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75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Fastest Growing Language in China

The fastest growing language in Australia is now at number five, according to the last census. One in four of us speaks another language at home and for school kids that's one in three. If we want to promote multilingualism, school classes are fine, but a lot of people never remember them, which is fine too because I only remember a little bit of chemistry. But if we want to support students with those languages, a good way to do it is to supportStudents who have that language on their background so we can be more fully multilingual in Australia. We will defer immediately to anyone spouting off about our supposedly multicultural country. And just the pursuit of multilingualism is a

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