Linguistic capabilities of modern world leaders

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	English	French	German	Italian	Japanese	Portuguese	Russian	Spanish	Swedish
Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile[1]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Benedict XVI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church[2]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown
George W. Bush, President of the United States	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No[3]	No
Juan Carlos, King of Spain	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France	Some[4]	Yes	Some	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico	Yes[5]	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	Unknown
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Unknown	No	No	Yes
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan[6]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy	Yes[7]	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation[8]	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	No	Yes	Unknown	No
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg[9]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste[10]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Some	No

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