Category: Student Stories
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“The door is always open to you.”
Here Paul, one of our students in DALC, writes about his experience of returning to learning.
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“My learning plans are to write and read English.”
My name is Mahad. My experience of school is grade 8. My experience of coming back to learning is to understand speaking well. My learning plans are to write and read English. And I am very happy to start again learning English with DALC. It is important for me to learn English as I like…
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“I am learning English for integration”
My name is Yvonne. I am from The Democratic Republic of the Congo. My experience of school was always to learn. Now I want to read and write good English. Alone I can’t improve my English and so coming in to DALC is very important for me. First I started online with my English class…
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“Help from people around me”
My name is Michael and at the moment I am learning to improve my reading and my spelling and go as far as I can. I did very little at school when I was younger. At the moment, I am going to DALC which is an adult learning centre for people who would like to…
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“I feel comfortable to be here with my teacher and classmates.”
My name is Fatima. I am from Somalia and I am living in Dublin. I have been here for three months and the first day I came to Dublin I started looking for English school. Fortunately DALC was the first school I came to. I met the receptionist and they wrote my name and took…
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“There’s a job going there if you like.” An early school leaver’s story
My name is Michael. Many years ago I started in William Street School in Junior Infants – just off the North Strand. I then went up to high babies. I was there for a few years. Primary was the last schooling I ever done. That was my school days. I had my name down to go…
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A Friendly Environment
By name is Rashmi. I am from Nepal. I am in the centre for one year. I find this school very nice, a friendly environment.I have learned many things and my English has improved lots after being here. All the staff are really helpful. The group are supportive and cooperative. I hope to qualify here…
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Dublin is My City Now
Below is an interview we did with Valeriia, one of our new students from Ukraine. With her permission, she shares her story. My name is Valeriia. I lived in Donbass which is in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. This is my second war. After the war eight years ago I moved to Irpin, the second…
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My First Day in DALC
When I came to DALC I was very nervous. But the next day I felt good. All the students were very nice to me. We are all friends. It is like having another family. The tutors are very nice and very helpful to us. I am happy to be in DALC. It was the best thing that I…