With influences ranging from Portuguese, Dutch, Malay dialects, modern-day English and many other languages, Indonesian language, or Bahasa Indonesia, has a uniquely dynamic history. The Portuguese ...

With the advent of digital technology, gone are days when you have to bring plenty of dictionaries or phrase books when visiting a foreign country. All you need is a simple app to be installed in your ...

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Born in Beijing, Lucia Lu came to Australia when she was three years old. Lucia admits that she is pretty comfortable speaking Mandarin as her every-day language even though it is not her first ...