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Kindergarteners in Mount Isa are singing Indonesian lullabies alongside Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The Red Oasis Kindergarten was last year part of a national trial program designed to encourage ...

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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela Indonesian language learning in Australia could ...