When Aunty Lee Healy decided to make the first dictionary for the Taungurung language, she didn’t know what she was in for. The dictionary took four years to make and Aunty Lee says, “I don’t think my mind stopped.” “It became my passion. I would get up at 3.30 in …

First Languages Australia short with Harold Ludwick speaking about the language. First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first languages. …

This is a story about a dynamic group of women who are reviving the GunaiKurnai language throughout East Gippsland in Victoria: Lynnette Solomon-Dent, Dr Doris Paton and Hollie Johnson. Dr Paton explains that not everything in her language can be directly translated into …

Mother Tongue series: A conversation in Bundjalung. Watch the video, test your language skills and learn a bit of the mother tongue of some of the NSW north coast Aboriginal peoples. Check how you went. Here's the translation. Bianca: Hello Dean: Hello Bianca: Are you …

Peter Salmon, now in his 80s is the last speaker of the Indigenous Thiin (or Thiinma) language. With only a few of his younger relatives able to understand Thiin (or Thiinma), Peter is keen for his language to be recaptured and revived before it is too late. The Lyons River …

First Languages Australia short with Grant Thompson speaking about the Ngandi language. First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first …

First Languages Australia short with Godfrey Simpson speaking Wajarri. This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

First Languages Australia short with Gabreil Creek, speaking Kaantju. This video is a part of the First Languages Australia Gambay language map project. Available to view here: https://gambay.com.au