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Language skills vary for ambassadors in foreign posts
The article notes U S diplomats need not speak local tongues in all postings while citing cases such as Walworth Barbour in Israel who does not speak Hebrew and Andrew V Corry in Ceylon who handles Sinhala but speaks French Italian Spanish German and Urdu. language expectations differ by post.
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