The fluent Japanese-speaker quickly guided me to the spot where my group was to gather.

CNN: THE YEN TO TRAVEL

She studied modern languages at Oxford and is a fluent French and Italian speaker with some "rusty Japanese".

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Fluent in French, Arabic, English and Portuguese -- and quickly catching up in Japanese -- Ghosn is the quintessential international businessman.

CNN: The True Story of Carlos Ghosn

Obsessed with languages, Wedeman is fluent in Arabic, Italian and French, has a working knowledge of Hebrew, and has studied Japanese, Russian, Farsi, ancient Egyptian, and classical and contemporary Mongolian.

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