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It takes a minimum of two years preparation, but an optional transition year means that for those students it takes place three. Natasha received a h1 in her spanish exam last year. This supports the objectives of the leaving certificate mathematics syllabus. Overall i think that the papers for both junior and leaving cert french were very much in line. A language is more like a skill rather than a subject, it has to be practised as well as memorising grammar and vocabulary.
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