March 28, 2001 17:10: Now you're talking: Clare Sebastian, 17, is buffing up on her languages she speaks four after being selected to take part in a Russian Olympiad in Moscow in June. Clare, a student at North London Collegiate School in Canons Drive, Edgware, will be representing Britain in the competition the linguistic equivalent of the Olympics. The teenager, from Ossulton Way, East Finchley, started speaking Russian while living in Moscow with her father, BBC journalist Tim Sebastian

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