Canberra Academy of Languages in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Language school

Canberra Academy of Languages

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6152 9140

Address: GPO Box 1627 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: https://cal.act.edu.au/

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25.01.2022 The Canberra Academy of Languages will hold an information evening about programs for 2021 via teleconference from 6 pm on Thursday 24 September 2020. For more details, see the CAL home page at https://cal.act.edu.au/index.htm. If you would like to receive the link for the online meeting, please send a note to [email protected].

24.01.2022 We currently have a notice on the digital billboard near the Canberra Airport from Monday 7 to Sunday 13 September 2020 for our information teleconference that will be held on Thursday 24 September.

24.01.2022 Japanese added to the pages on Languages.Org.Au. Total of seven languages now. See https://languages.org.au. Note to Facebook admin: languages.org.au and languages.org are not the same. The FB "context" algorithm needs fixing.

21.01.2022 Next Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry event details are here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2901860786567939&id=918870651533639

19.01.2022 There is an update posted this evening to the News page on CAL website (https://cal.act.edu.au/news.htm) with information for students and parents about commencement of Semester 2. The update provides details about venues, class pages on Languages.Org.Au and assessment tasks. Best wishes to all for a successful semester.

17.01.2022 As of yesterday, 10 June 2020, the Canberra Academy of Languages Facebook page has 100 followers. We would like to thank you all for your interest in our work, our programs and our charter. We are here to expand opportunities for senior secondary students in the Canberra region to continue their learning of languages and to gain recognition for their studies; and we have active partnerships with other organisations in languages advocacy. For more about what we do, including a link to the CAL charter and resources for language learners, see our two websites, https://cal.act.edu.au and https://languages.org.au.

15.01.2022 CAL's online information session about our programs in languages for next year is on via Google Meet at 6 pm this evening. If you have not yet sent an rsvp, you are still welcome to do so up to an hour beforehand (up to 5 pm). Just email [email protected] to receive the link to the online meeting and a copy of our current flier.

15.01.2022 As advised in recent broadcast emails to participants, CAL language learning programs in our French, German, Spanish and Tamil classes will continue online for at least the initial weeks of Term 2. For more details, see the News page on CAL website, https://cal.act.edu.au/news.htm.

15.01.2022 The next Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry event will take place via Zoom teleconference on Monday 27 July. See the event details at https://www.facebook.com/events/292595781794615/, or visit https://www.facebook.com/mothertonguemic for MTMLP news.

14.01.2022 CAL programs in French, German, Spanish and Tamil will resume at our venues for face-to-face sessions from this week (Week 17) - on Wednesday 10 June for French and Spanish, Thursday 11 June for German and Friday 12 June for Tamil. Next week (Week 18) will be the final week of programs for this semester. Along with ACT secondary colleges, CAL staff will then be processing results and other requirements for the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies. There will be no classes in Weeks 19-20 this semester. For more details, please visit the News page on CAL website at https://cal.act.edu.au/news.htm.

13.01.2022 The next online Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry event via Zoom will be on Monday 29 June with two poets from Darwin featuring one who writes in German and English, and the other, Melanie Munungurr, who speaks Yolngu Matha and English and was the 2018 Australian Poetry Slam champion. Follow https://www.facebook.com/mothertonguemic and check the event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/3084095694970446/ to see updates as they are posted.

12.01.2022 Our programs page was updated on CAL website today. As advised there, to implement advice on physical distancing related to COVID-19, class sessions are taking place online. On-site programs will resume when these measures are no longer necessary. We anticipate that classes will be delivered online throughout Term 2 of 2020.

10.01.2022 A Taste of Languages competition: https://www.facebook.com/541715819285960/posts/1923293474461514/

10.01.2022 Home page on Languages.Org.Au updated today with annotations about the organisations listed. See https://languages.org.au.

08.01.2022 Now available: Overview based on the topics from yesterday evening's CAL teleconference. For details, see the News page on CAL website.

07.01.2022 Open now - a free fun ACT Bilingual Education Alliance competition inviting students from pre-school to Year 12 in the Canberra area to tell us about a favourite dish or special family meal that involves a language other than English. Four age categories, and first prize of $100 for each. Closing date 1 September 2020. For more details, visit the News page on ACTBEA website at https://actbilingual.weebly.com/news.html.

06.01.2022 The next Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry event is a teleconference via Zoom, 7pm - 8pm Monday 11 May, featuring Thandi Katase, a storyteller from the Makwayi clan of the Xhosa tribe from South Africa. For details, visit the MTMLP event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/538357977075685/ or the MTMLP Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/mothertonguemic/.

05.01.2022 We have launched a Facebook page for Languages.Org.Au. This image shows key elements of the home page from the Languages.Org.Au website. The new associated Facebook page is intended to facilitate interaction with its community of users.

02.01.2022 From Mary Besemeres - thank you Mary - "This book is now 13 years old... more relevant than ever I reckon in this age of refugees, black lives matter (opening essay by Nyoongar writer Kim Scott), increasingly multiethnic societies yet global advance of only English; endangered languages, indigenous and others." https://www.uqp.com.au/books/translating-lives