Training with Living Languages

Our training aims to support the long-term maintenance and sustainability of Indigenous languages in Australia, and Indigenous people’s ownership of the language documentation and revitalisation. We share knowledge and skills for looking after your own language - to learn it and teach it, and to design and manage your own language projects.

Since it began nationally in 2012, our training has contributed to the effectiveness and capacity of Indigenous Language Centres and grassroots Community Language Teams.

When you join Living Languages training, you also learn to share your skills with others in your workplace and community and beyond: many people who participate in our workshops also join us in other capacities - as guest trainers, advisors, speakers and more!

We offer different types of training depending on the language needs of your community. Follow the links below to learn more or contact us.

 
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Flexible Training

Teaching yourself language? Teaching others? Planning a project or just wondering how to get started? We can plan a workshop or series of workshops especially for your team, language, and situation.

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Accredited Training

Find out about the accredited training Living Languages has offered in the past - and plans to offer again soon!

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Professional Development

Our Professional Development workshops are special occasional events that give you the opportunity to spend an intensive period of time with language activists from around Australia, increasing your skills in linguistics, language teaching, advocacy and project management.

Recent Living Languages workshops

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Youth PD workshops
Youth PD workshops

In late September, Living Languages partnered up with First Languages Australia (FLA) to pilot and provide a series of six online training sessions to some of the young language workers and teachers that are part of our programs.

Gangulu workshops online
Gangulu workshops online

Along with most of the rest of the world, Living Languages has fast figured out some new ways of working in 2020. Recently Trainer Andrew Tanner has been working with Gangulu men Thomas Watson and Murrie Kemp on coming to grips with linguistics materials published on their language - from Queensland - and beginning work on a Learner’s Guide. Despite all three of them living in Melbourne, until recently it has actually been impossible to meet up in person due to the lockdown, so they’ve been running the sessions regularly on Zoom.

Katherine Workshop Nov 2020
Katherine Workshop Nov 2020

Emma Murphy again travelled to Katherine on behalf of Living Languages 5-6 November for another workshop with Chiyo, Betty and Susan from Barunga.

Katherine Workshop Sep 2020
Katherine Workshop Sep 2020

Not fazed by Covid restrictions, Living Languages wrapped up our very first "hybrid" language workshop on 11 September, delivered with trainers both in person and remotely. Former Training Director Emma Murphy came down from Darwin to Katherine to work with the Jawoyn language ladies from Barunga - Susan, Betty and Chiyo.

Breathing new life into Indigenous languages
Breathing new life into Indigenous languages

In this article, Alice Gaby (Monash University) discusses the importance and impact of the Paper & Talk workshop we ran in collaboration with AIATSIS in 2019 in Canberra to assist community researchers in their search through the archives for language materials.