18 June 2015

Court / Reverse role play / Yolngu Matha

For a brief overview of a bilingual reverse role play training exercise in a court in Australia's Norther Territory, with a leading judge playing the role of the accused, go to NT judge lost in translation published in the Australian Lawyers Weekly.

​The video is called You Understand, Don't You?

It was produced by ​the NT Aboriginal Interpreter ServiceThe exercise was organised at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in Darwin as part of the recent Language and the Law Conference.
Language​s:​ Yolngu Matha, English

​Very instructive. Also includes some very entertaining moments.​

1 July: My comment on You Understand, Don't You? has now been posted.

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