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  • 24-03-2014 8:18pm
    #1
    junej67
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Hello,
    Some of people said to me that I can take Korean and Chinese for leaving cert.
    Is it true?


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  • #2
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Here's the list of subjects available in the Leaving Cert:

    https://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=ca&sc=sb

    There's a few other non-curricular EU languages for native speakers but I don't think Chinese and Korean are available.


  • #3
    shedu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭shedu


    You can take Japanese


  • #4
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    junej67 wrote: »
    Hello,
    Some of people said to me that I can take Korean and Chinese for leaving cert.
    Is it true?

    No it's not true. You can do exams in the EU languages if you are a native speaker, or Russian, Japanese or Arabic. There are also exams in Ancient Greek and Latin.


  • #5
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    spurious wrote: »
    No it's not true. You can do exams in the EU languages if you are a native speaker, or Russian, Japanese or Arabic. There are also exams in Ancient Greek and Latin.

    Why not Chinese?


  • #6
    Mr Pseudonym
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭Mr Pseudonym


    spurious wrote: »
    No it's not true. You can do exams in the EU languages if you are a native speaker, or Russian, Japanese or Arabic. There are also exams in Ancient Greek and Latin.


    Hebrew Studies...don't forget Hebrew Studies! The most recently available data show that fewer than five people sat it over a five-year period in the mid '00s!


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  • #7
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    feargale wrote: »
    Why not Chinese?

    You'd have to ask the DES about that. The Arabic came in (I think) because of that school in Libya that does the LC and AFAIK the Russian and Japanese came in following some trade missions.

    Mandarin will presumably be in soon and the students will give themselves grades, the way things are going.


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