It’s hard not to fall in love with Berlin, which is full of everything that is good and wonderful in the world (beautiful people, art, parties, fashion). But learning the language is a little more work, says Jess Hopcraft.
Language education
Daily Proposition: Learning German is a Stone’s throw away
Cocos Islands: the view from Asia
“First language first” is a fundamental premise of bilingual education, but not in the Cocos Islands, where children are being punished for speaking their native Cocos Malay, writes Pauline Bunce.
Open letter to Marion Scrymgour
I believe our bilingual program has been working well because all our children who go to school in Yuendumu speak our Warlpiri language very well and we have strong Warlpiri families, writes Cecily Napanangka Granites.
Classroom English will be the death of Aboriginal languages
Retention of Aboriginal languages should matter to all of us, says longtime NT teacher Wendy Baarda.
Kevin 07 in chapter and verse
Kevin was rock and roll, Kevin was angry. Even delivering broadband makes Kevin cross. Or is that determined? Jonathan Green ponders the ALP campaign launch.
