Canberra Region Languages Forum Update May 2014

The May Update includes the following items:

• Call for support for community radio, which is in danger of losing  federal funding in the upcoming budget
• Plans for a training course for community interpreters
• Languages Potluck, Sunday 18 May, 11am – 1pm
• Talks to parent groups to help promote language learning and to support home languages
• Applications now open for Participation (Multicultural) Grants Program
• Other items from the May ACT Bilingual Education Alliance Update
  • Vacancies in after-school Mandarin class in Belconnen 
    
  • Filipino Language School Fun Day (Sunday 18 May, 2 - 4pm)
  • Using community radio to support and encourage bilingualism in the ACT region
  • Friday night 2XX Mandarin language program, children’s stories and songs and a chance for kids to hear themselves singing or speaking Mandarin on air
  • News from bilingual programs in the ACT: Mawson Primary School (Mandarin), Yarralumla Primary School (Italian),  St Nicholas Greek-Australia preschool and childcare centre (Greek)

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