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In this picture taken on October 4, 2012 participants give a presentation in an Indigenous Languages Education Programme course at Sydney University where teachers and other people involved in the Aboriginal community learn to teach Aboriginal languages to school children, in Sydney. Australia’s Aborigines once spoke 250 to 270 different languages but best estimates now suggest less than 70 are still being spoken on a daily basis, with even fewer passed on to younger generations. –  AFP Photo</p>
</div><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">SYDNEY: In a high-school classroom in western Sydney, teacher Noeleen Lumby is asking her pupils to recall the Aboriginal name for animals that indigenous Wiradjuri people have used for hundreds of years.</strong></p>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">As she holds up stuffed toys representing some of Australia’s native wildlife, including a kangaroo, an emu and a cockatoo, the class of about 25 – many from Vietnamese and Cambodian backgrounds – come to grips with the ancient tongue.</p>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“I like this because you get to learn new skills and you can speak some indigenous language,” said 12-year-old Tien Nguyen.</p>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Lumby, who oversees the students as they use their new knowledge to create projects on computers and iPads, is passionate about filling a gaping hole in Australian education – the study of Aboriginal languages.</p>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">“I think it’s important that the kids learn language and culture at the same time,” she told AFP.</p>
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Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://dawn.com/2012/12/18/high-tech-classrooms-reviving-aboriginal-languages/">http://dawn.com/2012/12/18/high-tech-classrooms-reviving-aboriginal-languages/</a></div><p></p></div>
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