All Australian students will be entitled to learn a language other than English under the new Australian curriculum, with tuition in Chinese Mandarin and Italian among the first curriculum to be ...

Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...

Last week I wrote about how Australia’s lack of economic complexity is leading the country toward a possibly perilous financial position. Two of its largest industries — coal and gas — have limited ...

Learning a new language requires a lot of time, but not necessarily a lot of money. Whether you're traveling to a foreign ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. People learn a second language for many reasons, including work, to better understand the world, an interest in the culture ...

If you were to ask me two years ago what my favorite language family was, I would have said that I couldn’t pick one. I would say that because I believe that every language family is interesting in ...

Melbourne’s locked-down neighbourhoods are home to one of the world’s most culturally diverse communities. Here you can find most of the world’s major cultures, more than one hundred nationalities and ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

Sometimes doing something completely different from creating helps spark a creative project or motivates us to create. Simple tasks like doing the dishes or folding the laundry can quiet us in such a ...

The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...