The Adelaide Language Festival is a language festival that celebrates linguistic diversity and encourages people to learn about the cognitive and cultural advantages of multilingualism.
[1] It consists of keynote presentations, musical performances,[2] Welcome to Country by a local Aboriginal Australian, and intensive sessions in dozens of languages.
The Festival was founded in 2014 by Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide.
"crash course",[11] provides the audience with the following:[12] Keynote speakers have included Roland Sussex (Winning the LOTEry.
), Christopher Pyne (then Federal Minister for Education)[15][16] and Jeffrey Shandler (Wanted Dead or Alive: Yiddish after WW2).