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China crisis? Hardly - it doesn't matter most Aussie kids don't speak fluent Mandarin

  • Written by Warren Midgley, Honorary Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern Queensland
China crisis? Hardly - it doesn't matter most Aussie kids don't speak fluent MandarinThe number of students studying Mandarin in Australian schools nearly doubled between 2008 and 2015.from shutterstock.com

Just before the May federal election, then shadow treasurer Chris Bowen gave a speech in which he lamented the low levels of Year 12 students studying Mandarin in Australia. The speech was at a launch for Labor’s plan to...

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