Six-year-old Ayaan Khan has only been learning English for 12 months, but it is his third language, after Urdu and Pashto.
He says he enjoys learning the language so he can read the food labels at the supermarket with his father and talk to his friends at school.
He is one of five winners in the third annual SBS National Languages Competition, which asked students of all ages to submit images and text describing the possibilities learning a language had opened for them.
The director of SBS’s Audio and Language Content, Mandi Wicks, says the competition received 4,000 entries from around Australia, representing 80 languages.
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