What language do people speak in Australia?

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Hi,

Here in Australia we have a number of different cultures which speak different languages such as french, russian, german, italian, japanese, chinese, cambodian, thai and a number of others but the main language in Australia is english.

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Thank you

From Clint

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Ami

This is why American kids need to read more books

tuppenybitz

Americans seem to ask the dumbest questions

do they go to school there?

mmdjaajl

another example of the great school system at work in the USA

YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk

I found a brain of the street the other day, perhaps it's yours?

JackTango

/cry

But Why??

we speak Guatamalan....with a twist of Georgian & Mandarin

On weekends we speak French..

Joy M

Isn't it amazing how, whenever Australians speak, it sounds a lot like English?

There are Aboriginal languages, but they're not widely spoken.

travelbug

Americans only know about Americans..... this just shows what the rest of the world thinks of the USA..... what language did you think we spoke...... Italian?

The_Mouse

We talk "Strine" - the official Australian language.

Elizabeth

As everyone else has pointed out we speak English in Australia.

David J

For Gods' sake....

ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!

Dasha

I'd be ambarrassed to ask such a question! English of course! DUHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! UGH!

Chandler B

English. Dear Lord.

And Aboriginal. If they're well.. Aboriginal.

I am quite disappointed at the reputation you give us Americans.

Vanessa<3

english with their own aussie slang
can someone please answer my questions

Beep? Beep Shmeep

are you serious? You wouldnt happen to be american would you?

lidybeff

Chinese, lebonese, indian, russian, greek, italian, arabic, etc etc etc.......

Big Ben

Strine.

waltzsingmatilda

Here we go another yank.
DONT get sucked in like 32 others have,don't bother to answer fools.
If we didn't speak English how in the ******* Hell could we read your (so called ) question?

kitty143cat

English is the national language, and is spoken and written in a distinct variety known as Australian English.

Fev..er!

If you can think of a language - then it is spoken in Australia.

One only has to travel on public transport (train, bus etc) & every second person is yelling on their mobile phones. I can only ever understand about 1 conversation in 10 - as they are generally conducted in a foreign language.

We have people arriving in our country, as migrants, on a daily basis & 99% of them refuse to learn the English language. They claim we are being racist if we demand it re employment, or some other reason.

princessdisaster76

My family speaks English, my neighbours on the left side speak Greek and the neighbours on the right speak Cantonese ;-)

poojaa :)

Nope. They speak English, but often have austrailian terms, such as G'day mate, and Crikey!

=)

ebay/honmokukimono

We speak English in Australia.

sdh0407

english

cats mother

English mate.

English

Leprechaun of Jupiter

english

Jazmen

.... English.

cc_of_0z

English is the official national language of Australia.
In practise, we all speak Australian English which differs slightly from British and American English and has major influences from both. It is easily understandable, in spite of the wide use of Australian slang and a tendency to shorten every word imaginable. Australia is a very multicultural country, you will likely hear most common world languages in the city streets. Australians will revert to standard English for foreigners, so its not a problem speaking to the locals.

Ken E

Norm speaks some Afrikaans
Ash speaks Ethiopian
Tseng speaks Mandarin
Lee speaks Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, French and English.
Marie speaks French
Inez speaks Argentinian Spanish
Mrs. P. speaks Brazilian Portuguese
Noor speaks Turkish
Vinod speaks Hindi
Andy speaks Cretan Greek
Guiseppe is pretty good in Italian, surprisingly.
Vic speaks a bit of Maltese.
Mark knows some Serbo-Croat.

We are rather atypical. But mostly we speak English.

I speak only English but I read French pretty well and can usually make out technical German and Spanish.

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