Designated Languages: Australia Emigration Point System

To gain points for abilities in any of the following Australian designated languages, you must have either:

A professional level of language skills (written or oral) as evidenced by a qualification (of equivalent standard to an Australian degree) gained from a university where instruction was in one of the listed languages below; or
By accreditation with the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) at the professional level (Translator/Interpreter Level).

Australian Designated Languages
Skill level must be evidenced
Afrikaans	Estonian	Korean	Serbian
Albanian	Fijian	Lao	Sinhalese
Arabic/Lebanese	Filipino (Tagalog)	Latvian	Slovak
Armenian	Finnish	Lithuanian	Solvene
Bangla (Bengali)	French	Macedonian	Swedish
Bosnian	German	Malay	Spanish
Bulgarian	Greek	Maltese	Tamil
Burmese	Hebrew	Norwegian	Thai
Chinese (Cantonese)	Hindi	Persian	Turkish
Chinese (Madarin)	Hungarian	Polish	Ukranian
Croatian	Indonesian	Portugese	Urdu
Czech	Italian	Punjabi	Vietnamese
Danish	Japanese	Romanian	Yiddish
Dutch	Khmer	Russian

Points for language under the Point System will only be awarded to applicants seeking emigration to Australia if proof of language ability is shown.

Australian Designated Languages