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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Do you think that she works at an American Chinese food joint? She's an highly ranked politician, of course she knows English. Better than you and me both, probably.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    That's too presumptuous. Not everyone can learn English proficiently, especially those from East Asia because of completely different characteristics and structures between European languages and East Asian languages.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    English is often used as an international language, and for that reason it’s the most common second language by a pretty wide margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

    People who need to regularly speak with people from a wide variety of countries learn English.

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