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	<title>Languages Action Alliance: Lingo</title>
	<link>http://www.lingo.org.au</link>
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		<title>LEARNING VIETNAMESE:  LANGUAGE and TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The THE-HE Vietnamese Language Centre (90 -  BUCKLEY Street, Noble Park, VIC 3174) accepts students from Kinder to year Nine for 2011. Beginning level is for THREE-year old children, but parents let much younger kids play with our Descriptive Matching Game. Apart from PC system, our Interactive Whiteboard &#38; Motive Board offer interesting learning with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/learning-vietnamese-in-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>National Network for University Languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ALTC has awarded funding to a project Leadership for future generations: a national network for university languages. The ALTC Project Information page states that the University of Melbourne will be lead institution. Monash University, RMIT University, The Australian National University and University of Wollongong are also partners and a reference group from all over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/national-network-for-university-languages/</link>
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		<title>French preschool taking enrolments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, We are a new French preschool centre in North Balwyn. We offer licensed childcare as well as short sessions in Art and Craft, music etc, all with immersion French (for novices as well as fluent French speakers). We are currently taking enrolments for Term 1, which starts next week. Please take a look at www.lepetitparis.com.au  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/french-preschool-taking-enrolments/</link>
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		<title>AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GERMAN-SPEAKERS AT THE GOETHE-INSTITUT AUSTRALIEN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE GERMAN CULTURAL CENTRE  IN MELBOURNE REQUIRES A PART-TIME ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT You should be self-motivated, willing to acquire new skills and work reliably in a small team.  Responsibilities include: Processing of enrolments for language courses, conferences and seminars Invoicing and controlling Assistance with event and language class organisation Administration of intern program Administration of scholarship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/566/</link>
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		<title>Planning Meeting for Bilingual Education Day Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please come to the planning meeting for the Bilingual Education Day Conference this Thursday 23rd September at 6:30 pm To build on the success of a union anti-intervention speaking tour of Steve Patrick and Peter Inverway earlier this year, Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective is planning a bilingual education day conference on a Saturday in November. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/planning-meeting-for-bilingual-education-day-conference/</link>
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		<title>National Tertiary Languages Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Academy of the Humanities website reports that: The Beyond the Crisis Colloquiumheld at the University of Melbourne (16-18 February 2009) hosted more than 140 delegates, from 30 different institutions, and representing 14 languages. The delegates included teachers, researchers, and planners. The colloquium was comprised of workshops as well as presentations of current research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/national-tertiary-languages-network/</link>
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		<title>Picture Chinese 1000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to a Facebook Page about &#8220;I Too Can Speak Mandarin Chinese&#8221;    apps.facebook.com/omandarin Free download E-Book to get a lot of COMIC pictures without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks to learn ESSENTIAL vocabulary for typical situations in Chinese life. Join Facebook to start connecting with &#8221; I Too Can Speak Mandarin Chinese&#8221; &#8211; Online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/picture-chinese-1000/</link>
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		<title>Languages education: stuck on a feedback loop.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Mahnken, University of the Sunshine Coast  Andrew Bolt is right (Herald 28 May). Most Australians in general do not want to learn languages. Greg Sheridan points to the same &#8216;disturbing truth&#8217; (A nation adrift in Asia literacy. The Australian 27 May 2010).  A “language graveyard” for 222 years, indigenous languages eradicated, migrant languages met [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/languages-education-stuck-on-a-feedback-loop/</link>
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		<title>Apprenticeship Language Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Aussie kids must be given a chance to be literate and numerate, to make music, play sport, do science&#8230; but not all can be guaranteed a second language. It can&#8217;t be mandated because it can&#8217;t be resourced. There are not enough LOTE teachers, especially of the right kinds in the right places &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/apprenticeship-language-learning/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;EUROPEAN MASTERS&#8217; AS LANGUAGE TEACHERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course the purpose of visiting art galleries is to appreciate weird and wonderful works of art, but at the current exhibition of European Masters at the National Gallery of Victoria,  my family and I were also in for a pleasant linguistic surprise.  Apart from trying to figure out the  German and French titles of the Staedel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/european-masters-as-language-teachers/</link>
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