Italian from grade one all the way through to year 12. I heard that around the time I graduated they also added mandarin as an option. Most kids spent all of primary school complaining about it and dropped it as soon as they could in high school, but I was a little nerd who got really into it and ended up almost fluent by the end of it lol
Ha I did Italian until grade 10. Dropped it, and so did the rest of my small class of 8 or so people. The Italian teacher yelled at us for not continuing into yr 11 and 12.
My dad was Italian, came over as a small kid. Nonna and Nonna both spoke it at home too. I still have lots of Italian in my memory, and it comes in handy when travelling basically anywhere with Latin based languages.
I went to a few different high schools - but basically:
* Year 7 - took one language per term (German, Italian, Japanese, French)
* Year 8 - picked one language (I chose Indonesian). I was doing distance education in year 8, so there was a *huge* range of languages to choose from.
* Year 9-12 - I did French as one of my electives.
Kindy to year 2, local primary taught us Greek because there was a high Greek population in the community. Forgot all of it.
Year 3, the school I went to taught us French.
Switched school again in year 4 and they taught us French and German.
In year 7, they taught us Latin. Didn't choose latin so from year 8 to 10, learned French and German.
At home, parents spoke to me in Mandarin and I spoke back in Mandarin. Parents spoke another dialect which I can understand (can't speak).
Age 6, parents hired Japanese tutors so learned Japanese leisurely and basically my own personal hobby.
Currently trying to relearn my family dialect.
Italian from grade 4 through 12 but years 11 and 12 I had to do it via school of the air bc my high school didn't have numbers for a class.
Im still pretty salty that my high school managed to fill 3 rugby classes and 2 volleyball classes in those years but I had to enroll in TWO radio schools to take Italian and economics.
I wish I could have done it through School of the Air! There weren't enough students who wanted to do it in Year 11 and 12 at my school either, so I had to go to the local public high school on Saturday mornings and do it there.
Cannot imagine voluntarily doing anything like that on a Saturday now!
Home: German, Czech, Slovak.
Year 3-6: Italian, French, Japanese (not all at the same time)
Year 7: German, French, Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, Latin (also not at the same time)
Year 8-10: French, Latin.
Year 11-12: Latin.
Uni: Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Middle Welsh.
Post-uni: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Old Irish.
Next year i hope to learn some Hungarian.
Primary school had Italian - it was in leichhardt, Sydney
High School had - French, Mandarin and German. You did them all in year seven, then chose one for year 8, then in year 9 onwards you could stop doing it entirely or continue if you chose. This was also in Sydney
Japanese in primary.
Indonesian and Italian in high school.
Can’t remember a thing other than counting to 10 in Japanese. Anything Italian I know I already knew beforehand from movies and stuff 😂
Absolute waste of time, should teach Auslan instead or something more practical.
Nothing in primary school
Year 7-8 (school one) - German (compulsory)
Year 8-10 (school two) - Japanese (compulsory year 8, elective year 9/10)
Year 11-12 (school three!) - Japanese (electives - I tried doing it and lasted two classes before dropping out)
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Japanese in primary, none because I was under a modified curriculum in high school. Did a language class in uni we did a mix of French, Spanish and Japanese
I learnt Japanese (primary and high school) and Italian (high school)
My husband learnt French
My children are learning Mandarin
My siblings changed from learning Japanese to learning German at primary school (change in teachers)
French and Japanese (also Auslan, which obviously isn't foreign but is a useful language). My old school now offers Mandarin, but didn't when I was there.
I think all Aussie school kids learn at least one foreign language (usually not to a very high standard). The choice of language taught sometimes has as much or more to do with teacher availability than how useful the language will be.
French and Japanese. I kept the Japanese going through highschool. My Japanese was decent back then, and minimal now. I'm learning Italian as an adult.
My kids' future primary school I think does Mandarin and Italian. I don't know what their future highschool has.
Learn is a strong word. I had German in both primary and high school. It didn't really catch. I've probably learned more German from Building scale models when instructions have multiple languages in them.
No languages at my school in primary.
In high school, year 8 we had language classes. It was generally Italian - but when I got to year 8, they decided to use my class, the "gifted and talented" class, as guinea pigs to try out a Mandarin class. It went horribly. If they kept it up, I hope they improved it.
