Keeping second languages alive in the nation's young people

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The number of Australians that speak a language other than English at home increased by nearly 800,000 in the last census - now a total of 5.5 million people. With this, the need for community language programs to help keep the children of migrants in-touch with their own family's unique cultural and linguistic traditions is growing exponentially.

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