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Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays

By Julie Choi, Senior lecturer in Education (Additional Languages), The University of Melbourne

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back seat. So holidays – particularly the long summer break – offer a chance to hear and speak their heritage languages more often.

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