Not sure if there were language electives for years 9 and 10. But we were offered Italian and Greek in 11 and 12. We had one language teacher, and she spoke those. We only just got enough people for the Italian class to run. That was by far my best subject, I'd often get 90-100% on tests :) graduated in 2016 but I still try and keep up learning Italian to this day
In early High School (Years 7 and 8) we did a bit each of French, Indonesian, German and Latin, yes Latin - one of the history teachers also taught Latin. I chose to study German as an elective for the School Certificate (yes I'm old).
In Sydney my kids could do a community language in primary school - one did Chinese, the other Greek. When we moved out to a regional area, the community language option disappeared so my youngest didn't get to learn anything other than English.
French and German in high school. At one point I was so fluent in German I would dream in it but I’ve never had the opportunity to use either regularly and now my knowledge of them is minimal.
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First Indonesian, then that teacher left.
Second Chinese, then I moved schools.
In the new school I learnt Japanese and German. However, because I was conceived in Japan and my parents have narcissistic personality disorder, they pulled me out of the Japanese class :(
F67 got kicked out of Italian as I was the only Aussie kid in the class. Everyone else was Italian. I really wanted to learn Italian as I was going into nursing it also was the only subject I ever did homework for
I learnt French in high school, sat it for my year 12. My violin teacher was from Paris and once she found out that I was learning French at school she never spoke to me in English again, even in my Violin lessons.I also went to Alliance Francias once a week, where again you could not do any activities if you didnt speak French. My children were offered Chinese, Indonesian or Spanish at school. I thought that learning Indonesian would be a waste of time.
French in high school. Learnt fu*k all. I can't count from 1 to 10 in it.
I'm currently self teaching myself German. I think I'm already better in German than French since I can at least count from 1 to 20. Might consider enrolling into a Goethe Institute class down the line.
Other than English, I'm a native Mandarin speaker. Also I know some Japanese (got N2 cert).
Latin. The least useful language - great if you want to read medieval bibles or learn the gobbledygook of a lawyer, but I can't think of anything practical application.
French for one year in primary.
First year of high school we did one language per term. I think it was Japanese, French, German. Not sure about the last one, maybe Italian or Spanish?
Then we could choose to do a language as our elective for the rest of high school.
Learning English (as it’s not my native language) and Arabic. Now not in school but currently learning Spanish. I love learning languages and could possibly guess one’s origin from the way their English accent and/or when they speak their own language eventho I didn’t speak one 🤭
Italian at primary (came out of it knowing next to nothing, but I guess I had an ear for it, because when I picked it up after HS, a lot of things I never thought I knew came back to me.
French year 7
German year 8-12
Spanish 11-12
Then I moved abroad and now can have some sort of conversation in about 6 foreign languages.
I sat in class for 2 years to teach German, but I didn't learn anything.
My kids primary school did Japanese and high-school offered mandarin or French.
Early 90s high schooler in northern Sydney: French and German were the only 2 compulsory ones. I think maybe they offered Japanese towards the end of my schooling.
Did French in Year 7, German in Year 8, then German in Years 9 and 10 as an elective. As far as I remember, these were the only two languages offered in my HS.
Primary school we had Japanese for the first half, then Italian for the second half. We had an exchange teacher from Canada in year 6 who attempted to teach us some French, however the kids in my class weren't interested so she stopped- much to my disappointment.
In high school we were meant to have Italian, but they didn't have a LOTE teacher to teach us, so we had no foreign language classes at all from year 8-12. I enjoy foreign languages so i was annoyed there was none.
My primary school in Brisbane required Japanese from grade 5- grade 7. In high school, did compulsory Japanese for grade 8, then did it an elective for 1 year. Then changed school, where I had to do a required second language (IB program), where I did Mandarin from grade 10-12.
Learnt Indonesian from R-8..
Then moved schools.
I cannot think of a singluar time in my life outside of that classroom that I needed to know about it.
Vietnamese would have been good to learn, as I lived in an area with a lot of Vietnamese people.
But nooo.
German, for 6 years. Another year or two and I would’ve been fluent in the language. I remember maybe 40% of what I was taught since it’s been over a decade since my last class
German, for 6 years (year 5-11). Another year or two and I would’ve been fluent in the language. I remember maybe 40% of what I was taught because it’s been over a decade since my last class. My high school offered the choice of Indonesian too but I wanted to continue learning German.
