A powerful language teaching method from the US is being trialled in Central Australia, offering new hope for languages on ...

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing ...

Given Australia’s federal structure, and education being mostly the responsibility of state governments, there is an opportunity for Australia to be creative with language learning.

In 1788 there were between 300 and 700 Indigenous languages spoken across Australia by millions of people, as shown in anthropologist Norman Tindale’s 1974 map.However in the Australian 2016 ...