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EXPRESS YOURSELF LANGUAGE LOUNGE

Located in Bourke Street Link, this space is a crowd favourite at Maitland Riverlights.

Visitors are invited to come along and learn songs to sing, common words and greetings, hear stories read in different languages as well as poetry.

TIME PROGRAM
2.00pm Storytime with the Filipino Language Class
2.20pm How to Greet and Express Yourself in Sinhalese
2.40pm Swahili Greetings and Verbs.
3.00pm Intro to Auslan (Australian sign language) by SoLA
3.20pm Learning the Arabic language with Syrian the community
3.40pm Introduction of Afrikaans, Xhosa and IsiZulu
4.00pm Russian in a Rush: Learn words, play games, explore culture & learn Slavic traditional games by Common Ground
4.20pm Discover Sri Lankan Language and Culture with Sri Lankan Women's Network
4.40pm Persian: A Language of Poetry and Culture
5.00pm Samoan Greetings
5.20pm Tamil Language, People and Culture by Newcastle Tamil School Students
5.40pm Learn to Write Your Name in Bangla
6.00pm Languages of PNG: Discovering Motu and Tok Pisin
6.20pm Hello in Tibetan! Greetings & Everyday Phrases
6.40pm The Unbreakable One: Born into Fire – A Memoir of Survival, Justice, and Hope.
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