Quotes About Fluency

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.

I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.

Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué, todo fluye, captas cómo funciona...

Rage was making him fluent

He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation.

I think proficiency in language helps greatly with acting.

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?

I'd love to master another language properly.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education -- Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.