English is not really ‘all that’

One school that has welcomed the option of learning Mandarin is Otonga Rd Primary School. 

There are only a few languages in the world that feature so highly for the future and English is not really ‘all that’.
Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and English are all key languages for the future. It is good to see that language learning is beginning to feature more prominently in Primary schools but as the old adage goes ‘you use it or lose it’.
So in light of that, there is mounting pressure on Intermediate and Secondary schools to continue the language learning options that are first presented to primary students.
Teachers will also be put under the spotlight. Primary school teachers with language skills in the three ‘foreign’ languages mentioned earlier will be in something of high demand. Secondary school teachers may feel the pressure in the coming years as increasingly more students will present in their classes with higher abilities in international languages. 
But what languages are offered in the schools that you know?
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