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  • What's more, Fatima was fluent in the floral codes that had governed polite society since the Age of Chivalry.†   (source)
  • The guard is impressed that Lale speaks fluent German.†   (source)
  • Daito and Shoto lived in Japan (they'd become national heroes there), and I knew that they both spoke Japanese and English fluently.†   (source)
  • I would like to say in my own defence that though I may have anthropomorphized the animals till they spoke fluent English, the pheasants complaining in uppity British accents of their tea being cold and the baboons planning their bank robbery getaway in the flat, menacing tones of American gangsters, the fancy was always conscious.†   (source)
  • I'm fluent.†   (source)
  • Crouch was now talking fluently to a tree again, and seemed completely unaware that Harry was there, which surprised Harry so much he didn't notice that Crouch had released him.†   (source)
  • I can repeat those with a fluency I never had at school.†   (source)
  • I learned to speak fluent Hungarian just so I could talk with her.†   (source)
  • Since they'd begun their lessons, the princess had greatly improved her fluency in the common tongue, though the girls still spoke Eyllwe.†   (source)
  • He barely spoke English when he arrived; now he fluent, but with a permanent accent.†   (source)
  • He didn't realize that I am fluent in Spanish, as it was the language I learned after English.†   (source)
  • For instance, although he can understand his mother tongue, and speak it fluently, he cannot read or write it with even modest proficiency.†   (source)
  • The new language of Korean Air was English, and if you wanted to remain a pilot at the company, you had to be fluent in that language.†   (source)
  • He spoke the Common Tongue fluently, with only the slightest hint of a Tyroshi accent.†   (source)
  • My father is fluent in cliche.†   (source)
  • All at once he found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say.†   (source)
  • He had read to her that day; read to her as they lay in the grass beneath the tree with an accent that was soft and fluent, almost musical in quality.†   (source)
  • Our milkman, who lives in Halfweg, saw four Canadians sitting along the side of the road, and one of them spoke fluent Dutch.†   (source)
  • None can speak Latin fluently without practice.†   (source)
  • Though he spoke English fluently enough, with a strong Australian accent, there was also a dark, slurry undercurrent of something else: a whiff of Count Dracula, or maybe it was KGB agent.†   (source)
  • "Sunny doesn't speak fluently yet, I'm afraid," Klaus said, picking his little sister up.†   (source)
  • Although both men were fluent in English, they spoke in their native Dutch.†   (source)
  • I happen to be fluent.†   (source)
  • Mother Lois spoke fluent French; she often gave Conrad and me lessons over the dinner table.†   (source)
  • I am fluent in three languages.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she should hire someone fluent in Chinese.†   (source)
  • He was born in New Hampshire and joined the navy in 1990, advancing to serve in the SEAL teams and learning near-fluent Russian.†   (source)
  • They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • A secondary-school teacher in Jableh, she spoke fluent English.†   (source)
  • He is fluent in both black and white English as well as Cantonese, Taxilinga, and some Vietnamese, Spanish, and Mandarin.†   (source)
  • Roughly 30 to 50 percent of Subway's new franchisees are immigrants, many of whom are not fluent in English.†   (source)
  • The least of my Hitler colleagues knew some German; others were either fluent in the language or reasonably conversant.†   (source)
  • He shouted it fluently, without faltering once.†   (source)
  • I don't speak fluent bumpkin and he'll be more likely to open up to someone who does."†   (source)
  • But her obsessions tended to be fueled by competition: She needed to dazzle men and jealous-ify women: Of course Amy can cook French cuisine and speak fluent Spanish and garden and knit and run marathons and day-trade stocks and fly a plane and look like a runway model doing it.†   (source)
  • The man couldn't speak Chthonian, the warlock language, with any fluency, but he recognized enough of the words to understand Elias's repeated chant: Agramon, I summon thee.†   (source)
  • Oh yes, fluently.†   (source)
  • He spoke Spanish fluently.†   (source)
  • By the time Farmer returned to Duke, he read, wrote, and spoke French fluently.†   (source)
  • Sister Mary Bernadette was a feisty, robust little Canadian Japanese who spoke both languages fluently.†   (source)
  • He says you speak fluent Chinese.†   (source)
  • She could translate legalese, because she spoke it fluently.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to realize that Nasserine spoke fluent English a secret she had kept from me until now.†   (source)
  • But fluent.†   (source)
  • But one of the warders was fluent in Xhosa and understood the content of our songs, and we were soon ordered to stop singing.†   (source)
