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Mao could only speak his local dialect from Hunan. Ironically could not speak Putonghua(mandarin) even though he espoused it's proliferation across the country.
As a young man he did try to learn Russian but, meeting with ridicule from his classmates and teachers regarding his ineptitude, gave up.

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