✨ Day 1 of #ThinkLanguages 2025 is a wrap!

TY students from across Ireland explored the joy of language learning through inspiring talks & hands-on workshops 🌍💬

We kicked off the celebration in style — now onto Day 2! 🎉🙌

#LanguagesMatter #SMLLC

Declan Baharini and Sarah Edgar on Our Newcastle, Our World and the Express Yourself Festival (94k pupils). “If we don’t talk outside our community, change won’t happen.” #LanguageLabPodcast #LanguagesMatter

open.spotify.com/episode/0BfY...

Today's language exchange: a 6y.o. girl at my son's school taught us how to say "O dabọ", which means goodbye in Yoruba.
#EuropeanDayOfLanguages #Yoruba #langsky #London #multilingualism #LanguagesMatter

Why do you think fewer students are choosing French at GCSE in the UK?
Is Spanish really seen as “easier”? Or is it a branding issue?
I’d love to hear from other MFL teachers, or anyone with a view on language learning today. 🌍💬
#MFL #LanguagesMatter #EduChat

Season 2 starts now!
Crista Hazell joins us to talk languages, wellbeing & classroom joy.
It’s honest, uplifting & practical.

open.spotify.com/episode/3M9q...

📘 For 20% off Crista’s book check the podcast description
#mfltwitterati #languages #CristaHazell #LanguagesMatter #Edchat

🎙️ Today’s ep is a two-parter:
Lara Callow on finding her voice in Spanish,
David Binns on why schools need to take languages seriously.
Insightful, passionate, and just a bit fiery.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2D6s...
www.languagelabpodcast.co.uk
#MFL #EduChat #LanguagesMatter

Described as overseeing “the first brute force codebreaking attacks in history,” her team systematically tested hypotheses by “grinding groups out of the hat machine,” breaking approximately 13,000 code groups by 1918. /3 #LeadingFromHistory #LanguagesMatter #HiddenHistory

We have finally been awarded charitable status and look forward to working to improve the use, learning, and appreciation of all global languages, including heritage languages. #LanguagesMatter #CoventryCityOfLanguages

Most of them are Indigenous Peoples languages that carry the knowledge of the territory inhabited by their speakers.
#LanguagesMatter

A gift of £30 could provide interpretation services to help someone we support communicate with medical professionals, solicitors or support workers. See the difference you can make at boaztrust.org.uk/give 🧡

#LanguagesMatter #EndDestitution

Indigenous Peoples’ languages not only strengthen social cohesion and the transmission of values and community practices, but they also preserve systems of knowledge essential for the safeguarding of the planet.
#LanguagesMatter

The massacre continues... please sign!
www.change.org/p/save-mlang...
#nonécriture
#languagesMatter

Our #ScotCareersWeek24 workshop witnessed a ton of cracking ideas shared by innovative primary class teachers to encourage multilingual communication, teamwork & pupil leadership skills in school projects and also with local businesses. Loved it! #LanguagesMatter #ShapeTheFuture

👌Enjoyable & thought-provoking workshop for #SLLPAlumsNetwork with Ann Robertson (www.lingoboxlearning.com) this afternoon #Reflection #Experiences #Values #AppreciativeInquiry #ImprovementPlanning #LeadershipMatters #LanguagesMatter. More to come for & from this network #LangsLeadScot legacy!

🤯Ohmigosh, an absolutely amazing response to these online Primary Languages Signpost Sessions for student, newly & recently qualified primary teachers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. We’ve had to raise our capacity! Thanks to all local authority probation managers & ITE programme leads for spreading the word #LanguagesMatter

Looking forward to catching up with primary, secondary & special ed teachers of languages from the first 🔟years of #LangsLeadScot Scotland’s Languages Leadership Programme through the #SLLPAlumsNetwork. Our chance to #connect #share #reflect #learn together on #LanguagesMatter #LeadershipMatters