Quotes About Fluency

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

The best part is, I can speak Hindi fluently. Earlier, I would cringe at the idea of delivering even a one-line dialogue in the language, but now, I can mouth a five-page monologue without blinking. My diction has improved, which has enhanced my performance.

En mi época, quienes sabían alemán ya no se licenciaban. Se pasaban el resto de su vida sabiendo alemán. Creo que hoy en día sucede lo mismo con el chino. —Yo lo conozco poco, por eso hago mi tesis.

Really, his French was terrible.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

I'm not very good at standard English.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a lot, I don't really speak the language.' I wasn't speaking the language as fluently as I am now, so it was always going to be a challenge, but it was a challenge I decided to take and change nationalities.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

I didn't speak French well at all and did these terrible interviews in pigeon French.

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can't think of one.

I'm fluent in bad puns and sarcasm.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

This is what I keep trying to tell you," said Serge. "If you're going to live in this country, you need to speak the language.