The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“There was skill and fluency in the way he kissed her, for this was a language, too. Her body was learning it” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” — 2000 National Reading Panel Copy Share Image
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“When your stutter is chronic, you wonder what magic fluent people use that makes them sound so fluent.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image