Southeast Asian Frontiers: Thailand and Burma (ASIA3014/6114) is currently running in northern Thailand. Led by Chintana Sandilands and Nicholas Farrelly from the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific, the 13 students in the course have completed two weeks of academic activities in Chiang Mai. They have been learning both the Thai and Burmese languages, [...]
The third installment of the Postgraduate Professional Development Series was held on Thursday the 20th of November.
Dr Tomoko Akami spoke about archival research, and Dr Greg Fealy discussed fieldwork.
Both speakers had excellent suggestions for students, on the levels of both theory and practice.
After the presentations, there was a discussion about some of the issues raised.
This [...]
The second seminar in the Postgraduate Professional Development Series was held on 13 November.
Professor Anthony Milner spoke about a task central to the work of all graduate research students: establishing an argument for a thesis.
Professor Milner took questions from participants, and we had an excellent discussion over coffee, tea, and pastries.
Students also had the [...]
What makes Hindi, Hindi and Urdu, Urdu?
How does Hinglish work?
Why does Hindi vary across space and time, and between speakers?
Why is language so important in the creation of Bollywood characters?
Explore spoken Hindi creatively through Bollywood film and try your hand at writing a Filmi Hindi dialogue.
Filmi Hindi is an intensive [...]
Students in Spoken Japanese Four, Dr Carol Hayes‘ Japan Centre class, were asked to create a song three to five minutes long using expressions and language that they had learned so far.
The aim was to include as many the set phrases within a chosen theme.
This entry makes a clever reference to Peter Denahy’s well-known [...]
The Faculty’s Japan Centre has offered its new Japanese program in the ANU Secondary College, the aim of which is to provide an enhanced learning experience for Year 11 and 12 students in ACT schools and colleges. The Japanese program has been newly added this year. The College now has courses in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, [...]
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