In this episode, we're welcoming linguist Karla Zuluaga back to Language Chats to hear more about the interesting work she is involved in as a Community Linguist on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory. Born in the Philippines and having grown up in NSW, a couple of years ago Karla made the big move to the Northern Territory to work with the Groote Eylandt Language Centre. She tells us more about her role as a Community Linguist, the work the centre does to promote, maintain and preserve the language of the island  - Amamalya Ayakwa (Anindilyakwa) - and her experience of the beautiful language, culture and environment of this island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Have a question for Karla or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Language Chats Ep #042 - Introduction to Australian indigenous languages: A chat with Karla Zuluaga (Part 1) Language Chats Ep #043 - Introduction to Australian indigenous languages: A chat with Karla Zuluaga (Part 2) Anindilyakwa Land Council & Groote Eylandt Language Centre Groote Eylandt Language Centre - YouTube | Facebook NT Mob Sharing Stories in Language Groote Eylandt - Northern Territory Travel

Feeling a bit ‘under the weather’ because it’s been ‘raining cats and dogs’? Maybe you’ve found yourself ‘in a pickle’! But if a Danish person said to you that ‘there’s no cow on the ice’ (det er ingen ko på isen), would you know what they mean? Idiomatic expressions are a really interesting part of language and in this episode, we’re chatting with Rune Pedersen, host of The Idiom, a podcast co-produced Think HQ CultureVerse and SBS Audio which explores culture through weird and wonderful idioms from Australia and around the world. Danish native Rune speaks with us about his background and interest in language, his own experiences living, studying and working with different languages across multiple countries, how The Idiom came to be and what inspired the creation of this podcast, and what captures his curiosity at the moment. Have a question for Rune or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links The Idiom podcast, co-produced Think HQ CultureVerse and SBS Audio Monolingual vs multilingual: The key to communications that will resonate with Australians today - Mumbrella Find Rune on LinkedIn | Think HQ

In this episode, we’re chatting with our intrepid traveller Penny, who is on the trip of a lifetime around Australia with her family! After setting off in August 2023 for a 5-month road trip around the country, Penny and her family are discovering parts of Australia that they’ve never been to before, encountering different languages and cultures, and experiencing all the fun, challenges and practical considerations of travelling with a camper trailer in tow. Have a question for Penny about her trip? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links About Kungarakan country - Kungarakan Culture and Education Association (NT) Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park - National Parks and Wildlife Service (SA) Wilpena Pound (SA) Coober Pedy (SA) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park - Parks Australia (NT) Language | Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (NT) - palya means ‘hello’ (and can also be used for ‘goodbye’, ‘thank you’ and ‘finish’) in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Watarrka National Park (NT) Bush Food of Australia aka Bush Tucker - Welcome to Country 10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own - The Conversation What is the Indigenous voice to parliament, how would it work, and what happens next? - The Guardian Kakadu National Park (NT) Royal Flying Doctor Service Country kids return to online classrooms as School of the Air starts new year - ABC News Follow Penny’s trip on Instagram: @lingo_mama | @wandering_wilstones

In this episode, we’re again chatting with two members of the Language Lovers AU Community based in Australia - Han-Yu Ong and Ingrid Botha - who both kindly took the time to tell us (and you!) about their respective experiences of learning other languages, the part that language plays in their lives, and what has motivated and inspired them. Have a question for Han-Yu, Ingrid or us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links My Bilingual Family Podcast - SBS Audio Language Lovers AU Community on Facebook

In this episode, we’re chatting with two Melbourne-based members of the Language Lovers AU Community - Lily Cerôn-Fernández and Deb McLeod - who both kindly took the time to tell us (and you!) about their respective experiences of learning other languages, what has motivated and inspired them, and where languages have taken them in their lives. Have a question for Lily, Deb or us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Victorian Curriculum - Languages - VCAA Alliance Française de Melbourne Lily’s website - Spanish Gym Language Training | Instagram: @spanishgymlanguagetraining Coffee Break Languages Language Lovers AU Community on Facebook

