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The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with it

  • Written by: Ingrid Piller, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University
The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with itKnowing how to ask for directions in another language is vastly different from studying and working using the language. Photo by Sebastian Hietsch on Unsplash

If you go by the ads for some language learning apps, you can “have a conversation in a new language in three weeks”.

But the experience of most Australians when trying to learn a...

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Our legacy of liveable cities won't last without a visionary response to growth

  • Written by: Chris Chesterfield, Director Strategic Engagement, CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University
Our legacy of liveable cities won't last without a visionary response to growthHistoric investments in green open space along the Yarra created a legacy of liveability in Melbourne.Ispas Vlad/Shutterstock

Australia’s major cities are growing more rapidly than ever before, gaining three million residents in a decade. Concerns about the risks to their long-term liveability and health are growing too. Is the consistent plac...

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How gold rushes helped make the modern world

  • Written by: Benjamin Wilson Mountford, David Myers Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
How gold rushes helped make the modern worldJCF Johnson's, Euchre in the bush, circa 1867, depicts a card game in a hut on the Victorian goldfields in the 1860s. Oil on canvas mounted on board, 42.0 x 60.2 cmCourtesy of the Art Gallery of Ballarat

This year is the 170th anniversary of one of the most significant events in world history: the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in...

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Can the Commonwealth Games change perceptions of the Gold Coast?

  • Written by: David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Just as the Australian men’s cricket ball-tampering scandal exhausts itself at last, the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games appears, as if on cue, to fill the feelgood sporting void.

These are, after all, the “Friendly Games”, as celebrated in stamp collections. They are meant to be free of the sledging and cheating witnessed in...

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  2. If Australia is at the bottom of the world, why are we the right way up?
  3. Formula E racing puts power in the hands of fans
  4. Greens urge a publicly-owned "People's Bank" as part of a big-government platform
  5. Barnaby Joyce criticises lack of results on power prices as winter approaches
  6. The off-topic Conversation #158
  7. Gene-based tests may improve treatment for people with bipolar disorder
  8. Defamation in the digital age has morphed into litigation between private individuals
  9. How our peers influence our superannuation decisions
  10. The Commonwealth Games are an opportunity to face up to the history of colonialism
  11. Why some migrant school students do better than their local peers (they're not 'just smarter')
  12. Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights
  13. Disability workers are facing longer days with less pay
  14. Babylon Berlin and why our fascination with 1920s Germany reveals the anxieties of our times
  15. Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us
  16. Why we made iWitnessed, an app to collect evidence
  17. what is lupus and how is stress implicated?
  18. what will New Zealand's new government bring for towns and cities?
  19. How last night's fight affects the way couples divide housework
  20. Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia
  21. Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your children
  22. Drug use can have social benefits, and acknowledging this could improve rehabilitation
  23. Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?
  24. how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia's unforgiving climate
  25. Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy ones
  26. In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action
  27. can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?
  28. Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world
  29. Tim Storer – the $35 billion dollar man
  30. Australia's digital divide is not going away
  31. a bold experiment exploring female voices constricted by trauma
  32. Art Gallery SA goes back to Impressionism's colourful roots with masterpieces from Musee d'Orsay
  33. Is psychiatry ready for medical MDMA?
  34. Brain-zapping, the curious case of the n-rays and other stories of evidence
  35. Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths
  36. Can the cricketers banned for ball tampering ever regain their hero status? It's happened before
  37. views from NSW and SA
  38. Is Truvada (PrEP) the game-changer that will end new HIV transmissions in Australia?
  39. he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters
  40. Islamic State schooled children as soldiers – how can their 'education' be undone?
  41. Online conspiracy theorists are more diverse (and ordinary) than most assume
  42. The BOM outlook for the weather over the next three months is 'neutral' – here's what that really means
  43. Daylight saving can boost the economy but Australia needs to make it uniform
  44. With China's space station about to crash land, who's responsible if you get hit by space junk?
  45. save the world, one chocolate at a time
  46. How the internet is reshaping World Heritage and our experience of it
  47. land degradation is turning soils into deserts
  48. Senate newcomer Tim Storer plays hardball on company tax
  49. John Blaxland on Australia's expulsion of Russian spies
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