There are times when I really regret having passed through the Irish education system, but none more so when I have to resort to a dictionary to understand a message from a friend in a language I studied for fourteen years.
Every time I go home and get exposed to TG4 my Irish improves by leaps and bounds. Coming out of Primary School my Irish wasn't bad (we regularly had random classes in Irish) but from secondary school it was nearly destroyed.
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