Languages Connect at Higher Options
Higher Options 2024 Higher Options 2024 Languages Connect at Higher Options We are delighted to be attending this year’s Higher Options Exhibition this September. Thousands of students from around the country will be attending over the three days. Live at the RDS from 25th – 27th of September, it will provide a unique opportunity for […]
Careers Skills Competition Winner
Careers Skills Competition Winner 2023 Careers Skills Competition Winner 2023 The Languages Connect Award for Careers with Foreign Languages Congratulations to Ana Isabel Cámara Gutiérrez from Our Lady’s College, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth who has won the Languages Connect Award for Careers with Foreign Languages at this year’s careersportal.ie Career Skills competition. Ana is a […]
MS Readathon 2022
MS Readathon 2022 MS Readathon 2022 Try reading in another language! The MS Readathon is here again and Languages Connect is delighted to be a partner once more, bringing a foreign language element to Ireland’s biggest sponsored reading initiative. While inspiring kids to read, the MS Readathon has also been raising much needed funds for […]
#ThinkLanguages 2022 to be biggest yet
#ThinkLanguages 2022 to be biggest yet #ThinkLanguages 2022 to be biggest yet School planning for #Thinklanguages gets underway Around 175 schools across Ireland have started their planning for #Thinklanguages 2022, the national TY event now in its fifth year. The celebration of languages and cultures is set to be the biggest yet, with over 14,000 […]
Young Translators Competition 2022
Young Translators Competition 2022 Young Translators Competition 2022 Juvenes Translatores A contest to reward the best young translators in the European Union Who can take part? Secondary school students born in 2005. What is this about? Each year since 2007, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation has run the Juvenes Translatores contest in schools across […]
Say Yes to Languages Kicks off for Second Year
Say Yes to Languages kicks off for Second Year Say Yes to Languages Kicks off for Second Year Term One of Primary Module Set to Begin The first term of primary module ‘Say Yes to Languages’ is set to kick off next week with over 50,000 pupils expected to take part throughout the year. The […]
Language Summer Camps 2022
Language Summer Camps 2022 Language Summer Camps 2022 This summer, we have funded four Chinese, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian two-week Summer Camps across the country. Summer Camps are an opportunity for heritage language speakers to learn more about their language and culture or for beginners to discover a new language. The camps make learning a language fun […]
IGC Competition Winners Announced
IGC Webinar Competition Winners The results are in The winners of the IGC Webinar Poster Competition have been announced. Students were tasked with creating a poster that illustrated how learning languages not only helps you to communicate with people but it also helps you develop many other skills. The judging panel were extremely impressed by […]
Ukrainian Classroom Resources
Ukrainian Classroom Resources Help welcome new Ukrainian students & pupils We have developed a range of language mats to help students learn everyday language of the classroom. A new Ukrainian language mat has now been added. These mats will be useful for helping your new Ukrainian pupils and students to access the language of the […]
17% Increase in CAO Applications
CAO Language Course Applications 17% increase in CAO applications for Languages There has been a sharp increase in demand for language courses at Third Level in the first round of CAO applications this year, with 17% more first preference applications than 2021. In addition to this, the category of Interdisciplinary programmes and qualifications involving arts […]