Refeksi : Mungkin nanti akan ada banyak untungnya bagi warga NKRI yang mau belajar bahasa Arab, tidak perlu pergi jauh-jauh ke tanah Arab, tetapi ke negeri tetangga Australia, jadi lebih murah ongkosnya. Di Australia ada gurun dan unta dan keledai.Australia mengexpor unta ke negeri-negeri Arab, bukan saja untuk dagingnya tetapi juga untuk balapan.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=238851 News date: Sunday, April 17, 2011 www.tehrantimes.com Arabic second-most common Australian tongue SYDNEY (AFP) - Arabic is the most commonly spoken language after English by young people in Australia, a study has revealed, with about one in eight multilingual children using it in the home. The Australia Early Development Index, a government-backed study of more than 260,000 children in their first year of school, found that 18 percent spoke a language other than English. Despite no Arabic nation making the top 15 countries of birth for Australia's children, some 5,565 spoke the language at home, 11.8 percent of all multilingual children. Vietnamese was the second-most prevalent, at 8.4 percent, followed by Greek, Chinese dialects and Hindi, each spoken by less than 5.0 percent England, New Zealand, India and the United States were the top countries of birth after Australia, followed by the Philippines, China, South Africa, South Korea and Sri Lanka. ""The Australian population is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse in the world and this is represented in the children surveyed for the AEDI,"" the study said. Aboriginal children made up 4.8 percent of the student population and one-fifth of them speak a native language in the home -- most commonly a creoles mixing an indigenous dialect with English. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
