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    Default Do many children learn Irish before school?

    Do many children outside the Gaeltacht learn the Irish language prior to being taught it in school?

    I ask because I’ve often thought that the best way to preserve Irish or any other traditional language would be to incentivize parents to teach it to their children at a young age. We know that after a certain age—I think it’s around 7 years old but I could be wrong—language acquisition becomes much more difficult. You’ll never speak a language you learn after this age as naturally as you would have if you had learned it earlier. From what I hear, many Irish students end up resenting Irish because it’s so difficult to learn by the time they reach school age.

    If I were responsible for preserving Irish, I would provide free homeschooling materials to parents with young children. Every year, if a child can pass a state-administered proficiency test, appropriate for his age, to prove that his parents have indeed been teaching him the language, the parents can claim a credit or deduction on their taxes. Or some other reward.

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    dont know about irish

    but once you drive into north wales, loads of villages are predominantly welsh speaking

    it may surprise people who are not familiar with the UK, how rural and isolated from england large parts of wales are

    also that in the north especially, speaking welsh as a 1st language is not unusual at all

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