E. L. Doctorow

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

American Author

Zhang Zhidong

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

Chinese Politician

Daryl Hall

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

American Musician

Miguel

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Nikki Glaser

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

American Comedian

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

American Singer

Arca

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

Venezuelan Musician

Fabricio Werdum

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist

Noah Hathaway

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

American Actor

Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

American Novelist

Fluency isn't just about speaking fast; it's about expressing thoughts without pausing to find words.

Not Just Speed

Being fluent often includes understanding cultural references and idioms in the language.

Culture Grasp

Fluency means using grammar correctly and knowing appropriate phrases, not just having a large vocabulary.

Beyond Vocabulary

When 'fluent' describes an action, it means it's done in a relaxed, graceful way, without struggle.

Effortless Action

Action can be 'fluent' even if it's not perfect; the key is the ease and flow in performance.

Not Perfect

In geographical contexts, 'fluent' means something moves in a steady and continuous manner.

Natural Flow

Describing nature, 'fluent' suggests an ongoing, uninterrupted process or movement.

Uninterrupted Continuity

 I was so happy and motivated that I just kept on watching that day two more episodes, and as I kept watching, I had more and more of those moments of understanding, these little victories, and step by step, I got to a level where I could use the language freely and fluently to express anything.

The secrets of learning...

 is that every one of you is going to be living with a robot at some point in your life. Somewhere in your future, there will be a robot in your life. If not in yours, your children's lives. And I want these robots to be more fluent, more engaging, more graceful than currently they seem to be.

Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...

 but a lot less so of creating with new technologies and expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies. And I'm really interested in seeing, how can we help young people become fluent so they can write with new technologies?

Mitch Resnick: Let's...

 I don't have a photographic memory, and nor is my head a static gallery of sensibly collected think pieces. It's more that I've got this ever-evolving language of hieroglyphics that I've developed and can understand fluently and think deeply with. but I struggle to translate.

Three ideas. Three...

 The makeup of that cocktail influences the effectiveness of communication. The more similar two plants' chemical fingerprints are, the more fluently they can communicate. A plant will be most sensitive to the cues emitted by its own leaves.

Can plants talk to each...

 But today, I don't want to talk about what makes my life difficult. I want to talk about what makes it easy. And that is you -- and the fact that you are fluent in a language that you're probably not even aware of.

You are fluent in this...

 I was a toddler who spoke fluent SiSwati and nothing else. So I was being introduced to my new home, my new cultural identity, as a complete outsider, incapable of comprehending anything that was being said to me

How young Africans found...

 who speaks fluent Spanish. She is well trained, can be counted on, and shares the face and culture of her patients, and she deserves our support surely, because whether by subway, mule, or canoe,

Gail Reed: Where to...

 hunter craftsman and navigator who even became fluent in Inuit their team also included four Inuit guides who helped them in their mission the explorers made several failed attempts before they

Who Was the First Person...

 mother tongue at home either because they don't consider it important enough in an environment where the language is not being used or aren't fluent in the

Fluent