  • He spoke fluent Spanish, which he had learned during his years in the jungles of Central and South America, hunting for hot agents.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to become a citizen or anything—speak the language fluently—but I had to do things to get by.†   (source)
  • As a result, most of the spellcasters knew little about the ancient language-none could truly speak it fluently-their beliefs about magic were often distorted by religious superstitions, and they were ignorant of numerous applications of gramarye.†   (source)
  • He was the all-state math champ, head of the debate team, holder of the highest GPA in the history of our high school (he'd been taking AP classes since seventh grade, college sections since tenth), student council president two years running, responsible for an innovative school recycling program now implemented in districts around the country, fluent in Spanish and French.†   (source)
  • It was soon revealed that she spoke Spanish with as much fluency as the Indian language, that she had a remarkable ability for manual work, and that she could sing the waltz of the clocks with some very funny words that she herself had invented.†   (source)
  • Ghada was from Lebanon but had lived in South America for many years and so was fluent in Spanish, with pretty tenuous English.†   (source)
  • There's a reason why I'm the best musician in the family, why—besides Carlisle—I've read the most books, studied the most sciences, become fluent in the most languages.†   (source)
  • Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy, ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. fob duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi."†   (source)
  • She learned Urdu and became fluent.†   (source)
  • It also didn't hurt that he spoke fluent French and Italian.†   (source)
  • She spoke fluent English, so she could translate for Mary too.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Fine, ordinarily fluent in English, would wake enough to babble in French, Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • By fourth grade, he was fluent, and by fifth grade, he was getting straight As.†   (source)
  • She led me to Slannen, the elves' chief trader, who spoke Kyrrian fluently.†   (source)
  • At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.†   (source)
  • The two sisters swore and spat at each other now savagely, raising a fluent, deafening commotion that brought a whole crowd of hilarious spectators swarming into the room.†   (source)
  • Aunt used her finger to carry us from written character to written character and we tried to follow, although we weren't fluent enough to recognize most of the characters.†   (source)
  • "This fellow, Benteret, he's supposed to be fluent in a hundred languages, but now he'll only say one word—over and over again."†   (source)
  • To be honest, "fluent in Finnish" went in because I thought "conversational French" looked a bit bare on its own.†   (source)
  • He felt an ease with her, a fluency that came from intimate knowledge.†   (source)
  • The witnesses were from Venezuela, most did not speak English, and the interpreters were not that fluent.†   (source)
  • He began asking questions and I could hear myself replying fluently, though inside I was reeling with swiftly changing emotional images that shrilled and chattered, like a sound-track reversed at high speed.†   (source)
  • Ambrose Serle, a patriotic young Englishman and fluent writer who served as a civilian secretary to Admiral Howe, recorded in his journal how his heart went out to the Loyalists.†   (source)
  • That's not necessary, I speak French fluently … or didn't Alex tell you that?†   (source)
  • He broods and drinks and brags with the other passengers, wisely leaving Sukeena and me to ourselves, except at dinner at a tedious captain's table where liquor is the official language and all but I speak fluently.†   (source)
  • He speaks six languages fluently.†   (source)
  • While he had been talking to Jakob Merrill, the fluency of his speech and the clarity of his expression had belied the fact that he had been attending at deathbeds since dawn.†   (source)
  • He spoke Jola—the local language— fluently and gave her a weekly lesson.†   (source)
  • I was fluent in practical math: checkbook balancing; gas mileage calculation; how many gallons of paint it would take to make the living room look nice.†   (source)
  • She speaks fluent French and Spanish, secretly chain-smokes filtered cigarettes, and prefers champagne to cocktails.†   (source)
  • One could speculate that living and working in big immigrant cities like New York, with neighbors and colleagues who spoke anything but correct or fluent English, may have made Americans more tolerant of divergent forms of speech, at least as a source of humor.†   (source)
  • Down the court he would lope toward me, directly toward me, looking at me with those blazing predator's eyes, his body moving with a cold fluency, his dribble confident.†   (source)
  • That does not constitute fluency of an African language by the slaves.†   (source)
  • Janice says he's a looker, tall and lean and impressive, that he speaks fluent German and Japanese, and that he hasn't slept with his wife for more than a year.†   (source)
  • And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic.†   (source)
