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

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

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Other pluses were quizzes, the option of clicking on every Japanese phrase to hear it read by a native speaker and a dictionary function that had about 660 words.

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As a Mandarin speaker with a small company, she often had the edge over larger, more bureaucratic Western and Japanese companies.

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The speaker said he told Clinton that he hoped any financial obligation would be shared with the Europeans and the Japanese.

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