http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=clippings&id=2596&viewby=date

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I wanted my son to be more than bi-lingual. I wanted him to have many languages, not to further some economic purpose but to open his mind. The fact that he is Irish, Indian and born in the West, gives him an automatic licence to multiple languages.

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Thus, while I could have chosen to send my child to an Educate Together school - where he might learn aspects of a variety of cultures, including mine, as part of his curriculum - I chose to send him to gaelscoil so he would naturally become an Irish speaker. I know my culture isn't really at risk. However, without immersion, language acquisition is.

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English in this country is not at risk. Irish, however, is. Even speaking Hindi at home and Irish in school, I have no worries at all about my son's acquisition of English. Hindi was my first language and I am completely articulate in English. Living in an English-speaking country, it is simply impossible for a child not to be.

Why? Because they are immersed in it. It is fully and completely everywhere. The rest of our languages are at risk, however.

Ceart agus cóir do Shalini Sinha!

Is maith ann eachtrannaigh mar ise!

D'inis cara liom (atá pósta le Seirbeach agus a bhfuil a chlann á tógáil le Seirbís agus Gaeilge) go bhfuil clann arbh as an Pacastáin dá máthair bogtha isteach in aice leo.

Ag freastal ar Ghaeilscoil atá a gclann siúd chomh maith (ceann ilchreidmheach, mar a tharlaíonn sé); ar na cúiseanna céanna a luadh san alt thuas.

Tuigeann lucht ilteangach na buntáistí.

Ach tá sé deacair iad a chuir ar shúile na n-anglofónach.

Anseo atá an clann sin ag dul ar scoil, creidim:
http://www.gaelscoilliosnanog.com/baile.htm

(Message edited by aonghus on November 20, 2007)

Is mór an gar don tír seo iad, bail ó Dhia orthu. Tá sé uile go léir ráite ansin ag Shalini Sinha.