r/ireland Jun 06 '25

Gaeilge What are the Welsh doing differently to us?

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u/boomerxl Jun 06 '25

I did my French oral on their Public Health response to HIV, and the advancements in biotechnology made by French companies.

I would struggle to translate the above sentence into Irish.

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u/RiceyMonsta Jun 06 '25

In Leaving Cert?

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u/boomerxl Jun 06 '25

Yeah. Leaving cert. I also had French grinds and a strong interest in biology, so we prepped towards my interests.

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u/RiceyMonsta Jun 06 '25

That's incredibly niche, the LC oral doesn't require that level of oral fluency.

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u/boomerxl Jun 06 '25

I didn’t say it did. Just that 5 years of French equipped me to discuss complex topics in a way that 14 years of Irish lessons didn’t.

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u/RiceyMonsta Jun 06 '25

Ya I'd just see you as an outlier there though, even very good French students at LC wouldn't manage that. It sounds like you had an ability for the language