Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Multilingualism in an EU Context: Discussion with Department of Education and Skills

1:45 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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On that point, while I was never very good at languages at school, what I found most off-putting was the teaching of different tenses. That absolutely washed over me and it did not matter if I said it hundreds of times, I could never get the tenses. I found that stopped me from learning languages and I now cannot speak any language but English.