Languages Of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples - A Uniquely Australian Heritage

This article by Kazuko Obata and Jason Lee, from the Australian Institue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), details and describes Australian Aboriginal languages and their features, such as the origin of and relationships between Australian Indigenous languages; creoles; early & recent work in Indigenous language study; the current state of Aboriginal languages & endangerment; and language documentation and preservation.

You can find this informative report here

It's all Greek to me

“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ‘sounds like Chinese’. Which begs the question: “Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?” Well apparently there has, even if only perfunctorily, and the result is this cartogram - and this report (of kinds).

Bilinguals Find It Easier to Learn a Third Language

A new study from the University of Haifa reveals that students who know two languages have an easier time gaining command of a third language than students who are fluent in only one language. The researchers concluded that fluency and skills in one language assist in the language acquisition of a second language, and possessing skills in two languages can boost the learning process of a third language.

To read the full study at Science Daily, click here