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Language learning is not a numbers game. Fluency is not defined by WHAT you know. HOW you find your own way of expressing yourself is the important part. Regardless of the mistakes you make, if you’re curious and passionate about learning and practicing, you can use mistakes to find out HOW to keep improving your speech. And you’ll naturally become fluent in English before you know it.
Spanish is our first language, but many puertoricans know how to speak English if they aren't fluent
I know there are at least 1338 words before genisis chapter 3.
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She can speak fluent Spanish, English, French, Italian,Portuguese, Catalan, and some Arabic, Pidgin, Hebrew, and Mandarin Chinese.
Knowing a few dozen French words is enough to ask your way and understand the directions. To get a correct understanding of everyday topics and be able to have a satisfying conversation, about four to five hundred French words would be quite enough. A sizeable part of the French population uses about 600 vocabulary words and fit perfectly in the French society.
A person who is fluent in many languages is often referred to as a polyglot.
Being fluent (in any language) means that you can speak enough the language to be able to communicate effectively with the native speakers. Contrary to many believes, it does NOT mean that you have to be able to speak to them 100% of the time, because no matter where you go, every country and regions have their dialects and regional words that one is not going to understand. As long as you can understand and communicate with a Spanish person about 95% of the time, I would say you are fluent in the language.
It is often termed Spanglish, but there are also many who are fluent in both Spanish and English. You will also find some who are fluent in other languages as well.
The more words a person knows, the better they are able to express themselves and communicate. Linguistically "poor" children only know about 5,000 words by first grade, but linguistically "rich" children know more than 20,000 words. This is definitely a matter of "you can never have too much."
Fluency is a broad term and generally pretty loose in its descripion of a person's grasp of a language. There is no set amount of a language that you need to know before you could be considered fluent in it. Fluency depends more on how well you come to grips with a language than how many words you can translate. (I've spoken English all my life and still dont know every word in the language!) If you can speak a language comfortably and confidently, without too much hesitation, especially in the presence of someone who was born into the language, then you can consider yourself fluent in it. It also helps if you can adopt (not mimic) an appropriate accent for the language in question. Nothing worse than hearing (for example) an American trying to speak with a British dialect!
Roberta Bondar is fluent in English and French.