Jenny Zhang

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.

Chinese Actress

Chelsea Clinton

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.

American Celebrity

Lois Lowry

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.

American Writer

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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.

American Novelist

Faith Salie

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.

American Journalist

Maryanne Wolf

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.

American Educator

Philip Roth

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Roman Statesman

Jim Broadbent

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

American Actor

Julie Sweet

American Businesswoman

Understand the cultural context to enhance language fluency beyond vocabulary and grammar.

Cultural Nuance

Developing good listening skills is crucial for achieving fluency as it aids in natural conversations.

Listening Skills

Consistent practice speaking and writing will lead to more fluency over time.

Practice Regularly

Fluency involves not just ease, but also clarity and precision in actions or performances.

Precision and Clarity

True fluency appears effortless, as if no struggle is involved in the performance.

Effortless Execution

To achieve creative fluency, practice thinking directly in the English language.

Think in English

Enhance your problem-solving skills to boost your fluency in generating ideas.

Problem-Solving Skills

Fluency in expression is key for effective communication and persuading others.

Effective Communication

Using fluency to convey emotions can be powerful in storytelling and public speaking.

Emotional Impact

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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.