Pupils get to talk the talk with Chinese trip

Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

Pupils get  to talk the talk with Chinese trip

They are among 1,000 students travelling for a competition in Yunnan where their skills in Mandarin will be tested at the World Chinese Bridge Contest.

Although the language is not offered as a subject in state exams, it is one of the first for which a curriculum has been designed for short courses in the new junior cycle programme.

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