Hindi to be part of foreign languages for Aus pre-schoolers

14 November, New Delhi

Australia today announced national rollout of an online programme for preschoolers to learn foreign languages for promoting languages other than English, including Hindi, from next year onward.

According to Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham, the government would extend the programme to offer Australian preschoolers the opportunity to learn Italian and Spanish in 2017 and Hindi and Modern Greek in 2018.

The minister said 32 percent of the 8,540 current students were studying Chinese, 29 percent Japanese, 24 percent French, 13 percent Indonesian and 2 percent Arabic.