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Language Champions

Our Language Champions

Young people, Indigenous and international, translating medical terminology into their own languages, making healthcare information accessible across communities.

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A Lyfe Languages translation workshop

Meet our champions

Dr Yarlalu Thomas
Dr Yarlalu Thomas
Nyangumarta
Dr Shahmir Rind
Dr Shahmir Rind
Badimaya
Ms Shailyn Isaac
Ms Shailyn Isaac
Bardi Jawi
Singapore
Singapore
Mandarin
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bengali
Ghana
Ghana
Twi
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The role

What does a Language Champion do?

Translate with Elders

Work with Elders and Language Centres to find the right words for medical terms, passing knowledge between generations.

Record text and audio

Translations are captured as text and audio on the Lyfe Languages platform, so health workers and patients can hear them.

Keep language strong

Help your language grow into a new part of everyday life, and connect with champions from other communities.

How it works

Four steps. Always community-first.

  1. Identify. Aboriginal medical professionals identify priority health messages.
  2. Co-translate. Champions translate with Elders and Language Centres.
  3. Record and check. Translations are recorded as text and audio, then validated.
  4. Share. Modules go live through our health-service partners, and community feedback keeps improving them.

Our champions include Indigenous and international young people. Through UWA Service-Learning, university students also join as Language Champions.

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Back a Language Champion

Your support helps young people work with Elders to record health words in their own languages. Gifts of $2 or more are tax-deductible.

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An Aboriginal-led charity bringing health information into Aboriginal and Indigenous languages, with young Language Champions and Elders.

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Acknowledgement to Country

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website may contain images, voices and names of people who have died.

Lyfe Languages acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this Country throughout the lands in which we work, learn and live. We recognise their connection to the lands, waters, and skies. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging. Our main operations sit on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, and we acknowledge the Noongar people as the Traditional Custodians of this land.

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