With the United States growing more diverse, and the world pushed closer by globalization, fluency in a second language might not be a bad job skill for a president. Other leaders have found it useful. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, speak each other’s language, she from growing up in East Germany, he from K.G.B. work. Tony Blair, the departing British prime minister, speaks French. Most Middle Eastern heads of state speak English. The Standard Deviants - Learn English as a Second Language (ESL) DVD 4-Pack

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