UCD Languages for Life

We are hiring! French teacher needed for the Spring trimester: This work involves approx. 8 hours of teaching per week for 12 weeks (Jan-May). More here: ucd.ie/cegl/contact/c… Deadline 19 December 2024. #jobfairy #frenchteacher #french #teachingjobs

And that's a wrap! We had 2 brilliant days for #thinklanguages in @ucddublin @SchoolofEdUCD. The B.Ed. students and I were so delighted to host so many TY students to celebrate languages & language learning in a fun way. We're already looking forward to nxt yr @langsconnect_ie ✨

Enjoyed full engagement with @StepasideETSS who again hosted Japanese sessions with @UCD_Japan and our UCD Students on #MyJapan & #WaidaikoExperience - we hope to be back visiting more schools next year. @langsconnect_ie @UCDLangforLife #ThinkLanguages

Our @langsconnect_ie UCD ambassadors celebrated the end of the academic year and their time as language ambassadors and tutors on 24th April. We would like to thank them for their fantastic work over the last year!! 🙂

Delighted to welcome Leaving Certs to @ucdslcl on Saturday for our four-week Leaving Cert  bootcamp, for French, German, Spanish and Italian. Great work and enthusiasm on all sides! Huge thanks to our wonderful tutors and to @langsconnect_ie for the support!

There is still time to enter the new UCD language competition for Primary and Post-Primary. The Post-Primary competition is opened to First Year Students up to Transition Year students.

@SchoolofEdUCD @Dr_EBowman An exciting competition for students at primary & post-primary to get involved in. We are fortunate to have children from all backgrounds in schools all over the country who can demonstrate their love of languages and cultures. Best of luck! @UCDLangforLife

Calling all language students & their teachers in Primary & Post-Primary. New @ucddublin language competition in collaboration with @langsconnect_ie @languages_ie spearheaded by our colleague @Dr_EBowman @SchoolofEdUCD. All details on tinyurl.com/Linguistaward

A collection of tweets and images from last years #thinklanguages week can now be found on our website: ucd.ie/languagesforli… @langsconnect_ie @UCDLanguages @SchoolofEdUCD @ucdslcl

Registration for 1st year is now open 👇

For free 'interest' courses in the Irish language & preparation for the European Certificate in Irish see: ucd.ie/irish/en/langu…

Elective registration opens on 5th January for first year students and on 12th January for everyone else. Do your research now and plan ahead! 😎 All language electives can be found on our website 👉ucd.ie/languagesforli…

What a fabulous day in @ucddublin for my very first 3rd level #thinklanguages day!! We had Chinese calligraphy & papercutting, Chinese lge, French & Japanese!! The student-teachers were such a credit to @SchoolofEdUCD @UCDCCI The TY students were so enthusiastic & engaged!! ✨️

A great day out for #thinklanguages @ucddublin it was great to listen to language students who presented and talked about their experience of studying a language and careers.

Some of our Spanish, French and German TY students have been spending the week in @ucddublin this week for @ThinkLanguages. They will be learning French, Spanish, Korean, Swahili, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Russian as well as learning about life in UCD and Erasmus!

Throwback to last weeks #ThinkLanguages week. Dave Kelly from @YouthTheatreIrl gave a workshop entitled 'Bringing Drama into the Modern Foreign Language Classroom'. Dave is pictured here with 2nd year student Erika Matonyte who is studying French & Spanish (BA Modern Languages)

Some more photos of our #ThinkLanguages taster classes in Polish and Korean as well as a talk about the benefits of language electives in UCD earlier this week! Thanks to all TY students and their teachers who attended! @CBCMonkstownpk @languages_ie

Join the national celebration of languages this November and attend one or more of #ThinkLanguages events organised in UCD. Visit our website for more information: ucd.ie/languagesforli…

Delighted to see our Saturday language support workshops up and running for 23/24 with 52 secondary pupils signed up across French, Spanish, German & Italian. The 3rd Saturday already! Thanks very much to our enthusiastic workshop-tutors! For all enquiries, contact slcl@ucd.ie