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The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
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I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.
Amanda Knox
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Friends
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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.
Amy Tan
Sad
Me
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Parents
Fluency
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Adult
Spoke
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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?
Angela Duckworth
You
Writing
Dance
Stage
Every
Think
Fluency
Ease
See
Proof
True
Come
Know
Mastery
Does
Always
Mathematical
Domain
Question
Itself
Where
Whether
Expertise
Which
Really
Expresses
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.
David Antin
Family
You
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Fluency
Though
Kind
Seem
Casual
Colored
Develop
Up
Languages
Transparent
Grow
Grow Up
Differently
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Harry Mathews
Good
Language
Become
Fluency
Else
France
Dream
Able
Someone
Both
Through
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Perhaps
Also
Mistaken
Because
Italy
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Fantasy
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Languages
Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.
Jim Broadbent
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Would-Be
Fantastic
Even
Digital fluency can accelerate progress.
Julie Sweet
Progress
Digital
Fluency
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Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the Internet in a very easy way.
Julie Sweet
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Internet
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Easy
Easy Way
Ability
Online
Device
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Banking
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Your
Connect
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Digital fluency is about basic skills.
Julie Sweet
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