That’s only about fourteen jobs mate, unless the kkk is a salaried position these days?
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And if you can speak two languages the third one comes easier. Supposedly.
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If they taught the bastard thing like a language we’d all be slipping in and out of it daily.
Maybe. Plenty struggle with just the wan.
In truth, if we still spoke irish predominantly, we’d still be a dank island knitting sweaters, selling babies and dancing at the crossroads.
Not if we were bilingual.
I get that ---- but as our European friends show us - it’s very easy to be bi or tri lingual.
I’m talking about real jobs
So - should kids just pick their career at 4/5 and concentrate on subjects that will lead to their real job?
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That it is. Nonetheless, we do significantly better with FDI, which is sadly, other than fleecing tourists and vomit inducing self promotion, our major industry. This is in significant part due to the fact that, like it or not, we speak English first and foremost, and English is the global language of the first world. It became truly established when the peloton switched.
English is going no where — And that’s well established - so why not also have our own language? Should Europeans now phase out their native tongues?
You know perfectly well that’s not what I’m saying. I think we should keep irish compulsory in schools.
I’m saying we, as I’ve just asked the engineer to apply for planning wooohooo.
No, I have no issue with kids learning Irish, but I don’t think it’s use is comparable to chemistry and algebra like you were suggesting
Ah come on — I was just saying we do a broad range of subjects and topics that a lot of people dont use in later life — and if you want to nit pick people can ask what’s the point in a lot of stuff. Education should be broad, and not always just job focused.
How Irish is taught should be completely changed tho.
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I very much doubt it
We’d have been genuinely bilingual like the Norwegians and the Swedes and the Dutch
There is plenty of point to every subject
That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for a child’s schooling to be done pretty much exclusively through a language other than their mother tongue
When I was a kid my family used to occasionally to visit my cousins’ family on the other side of the city
They lived in a different world, the father had an important job and they went to Willow Park and Blackrock College and lived abroad in multiple countries for a while in between too
One of the stories the father used to tell was that a friend of his used to get a bit tipsy at dinner parties or in the pub and shout out, entirely seriously in a deeply pompous voice “my son will play rugby for Ireland”
His son didn’t play rugby for Ireland
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We should commemorate the introduction of the English language to Ireland.
The problem with the French is they have no word for peloton
Flatty
I see after Gregg’s recent success’ many are suggesting they expand beyond the UK .
Would you consider bringing them to Ireland ??