Quotes About Fluency

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

I have always loved languages, I have studied basic French and Japanese too.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I don't like to do anything that I can't do very well-Doris Day

I can speak passable Mandarin. I will not be translating at the U.N. anytime soon.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

My English is very bad.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

My English is good because I have a good ear.

I am not eloquent.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

including a rhyme can enhance the processing fluency of your listeners, allowing your message to stick in their minds when they compare you and your competitors

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life. 3.

Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life. 2.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I had to know at least two languages.