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23Sep

Travel round the world in a day

9. All ages, ACT, Events, Everyone 1 Comment

Sunday 28 September 2008, 10am-5pm

If you are anywhere near Canberra this week you should try to make it to this very special event set up to celebrate the International Year of Languages.

Apart from more than two dozen stalls representing organisations and language learning opportunities, and as well as information on up to 20 weekend ethnic schools representing a wide range of languages, there is a spectacular range of workshops and seminars on language topics.

There are so many sessions there will sometimes be up to six running simultaneously in different venues.

I don’t know how you choose between sessions on topics as diverse as reviving and preserving indigenous languages, how the latest technology can help language learning, the role of non-verbal languages, oral language learning, written language learning, early childhood education, adult education, policy development, careers information – it’s an amazing line-up.

Click here to download the Draft Program in Word format

Click here to download the Draft Program in PDF format
07Sep

Celebrate the International Year of Languages: Travel round the world in a day!

9. All ages, ACT, All, Arabic, Events, Everyone, Greek, Indigenous, Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish 3 Comments

Sunday 28 September 2008, 10am-5pm

Explore the many languages of the Canberra region

Enjoy music, dance and food from many cultures

Join a free workshop! Try your hand at Arabic, Greek, Korean, Indonesian, Mandarin, Spanish, or an indigenous language; explore the Cyrillic script or Japanese writing; make a podcast in another language, hear how languages can be a career asset …

Roam around the stalls and discover the world’s languages!

Find out how and where they are taught in the Canberra region

Click here to download the event poster in PDF format

Click here to download the event poster in Word format

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04Sep

Mandarin Stars

1. Babies, 2. Pre-schoolers, Carers, Mandarin, NSW, Parents, Resources Comments Off

The Mandarin Stars program provides immensely enjoyable Mandarin classes for children age 1 to 5 in a structured playgroup with music, movement, singing, dramatic play, art and craft, story telling, games and more in a truly multi-cultural environment!

Our Mandarin Stars develop cognitive, gross and fine motor skills whilst being immersed in the Mandarin language. It’s a playgroup with a difference and designed for families of all nationalities.

Our curriculum has been inspired by Mandarin programs already taught in private, international Pre-schools, Kindergartens and Mandarin Playgroups in Hong Kong and China. With this inspiration, we have blended the Australian ‘playgroup’ approach in delivering our program and as a result, have created stimulating, fun mandarin classes for children age 1 to 5 years.

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04Sep

Victorian Multicultural Education Awards

9. All ages, All, Awards, Everyone, VIC Comments Off

Nominations are now open for the Victorian Multicultural Education Awards. The Awards form part of the Victorian Multicultural Commission’s Awards for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs.

The awards recognise outstanding practices in education that raise awareness and support the implementation of multicultural initiatives.

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02Sep

Kimmba Bilingual Learning Inc

1. Babies, 2. Pre-schoolers, Cantonese, German, Mandarin, Parents, Resources, Spanish, VIC 4 Comments

Kimmba Bilingual Learning Inc . is a playgroup centre which focuses on helping children aged between 0-6 in learning a foreign language at the early stage of their lives.

They will be immersing in another language while they play and learn in our playgroups. In turn, they’ll pick up the language effortlessly and spontaneously .

Besides learning a new language, we also aim at building self-esteem and confidence. We encourage and help our children and their families to understand culture diversity and to promote community harmony.

We are the first playgroup centre in Victoria to provide a variety of languages. We have Mandarin, German, Cantonese and Spanish playgroups.

Click here to go to the website