Fears over Australia's language decline: "As the world's economic power shifts to emerging trading blocs including Asia, Australia's language gap could be exposed."
Absolutely and we need the leadership of this country to take speaking languages seriously to the extent that it becomes a normal expectation. If we want to play on a global market we need to be credible, we need to be flexible and we need to be multilingual...just like people from other countries. There is no excuse because Australians learn languages very well when they are allowed to and find themselves in a position where they have to. They become proficient very quickly. So it's the antiquated white Australia monolingual cultural profile which is doing us in.
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