Speaks French and Mandarin Chinese at professionally fluent levels.
"My whole path changed from teaching to diplomacy. I've seen more of the world than I could have ever dreamed of coming from the suburbs of Washington."
| A quote from Bernadette Allen, U.S. consul-general in Montreal, in Mike King's Montreal Gazette article "Language is U.S. diplomat's forte"
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