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One
example of the importance of French can be seen in
a recent listing of international jobs (4/30/02) distributed
by the US State Department:
204 required or preferred
French, 53
Spanish, 71 a UN language (Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian, and Spanish), 19 Arabic, 12 Russian, 4 German,
6 Chinese (information provided by Richard
Shryock, Virginia Tech)
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