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...Fluent in all Slavic languages, Taranovsky translated Russian poetry and drama into various Slavic dialects. He also published in English, French and German...
Owada now works as an economics specialist for the Japanese Foreign Ministry's North American Division. She is fluent in Japanese, English, German and French...
MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...
...veteran royal biographer Penny Junor, "she's been orchestrating events." Her confidence is such that on her Paris trip, though she has only patchy, schoolgirl French, she did not hesitate to use it -- no mean attainment, since the French have a way of intimidating foreign speakers considerably more fluent than Diana. People who have worked with her on various causes and charities are convinced that her secret lies not in her looks or her title but in her directness. It is hard not to respond...
...said the schools have "paid the least amount of attention" to Latino issues, such as extra help, councilling and the number of fluent Spanish-speaking teachers in the classrooms...