<b>Parlez vous Yolngu?</b><br><br>Vicki Kerrigan<br>Updated September 19, 2012 11:54:41<br><br>We must extinguish the idea of Australia as a monolingual place and there's no better place to start than in the classroom. ABC 105.7 Drive presenter Vicki Kerrigan on why all Australians should learn Aboriginal languages.<br>
<br>Darwin sounds different. When you walk along the foreshore in Nightcliff, one of the most beautiful and popular spots in Darwin to enjoy the Arafura Sea, you can hear the difference.<br><br>As you sit on the grass, under the trees which grow on the edge of the sand, you can eavesdrop on the languages of the first people of this country. Those who have travelled from north east Arnhem Land to the city might speak Yolngu Matha; those from the country north west of Alice Springs speak Warlpiri.<div>
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