1. Year 11 Subject Selections
LOTE
Languages other than English

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

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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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 

7. Top 10 Internet Languages

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

9. 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

10. 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 hours by completion of stage 6

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