Brian Mooney
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1,158 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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And I think there was about six hundred and fifty uh people who are mainly native Chinese speakers.
Then they're not Irish people there may be a handful of Irish people taking Mandarin, but effectively so there has
Been an influx of young Chinese people into our education system.
I've seen it in some of the schools in my own local area where there is a significant presence of of young Chinese students.
And their exam effectively is about being able to speak and write Mandarin Chinese.
They don't have to learn Mandarin PEG.
No, they don't.
They don't.
They don't indeed.
Because obviously our officials in terms of drafting a curriculum
Really, you know, their knowledge and their the the capacity to actually set a paper is probably based on, you know, whether you can actually master the language.
Exactly.
Horace's odds and Mandarin.
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
So yeah, there is a ba balance.
Now, you know, they they might suggest um you know, if you look talk to the state exams commission, they might suggest that if someone is a Chinese citizen that they might struggle
with uh history from an Irish perspective or maybe the i the Irish language or whatever, you know what I'm saying?
That that somehow it's a balancing out of the fact that they're coming into another culture and etc.
But I mean you're tr you're right.
At the end of the day, if you're taking one of these languages, the chances of getting a H one are quite high.
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