Languages

Arts & Culture
How to be less of an ‘unc’ and more of a ‘sigma’: Your guide to translating your teenager
Teenagers are our best linguistic innovators, but sometimes it can be hard to understand what they’re talking about

Education
Supporting our schools to develop Asia capable kids
Asia capable initiatives that only target adults and young adults leaves it far too late – it has to start in our schools

Arts & Culture
The older Asian Australians boosting health literacy
COVID-19 exposed the shortcomings of Australia’s public health communication to older culturally and linguistically diverse communities

Politics & Society
It’s time to build South Asia literacy in Australia
Universities are key to boosting a new generation of South Asia literate Australian graduates as the world’s centre of gravity moves East

Education
AI means a rethink of teaching foreign languages
Machines are better than most human foreign language learners at translation, so teaching languages should now focus on global competence

Arts & Culture
Preserving China’s minority languages
A language preservation project is working to record and preserve some of China’s minority languages to ensure they don’t die out

Arts & Culture
How data expertise is fostering endangered languages
The PARADISEC digital archive model revitalising endangered languages around the Pacific has now been taken up in North America by the Cherokee Nation

Health & Medicine
What makes us mistake 1 number 4 another?
Research is showing that number confusion is shaped not just by the numbers, but also the culture and experience of the viewer

Education
Indonesian matters in our schools
Australia needs leadership and investment in Indonesian language education, so the next generation of young Australians might know our largest neighbour better

Education
Under the Microscope
The language of learning
Stanley Wang is one of this year’s 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians for his work on bilingualism in school to help foster cultural identity in Australia