Ireland is a weird as fuck country. Basically French is the language of the elite, German is the language of the language of the leaders of industry, Irish is the language of the rural parts of the country, and English is the language of commoners
>Go to Dublin >Everyone is speaking English >Go to the west coast >Everyone is speaking Irish >go to the rich part of dublin >everyone is speaking french >Go to the business district >everyone is speaking german
They've forgotten the true spirit of Ireland, unlike you and your friends back in Boston.
Brody Reyes
wtf that's great
Xavier Reyes
This.
Brandon Perry
Here in Ireland, English is seen as too common, Irish as too rural. Hence for the elite, focused around a small area of Dublin around Trinity College, the Freemason Lodge and the Government buildings, national museums and libraries the main language you will hear spoken is French
Luis Young
Irish is only spoken in like 6 villages you lying cunt
Grayson Phillips
>American attempts to get friendly with other anglos >refers to himself as a yank Everytime At least say Yankee, don’t try to shorten it or anything
Same for Sweden? or is based Finnish the language of the elite lol
David Cooper
French or German is usually compulsory at secondary level however I wouldn't necessarily say they are the elite or the industry leader languages more so that these people are alot more educated than generic folk We also studied Irish and primary and secondary level and you very rarely find someone who can speak it fluently.
Matthew Robinson
>French or German is usually compulsory >and you very rarely find someone who can speak it fluently. Why?
Oliver Powell
It's a crying shame that Gaelige isn't spoken as the everyday national language and English as lingua franca. Same goes for Scotland.
Samuel Hall
Irish education system is diabolical when it comes to language learning. In my class of about 30 I would say that 2-3 would be fluent and the rest could just pass themselves
Jack Fisher
It is a shame and such a pity. Statistically people claim they can speak Irish but of all the friends I have 2-3 can speak it only because they teach it at a primary level
Julian Anderson
>Same goes for Scotland.
Lowland Scots (almost all Scots) have always spoken English, Edinburgh was an Anglo Saxon settlement. People in northern Wales still speak Welsh.
Kevin Ward
In England when they 'taught' us French the teacher literally just said a line and we had to repeat. Absolute waste of time, might as well have done something else with that hour.
Nathaniel White
Basically the same here. >learn this verb >write a letter to your penpal in Tours >Here's some grammar lol
Although I think they are changing the system now and focusing more towards speaking the language having a test that equates to 50% of your overall result
Logan Allen
Only at a primary. That's a tragedy. . I've been to Scotland only once and it wasn't until I took the train from Edinburgh to Inverness, I finally heard Gaidhlig. A place called Johnny Foxes near the river...I was all ears. I saw a petition trying to get all native languages of the UK to be co-official...you bet I support that.
Chase Hill
this poster is a schizophrenic irish poster who has multiple imagined characters and bizarre fantasies.
please do not entertain his delusions for his own safety.
Gavin Mitchell
Oh no the state of that comment section
Aaron Carter
this the 'french is the language of the elite' thing is bizarre
