An Asian immigrant to Australia has called on the government to ban Chinese language shop signs.

The man in his sixties said the shop signs around Sydney's Chatswood mall were of no use to the majority of English-speaking Australians.

'They put in Chinese, nobody know,' he told the ABC's The Link program.

'I suggest the government put all the English writing.'

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An Asian immigrant has called on the government to ban Chinese language shop signs

Asked by interviewer Stan Grant if that meant banning Chinese writing on shop signs, the man declared: 'Of course.'

'When you fall in love with the country, you need to learn English,' he said.

'When you come here, you have to obey the law here.'

A young African woman who moved to Australia during her high school years, however, disagreed with the need for migrants to learn English when interviewed on Sydney's North Shore on Thursday.

'They shouldn't put the label, 'You have to learn English'. They should be like, 'Be comfortable'. If you want to learn English, learn it, if you don't it's your choice.'

An African woman (right) says it's unfair to force migrants to learn English, as it could be hard

The woman, who became a citizen four years ago after arriving in Australia with no English as a year seven student, said it would be unfair to force people to learn the national language.

'There are a lot of communities here and if you feel comfortable in the community you're in, like the Chinese commmunity, then you should live there,' she said.

'They shouldn't force you to learn English because people have different capacities of learning languages and it might be hard for them.'

A Laotian-born woman, who migrated to Australia in 1975 to escape communism, voiced her support for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's plan to make prospective Australians wait four years for citizenship.

Two friends of Vietnamese heritage migrated to Australia during the 1960s and the 1970s

'When I came to Australia, it took me three years to become an Australian citizen and when I got three years up I felt so overjoyed, I really was,' she said.

'Make people wait and appreciate.'

However, she joked that 42 years in Australia hadn't changed her Asian appearance.

'Still flat nose,' she said.

Her Vietnamese-born friend, who moved to Australia as a teenager in 1968, joked about her English skills when asked how long it took her to learn the language.

'I'm still learning,' she said. 'It's still very hard for me.'