As a child growing up in rural Ireland, in primary school we were thought English and Irish, when I reached my final year of primary school as a pilot programme, we were offered the opportunity to learn French. I really enjoyed it and it was the first time the teacher complimented me, I still remember how happy it made me. I then started secondary school or high school. I continued to learn English, Irish and French. The French was the same I had learned the previous year, so, I got lazy and didn’t do much as I already knew it. When it came to the point that I had to learn I had the same teacher for French and Irish which made it hard to learn either.
The story goes on and I studied French for 5 years and came out of my final exams with a mere pass. In university I took up Spanish, I did enjoy learning it but did not fully grasp it. Fast-forward a couple of years and I wish I had paid more attention in my language classes and invested in them, Irish included. So about a year ago, I decided to take up learning a language as it is one thing that personally annoys me as a native English speaker, we expect the world to accommodate us, this may not be the case but it how I feel about myself anyway.
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