‘Teaching my son to read has been enlightening’.hat’s that in Irish?’ my son asks, quite often. Now that he’s started reading and writing, he’s drunk on the power of words and cleaves to the small, cardboard-backed books of Irish gifted to him by his nana, a keen Irish speaker.
For one thing, teaching him the rudiments of English is a process we find so bewilderingly complex, we frequently often marvel that anyone, including ourselves, ever managed it. I worry that the additional neural load of teaching him Irish vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation in parallel would be beyond my primitive grasp of the language., Northern Ireland only provides Irish from secondary school, as an elective ‘foreign’ language.
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