Quotes About Fluency

To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Graceful phrases fell from his lips in polished French.

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

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

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

My English is not very good-looking.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself—where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.

Teach me to speak the language of men.