WATCH: Gaelscoil pupils in Cork take Mandarin Chinese lessons

From modh choinníollach to Mandarin Chinese — Gaelscoil pupils are about to wrap their tongues around the world’s most spoken language.

A groundbreaking language programme launched yesterday in a Cork school will see Mandarin Chinese being taught formally to senior students.

Aimed at fifth and sixth- class pupils of Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers in Farranferris, on the city’s northside, it is the first formal Chinese language pilot programme of its kind in an Irish primary school.