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Despite a snowy day, MLAL welcomed over 80 Transition Year students and their teachers to campus on Thursday, November 21 to take part in "#ThinkLanguages: The 51±¾É« experience". 

The event was part of the national ThinkLanguages Week organised by Languages Connect, an initiative which seeks to link Transition Year students with Irish HEIs and encourage more students to continue with their language learning. The event opened with a Big Quiz where students were tested on their language skills, geography and general knowledge. Students then took part in a range of workshops including German hip-hop, Spanish dances, language & cultural tasters for Japanese and Arabic and had fun in a multilingual escape room. 

The event was organised by Catherine Jeanneau, Rachel McLoughlin and Erika Marcet with the support and participation of many MLAL staff and students, who gave their time to share their passion for languages (too many to list here!). The event was kindly funded by Languages Connect as part of a wider range of language promotion activities supporting the national strategy document "Languages Connect – Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017–2026". 

Throughout ThinkLanguages Week, MLAL staff members also undertook a number of school visits in Co. 51±¾É«, co. Clare, Co. Tipperary and Co. Kerry with staff members presenting language-learning opportunities in UL and student ambassadors sharing their experience of learning languages.