PaulAntoine

Hello everybody,

I'm a french student and I'm going to Irlande next week. I need to improve my english and I would like to integrate an English language school.

Do you have any advices? Which is the best one?

Looking forward to reading answers from you soon?

Paul

annhig

Hi PA,

well, you might have left it a bit late.

have you tried google?

PaulAntoine

Of course but there are lot of school and I don't know which the best one ...

Maybe, some of you went to Dublin et have an English course?

annhig

PA - sorry, but i really think that you are in the wrong place.

the vast majority of posters here have english as their first language, and I've never seen a thread about learning english in England, let alone in Ireland.

PaulAntoine

Hello everybody,

I was in Dublin for 2 weeks and I really had a great time. For people who are interested in studying English in Dublin, I was in the school "Learn English in Dublin" and I totally recommand it.

Hoping that will help another foreign student.

Best regards.

PA

Aduchamp1

I would love to go to Dublin to teach them how to speak English.

Padraig

We'll send for you, Aduchamp1, if we ever find that we need you.

Aduchamp1

I'm packing my bag as I write.

Padraig

Just sit there by the phone and wait.

annhig

care to post a link, PaulAntoine?

looking forward to hearing about your attempts to teach dubliners english, Adu!

PaulAntoine

www.learnenglishindublin.com

Enjoy Dublin friends

Padraig

Sorted now, Ann. You can come to Dublin to learn proper English.

annhig

thanks, Padraig.

i shall ignore the implied insult regarding my existing ability to speak it.

I do wonder about the meaning of the OP's last sentence, "enjoy Dublin friends" - is it a command? to whom? to do what?

was punctuation part of the course?

Padraig

I imagine that they used "Ulysses" as one of their reading resources, and that PaulAntoine now models his style on that of Molly Bloom: yes I say yes he does Yes.

Aduchamp1

Padraig why happened to Stately, plump Buck Mulligan?

Why do you begin at the end?

Padraig

It saves time: you can now skip through 567 pages because you already know where they are leading.

Are you still sitting by the phone waiting to be summoned to our aid?

dutyfree

Doesn't anyone else see someone advertising on here? Only post and he provides his website? Paul-you cannot advertise here on Fodors!

Padraig

Did you read the thread?

Aduchamp1

Are you still sitting by the phone waiting to be summoned to our aid?

Yes, but I never thought I would have to teach Joyce to the Irish. This is most disconcerting.
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One of my professors in graduate school was one your own Denis Donoghue. A brilliant, brilliant man with great insight but stated it in prose that induced somnambulism. He knew many of the mid-twentieth century influential Irish and English writers but his ability to convey his thoughts in a crisp and entertaining manner was never transferred.

I am going out for a walk now, so please leave a message and state your intention and phone number slowly and clearly, so those who are not Irish can comprehend your needs.

Padraig

We Irish can solve problems in a creative way. Getting Denis Donoghue to go to America was a relief to many students in University College, Dublin (the successor institute to that in which James Joyce studied) while simultaneously making a contribution to lessening a disturbing American tendency to hyperactivity (things like "doing" nine countries in fifteen days).

Don't worry about going for walks: the phone isn't going to ring. You didn't notice that I never asked for your number.