Down with French?

Sir, – I agree with the Government Action Plan for Jobs in that there needs to be a diversification of foreign language provision in post-primary schools and a move away from the dominance of French ("Schools need to vary language teaching amid 'predominance of French', report suggests", August 29th).

With 14,000 Irish people expected to move to Canada in 2014, Canadian French should be a future option. It might be more easily accommodated into the current curriculum than, say, starting Chinese from scratch. – Yours, etc,

ULTAN Ó BROIN,

South Circular Road,

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Dublin 8.