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.
Could you have worked out a trigonometry or calculus problem without looking things up, if you were handed one in the same context? I don’t personally think it’s the teaching, I think it’s the lack of opportunity to use the language (or perhaps, the lack of being forced to) that is most of the problem.
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