Quotes About Fluency

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.

Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native language and need to be interested in and skilled at terminology research using both paper dictionaries and the Internet.

Man's imperfect, limited-capacity brain easily drifts into working with what's easily available to it. And the brain can't use what it can't remember or when it's blocked from recognizing because it's heavily influenced by one or more psychological tendencies bearing strongly on it … the deep structure of the human mind requires that the way to full scope competency of virtually any kind is to learn it all to fluency—like it or not.

The great shame of your life that you can't speak his language, not really, not fluently.

He says something you don't quite follow. You hear it, you catch most of the individual words, and yet somehow--you don't understand. This gap, always there. Somehow unbridgeable, whether it's across a wide Pacific gulf of language and culture, or just a simple sentence, father to son, always distance. The texture of everyday actions, simple movements and gestures, is harder than it looks. The great shame of your life that you can't speak his language, not really, not fluently.

Sir, I can put a sentence together in English. But all my effort goes into remembering the right words.

The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.

CONVENTIONS, LIKE CLICHÉS, HAVE a way of surviving their own usefulness. They are then excused or defended as the idioms of living. For everyone, foreign by birth or by nature, convention is a mark of fluency. That is why, for any woman, marriage is the idiom of life.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.

I would say to any young student today: Learn the language of the world. Get to know the language of the world because that's the way you're going to be able to communicate and have an impact.

Oh my God, my English is the worst!

My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

I understand almost everything in English. I am just not 100 per cent on numbers, so when I am out I am comfortable ordering food but when I am paying, I have to make sure I am paying the right amount!

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I speak my language fluently, but my children aren't interested," she said

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.