John King (72) expects his Berlin-based grandson will soon be better than him
Retired teacher John King suddenly became interested in learning German when his daughter Sarah moved to Berlin about 10 years agoIt’s 54 years since John King did the Leaving Cert for the first time, but the former teacher at Drumshanbo Vocational School in Co Leitrim had a very special reason for returning to the exam hall there this June.
“He is starting kindergarten next Monday so I would say while I have a few more words than him now, he will pass me out very quickly,” said the former physics and higher-level maths teacher who was also the career guidance counsellor at DVS. He has been practising hard on his frequent visits to Berlin but says while the “older East Germans” are happy to converse with him, many young Germans quickly switch to English when they hear his efforts.
“It was just me and the supervisor,” he said. The most difficult part of the exam experience for him was the oral test, which he said was very much targeted at teenage students. “I got a bit dumb struck at the oral. Of course the whole exam is orientated towards 18-year-olds so I was being asked what was I going to do when I leave school and stuff like that.”
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