Language Chats

About Language Chats

Tune in as Penny and Bec share their experiences of language learning with you, as well as the stories of other Australians (and a few international guests!) who love learning, working with, and communicating using other languages. Subscribe for your fortnightly dose of language love, from an Australian perspective. Find out more: www.languagelovers.com.au

Publisher

Penny Wilson

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2019

Latest episode

27 May 2024

Latest episodes

100 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 May 2024

   Helping migrants in Australia to improve their English: A chat with Dory Wang from SBS Learn English

   Moving to a new country is never easy (did someone say culture shock?), but it can be especially challenging if you need to learn how to live your life in a different language when you get there. How will you buy groceries or make a doctor’s appointment? How do you get a job and then, once you have one, navigate the workplace? Our guest for this episode of Language Chats, Dory Wang, understands this all too well from her own first-hand experience of moving to Australia. However this also makes her particularly well-suited for her role as a Senior Digital Content Producer for SBS Learn English (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/learn-english), a free service to help Australian migrants improve their English and live well in Australia. Dory shares with us her personal story of moving to Australia as an adult, learning English and how she has gotten to where she is now in her life and career. She also tells us about SBS Learn English (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/learn-english), the type of content that SBS Learn English provides for the newest members of our community and what makes it different to other resources available for English-language learners in Australia. Have any questions for Dory or for us? Get in touch (https://www.languagelovers.com.au/contact-us) or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/303268460463534), to connect with us and other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Language Chats Ep #093 - Informing and entertaining Australians in over 60 languages: A chat with David Hua from SBS Australia (https://flower-magnolia-58p6.squarespace.com/podcast/ep-093) Australian Government - Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) (https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/settling-in-australia/amep/about-the-program) IELTS (https://ielts.org/) Monash University - Master of Communications & Media Studies (https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/communications-and-media-studies-a6003) SBS Chinese (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/chinese/zh-hans) SBS Learn English (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/learn-english) - Podcasts (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/podcast/sbs-learn-english)| Videos (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/collection/video-projects/qw6yq27o6) | Articles (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/collection/learn-english-articles) Language Chats Ep #103 - Researching language to make society better: A chat with Dr Howie Manns (https://flower-magnolia-58p6.squarespace.com/podcast/ep-103) SBS Learn English - Pronunciation with Janice Petersen (https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/article/improve-your-pronunciation/l160iik7s) Facebook - SBS Learn English (https://www.facebook.com/SBSLearnEnglish/) Find Dory on LinkedIn (https://au.linkedin.com/in/dory-wang-978917126)

2. 

