The benefits of learning to speak more than one languages fluently are not necessarily limited to the formative years.

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The airport, meanwhile, said Monday it is deploying more than 500 volunteers who speak 20 languages among them to welcome athletes and officials.

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Or will ministers at least set a target date for its implementation so we can prepare the ground for the day when we can all go abroad and speak other languages rather than simply speaking more slowly and loudly in English in the hope "Johnny foreigner" will understand?

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To make a success of this, British forces must be "adaptable", more "culturally aware" and better equipped to speak local languages, while future intelligence and equipment needs should be geared around these core functions.

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This is a school with more than 170, 000 students who come from 181 different countries, speak 94 different languages.

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Many more were journeymen, like the catcher Moe Berg, who was said to be able to speak six languages and was unable to hit above .240 in any of them.

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