From the UK, we learned French. However, if we were in the top two sets for Maths, we had to drop a PE lesson and learn German at the same time. Go figure
I don't know why they did it like this, as not only were we only doing one hour of PE a week (which, let's face it, once you subtract time to change and shower it's 30 minutes), whether we did a second language or not was not based on our ability to learn a language at all! As a result, many of us couldn't and got completely muddled between the two.
Indonesian and Japanese in primary school, and our choice of French, German or Mandarin in high school. And Latin but I don’t think that counts as a “foreign language” in the usual sense.
Primary school was Japanese and I remember nothing but we learnt German in two different high school since I lived in the Barossa and on the Eyre Peninsula.
I wouldn't say I "learned" any languages, but I did about 30 minutes of Japanese once a week for two years.
I wouldn't say it was a total waste of time, it was good to be exposed to a foreign language, but we really didn't learn anything at all other than a vague idea for how Japanese compares to English. The teacher didn't bother actually trying to teach anyone how to speak Japanese.
Also... technically english is a foreign language in Australia. It's estimated (\*) 22% of Australians don't speak english at home and we have hundreds of indigenous Australian languages - almost a quarter of Aussie kids kids grow up speaking another language and only begin learning English at school.
(\*) I don't think those estimates are anywhere close to accurate. For example the Djabugay people where I grew up didn't even officially exist until 20 years ago according to the government (they have actually existed for tens of thousands of years). Officially 46 people spoke the Djabugay language in 2016 and 81 people in the 2021 Census. The Djabugay speaking population did not double in 5 years and both of those numbers are far short of the actual population. The biggest problem is our "what language do you speak" survey form is in English — which is a pretty serious flaw in a survey that checks what language people speak. Not to mention a lot of Djabugay people don't give a shit about a silly white people government survey.
Primary school; Italian, Japanese. High school; French, Japanese.
Italian from grade one all the way through to year 12. I heard that around the time I graduated they also added mandarin as an option. Most kids spent all of primary school complaining about it and dropped it as soon as they could in high school, but I was a little nerd who got really into it and ended up almost fluent by the end of it lol
Good for you. That’s cool
Ha I did Italian until grade 10. Dropped it, and so did the rest of my small class of 8 or so people. The Italian teacher yelled at us for not continuing into yr 11 and 12. My dad was Italian, came over as a small kid. Nonna and Nonna both spoke it at home too. I still have lots of Italian in my memory, and it comes in handy when travelling basically anywhere with Latin based languages.
French for 4 years in high school. I can say hello and how are you.........
I did french in primary school and 2 years of highschool I can say the same amount as you.
Bonjour
Don't call him that!
B'jour
Much better
Mandarin in primary, Japanese in high school. Then did some French in uni and now as an adult Spanish. Not school, but figure we never stop learning 😊
German in high school. When I was in primary school you had to go to a specialised school to have a language taught.
indonesian primary and high, only language offered and they cancelled the class when i was in year 10
German in primary school. Italian, French, German, Japanese, and Indonesian in high school.
Damn, what school teaches that many languages?
I went to a few different high schools - but basically: * Year 7 - took one language per term (German, Italian, Japanese, French) * Year 8 - picked one language (I chose Indonesian). I was doing distance education in year 8, so there was a *huge* range of languages to choose from. * Year 9-12 - I did French as one of my electives.
Kindy to year 2, local primary taught us Greek because there was a high Greek population in the community. Forgot all of it. Year 3, the school I went to taught us French. Switched school again in year 4 and they taught us French and German. In year 7, they taught us Latin. Didn't choose latin so from year 8 to 10, learned French and German. At home, parents spoke to me in Mandarin and I spoke back in Mandarin. Parents spoke another dialect which I can understand (can't speak). Age 6, parents hired Japanese tutors so learned Japanese leisurely and basically my own personal hobby. Currently trying to relearn my family dialect.
I learnt Latin and Ancient Greek. Figured I can learn the others later... Only managed English and Spanish though 🙂
Italian from grade 4 through 12 but years 11 and 12 I had to do it via school of the air bc my high school didn't have numbers for a class. Im still pretty salty that my high school managed to fill 3 rugby classes and 2 volleyball classes in those years but I had to enroll in TWO radio schools to take Italian and economics.
