Transition year students at Killarney Community College are taking part in the sixth annual #ThinkLanguages national event.

Over 15,000 Transition Year students will take part in the a celebration of languages and culture from November 27 - December 1.

Over 180 schools across the country, including Killarney Community College have signed up to the Languages Connect flagship event which has grown considerably since its inception six years ago.

This year’s festival theme again focuses on “Think Global, Act Local” as students are encouraged to look to the diversity of languages spoken within their school, community and beyond as inspiration for their individual events.

Transition Year students, coordinators and modern foreign language teachers across the nation have embraced this with a variety of local speakers lined up to address students at Killarney Community Council.

The local college has invited a French and a Spanish professor from University of Limerick to talk about the importance of language. Killarney Community College has also entered the #ThinkLanguages Competition where this year, if successful, they will be named #ThinkLanguages Champion Team of the year and win the enviable
prize of an exclusive trip the multicultural capital of Europe, Brussels.

This year students can enjoy sessions such as Korean and Taekwondo, German and the Viennese Waltz, Portuguese and Capoeira, Spanish and Latin American Percussion and Translation with translators, to name just a few.

Students have been busy preparing for weeks as each event is tailormade by individual schools with the support of Languages Connect, an awareness raising campaign facilitated by Post Primary Languages Ireland.