Quotes About Fluency

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.

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Of course you cannot compare my Hindi with a Hindi-speaking person, but I am confident enough to hold a conversation in mixed Hindi-English.

Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency.

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

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

As for your Spanish, don't worry, persist. One day it will cease to feel like a language, it will become the way things are.

It is a mistake not to know any foreign language, and infinitely worse to have only a superficial knowledge of a foreign language.

But the only way to learn an unknown language is to interact with a native speaker, and by that I mean asking questions, holding a conversation, that sort of thing.

The years she spent raising Jax didn't just make him fun to talk to, didn't just provide him with hobbies and a sense of humor. They were what gave him all the attributes Exponential is looking for: fluency at navigating the real world, creativity at solving new problems, judgment you could entrust with an important decision. Every quality that made a person more valuable than a database was a product of experience

I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.

I'm in awe of people who speak other languages not just fluently but near-native. I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and I'm pretty good, but I'd love to understand all the nuances.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

I understand Spanish better than I speak it.

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.