higher level irish

bythewoods

laura! wrote: »

the teachers dont care bout ordinary level students tho

wen i dropped just there at xmas there woz no mre room in the ordinary classes

so im still in the higher level room

the teacher just dusnt care n dusnt help me at all

seems to me they just wana help d near fluent students

Doesn't care? Or else can't focus solely on an Ordinary Level student because she's got a class full of HL students in front of her who would be somewhat dismayed if she taught you one to one and ignored them?

Fad

Douglas Tasty Sagebrush wrote: »

No 500.000 claim to understand Irish, NOT speak everyday.

No, its phrased quite deliberately, speak it every day

"1,860,000 with some knowledge (2006)"

p1akuw47h5r3it

Fad wrote: »

No, its phrased quite deliberately, speak it every day

"1,860,000 with some knowledge (2006)"

Well really doubt 500,000 speak it evryday... I read somewhere 70,000. I'll try to find a source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language

"Estimates of fully native speakers range from under 20,000 up to 80,000 people.[4] [5] [6] The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs estimated in 2007 that about 17,000 people lived in strongly Irish-speaking communities, about 10,000 people lived in areas where there was substantial use of the language, and 17,000 people lived in "weak" Gaeltacht communities; Irish was no longer the main community language in the remaining parts of the official Gaeltacht."

Fad

Douglas Tasty Sagebrush wrote: »

Well really doubt 500,000 speak it evryday... I read somewhere 70,000. I'll try to find a source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language

"Estimates of fully native speakers range from under 20,000 up to 80,000 people.[4] [5] [6] The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs estimated in 2007 that about 17,000 people lived in strongly Irish-speaking communities, about 10,000 people lived in areas where there was substantial use of the language, and 17,000 people lived in "weak" Gaeltacht communities; Irish was no longer the main community language in the remaining parts of the official Gaeltacht."

There's a difference between a person who speaks it from the gaeltacht and a person who uses it everyday............

Also its an offence to lie on the census form (Considers ludicrosity of lying down on a census form), so most people take it relatively seriously.

"538,283 (32.5%) speak Irish on a daily basis (taking into account both native speakers and those inside the education system)"

p1akuw47h5r3it

Fad wrote: »

There's a difference between a person who speaks it from the gaeltacht and a person who uses it everyday............

Also its an offence to lie on the census form (Considers ludicrosity of lying down on a census form), so most people take it relatively seriously.

But I doubt there is anyone from outside the gaeltacht who speaks Irish everyday... Do you? Do you know anyone who does? I don't and I don't.

And people inside the education only speak Irish in Irish classes (unless they go to a school where everything is learned through Irish)

PurpleFistMixer

I know Dubliners who speak Irish daily, at home, etc. This argument is a bit redundant, though...

Fad

Douglas Tasty Sagebrush wrote: »

But I doubt there is anyone from outside the gaeltacht who speaks Irish everyday... Do you? Do you know anyone who does? I don't and I don't.

And people inside the education only speak Irish in Irish classes (unless they go to a school where everything is learned through Irish)

I do, friends who's parents talk to them only in Irish(who arent in Gaeilscoils!), and Im not in a gaelscoil,

and I speak Irish quite a bit, debating, to particular teachers, with particular friends.

University students.........