Year 11 Subject Selections LOTE Languages other than English

What’s available? Chinese Continuers Chinese & Literature (BS) Japanese Beginners Japanese Continuers (All are two-unit courses)

Students can also study other languages/courses at NSW School of Languages (correspondence) or Saturday School of Community Languages (every Saturday)

Why languages? “Language skills and cultural sensitivity will be the new currency of this world order. Along with computer literacy they will provide the keys to participation in the global economy.” - Governor-General of the Commonwealth Of Australia

Being bilingual makes you smarter “It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.” (The New York Times, 03/17/12, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee)

Being bilingual broaden the empathy "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.” - Former UK Education Secretary Michael Gove 

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Great job opportunities Trade Tourism & hospitality Banking & finance Translation & interpreting Media & advertising Law Government Diplomacy The arts Education and research Technology Cuisine & catering

JAPANESE BEGINNERS WHO’S IT FOR? Students who wish to begin their study of Japanese at senior secondary level Students with NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF CHINESE/JAPANESE LANGUAGE

CHINESE/JAPANESE CONTINUERS WHO’S IT FOR? Students who have studied Chinese/Japanese in years 8,9 and 10 or started in year 9 & continued in year 10 Students would have studied 400-500 hours by completion of stage 6

CHINESE & LITERATURE WHO’S IT FOR? Students who have a cultural and linguistic background in Chinese.