Linguistic capabilities of modern world leaders

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	English	French	German	Italian	Japanese	Portuguese	Russian	Spanish	Swedish
Shinzo Abe, 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
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	Yes	Some[2]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Benedict XVI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church[3]	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[4]	No
Juan Carlos, King of Spain	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Jacques Chirac, President of France	Yes[5]	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico	Yes[6]	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
Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Chancellor of Switzerland[7]	Yes	Yes	Yes & Swiss German	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy	Yes[8]	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	No	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation[9]	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	No	Yes	Unknown	No
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No

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