What is Australia's second language that is taught in schools?

Question

for example, in America, they are more likely to be taught Spanish as a second language in Elementary and high school.
In Canada they would more likely teach French as second language since they actually have 2 official languages anyway...

Answer 1

Australia has only one national language - English. This is the only language that must be taught to all students. However once you enter high school you may have the option of learning another language but it isn't compulsory. Common language courses in high school would be Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian and French.

Answer 2

Second Language In Australia

Answer 3

At my kid's primary school they started off with French, but then the French teacher left and then they employed an Italian teacher instead so everyone had to switch.

The high school they go to offers a choice of French, German or Japanese. Learning a language is compulsory in Years 8 and 9, but a lot of the kids don't like it and don't learn much.

It seems to me just a token effort to teach kids a second language and for the most part seems like a big waste of time.

Answer 4

The language taught in most schools that I have been in contact with have been Japanese, Italian and Indonesian. Some private schools may teach a multitude of languages like French, Spanish, mandarin etc

Answer 5

where i went to school ( going on 10 yrs now ) we had one year of learning 4 different languages ( one language ever term ) and then the following year we picked one of those 4 to learn .

But we didn't have to do it after the 2nd year .. it was an option for yr 10 , 11 and 12

So that was in High School , but in primary school ( years 6 and 7 ) we learnt Indonesian ,

the languages were Italian , Japanese , a local aboriginal language and indonesian .

Answer 6

There is no one language. There has been a move away from european languages (French, German, Italian, Greek etc) in the 80s towards asian (Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, Korean). in the 90s. You will be hard pressed to find a school that taught only european languages (schools teach a max of two).

Answer 7

I do not believe that there is a more dominant second language in Australia - we have so many cultures and peoples as part of the country.



I think a lot depends on the area you live - where I grew up Japanese was predominate which was due to the history of the town.



Our European history will still have many leaning towards the traditional French and German.

While our place in Asia will have others looking towards Chinese etc.

Answer 8

I went to five different schools growing up, and all five taught Indonesian. One taught Japanese as an alternative (students were split about 75/25, in favor of Indonesian.)

Answer 9

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MOST Australian schools teach french, dutch and spanish. They MIGHT also offer German.

Answer 10

My children are in primary school and they are all learning French :)

Answer 11

Japaneses,German.Indonesian,Spanish,Italian.These are the most common ones.

Answer 12

me and all my siblings learnt japaneese in secondary and spanish in primary

Answer 13

There's a trend toward Asian. Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese, since these are all closer toAustralia and they're useful for trade, tourism work etc.

Answer 14

is Spamish common?