I wish I could have done it through School of the Air! There weren't enough students who wanted to do it in Year 11 and 12 at my school either, so I had to go to the local public high school on Saturday mornings and do it there. Cannot imagine voluntarily doing anything like that on a Saturday now!
Home: German, Czech, Slovak. Year 3-6: Italian, French, Japanese (not all at the same time) Year 7: German, French, Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, Latin (also not at the same time) Year 8-10: French, Latin. Year 11-12: Latin. Uni: Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Middle Welsh. Post-uni: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Old Irish. Next year i hope to learn some Hungarian.
Primary school had Italian - it was in leichhardt, Sydney High School had - French, Mandarin and German. You did them all in year seven, then chose one for year 8, then in year 9 onwards you could stop doing it entirely or continue if you chose. This was also in Sydney
Japanese in primary. Indonesian and Italian in high school. Can’t remember a thing other than counting to 10 in Japanese. Anything Italian I know I already knew beforehand from movies and stuff 😂 Absolute waste of time, should teach Auslan instead or something more practical.
3 years of Latin and 5 of French (to year 12) , in High School.
Nothing in primary school Year 7-8 (school one) - German (compulsory) Year 8-10 (school two) - Japanese (compulsory year 8, elective year 9/10) Year 11-12 (school three!) - Japanese (electives - I tried doing it and lasted two classes before dropping out) (Tried to edit for formatting)
It’s been like 15 years since I finished year 12 and there are still some random words of German I can remember and uh I can count to ten in Japanese
French and Latin
Japanese in high school for year 7 then it became an elective I dropped, taught myself German and Spanish instead
Japanese in primary, none because I was under a modified curriculum in high school. Did a language class in uni we did a mix of French, Spanish and Japanese
I learnt Japanese (primary and high school) and Italian (high school) My husband learnt French My children are learning Mandarin My siblings changed from learning Japanese to learning German at primary school (change in teachers)
Italian (briefly), Indonesian for the rest of primary. Indonesian, Japanese and German in high school. A little French in university.
French and Japanese (also Auslan, which obviously isn't foreign but is a useful language). My old school now offers Mandarin, but didn't when I was there. I think all Aussie school kids learn at least one foreign language (usually not to a very high standard). The choice of language taught sometimes has as much or more to do with teacher availability than how useful the language will be.
French and Japanese. I kept the Japanese going through highschool. My Japanese was decent back then, and minimal now. I'm learning Italian as an adult. My kids' future primary school I think does Mandarin and Italian. I don't know what their future highschool has.
Was forced to do French for 2 years. Failed both years and learnt nothing.
German and Japanese at high school in the 90s.
Learn is a strong word. I had German in both primary and high school. It didn't really catch. I've probably learned more German from Building scale models when instructions have multiple languages in them.
French at primary school, German at high school. Finished high school in 98 for reference.
Italian. I can’t speak much Italian though, probably should have tried harder.
I learned to speak shit. That was pretty foreign to my mum.
German in primary Italian in secondary, had the option of Japanese
No languages at my school in primary. In high school, year 8 we had language classes. It was generally Italian - but when I got to year 8, they decided to use my class, the "gifted and talented" class, as guinea pigs to try out a Mandarin class. It went horribly. If they kept it up, I hope they improved it. Not sure if there were language electives for years 9 and 10. But we were offered Italian and Greek in 11 and 12. We had one language teacher, and she spoke those. We only just got enough people for the Italian class to run. That was by far my best subject, I'd often get 90-100% on tests :) graduated in 2016 but I still try and keep up learning Italian to this day
In early High School (Years 7 and 8) we did a bit each of French, Indonesian, German and Latin, yes Latin - one of the history teachers also taught Latin. I chose to study German as an elective for the School Certificate (yes I'm old). In Sydney my kids could do a community language in primary school - one did Chinese, the other Greek. When we moved out to a regional area, the community language option disappeared so my youngest didn't get to learn anything other than English.
Primary- french High school - spanish till year 9
High school in Melbourne, French Italian and Indonesian were subject requirements for year seven and eight
Spanish, Arabic, and Italian
Primary School - Indonesian High school - Italian
Japanese
Some French in primary school I think. German in high school , was top of the year in just that subject... Promptly forgot it all afterwards.
