The Tasmanian Language Cafe

A series of interviews and conversations about language diversity in Tasmania, Australia and the culture and maintenance of those languages.

Episodes

The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 3

June 19, 2023 • 11 mins

Spanish is the fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken on 3 continents and has a very rich diversity accents, colloquialisms, and expressions. Today, we will listen to an Australian-Colombian family and their bilingual son. Part 3

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The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 2

June 19, 2023 • 9 mins

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The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 1

June 19, 2023 • 11 mins

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Blessing Adejorin and the Yoruba language from Nigeria

June 18, 2023 • 24 mins

Nigeria has hundreds of languages and Yoruba is one of these. Listen to Blessing speak about her language in this episode.

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The Georgian language spoken in Tasmania.

June 16, 2023 • 16 mins

The Georgian language is unique in the world. In this podcast, Anna explains to us a bit more of the history as well as some incredible facts about her mother tongue.

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The Guarani language from Paraguay

June 15, 2023 • 29 mins

Did you know that Paraguay is the only Latin American country where an indigenous language is widely spoken in the whole country, including by the non-indigenous people? Patricia Aviles, who lives in Tasmania talks in this podcast about the importance of her language to her and her culture.

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Daisy Allan, a palawa kani speaker from Tasmania

June 13, 2023 • 31 mins

palawa kani (spelled without capitals) is a language which has been recovered in the form of a syncretion of the original multiple languages which were spoken by Indigenous people in Tasmania, Australia before British settlement, colonization or invasion (choose whichever word seems more appropriate). This process of recovery has been conducted with exhaustive and scholarly research largely carried ou...

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Duha Al Rababah, and the Arabic language

June 12, 2023 • 20 mins

Duha speaks about her experiences as a native Arabic speaker in Tasmania, Australia.

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The Datta family speak about the Bangla language and their culture

June 7, 2023 • 29 mins

The Datta family have been living in Tasmania, Australia for many years but have maintained their great love for their native language, Bangla, and its literature.

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The Tasmanian Language Cafe

Episodes

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The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 1

Blessing Adejorin and the Yoruba language from Nigeria

The Georgian language spoken in Tasmania.

The Guarani language from Paraguay

Daisy Allan, a palawa kani speaker from Tasmania

Duha Al Rababah, and the Arabic language

The Datta family speak about the Bangla language and their culture

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The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 3

The Spanish language as it is spoken in Colombia, part 2