Learning Languages Early
Over 300 languages are spoken in Australia alone but the figures are quite the opposite: less than 10 per cent of high school students in NSW complete their final year in an additional language.
To tackle this issue, the government announced an 11.8 million dollar investment into preschool language learning programs.
Robyn Maloney from Macquarie University joined us to talk further about how becoming a bilingual country has risen on the Australian agenda.
For further information you can read her article here