The 21st of February was International Mother Language Day, an annual UNESCO heritage day marking the important role of multilingualism in sustainable development. If you’re part of the 80 per cent of Australians who speak only English at home, then ...
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Our lack of language learning deemed a spectacular failure
Never mind beautiful failures. University of Melbourne academic Tim Mayfield has deemed Australia a spectacular failure in terms of learning languages. Mayfield, who is executive director of the university’s Asia Education Foundation, noted that there has been a drastic decline ...
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