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HSC course descriptions – Languages

The NSW Board of Studies offers 59 Stage 6 courses in 34 languages across four differentiated levels: Beginners, Continuers, Extension and Background Speakers. These are listed below. These courses cater for a wide range of languages to support second and subsequent language learning, as well as the maintenance of community languages. From 2011, four new Heritage Language courses (in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean) will be introduced into Preliminary. These will be examined for the first time in the 2012 HSC.

Course descriptions for these courses are in Higher School Certificate Languages Course Descriptions (PDF, 505 KB).

HSC languages course descriptions

Language	Courses
Arabic	Arabic Beginners Arabic Continuers Arabic Extension
Armenian	Armenian Continuers (CCAFL)
Chinese	Chinese Beginners Chinese Continuers Chinese Extension Chinese Heritage (CCAFL)* from 2011 Preliminary Chinese Background Speakers
Classical Greek	Classical Greek Continuers Classical Greek Extension
Classical Hebrew	Classical Hebrew Continuers Classical Hebrew Extension
Croatian	Croatian Continuers (CCAFL)
Dutch	Dutch Continuers (CCAFL)
Filipino	Filipino Continuers (CCAFL)
French	French Beginners French Continuers French Extension
German	German Beginners German Continuers German Extension
Hindi	Hindi Continuers (CCAFL)
Hungarian	Hungarian Continuers (CCAFL)
Indonesian	Indonesian Beginners Indonesian Continuers Indonesian Extension Indonesian Heritage (CCAFL)* from 2011 Preliminary Indonesian Background Speakers
Italian	Italian Beginners Italian Continuers Italian Extension
Japanese	Japanese Beginners Japanese Continuers Japanese Extension Japanese Heritage (CCAFL)* from 2011 Preliminary Japanese Background Speakers
Khmer	Khmer Continuers (CCAFL)
Korean	Korean Continuers Korean Heritage (CCAFL)* from 2011 Preliminary Korean Background Speakers
Latin	Latin Continuers Latin Extension
Macedonian	Macedonian Continuers (CCAFL)
Malay	Malay Background Speakers (CCAFL)
Maltese	Maltese Continuers (CCAFL)
Modern Greek	Modern Greek Beginners Modern Greek Continuers Modern Greek Extension
Modern Hebrew	Modern Hebrew Continuers
Persian	Persian Background Speakers (CCAFL)
Polish	Polish Continuers (CCAFL)
Portuguese	Portuguese Continuers (CCAFL)
Russian	Russian Background Speakers (CCAFL)
Serbian	Serbian Continuers (CCAFL)
Spanish	Spanish Beginners Spanish Continuers Spanish Extension
Swedish	Swedish Continuers (CCAFL)
Tamil	Tamil Continuers (CCAFL)
Turkish	Turkish (CCAFL)
Ukrainian	Ukrainian Continuers (CCAFL)
Vietnamese	Vietnamese Continuers (CCAFL)