Languages

A flowing river for arteries, a bare boab tree for depression. A project in the Kimberley shows how listening before we speak can improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament

Teenagers are our best linguistic innovators, but sometimes it can be hard to understand what they’re talking about

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

COVID-19 exposed the shortcomings of Australia’s public health communication to older culturally and linguistically diverse communities

Universities are key to boosting a new generation of South Asia literate Australian graduates as the world’s centre of gravity moves East

Machines are better than most human foreign language learners at translation, so teaching languages should now focus on global competence

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

The PARADISEC digital archive model revitalising endangered languages around the Pacific has now been taken up in North America by the Cherokee Nation

Research is showing that number confusion is shaped not just by the numbers, but also the culture and experience of the viewer