#ThinkLanguages Champion Team in Brussels
#ThinkLanguages Champion Team in Brussels #ThinkLanguages Champion Team in Brussels #ThinkLanguages Champion Team 2023 Travel to Brussels for Prize The winners of the 2023 #ThinkLanguages Champion Team Competition, from Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone, recently travelled to Brussels, the languages capital of Europe, for their once-in-a-lifetime prize trip, which was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs as […]
Career Skills Competition Winner
Careers Skills Competition Winner 2024 Careers Skills Competition Winner 2024 The Languages Connect Award for Careers with Foreign Languages Congratulations to Aoife McCann from Sacred Heart School, Drogheda, Co. Louth who has won the Languages Connect Award for Careers with Foreign Languages at this year’s careersportal.ie Career Skills Competition. Aoife is a fifth year student […]
Language Summer Camps
Heritage and lesser-taught language summer camps Heritage and lesser-taught language summer camps This summer we are delighted to be funding seven heritage and lesser-taught language camps across the country. Summer Camps are targeted at post primary students and provide an opportunity for heritage language speakers to learn more about their language and culture, or for […]
Spanish Competition Winner
Spanish Competition Winners 2024 Spanish Competition Winners 2024 A week in Spain! Congratulations to Erin Shoenmaker and Olunor Dede Ubogu and their Spanish teacher Olan Geaney from Ashton Comprehensive School, Cork who were awarded first place in this year’s Spanish video competition. The lucky team have won a one-week language scholarship in Castilla y León, […]
New Language Mat added
New Arabic Language Mat Added New Arabic Language Mat Added Arabic in the classroom We are delighted to be adding Arabic to the existing range of foreign language mats that we have developed. The mats aim to help students learn everyday phrases used in the classroom. Arabic is the newest addition to the long list […]
Leaving Cert Language Classes 2024/2025
Leaving Certificate Language Classes Leaving Certificate Language Classes Saturday Classes 2024/2025 Registration is now open for Leaving Certificate Language Saturday Classes, starting this September. This registration is for incoming 5th year students who will sit the Leaving Certificate exams in 2026. The Leaving Certificate course will be covered over a two-year period, meaning students should […]
Japanese Culture Exchange
Japanese Culture Exchange Japanese Culture Exchange Ten secondary school students from Tokyo were warmly welcomed to the Languages Connect office in the Digital Hub, Dublin 8 on Thursday, 28 March, where they had a cultural exchange with Irish students learning Japanese. The exchange meeting was just one item on the busy schedule of the Tokyo […]
ELC Competition Winners
ELC Competition Winners ELC Competition Winners Congratulations to the two winners of our Euro Languages College competition, An Dinh and Eve Wall, who have each won an amazing prize of an 18-day summer residential course at the ELC this Summer. Choosing either French, German or Spanish, the prize offers a fantastic opportunity to make new […]
Languages Connect Interim Review Report
Languages Connect Interim Review Report Languages Connect Interim Review Report Minister Foley publishes Languages Connect Interim Review Report and Implementation Plan to 2026 Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has published the Interim Review Report and Implementation Plan to 2026 for Languages Connect – Ireland’s National Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017 – 2026. […]
Career Skills Competition
Career Skills Competition CareerSkills Competition Language Category for 2024 This year, Languages Connect is delighted to be supporting the CareersPortal Career Skills Competition with the second year of the specialist award for language skills. The competition, developed by CareersPortal, has been running for over ten years and promotes the importance of career skills, while also […]