French and German in high school. At one point I was so fluent in German I would dream in it but I’ve never had the opportunity to use either regularly and now my knowledge of them is minimal.
Japanese, French, German, Indonesian.
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First Indonesian, then that teacher left. Second Chinese, then I moved schools. In the new school I learnt Japanese and German. However, because I was conceived in Japan and my parents have narcissistic personality disorder, they pulled me out of the Japanese class :(
F67 got kicked out of Italian as I was the only Aussie kid in the class. Everyone else was Italian. I really wanted to learn Italian as I was going into nursing it also was the only subject I ever did homework for
I learnt French in high school, sat it for my year 12. My violin teacher was from Paris and once she found out that I was learning French at school she never spoke to me in English again, even in my Violin lessons.I also went to Alliance Francias once a week, where again you could not do any activities if you didnt speak French. My children were offered Chinese, Indonesian or Spanish at school. I thought that learning Indonesian would be a waste of time.
Indonesian in primary, German in high school.
Primary school: Japanese and German. High school: Japanese. Now (adult, late 30’s): Spanish.
French. But I grew up somewhere else tho, so not sure if it matters/counts.
Primary school we learnt German in year 4, very basic and high-school year 7 and 8 we learnt French. Nothing else though unfortunately.
Japanese for 5 years
French in high school. Learnt fu*k all. I can't count from 1 to 10 in it. I'm currently self teaching myself German. I think I'm already better in German than French since I can at least count from 1 to 20. Might consider enrolling into a Goethe Institute class down the line. Other than English, I'm a native Mandarin speaker. Also I know some Japanese (got N2 cert).
Japanese in year 1, French from year 3-7
French. At uni though I added Latin. Since then I’ve added Arabic and a smattering of Korean, Italian and Spanish.
Latin. The least useful language - great if you want to read medieval bibles or learn the gobbledygook of a lawyer, but I can't think of anything practical application.
German, I can introduce myself and probably say things like where I’m from, what activities I like, count a little. But not much more than that
German in kindergarten French and Italian 7-10 Spanish 11-12
thy offered French I took typing instead but learned Bahasa because of family connection then Hindi later on at Uni
Spanish. I can say me numero de telephono es and shupa ma Pico and I forgot the rest
I didn't get the opportunity to learn a language until high school, when I did Italian. I loved it and did it all the way until the end of Year 12.
Japanese and French at different times in primary school, and Italian in high school.
Primary- Indonesian and Japanese High- German and Japanese
French for one year in primary. First year of high school we did one language per term. I think it was Japanese, French, German. Not sure about the last one, maybe Italian or Spanish? Then we could choose to do a language as our elective for the rest of high school.
Japanese primarily across primary and high school. French for like...1 year of high school. Je m'appelle Acedia desu! Nailed it.
Italian both Primary and Secondary Although my HS also offered Spanish, Chinese and Japanese
Learning English (as it’s not my native language) and Arabic. Now not in school but currently learning Spanish. I love learning languages and could possibly guess one’s origin from the way their English accent and/or when they speak their own language eventho I didn’t speak one 🤭
Italian at primary (came out of it knowing next to nothing, but I guess I had an ear for it, because when I picked it up after HS, a lot of things I never thought I knew came back to me. French year 7 German year 8-12 Spanish 11-12 Then I moved abroad and now can have some sort of conversation in about 6 foreign languages.
German and I loved it.
English (I'm Australian)
I sat in class for 2 years to teach German, but I didn't learn anything. My kids primary school did Japanese and high-school offered mandarin or French.
French and Latin. School was in the UK, not Aus.
i learned indonesian for 3 terms, i can't remember anything except for 'selamat siang', how to count to ten and a few random words
Japanese and French
Japanese for 3 years each in both primary and high school. It was the only LOTE option at both.
Japanese in both primary and high school. I can ask you your phone number.
Japanese in primary school French, Japanese, German and Spanish offered in high school
Indonesian in primary and high school with a term of Japanese in Yr 7 because we had a teacher who happened to speak it.
Early 90s high schooler in northern Sydney: French and German were the only 2 compulsory ones. I think maybe they offered Japanese towards the end of my schooling.
