Pre-schoolers sometimes talk their own language but now they'll get a chance to learn a foreign tongue.
The federal government is looking for 40 preschools and early childhood services keen to take part in its Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) trial in 2015.
Children will learn Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Arabic or French through play-based apps on tablet computers.
"Our children are now technology whiz kids from an early age so this play-based approach to learning a language makes sense," Assistant Education Minister Sussan Ley said in a statement on Tuesday.
Children's ability to "soak up large amounts of information like sponges" and quickly learn new things like another language often put adults to shame.
The custom ELLA software is now in development and will be ready for the trial to start in early 2015.
Expressions of interest to be part of the year-long trial are open until September 29.
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