In Kakadu National Park where I live which covers an area of 4894000 acres, very little of which is inhabited, there are 6 languages spoken by a population of approximately 500 indigenous people. The languages sound very harsh to my ears, more consonants than vowels and difficult pronounciation. Kunwinjku is the predominant language in my area. The kids are always trying to teach me words but I’m not particularly good at picking them up, then they laugh at me and I tell them I have a lazy tongue and how wonderful they are to know so many different languages. I do know gamuk means good! We have adopted the aboriginal way of thinking about the seasons, no summer, fall etc. instead it is the wet and the dry, but those english words are used. There are many projects around to keep the languages alive and most of the kids still look upon english as their 2nd language. I am not sure if that is a good thing.