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SBS National Languages Competition: celebrating language learning

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Language learning in Australia is dropping. In the 1960s 40 per cent of Year 12 students studied a second language compared to 12 per cent in 2007. SBS and Community Languages Australia have created a competition to encourage more young Australians to learn another language.


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By Amy Chien-Yu Wang, Atistan Promsirisang

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Language learning in Australia is dropping. In the 1960s 40 per cent of Year 12 students studied a second language compared to 12 per cent in 2007. SBS and Community Languages Australia have created a competition to encourage more young Australians to learn another language.


Image: Language learning [Credit: Wikimedia Stellapark025 CC BY-SA 4.0]


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