  • Jean-Luc does all the talking because, being half French, he speaks the language fluently.†   (source)
  • Natalie's Hebrew, while fast and fluent, betrayed her Marseilles childhood.†   (source)
  • So the young lieutenant prided himself on his knowledge of tactics and strategy and history, his fluency in German and Spanish, his West Point training, his ability to maximize a unit's potential.†   (source)
  • I was on the verge of an obvious jest but held my tongue, a point lost in any case, since Morris, so garrulous, so fluently and freely informative, had anticipated what I had been wondering and was rapidly filling me in.†   (source)
  • Soon she was talking fluently, pouring out the saga of her miseries and maybe enjoying the tale a bit and making it just a shade more hair-raising to hold my attention.†   (source)
  • He understands Standard, he just can't speak it fluently.†   (source)
  • Tall, but not overly so; big, but not heavy; his movements, slow and fluent.†   (source)
  • Leamas took a blank piece of paper and his fountain pen and wrote half a dozen times in a fluent hand "Robert Lang," then signed the first letter.†   (source)
  • I've a brother who is a very fluent Irish speaker and a popular man.†   (source)
  • She showed him all over the house, corner by corner, cupboard by cupboard, explaining to him how things should be done in her by now fluent kitchen kaffir.†   (source)
  • ...stared at her with considerable curiosity and astonishment: comprehending precious little of the fluent succession of remarks and questions which her tongue never ceased pouring forth.   (source)
  • Across the table, Ron was cursing fluently under his breath; his potion looked like liquid licorice.†   (source)
  • The velvety, fluent voice struck a chord.†   (source)
  • He started to laugh, then stopped and became fluent instead.†   (source)
  • "Sweet reds," he cried in fluent Dothraki, "I have sweet reds, from Lys and Volantis and the Arbor.†   (source)
  • You speak fluent French, you dress European ….†   (source)
  • When he returned, he spoke fast and fluent.†   (source)
  • It felt like a slap in the face; she'd spoken with perfect fluency that night in the library.†   (source)
  • The upside of my lonely two months was that I became completely fluent in French.†   (source)
  • Dad spoke fluent Spanish, and since I had studied for a year we were able to converse slightly.†   (source)
  • The door opened fluently and they made their way inside.†   (source)
  • It'd be mad for anyone to expect fluency.†   (source)
  • I was expected to speak the language fluently.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, she signed almost as fluently as Hearth, like she'd been practicing for years.†   (source)
  • But Sweets was fluent in four tongues, one of them High Valyrian.†   (source)
  • Kanue was fortunate that as a Liberian he was fluent in English.†   (source)
  • His Arabic was not sufficiently fluent for prolonged conversation, so he addressed her in French.†   (source)
  • Ghosh took Tsige aside, his Amharic surprisingly fluent as he explained what was going on.†   (source)
  • We've narrowed down Carlos's mole to thirteen possibles, all of whom speak French fluently.†   (source)
  • In addition to English and Hebrew, Gibbs was fluent in Latin, Greek, French, and Italian.†   (source)
  • 'Good to see you again, sir,' he said in fluent but heavily accented English.†   (source)
  • They were all Issei, and he was one of the few fluent in Japanese and English.†   (source)
  • Here people spoke another language called Wolof and he was already fluent.†   (source)
  • Fluent English and French, and several Oriental dialects.†   (source)
  • We kidded about it and I "I know she speaks French fluently.†   (source)
  • Ive, who was seven, spoke English fluently and with no accent.†   (source)
  • Ayelet decided that Natalie, fluent in three languages, had been recruited as a spy.†   (source)
  • He read fluently, but refused to do so aloud.†   (source)
  • Your client, Mr Song, speaks fluent Chinese.†   (source)
  • To that end, gentlemen, do any of you speak an African dialect in any degree of fluency?†   (source)
  • She wept with pride at his precocious fluency.†   (source)
  • 'It will do,' answered the driver wearily in fluent English.†   (source)
  • She'd guessed he was a schoolmaster, he had that rather didactic, fluent way with him.†   (source)
  • Langdon did not need fluent Italian to discern that the security center was currently in intense search mode.†   (source)
  • The sad thing is, my parents are fluent and I've heard it at home for years, and I even took a class in it before I went.†   (source)
  • Carole had spent parts of her childhood in Haiti, she spoke Creole fluently, and she was a friend of pih—she'd worked for a few weeks at Zanmi Lasante.†   (source)
  • All of Zeitoun's nieces and nephews were fluent in English, and were translating for the rest of the family.†   (source)
  • From talking with the patients I've gotten passably fluent in Lingala, which is spoken throughout northern Congo, in Léopoldville, and along most of the navigable rivers.†   (source)