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a hot topic at the moment, and in this episode of Language Chats we’re speaking with Melbourne-based conversation designer Grace Frances, whose work involves training AI assistants to interact with people and the creative aspect of conversational AI. We chat with Grace about what conversation design is and what it entails, how she found herself working in this exciting new field from a background in linguistics and copywriting, the ethics of working in this space, and the potential opportunities that AI could provide from a language and accessibility perspective. We hope you enjoy listening (and learning!) from this chat as much as we did! Have a question for Grace or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links A guide to conversation design: why, what and how - Conversation Design Institute What is Natural Language Understanding & How Does it Work? - Simplilearn The Power of Tech for Good: Why AI Needs a Moral Compass - Grace Frances on Medium The Evolution of Etiquette: Why Language Matters in Conversational AI - Grace Frances on Medium Find Grace on LinkedIn

In this episode, we’re speaking with David Hua, Director of Audio and Language Content at SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) Australia, Australia’s multilingual, multicultural and Indigenous media organisation. We speak with David about his own cultural and linguistic background, what inspired him to get into the media industry, the role that SBS has in modern Australia, what he is most proud of in the work that SBS does, and representation of culturally and linguistically diverse people in Australian media. This episode was recorded in NAIDOC Week 2023. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, especially those of the lands on which we recorded this episode - the Wadawurrung, the Wurundjeri and the Cammeraygal people. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. We live and work on land that was, is and always will be Aboriginal country. Do you have a question for David or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) Australia ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Our History - SBS Australia SBS to broadcast live COVID-19 updates on SBS, SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand in multiple languages - SBS Australia SBS Language - News & Podcasts SBS to serve more multilingual Australians than ever; investing more in Indo-Pacific and First Nations languages - SBS Australia NAIDOC Week 2023 Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan - SBS Australia Acknowledgement of Country in your language - SBS Australia Pitch your podcast idea to SBS - SBS Audio Media Diversity Australia David Hua - SBS Corporate | Twitter

In this episode, we’re chatting with Tom Shugg, VIC-based co-founder of Meg Languages. Meg Languages focuses on creating global citizens and getting students excited about learning a language by providing live Mandarin & Spanish language instruction in classrooms across Australia and around the world. Tom tells us about how he was inspired by a school trip to China in Year 9, studying Chinese at university and abroad, how Meg Languages came to be, the challenges of finding language teachers in both remote and metropolitan areas, and an exciting new project which the Meg Languages team is working on. We hope you enjoy this great chat as much as we did! Have a question for Tom or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Meg Languages About Meg Languages The School of the Air - ABC Education Find Tom Shugg on LinkedIn

Love watching movies from around the world? It turns out that Bec goes to the cinema quite a lot and always has a recommendation for a film up her sleeve! Most of the movies she goes to see are in languages other English - surprise, surprise! - so in this episode, Bec is sharing a few of the international films that she’s watched over the last year or so which might also interest other language- and film-loving folk. Have a question or want to share your film recommendations with us too? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad! Episode Links Palace Cinemas | Australian Movie Theatre & Cinemas Language Chats Ep #079 - Foreign Language TV Series & Film - What We’ve Been Watching in 2022 (with Lamont from Days of French ‘n’ Swedish) Language Chats Ep #057 - Foreign Language TV Series - What We’re Watching in 2021 Language Chats Ep #030 - Foreign Language TV Series - What We’re Watching in 2020 Language Chats Ep #003 - Foreign Language TV Series - What We’re Watching German Film Festival | Presented by Palace Der Fuchs / The Fox - German Das Lehrerzimmer / The Teachers’ Lounge - German Sisi (TV series) - German (currently available in Australia on SBS On Demand) Corsage - German Sisi und Ich / Sisi & I - German Sissi (1955) - German Alliance Française French Film Festival November / Novembre - French Mascarade - French Scandinavian Film Festival | Presented by Palace Margrete den første / Margrete: Queen of the North - Danish Smagen af sult / A Taste of Hunger - Danish Metsurin tarina / The Woodcutter Story - Finnish À plein temps / Full Time - French Language Lovers AU Community

In this episode, we’re speaking with Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori, a London-based languages teacher and author, writing specifically for multilingual children. Yoshito grew up in France, bilingual in French and Japanese, and learnt English and Spanish at school. His wife is Korean and they are now bringing up their children to be multilingual and multiliterate in their three home languages: Korean, French and English. We speak with him about his language-filled home environment, his work promoting multilingual parenting and the importance of making language purposeful, and creating a bilingual graphic novel which is adaptable to any home language. Do you have a question for Yoshito or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad! Episode Links Library4Multilinguals Library4Multilinguals - Youtube Activities for Multilingual Families - Youtube Find Yoshito on Instagram: @multilingual_dad | LinkedIn: Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori