Only a quarter of public primary schools offer any language instruction at all, and fewer high schools offer French, German, Latin, Japanese, or Russian than they did in 1997.

只有四分之一的公立小学提供语言指导，而且和1997年相比，提供法语、德育、拉丁语、日语或者俄语学习的中学变少了。

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The high-ranking guests chatted away at such events in their native language, unaware that Col Kendrick himself spoke German and that such entertainment was being provided so as to relax them in captivity, making them so unguarded as to spill secrets - which they did.

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