#ThinkLanguages Week 2024
#ThinkLanguages Week 2024
Registration is now open!
Registration is now open for #ThinkLanguages Week 2024.
This year events will be taking place nationwide during the week of 18 – 22 November 2024.
Join thousands of TY students from across Ireland in a festival of languages and cultures. Enjoy inspirational talks, engaging language-filled workshops, and compete against schools nationwide in our fun and interactive #ThinkLanguages Quiz. Over 15, 000 students across 180 schools nationwide took part last year and this year is set to be even bigger!
Partners for 2024
We are delighted to welcome back the Irish Film Institute and universities from across Ireland who will be bringing #ThinkLanguages beyond the school gates. Why not catch a foreign language film at one of the IFI cinemas or visit a third level campus to experience language learning in a whole new context! For more info, see our Partners page.
Win a trip to Brussels!
Thanks to our friends at the Department of Foreign Affairs and the A Career for EU strategy, who are again sponsoring this year’s prize, one lucky Champion Team will get to visit the European capital of languages and cultures – Brussels – and get to see all the action in the European Institutions, as well as trying out some delicious chocolate and waffles! Find out more info on the Champion Team competition.
The aims of #ThinkLanguages Week are to:
• Celebrate languages together in schools, universities and organisations on a national level
• Support teachers to create space in the school calendar to showcase languages and what they offer beyond the classroom
• Excite and engage TY students about the languages and cultures around them within the school, wider community and around the world
• Promote inclusion and the many personal, social, professional, and cultural benefits of language learning
• Encourage TY students to choose languages at senior cycle and into third level education
• Engage with the local community to raise awareness of the benefits of language skills
Want to know more?
• Check out the #ThinkLanguages page on our website for all the latest information.
• Online #ThinkLanguages Information Sessions for interested TY Coordinators and MFL teachers will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 17 September and Thursday 19 September. Register here.
• There is a Facebook group for teachers in registered schools to exchange ideas and ask questions. You can join in the conversation here.
• Could your team be the #ThinkLanguages Champion Team of the Year 2024? Find out more about the competition here.
• If you have any further queries, please contact us.
