For the school-leaving exam, proficiency in at least two languages is required.

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This opens the power of Hadoop to a much wider audience than if traditional MapReduce programming in Java or other such languages is required.

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In order to make room for the new courses, 14-year-olds will no longer be required to learn modern languages.

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The differences were linked to the mental alertness required to switch between languages, which could develop skills useful in other types of thinking.

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He suggested that applicants to the police should be required to have certain languages, spoken in minority communities, or to have done voluntary work, rates of which are thought to be high in ethnic minority groups.

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The role of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa -- the villain in Quentin Tarantino's film -- required Waltz to speak four languages fluently.

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Virtually everyone who had graduated from a technical, medical or foreign-languages college was considered an officer of the reserves and required to report for regular training exercises.

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The latter was required reading in countless high schools and colleges in the continent, and has been translated into dozens of languages.

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