Quotes About Fluency

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

I speak Marathi fluently and even during shoots I make it a point to speak in the language for most of the time.

I barely speak English.

It doesn't take long to learn basic English.

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

If one could read fluently, confidently, in every known language, one would have no need of translators or translations; one could read Homer on Mondays, Akhmatova on Tuesdays, Swahili poets on Wednesdays, and so on.

To learn a new language is not easy. For one thing, you will always speak with an accent. . . . But for your children it will be their native tongue!

It's hard for me to perform in English.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

I talk bilingual.

I am bilingual.

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH

He glanced at me, then chuckled. "Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.

To read makes our speaking English good.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.