Multilingualism in Australia

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Thanks to our fantastic cultural diversity there are more than 300 different languages spoken in Australia today.
But while we tend to embrace the food and culture... there is often a push for new arrivals to leave the language behind and just speak English.
Tonight on the Nightlife we're looking at our complicated relationship with multilingualism in Australia with Professor Ingrid Piller and Dr Hanna Torsh from Macquarie University, and ABC Reporter Angelique Lu who started learning her mother tongue Vietnamese as an adult.

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Multilingualism in Australia