Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150910235150/@comment-26397825-20151005004807

Well...mostly, yes. English descendants tend to only speak English, and secondary languages weren't really pushed at any of my schools until I moved halfway through high school, and then it was too late for me to join a language class. I spent six months learning Japanese when I was 13, and that's it. I would have continued, to be honest, but the next year when I was allowed to pick my own subjects, they changed the language offered to Indonesian and I was really interested. (Yes, my first High School only offered one language at a time).

However, a lot of non-English descended Australians, the proper multicultural ones, tend to speak the language of their parents. But grandchildren tend not to learn them as much, and within three or four generations they usually don't even bother.