Teachers of foreign languages are calling for a national strategy to improve language-learning rates in Australia.
The president of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria says Australia's failure to have a national languages policy is holding the country back.
The University of Melbourne's Dr Yvette Slaughter says Australia is suffering because it lacks a federal language policy.
For decades, policymakers have talked up the importance of foreign languages, but successive governments have a record of starting and then dropping programs.
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