The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics shows 23 per cent of Australians speak a second language at home - the most common being Mandarin, Italian, Arabic, Cantonese and Greek.SBS has partnered with Community Languages Australia in the inaugural SBS National Languages Competition to celebrate this diversity and encourage a love of language learning. The National Languages Competition offers a chance to highlight the work of language schools and encourage more students to learn languages.The competition invites students as young as four through to Year 12 to express what learning a language mean to them. The inaugural SBS National Languages Competition accepts entries from June 20th to July 29th. The theme is What does learning language mean to you? Six winners will be flown to Sydney to receive their award in October.
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