Quotes about Fluency

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

The New Testament's vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary rules, nor with "going with the flow" or "doing what comes naturally", but with the learning of the language, in the present, which will equip us to speak it fluently in God's new world.

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

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

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.