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Dia
duit! (Hello!) ...If I’m lucky, one may reply:
Dia’s Muire duit! These are some of the first Gaelic words I learned in this wonderful adventure on Achill, along with Marlén, Ana (Spain), Piet and Peter (Belgium), Irina (Germany) and Maria from Sweden. The ‘Europe meets Gaelic’ workshop visited the local primary school on Achill to learn about the teaching of Gaelic and to share with the children this intercultural experience. It was a great challenge since a real exchange could be organised with the children, giving them some samples of our many languages while they talked to us in Gaelic and English.
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To enable this exchange, we wrote short dialogues in different languages and made up a quiz for children to find out our nationality. We went to the adult learners language centre to try to get as much as possible from a survival vocabulary of Gaelic so that local people may understand our pronunciation. Mary McLoughan, the teacher, looked very impressed and recognised we were quick learners! This made us very happy! After all, this is the souvenir we take with us from the island! By Dorina Angelescu |
The
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| Many of the students participating in this project share the experience of having spent some time abroad because of their studies. This is an opportunity from which one can learn loads and develop greater intercultural awareness for their future life. But often, this learning experience derives from difficult situations. Such a situation could be the following role play we did during Dorina´s lecture on ‘Students´ intercultural experience’: you are a student who’s going to a University abroad for a three-week course. You arrive at a train station at 4 o’clock in the morning in a city you don’t know and where you don’t speak the native language. The person who was supposed to pick you up doesn’t show up and you don’t even know how to get to the University. There is no information point and most of the local people don’t speak English. What
would you do? By
Karsten Kneese
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