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Australia is one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world but that doesn't mean more of us are speaking languages other than English. One in four of us were born overseas and we speak over 350 languages in homes and workplaces. An Australian Literary Review paper found language learning is dropping. 'SBS and Community Languages Australia' have created a competition called 'SBS National Languages Competition' which closes on Friday the 29th July 2016, to encourage more young Australians to learn another language


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Australia is one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world but that doesn't mean more of us are speaking languages other than English. One in four of us were born overseas and we speak over 350 languages in homes and workplaces. An Australian Literary Review paper found language learning is dropping. 'SBS and Community Languages Australia' have created a competition called 'SBS National Languages Competition' which closes on Friday the 29th July 2016, to encourage more young Australians to learn another language



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