Australia's present and future is multilingual.
Every child in Australia should grow up at least bilingual.
Languages education starts before school life and should continue throughout.
The Melbourne Language Picnic - 2010
The Melbourne Language Picnic is on again!
Date: Sunday, 21st March, National Harmony Day 2010, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Venue: Collingwood Children’s Farm, St. Heliers Street, Abbotsford.
Bring your family and friends, your lingo and share in some multilingual fun and games.
For further information, follow this link:
http://www.melbournelanguagepicnic.wordpress.com/
Tags: multilingualism
Source: Mandy Scott
The turnout was similar to last year’s picnic – about 25 – and keen and useful links were made between a range of languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Russian, Indonesian and Welsh.
Most of the children who attended were too young for the ‘how many languages can you find’ game. However, those who had a go (and their mum!!) got something out of it. For anyone wishing to follow up on the above language connections, please contact Mandy.Scott@anu.edu.au
Great to see the language picnics catching on!
ACT Bilingual Education Alliance invite you to the next Multilingual Picnic in Canberra. For more details, please contact Guiliana Komnacki (0414) 269 335 or email Marina.Houston@canberra.edu.au
You are invited to a FREE seminar for parents, early childhood and pre-school workers, grandparents, teachers and others interested in bilingual education.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 12:45pm – 5pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Cnr Swanston St and Monash Rd, University of Melbourne
THE SEMINAR IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL by November 23rd.
You are invited to attend a free public forum to explore the advantages of educating children bilingually, with focus on establishing an Italian Bilingual School.
When: Sunday, 11 October 2009, 2pm
Where: Co As It, 189 Faraday St, Carlton
Prof Joe Lo Bianco, from the University of Melbourne will give the keynote address.
This forum is being organised by a group of parents who are members of the Italian Bilingual School Project (a not-for-profit unincorporated association).
Tags: bilingual education, Italian
