and trousers
Two Lipo batteries 7.4v
Lipo charger (new in box)
STI Duty 1 1911 co2 plus 2 mags (300 fps) - Never skirmished, great kick but slide locks back randomly like mag is empty.
Webtex assault vest

Few more bits which I will add when I get pics uploaded.

Selling for 300 for lot. May split.
Open to non-airsoft trades. Specifically looking for Garmin Forerunner 235 or similar.

What's french like in college?

EmmaH1997 — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:10:52 +0000

Hi guys basically I'm taking a year out to work and deferred business studies in UL ? I want (and my parents want lol ) to keep on french at college and basically keep as many of my options open as possible hence the language.

So I'm working on not becoming rusty over the year but I'm wonder how much a jump it is up from secondary french ? In the LC I was v good with grammar and sentence structure but not great on pronunciation and average at listening and I got a HL B3.

Galway - Language exchange French English

nanopowered2 — Sat, 28 May 2016 19:27:02 +0000

Hi

I am a native French speaker in Galway. I am looking for a language exchange with a native English speaker.
Contact me in PM.

Cheers,
Cyril

Anyone have a spare French copy of the Bible?

Okalina64 — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:20:17 +0000

Hi. Someone interested in joining my church is looking for a French copy of the Bible. Do you have a spare copy of it, do you know anyone who might or do you know where I might be able to buy one in Cork?

junior cert maths or french grinds limerick?

irishpisces123 — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:18:00 +0000

Well, I badly need someone to recommend me a good person for these subjects. I'm a d student in maths, and im on a c-d level in french? Anyone have any numbers of people that they know are good. Preferably 1on1 classes

Repeating language module- criteria?

Gwen — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:38:03 +0000

Hi,
I missed a language exam this morning as I'm ill. I'm going to the doctor as soon as I can move again, I think that I caught a virus.

I have looked at the book of modules for this module and it doesn't have information regarding repeating. It states the following:

"Requirements for Supplemental Examination: Marks in passed element(s) of Continuous Assessment are carried forward, Failed element(s) of Continuous Assessment must be repeated (as prescribed by the Department.)."

From others knowledge and experience, when does supplemental examination occur, is it August like the other modules, or do the departments arrange exam so it could be held this weekend?

If it is any relevance the exam was first year French. Any one have experience similar to this regarding illness and missing a exam?
(worth the majority of the module, missing it means a fail.)

I will inform my professor once I have a doctors note, and I'm sure he will be annoyed to hear this if it means he had to re arrange the exam again like at the weekend or something.

Thanks in advance for any information on the procedure regarding missing language exams.

French Classes in Cork?

feehan — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:57:25 +0000

Hi folks, I want to brush up on my French over the next few months. I want to find a good adult course in french. Can someone help me out with recommedations for somewhere in Cork??

merci in advance

Studying Music and Irish/French Joint Honours Degree

MissPiggy1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:51:27 +0000

Hi,

I'm looking into studying Music and Irish/French as a Joint Honours Degree and then going on to do a PME/HDIP. I'm really interested in music and it's what I want to end up working in.

Any advice on the second subject? Also, what are job prospects like? How difficult is it to get into the PME/HDIP?

Thank you!

Language Classes 1:1 Cork City Center (Spanish French and English)

roghar — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:24:14 +0000

Hello,

As someone purpose in this forum, while my girlfriend find a job in the city , she is offering Language classes .

She is proficient in English(not like me haha), native in Spanish, and High level of french certified as well.

She has a 1:1 Master's degree in Teaching, and she worked as Language teacher in one high school in Spain, so, she has hxperience and skills as a teacher.

We are not sure about the price, for the moment she will try with a price of 15€/hour 25/two hours and 10 € hour if the class is via Skype

If you are interested or you have questions, just answer in this post or just contact her calling or texting to this number 0851540129

We are not sure if the prices are high or are correct, please even if you are not interested, your opinion is important to us

1 2 1 french converstaion required

navannavan — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:41:53 +0000

Hi. I'm looking for reasonably priced French one-to-one lessons in Dublin city center . Also interested in meeting native French speakers for French/English language exchange. My level is intermediate.

International Business

luv-eirexx — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:35:01 +0000

Hi!! want to do business at dcu and just wondering does anybody have any info on this course or the european business courses!!
Are they interesting and which languages would be best for emplyability, european languages or chinese or Japanese??
Any info at all would be appreciated!!!:D
Thanks!!!

Question about International Business

gniklehcar — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:30:20 +0000

So I've just finished the leaving cert and I'm strongly considering International Business (French) in DCU. The one thing I'm a bit apprehensive about is the year abroad. I'm just wondering if anyone can give me some more information about how long you go for (how many weeks in total), where you stay, what the workload is like etc.

I just have to make up my mind whether I want to do this course or just Business on it's own in DCU.

Thanks in advance!

FRENCH-Higher Level Junior Cert 2012

theCRAIG — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:33:44 +0000

so who here does french?
any predictions...or what should we be studying?
praying to god a formal letter does NOT come up:mad::D:confused:
so any predictions....?

ALL discussion on french jc 2012 HL goes here...

BEST OF LUCK!:D