#ThinkLanguages Week
16 - 20 November 2026
#ThinkLanguages Week
#ThinkLanguages Week
We are delighted to announce that #ThinkLanguages Week will take place from 16-20 November 2026. It will be the ninth year of the national celebration, following a hugely successful #ThinkLanguages Week 2025 which saw 21,000 TY students and over 240 schools nationwide celebrating the national festival of languages and cultures. Exciting partners joined the celebrations once again and brought #ThinkLanguages on tour to the cinema and on campus. There was also a fantastic prize to be won by our Champion Team of the Year!
This year’s programme will be particularly special, as #ThinkLanguages Week has been recognised as an Associated Event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026, highlighting the importance of multilingualism, cultural exchange and international engagement.
Registration opens at the start of the school year.
National TY Celebration of Languages
TY students from right across Ireland come together in a national celebration of languages and cultures, enjoying inspirational talks, fun language-filled workshops and competing against schools nationwide in an interactive #ThinkLanguages Quiz.
TY Students, TY Coordinators and MFL teachers get to run the show and put on a festival of languages in their own school – with lots of support from the #ThinkLanguages Team!
The aims of #ThinkLanguages Week
• 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
Lots more info available…
Lots of ideas and info is shared on the #ThinkLanguages Facebook Group – if you’re not already a member, you should join! Find it by searching #ThinkLanguages on Facebook or scanning the QR code.
Check out our Previous Years section to see some of the many #ThinkLanguages highlights.
If you have any further queries, please contact us.
