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France plans to oust English as the bloc’s most common tongue and use French in EU meetings

France is reportedly plotting to use its EU presidency to topple English as the bloc's most commonly spoken language.

Bringing up a bilingual child is hard work. But passing on your mother language is a gift beyond words

But when it comes to raising a child bilingually, passing on languages other than English doesn't necessary feel 'natural' in Australia because of the way our society centres English. Yet linguistic diversity is a fundamental aspect of who we are, and millions of us speak languages other than English.

NSW students lag behind Australia and world in learning second language

As part of the NSW curriculum reform, NESA was developing new kindergarten to year 6 and year 7 to 10 language curriculum and would continue to work with the sectors to determine the best way of approaching this recommendation in NSW, the spokesperson said.