Fluency
noun
The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily.
She speaks French with great fluency.
Often appears as...
- speak with fluency
- fluency in language
noun
The quality of being easy to perform without too much effort.
The graceful fluency of her movements made the dance look easy.
Often appears as...
- performance fluency
- operational fluency
noun
The ability to produce ideas or solve problems easily and creatively.
His fluency of thought made him a great problem-solver.
Often appears as...
- fluency of thought
- creative fluency
noun
The quality of being able to express oneself easily and articulately.
Her fluency of expression makes her a good public speaker.
Often appears as...
- fluency of expression
- articulate fluency
noun
The ability to speak or write a language smoothly and easily.
She speaks French with great fluency.
Often appears as...
- speak with fluency
- fluency in language
noun
The quality of being easy to perform without too much effort.
The graceful fluency of her movements made the dance look easy.
Often appears as...
- performance fluency
- operational fluency
noun
The ability to produce ideas or solve problems easily and creatively.
His fluency of thought made him a great problem-solver.
Often appears as...
- fluency of thought
- creative fluency
noun
The quality of being able to express oneself easily and articulately.
Her fluency of expression makes her a good public speaker.
Often appears as...
- fluency of expression
- articulate fluency
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Nuance
Understand the cultural context to enhance language fluency beyond vocabulary and grammar.
Learning slang and idioms increases your fluency in English.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Developing good listening skills is crucial for achieving fluency as it aids in natural conversations.
Listen to English songs to improve your fluency.
Pro Tip 3/3Practice Regularly
Consistent practice speaking and writing will lead to more fluency over time.
Join a conversation club to practice and gain fluency.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Nuance
Understand the cultural context to enhance language fluency beyond vocabulary and grammar.
Learning slang and idioms increases your fluency in English.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Developing good listening skills is crucial for achieving fluency as it aids in natural conversations.
Listen to English songs to improve your fluency.
Pro Tip 3/3Practice Regularly
Consistent practice speaking and writing will lead to more fluency over time.
Join a conversation club to practice and gain fluency.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Nuance
Understand the cultural context to enhance language fluency beyond vocabulary and grammar.
Learning slang and idioms increases your fluency in English.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Developing good listening skills is crucial for achieving fluency as it aids in natural conversations.
Listen to English songs to improve your fluency.
Pro Tip 3/3Practice Regularly
Consistent practice speaking and writing will lead to more fluency over time.
Join a conversation club to practice and gain fluency.
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What it takes to be...
for social justice. For example, starting conversations with other people of privilege about race. Or shifting the power in her classroom to her students by learning to listen to their experiences of racism and poverty. It's not just knowing that native languages are dying. It's appreciating how fluency in the Cherokee language,
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Michael Merzenich:...
Think of the children on the slow side of the class. We have the potential to move most of those children to the middle or to the right side. In addition to accurate language training it also fixes memory and cognition speech fluency and speech production. And an important language dependent skill is enabled by this training --
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A True Clue PIPE Duck...
pleasing form of human communication but just because we like rhymes does that mean we can be influenced by them are we more likely to believe a statement if it rhymes my research shows that rhyming statements are easier to understand that non-rhyming statements this is a phenomenon called cognitive fluency and
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The secrets of learning...
who is willing to take the learning into their own hands. So meeting other polyglots helped me realize that it is really crucial to find enjoyment in the process of learning languages, but also that joy in itself is not enough. If you want to achieve fluency in a foreign language,
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Seafood and Survival PIPE...
college I realized very quickly that the traditional path wasn't for me and it was the fluency with food that allowed me to find structure and in guidance in my life in restaurants and restaurants really became my laboratory I mean I was first cultivating my ego I was going to
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How to teach kids to...
and opportunities to practice how to think. For example, think about how we teach kids how to read. We don't start by giving them books. We start by breaking down words into letters and sounds and we encourage them to practice their fluency by reading every single day,
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When technology...
blood donation and we go through it and to help with accelerating this familiarity and fluency with these kinds of technologies I think places like Jen's Bates are going to play a really pivotal role elevating the scientific literacy of our population in the
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The money talk that...
But if you keep that financial immersion going, so does your fluency. Being open about your finances can be very scary, but it can also be very rewarding. Experiments have shown that shared vulnerability establishes a greater sense of trust, cooperation
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Why do we, like,...
and help them connect new words to new objects. For adolescents and adults learning a second language, filled pauses smooth out awkward early conversations. And once they’re more confident, the second-language learner can signal their newfound fluency
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How I hacked online...
and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date, I said monetization and fluency in Japanese. I talked a lot about JavaScript.
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What it takes to be...
for social justice. For example, starting conversations with other people of privilege about race. Or shifting the power in her classroom to her students by learning to listen to their experiences of racism and poverty. It's not just knowing that native languages are dying. It's appreciating how fluency in the Cherokee language,
Video examples
Michael Merzenich:...
Think of the children on the slow side of the class. We have the potential to move most of those children to the middle or to the right side. In addition to accurate language training it also fixes memory and cognition speech fluency and speech production. And an important language dependent skill is enabled by this training --
Video examples
A True Clue PIPE Duck...
pleasing form of human communication but just because we like rhymes does that mean we can be influenced by them are we more likely to believe a statement if it rhymes my research shows that rhyming statements are easier to understand that non-rhyming statements this is a phenomenon called cognitive fluency and
Video examples
The secrets of learning...
who is willing to take the learning into their own hands. So meeting other polyglots helped me realize that it is really crucial to find enjoyment in the process of learning languages, but also that joy in itself is not enough. If you want to achieve fluency in a foreign language,
Video examples
Seafood and Survival PIPE...
college I realized very quickly that the traditional path wasn't for me and it was the fluency with food that allowed me to find structure and in guidance in my life in restaurants and restaurants really became my laboratory I mean I was first cultivating my ego I was going to
Video examples
How to teach kids to...
and opportunities to practice how to think. For example, think about how we teach kids how to read. We don't start by giving them books. We start by breaking down words into letters and sounds and we encourage them to practice their fluency by reading every single day,
Video examples
When technology...
blood donation and we go through it and to help with accelerating this familiarity and fluency with these kinds of technologies I think places like Jen's Bates are going to play a really pivotal role elevating the scientific literacy of our population in the
Video examples
The money talk that...
But if you keep that financial immersion going, so does your fluency. Being open about your finances can be very scary, but it can also be very rewarding. Experiments have shown that shared vulnerability establishes a greater sense of trust, cooperation
Video examples
Why do we, like,...
and help them connect new words to new objects. For adolescents and adults learning a second language, filled pauses smooth out awkward early conversations. And once they’re more confident, the second-language learner can signal their newfound fluency
Video examples
How I hacked online...
and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date, I said monetization and fluency in Japanese. I talked a lot about JavaScript.
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Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
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.
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Lois Lowry
American Writer
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
American Novelist
When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
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Faith Salie
American Journalist
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.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.
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Philip Roth
American Novelist
Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Jim Broadbent
American Actor
Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.
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Julie Sweet
American Businesswoman
Digital fluency is about basic skills.
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Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
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Chelsea Clinton
American Celebrity
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.
Quote examples
Lois Lowry
American Writer
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
Quote examples
Jewell Parker Rhodes
American Novelist
When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
Quote examples
Faith Salie
American Journalist
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.
Quote examples
Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.
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Philip Roth
American Novelist
Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Quote examples
Jim Broadbent
American Actor
Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.
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Julie Sweet
American Businesswoman
Digital fluency is about basic skills.
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