Japan Quiz Night 2025
Japan Quiz Night 2025 Japan Quiz Night 2025 The annual Japan Quiz Night took place last night, Thursday 13th March, with roughly 150 students participating across five locations including Dublin City University (DCU), University Limerick (UL), St. Angela’s College Cork, Gorey Community School, and CBS Roscommon. The event is coorganised by Languages Connect and Japanese departments […]
#ThinkLanguages Save the Date
#ThinkLanguages Save the Date #ThinkLanguages Save the Date #ThinkLanguages Week 2025 – Save the Date We are delighted to announce that the festival of languages and cultures for TY students, #ThinkLanguages Week, will return in 2025 so be sure to save the date! This year’s event is gearing up to be bigger and better than […]
Leaving Cert Information Sessions
Leaving Cert Information Sessions Need more information deciding on Leaving Cert Languages? Are you a student or parent who would like to know more about studying Chinese, Lithuanian, Portuguese or Polish for the Leaving Cert? Languages Connect is organising a series of online information sessions to help students and parents become familiar with the new Leaving […]
Language Summer Camps 2025
Language Summer Camps Funding Language Summer Camps 2025 Languages Connect are delighted to once again be funding heritage and lesser-taught language summer camps, with applications for funding now open. It will be the seventh year of the summer camps, which are two-week camps aimed at post-primary students attending school in Ireland. The Summer camps are […]
#ThinkLanguages 2024 Winners
#ThinkLanguages Champion Team of the Year Announced #ThinkLanguages Prizegiving Beaufort College crowned #ThinkLanguages Champion Team of the Year 2024! The national final of the #ThinkLanguages Champion Team of the Year competition took place today, Thursday, 23rd January at the Clock Tower in the Department of Education, where six transition year students from Beaufort College, Navan […]
Ukrainian Information Session
Ukrainian Information Session Ukrainian Information Session In January we hosted an online session to raise awareness of the new non-curricular Leaving Certificate Ukrainian examination paper. 2025 will be the first year that Ukrainian as a subject will be sat as a non-curricular Leaving Cert exam. There were a high number of participants on the day […]
New Opportunity: Finance Assistant
We are Hiring! We are Hiring! Finance Assistant PPLI wishes to appoint a Finance Assistant to support PPLI financial operations and related activities. The role of Finance Assistant will aid in the support of implementation of Languages Connect – Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026, diversifying, enhancing and expanding the teaching of foreign […]
December Newsletter
December Newsletter now available December Newsletter now available Our latest email Newsletter has just been issued to subscribers, and can also be viewed below. Have you already subscribed? If you haven’t, then here are links to the most recent Newsletters, and underneath there is a sign up form which you can complete. October 2024, September […]
#ThinkLanguages 2024 Finalists
#ThinkLanguages Champion Team Finalists #ThinkLanguages Champion Team Finalists Finalists for this year’s hotly contested #ThinkLanguages Champion Team Competition have been announced! Entries to this year’s competition were of an exceptional level and judges were extremely impressed with the standard of events at all shortlisted schools. The effort and dedication from the Champion Teams was inspiring. […]
#ThinkLanguages 2024 a success
#ThinkLanguages 2024 #ThinkLanguages Week #ThinkLanguages Week Over 17,500 students across 200 schools celebrated the seventh year of #ThinkLanguages last week, hosting their very own festival of languages and cultures. The event was celebrated across the week of 18 – 22 November and with the most participants ever, #Thinklanguages 2024 was a huge success for all […]