  • She doesn't speak French to the waiter, who is French himself, but the way she pronounces the items on the menu makes it clear that she is fluent.†   (source)
  • They were instructed to monitor transactions at ration boards and prowl post offices, train and bus stations, taxi stands, ferry landings, mines, black market outlets, dive hotels and lodging houses, and any businesses that might attract a man fluent in French.†   (source)
  • The Swiss diplomat, who spoke both Russian and Italian fluently, exemplified his nation's reputation for neutrality by listening to both men with his mouth shut.†   (source)
  • Luke swore, fluently and viciously.†   (source)
  • Oskar wore the staff sergeant's uniform because his German was fluent; if talking couldn't be avoided, he would do it.†   (source)
  • The operator vaguely recognized the accent as that common to Swiss Guards-fluent Italian tainted by the Franco-Swiss influence.†   (source)
  • The United States still had many military facilities in Europe; when I earned ratings of fluent in German, Polish, and Russian, I expected to be stationed in Germany or Poland.†   (source)
  • If Dr. Huey could ask that same question in fluent Mandarin, it would be no problem for LuLing to give the right answer.†   (source)
  • She said she was ashamed at not being able to read and write Pashto, although her grandfather had been fluent.†   (source)
  • Though he was more poetic in Pashto, he could speak our national language, Urdu, and English fluently, which meant he was an effective communicator outside Swat as well as inside.†   (source)
  • Boris—budding alcoholic, fluent curser in four languages—who snatched food from my plate when he felt like it and nodded off drunk on the floor, face red like he'd been slapped.†   (source)
  • She felt guilty for leaving Nehemia out of the conversation for so long, and having the princess be fluent in both languages would be great fun.†   (source)
  • I had been taking French since seventh grade, and under the tutelage of my high school teacher, Mr. Polkingharn, affectionately known as Le Polk, I had become quite fluent.†   (source)
  • For example, the way well-intentioned white people spoke to my trilingual children (they fluently interchange French, Lingala, and English, with a slight accent in each) by assaulting them with broad, loud baby talk.†   (source)
  • Though his Australo-Ukrainian accent was certainly very odd, he was almost as fluent in English as I was; and considering what a short time he'd lived in America he was reasonably conversant in amerikanskii ways.†   (source)
  • To Jefferson, Adams was "not graceful nor elegant, nor remarkably fluent," but spoke "with a power of thought and expression that moved us from our seats."†   (source)
  • Initially because he took to the English language so fluently and had a firm, even sophisticated, grasp of Western economics.'†   (source)
  • Neither of them was very fluent, and Louisiana French was so different from Canadian French it was almost impossible to converse.†   (source)
  • The newspaper said Ilich was named after Vladimir Ilych Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, and was educated in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian.†   (source)
  • In some ways, Okinawa seemed more like home than Colorado, and though his Japanese was a bit rusty, he figured a week spent in Tokyo would rekindle the fluency he'd once known.†   (source)
  • Dr. Frank Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish—albeit with an American accent—but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish, Ellis always replied in his mother tongue.†   (source)
  • Kedry had been fluent in the tongues of all of the Free Cities, and even the mongrel Ghiscari that men spoke along the shores of Slaver's Bay.†   (source)
  • Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory, the daguerreo-type room, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed in some high-sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language.†   (source)
  • She nursed at my breast like my sons had, she cried her tears in my lap, and she honored me by becoming a good and talented woman fluent in nu shu.†   (source)
  • By this time, Mortenson's Balti had become fluent, and he and Twaha sat up long after most of Korphe slept to talk.†   (source)
  • I know it all: your years working for the British secret service, the favor you did for the Swedish royal family, and the fact that you speak twenty-seven languages fluently.†   (source)
  • I told her she'd find this girl named Man Asai in Denny's, and what you look like and that you're fluent in Chinese.†   (source)
  • I had come to Charleston as a young boy, a lonely visitor slouching through its well-tended streets, a young boy, lean and grassy, who grew fluent in his devotion and appreciation of that city's inestimable charm.†   (source)
  • It was a wasted exercise-kids in this class were either like Noah James, already an expert, or like Michael and Justin, who were fluent in Elvish but defined home run as what you did after school in order to avoid getting hung up on coat hooks by your underwear.†   (source)
  • Not fluent.†   (source)
  • Why did I put I was fluent in Finnish?†   (source)
