Re: Estonian children in public school to learn coding from the start of primary scho
I think it's a generational degradation where you have teachers who should know Irish but don't really teaching kids and some of them becoming teachers and so on. If they were serious about Irish being a primary language you'd have an hour or more a day in primary school through the medium of Irish. If you did that right by the time kids entered secondary they'd be fluent. Gaelscoileanna are becoming increasingly popular as people realise it's when their kids are young that they can more easily learn Irish to a standard where if they so choose they can use it every day.
This was my experience anyway, although my french was way better than my irish after leaving cert and i spent less than half the number of years learning french. I reckon there is (or was ) something more chronically wrong with irish teaching than other languages
I think it's a generational degradation where you have teachers who should know Irish but don't really teaching kids and some of them becoming teachers and so on. If they were serious about Irish being a primary language you'd have an hour or more a day in primary school through the medium of Irish. If you did that right by the time kids entered secondary they'd be fluent. Gaelscoileanna are becoming increasingly popular as people realise it's when their kids are young that they can more easily learn Irish to a standard where if they so choose they can use it every day.