The candidates should be fluent in English, a good knowledge of either Russian or Uzbek would be an asset.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT

There would be intensive immersion programs for children not fluent in English.

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Along the way, she has had her teeth straightened and now lacks only fluent English to be a Hollywood star in her own right.

ECONOMIST: Beauty beats the beast

But those seeking to scrap bilingual education say that Hispanic youngsters should be encouraged to become completely fluent in written and spoken English if they are to have an equal chance in the jobs market.

BBC: US vote on bilingual schools

These bureaucrats, however, like the ineffectual, but budget-rich, bilingual method, so they have decreed that kids can't be taught to read until they become fully fluent in English -- which, they say, may take a couple of years.

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So Kim Jong Un probably speaks some Japanese, through his mother (he was educated at a Swiss boarding school, so his English, French and German must be much more fluent, and he may have been tutored in Korean).

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