  • Barbara Wallraff says this may well matter to the future of English: "The more we need to use English to communicate with machines—or with people whose fluency is limited, or whose understanding of English does not coincide with ours—the more simplified the language will need to be."†   (source)
  • Kagame speaks fluent English, meets regularly with Americans, and perhaps realized that it would be helpful to brand Rwanda as an equal-opportunity country.†   (source)
  • He was consistently hardworking, fluent in French, and had made himself all but indispensable to Franklin.†   (source)
  • I'm not exactly fluent.†   (source)
  • The men in the Lu household were proud of their wives' fluency in nu shu and dexterity in embroidery, though these things had as much importance to survival as a pig's fart.†   (source)
  • One of her hospital's major roles is training a constant stream of midwives, nurses, and anesthetists, and she is constantly grilling the trainees in English, because she wants them all to speak English fluently.†   (source)
  • Young Griff spoke the Common Tongue as if he had been born to it, and was fluent in High Valyrian, the low dialects of Pentos, Tyrosh, Myr, and Lys, and the trade talk of sailors.†   (source)
  • She was fluent in several languages, musical, slim and delicate, with sparkling blue eyes and a mountain of fashionably dressed blond hair that made her several inches taller than her tiny, almost dwarf-like husband.†   (source)
  • I'm glad your English is fluent.†   (source)
  • A teenager who'd left Liberia at the age of seven or eight for America—and who now spoke English fluently, had friends from around the world, and had been educated in American culture—was not Liberian exactly, or American.†   (source)
  • Yaakov Rossman, a veteran agent runner and a fluent speaker of Arabic, appeared to be contemplating an act of violence against his notebook computer.†   (source)
  • He is a little dapper fellow …. a tongue as fluent and voluble as you please, wit at will, and …. never …. at a loss for a story to tell …. while he is shaving and combing me …. he contributes more than I could have imagined to my comfort in this life.†   (source)
  • Fluent in numerous languages including his native Spanish as well as Russian, French, and English, Sanchez used his Soviet training as a springboard for refining his techniques.†   (source)
  • Carlos had infiltrated through the Spanish compound, and as his Russian was fluent, he was using the high-ranking uniform to make his escape from Novgorod.†   (source)
  • Though Ruiz's English was excellent, Judson asked Lieutenant Meade, who was fluent in Spanish, to translate for Montes.†   (source)
  • Though he could read French well enough, Jefferson was never to speak the language with the fluency Adams attained.†   (source)
  • 'Four hands are better than two,' shouted the stranger, an Oriental, in perfectly fluent English — English with an American accent.†   (source)
  • He'd learned a little Amharic in the hospital, but it was only through tête-à-têtes like this that he became fluent.†   (source)
  • Obviously, as vital as the physical appearances was language-not merely the fluent use of English but the mastery of linguistic idiosyncrasies, the dialects that were characteristic of specific locations.†   (source)
  • In all cases it had been necessary to remove them from the official scene, relocate them with new identities-those fluent in other languages frequently given citizenship by cooperating foreign governments.†   (source)
  • Son of the second president of the United States, he was fluent in German, French, Latin, and Greek, in addition to English.†   (source)
  • French fluently, Spanish acceptably.†   (source)
  • Yet it wasn't fate that stymied the probationer when she came to her clinical years, and it wasn't her clumsiness with the Amharic language, or with English, since she soon overcame these obstacles and became fluent.†   (source)
  • Bourne and d'Anjou went through customs with a minimum of effort, the way eased for them by their fluent Chinese.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Baldwin implored, "we have submitted the affidavit by a British seaman located by the Amistad Committee, a Mr. John Ferry, who is fluent in Congolese.†   (source)
  • What promise she'd shown in those early years, sailing through church school in Asmara, skipping grades, speaking fluent official Italian (as opposed to the bar-and-cinema version spoken by many Ethiopians, in which prepositions and pronouns were dispensed with altogether), and able to recite even her nineteen-times table.†   (source)
  • Gibbs had learned only shreds of the tribesmen's language over the last few weeks, but he figured it was enough to find someone who was fluent in the tongue.†   (source)
  • He says nothing and he reveals nothing, yet his Chinese is fluent and he had every opportunity to speak to me before we boarded the truck and the gags were in place.†   (source)
  • My parents were Russian and I speak it fluently, so he's at a loss to mislead me when we're in Soviet company.†   (source)
  • … What I am about to tell you, Mr. Simon, is known by only four men on the face of the earth, all of whom speak French fluently.†   (source)
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