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A huge thank you to Corrugated Lines: A festival of words
We had a wonderful time attending events at the Corrugated Lines festival and are very happy to have been invited to attend. Thank you! From heading along to the Yawuru language centre and hearing a story about the creation of the Milky Way, seeing bush medicine from around Broome and learning greetings in Yawuru,
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Bustling Broome Senior High School!
Our visit with the Year 8s at Broome Senior was action packed! We continued to learn more Yawuru from the students, and we got talking about some of the other things people say around Broome. It seems “fountains” were the popular place to grab a drink at school. And despite some uncertainty about what a
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A sensational visit to St Mary’s College!
We had a great afternoon on Friday with the Year 9s at St Mary’s College, who got their tongues wagging along to some MRI clips of some sounds used in English, and beatboxing! It was great to hear about the languages people speak, too. Thanks for having us, St Marys!
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The Linguistics Roadshow in Broome!
Last week the Linguistics Roadshow flew up and over to Broome, Western Australia, taking with us a bunch of dazzling facts about language and some of the exciting things we get up to as linguists to share with the Broome locals. Our first stop was Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga, the Yawuru language centre in Broome, where
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A delightful time at Dimboola Memorial College
Our final stop on this round of the Roadshow: delightful Dimboola, Victoria! We had a great morning on Friday with the Year 7s and 8s at Dimboola Memorial College, who got stuck into some Dyirbal noun classes, and gave us the low-down on lexical choices in Dimboola. We even had time to check out the
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A marvellous visit to Murtoa College
Stop 2 on the Roadshow: marvellous Murtoa College! We had a good yarn with the Year 7s and 8s, and then talked up a storm with the Year 9s and 10s. We learnt an important bit of local lingo: have you tried ‘The Florry‘ (steak, ham and cheese wrapped in bread crumbs and fried)? And
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Thanks for having us, Ararat College!
The Roadies have hit the road and made first stop for 2015 – Ararat College! We had a great time visiting the Year 10s, and we even learnt something new: looks like when it comes to the word for ‘the object that might you might drink water from in a park or school’, bubble tap is a
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Linguistics RoadShowbags Swag!
Our showbags are bursting at the seams with language-y goodies! Along with your Linguistics Roadshow booklet and quizzes, you’ll be getting a whole bunch of swag… Practice your fingerspelling with the Auslan chart, and learn about the linguistic diversity of our state with the Victorian language fridge magnet! With our word badges, you can show your lexical
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Roadshow ready to hit the road!
Our RoadShowbags are bursting at the seams and packed in the Linguistics Limo 🚌, and we’re ready to hit the road! First stop is Ararat College on Tuesday, with Murtoa College and Dimboola Memorial Secondary College later in the week. Our route: vroom vroom! We’ll be talking about global linguistic diversity, language in our own region,
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New resources page – Englishes in Australia
We’re gradually adding to our resource pages, with collections of links, information and classroom materials on all sorts of language and linguistics topics. The focus in on the Australian context, but also on Australia’s place in the language diversity that can be found around the world. The resource page Englishes in Australia has just been added
The Linguistics Roadshow 