   22 Apr 2024

   Researching language to make society better: A chat with Dr Howie Manns

   In this episode, we’re chatting with Dr Howard (Howie) Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Monash University. We were so excited to have the chance to speak with Howie, because we are fascinated by his language story and his academic work - from growing up in a monolingual environment and then (unexpectedly) becoming a linguist through joining the US Navy, to working as a researcher who now studies Australian English, Indonesian, tactile (deafblind) Auslan and intercultural communication. We hope you enjoy this great Language Chat - we could have spoken with Howie for hours (but have made sure that we didn’t take up more than an hour of his precious time)! Have any questions for Howie or for us? Get in touch (https://www.languagelovers.com.au/contact-us) or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/303268460463534), to connect with us and other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Howie has kindly provided us with an excellent set of notes and additional links for those interested in finding out more! We have included these below in addition to any relevant links/work referenced in the episode. US Defense Language Institute, Monterey, Ca (https://www.dliflc.edu/) Howie’s plane in the US Navy (ES-3A Shadow) (https://irp.fas.org/program/collect/es-3_shadow.htm) Howie discusses language and idioms and how they impact our view of the world on Episode 1 of the SBS Audio podcast The Idiom, hosted by Rune Pedersen (https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcast-episode/its-raining-cats-and-dogs/exrira3no) Our interview with Rune Pedersen: Language Chats Ep #098 - Hit the nail on the head: A chat with Rune Pedersen, host of The Idiom podcast (https://www.languagelovers.com.au/podcast/ep-098) An open-access book Howie co-wrote about language in post-Suharto Indonesia: Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction by Dwi Noverini Djenar , Michael C. Ewing and Howard Manns (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781614516439/html?lang=en) Some downloadable papers Howie has written on language in Indonesia: https://monash.academia.edu/HowieManns (https://monash.academia.edu/HowieManns) Howie and colleagues reviews the decline of Indonesian, what Australia gets wrong about language and what we can do about it: https://theconversation.com/the-number-of-australian-students-learning-indonesian-keeps-dropping-how-do-we-fix-this-worrying-decline-216348 (https://theconversation.com/the-number-of-australian-students-learning-indonesian-keeps-dropping-how-do-we-fix-this-worrying-decline-216348) Howie and colleagues report on discussions with Victorian Indonesian educators and argues for more collaboration in the second language space. He also points to successful second language efforts in other parts of the world and how these might hold some answers for Australia: https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/invigorating-indonesian-studies-in-australia-through-collaborative-online-education-practices/ (https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/invigorating-indonesian-studies-in-australia-through-collaborative-online-education-practices/) Howie promotes multilingualism and community language-learning on ABC Radio National with Hoang Tran Nguyen, project manager, community advocate, co-founder, ViệtSpeak: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/languages-of-our-community/103163890 (https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/languages-of-our-community/103163890) ViệtSpeak - a community-based, non-profit advocacy organisation situated in Melbourne's west (https://vietspeak.net/) An Auslan-interpreted introduction to Howie’s Deafblind communication project (led by Louisa Willoughby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu7ltZ51R4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu7ltZ51R4) Here’s a written introduction to Australian Deafblind communication (behind a paywall but get in touch with Howie for a pre-print version): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7_15 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7_15) This is a 30-minute lifestyle documentary about the amazing Heather Lawson, who Howie mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjFOtIqjmxg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjFOtIqjmxg) These are a pair Auslan signs Howie referenced, which sometimes cause confusion for Heather: “pub” https://auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/pub-1.html (https://auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/pub-1.html) “know” https://auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/know-1.html (https://auslan.org.au/dictionary/words/know-1.html) *Errata: in the podcast, Howie said it was “pub” and “think”. This is incorrect. It is “pub” and “know” that cause confusion. “Pub” and “know” are clearly differentiated in visual Auslan, but this distinction is not always clear in tactile Auslan. Howie presenting on the hidden power of language and misconceptions about English “errors”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjC39sfgbrY&t=376s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjC39sfgbrY&t=376s) Howie reviews the history of Standard English and how the collective grammar of World Englishes may be challenging the standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUry0z_BVU4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUry0z_BVU4) Howie, Kate Burridge and Simon Musgrave present on “Truth, truthiness and public science discourse”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsFxREFZU8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsFxREFZU8) Howie’s articles on Australian language and society for The Conversation (many co-written with Kate Burridge): https://theconversation.com/profiles/howard-manns-111255/articles (https://theconversation.com/profiles/howard-manns-111255/articles) Howie and colleagues introduce their project on Australian slang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPhb-_52XGc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPhb-_52XGc) Howie and colleagues write about their project on Australian slang: https://auslanguage.net/slanguage/ (https://auslanguage.net/slanguage/) Howie appears on the ABC Kids podcast “Imagine This” to answer the question, “Where do words come from?”: https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/programs/imagine-this/how-people-make-words/13929010 (https://www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/programs/imagine-this/how-people-make-words/13929010) A few Indonesian language articles from Howie: Howie menulis tentang menurun Bahasa Indonesia di Australia dan bagaimana bisa diatasinya: https://theconversation.com/jumlah-pelajar-australia-yang-belajar-bahasa-indonesia-terus-menurun-bagaimana-mengatasinya-217444 (https://theconversation.com/jumlah-pelajar-australia-yang-belajar-bahasa-indonesia-terus-menurun-bagaimana-mengatasinya-217444) Howie menjelaskan mengapa orang-orang di negara lain berbicara dalam bahasa yang beda: https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-mengapa-orang-orang-di-negara-lain-berbicara-bahasa-yang-berbeda-133940 (https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-mengapa-orang-orang-di-negara-lain-berbicara-bahasa-yang-berbeda-133940) Find Howie at Monash University (https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/howard-manns) | The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/profiles/howard-manns-111255)

3. 

   8 Apr 2024

   When passions for language, tourism & Asia combine: A chat with Andrea Plawutsky

   About this Language Chat In this episode, we’re chatting with Canadian-Australian Andrea Plawutsky - currently based in NSW - who has brought her interest in tourism, China and Asia together across her career. From teaching English in north-eastern China, living and working in Thailand and then working in the travel & tourism industry in Australia, we loved hearing about Andrea’s experiences with learning and enjoying language around the world, in both professional and personal contexts. Have any questions for Andrea or for us? Get in touch (https://www.languagelovers.com.au/contact-us) or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/303268460463534), to connect with us and other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad. Episode Links Haymarket HQ (https://www.haymarkethq.com/company/about-haymarket-hq) Find Andrea on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaplawutsky/) | andrea@amplifyme.com.au (mailto:andrea@amplifyme.com.au?)

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