Quotes About Fluency

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.

Cookie monster speaks better English than you.

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most 'fluent' in the rituals, customs and traditions of a particular culture generally lack the detachment necessary to explain the 'grammar' of these practices in an intelligible manner. This is why we have anthropologists.

This is a book in which we will dance with language, not a book in which we will trudge toward remedial correctness.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.

In my dream, I am saying all of this in French, though I know that this is impossible. But in my dream, cruelty greases my tongue and I am undeniably fluent.

The duchess of Retz, who was fluent in Latin and Greek (languages she had acquired as a result of her first husband's frustrating lack of sociability, which had obliged her to live like a hermit out in the countryside for years, with only her books for company), was especially interested in the literary arts.

Knowing birds is like being fluent in a foreign language, or adept with a musical instrument.

Vocabulary knowledge is critical to any communication. Wilkins (1972) summarizes the situation best: "While without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed" (p. 111).

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.

Um eine fremde Sprache recht gut sprechen zu lernen, und würklich in Gesellschaft zu sprechen mit dem eigentlichen Akzent des Volks, muß man nicht allein Gedächtnis und Ohr haben, sondern auch in gewissem Grad ein kleiner Geek sein.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

With a fluency that amazed me lies and treachery streamed from my lips. I was in extreme pain.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I speak German, Turkish and English perfectly. And I can communicate in Russian.