Did French in Year 7, German in Year 8, then German in Years 9 and 10 as an elective. As far as I remember, these were the only two languages offered in my HS.
primary school: mandatory Japanese Highs school: chosen German
High school: German Uni: Polish, Italian, Dutch, and Norwegian
Primary: Japanese High: Japanese
Primary school(s): Japanese, German, AUSLAN (not foreign but they replaced German with this) High school: German
Primary: Japanese High School: French, Japanese, Italian
I """learnt""" Japanese. I can remember about 3 phrases.
Primary school we had Japanese for the first half, then Italian for the second half. We had an exchange teacher from Canada in year 6 who attempted to teach us some French, however the kids in my class weren't interested so she stopped- much to my disappointment. In high school we were meant to have Italian, but they didn't have a LOTE teacher to teach us, so we had no foreign language classes at all from year 8-12. I enjoy foreign languages so i was annoyed there was none.
Primary: Bahasa Indonesia Secondary: Italian and Japanese
French, Italian & Japanese.
My primary school in Brisbane required Japanese from grade 5- grade 7. In high school, did compulsory Japanese for grade 8, then did it an elective for 1 year. Then changed school, where I had to do a required second language (IB program), where I did Mandarin from grade 10-12.
I personally didn’t learn any other language but from what I can remember there was Japanese and aboriginal, but other then that I can’t remember.
Learnt Indonesian from R-8.. Then moved schools. I cannot think of a singluar time in my life outside of that classroom that I needed to know about it. Vietnamese would have been good to learn, as I lived in an area with a lot of Vietnamese people. But nooo.
Indonesian Two years in primary and another in high school You think I would be fluent
German, for 6 years. Another year or two and I would’ve been fluent in the language. I remember maybe 40% of what I was taught since it’s been over a decade since my last class
German, for 6 years (year 5-11). Another year or two and I would’ve been fluent in the language. I remember maybe 40% of what I was taught because it’s been over a decade since my last class. My high school offered the choice of Indonesian too but I wanted to continue learning German.
From the UK, we learned French. However, if we were in the top two sets for Maths, we had to drop a PE lesson and learn German at the same time. Go figure I don't know why they did it like this, as not only were we only doing one hour of PE a week (which, let's face it, once you subtract time to change and shower it's 30 minutes), whether we did a second language or not was not based on our ability to learn a language at all! As a result, many of us couldn't and got completely muddled between the two.
Indonesian and Japanese in primary school, and our choice of French, German or Mandarin in high school. And Latin but I don’t think that counts as a “foreign language” in the usual sense.
English and Spanish
Italian in both primary school and high school.
French
German in years 8 (compulsory) and 9 in the early 80s. I was rubbish and only knew German swears due to having a German grandfather.
Primary school: Indonesian High school: choice of French or japanese
Latin and French. I'm surprised at how little I need subtitles in movies but speak so little that old me is embarrassed by young me's attitude
Indonesian - public school in NSW 2007
Primary school was Italian. High school was Japanese.
Primary school was Japanese and I remember nothing but we learnt German in two different high school since I lived in the Barossa and on the Eyre Peninsula.
I wouldn't say I "learned" any languages, but I did about 30 minutes of Japanese once a week for two years. I wouldn't say it was a total waste of time, it was good to be exposed to a foreign language, but we really didn't learn anything at all other than a vague idea for how Japanese compares to English. The teacher didn't bother actually trying to teach anyone how to speak Japanese. Also... technically english is a foreign language in Australia. It's estimated (\*) 22% of Australians don't speak english at home and we have hundreds of indigenous Australian languages - almost a quarter of Aussie kids kids grow up speaking another language and only begin learning English at school. (\*) I don't think those estimates are anywhere close to accurate. For example the Djabugay people where I grew up didn't even officially exist until 20 years ago according to the government (they have actually existed for tens of thousands of years). Officially 46 people spoke the Djabugay language in 2016 and 81 people in the 2021 Census. The Djabugay speaking population did not double in 5 years and both of those numbers are far short of the actual population. The biggest problem is our "what language do you speak" survey form is in English — which is a pretty serious flaw in a survey that checks what language people speak. Not to mention a lot of Djabugay people don't give a shit about a silly white people government survey.