Well Chinese students should be getting English training if they are not proficient enough to speak on the radio. I know all US Aviation's Chinese students first few weeks are spent practicing English (they in theory have learned to speak it decently in college). At one point one of the practices they did was like theater; students on one wall teacher on the other and they had to speak loudly and clearly enough for him to hear. Can't say I know if they do that anymore.
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