Good point! However, I also think it DOES in fact say something about the two languages. Chinese is a much more difficult language to learn than French, in part because of the character and tonal systems.

See http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html

“Kevvy is a real little show-off smarty pants. Really, how sad and pathetic does someone have to be to hog the attention like that, just because he can speak another language? So what! It’s not as though I brag about my French. Imagine, if I went around demonstrating that I can speak French. It just doesn’t happen. Who cares that I can speak French fluently? And it only took me two months! I’ve even used it in my offical capacity as Foreign Minister, but I don’t go around telling everyone about it. That would be too much. Look at Kevvy – so self-important and such a show-off. I wouldn’t stoop to mentioned how I can speak French fluently and learnt in it in only 2 months…..no, never, that would be sooo crass…..Kevvie took 2 years you know (nudge, nudge, wink ,wink)!! The audacity to play it up to the cameras like that….you’d think he could speak French….I can, and I don’t go around boring people about how I learnt to speak it fluently in just 2 months. Let’s face it, hundreds of millions of Chinese people speak Mandarin so it can’t be too hard really, can it? Besedes, no one can understand a word of it, so what’s the point. French on the other hand, that’s really tough to learn. I don’t know if you knew this, not many do, but I can speak French, fluently! I can give a demo if you like…maybe a poetry recital tonight at my hotel. I mean ,we’re all sick of Kevvie’s self-promotional Mandarin. I can read Proust in the original for you… I speak French you know….real proper French……Did you know that?? I don’t like to talk about it, but if you’re interested…..” – Dolly