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"Fluency can be achieved quickly with a strong foundation in input, allowing you to transition from pure thought to natural speech in the target language."
"Believe in your potential and keep working towards fluency, knowing that progress takes time and effort."
"Having a broad range of vocabulary is essential in achieving truly advanced English."
"Focus on one language for now and get really good at it."
"If your grammar and your vocabulary and your fluency is good enough and you just answer the questions naturally these will take care of themselves."
"25% of your speaking score depends on your pronunciation, not your accent."
"More than once in my career, have I seen idiots, absolute idiots making a killing in their careers in international cities like London, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong just because they can speak English very well."
"By having language come out automatically, you don't have to think so hard about what you're trying to say."
"Fluency means using a wide range of vocabulary and expressions effortlessly."
"Fluency impresses both native and non-native speakers."
"Remember, my goal is to help 1 billion students speak English with confidence."
"IELTS can be really important for some people."
"Improve your pronunciation, improve your expressions, use these natural kind of expressions and also high-level vocabulary."
"Someone being able to speak a language perfectly to the point where native speakers are like, 'Wow'."
"If you want to become a fluent communicator in English, you have to do what we call output."
"English speakers were much more accurate at determining the correct nationality of the speaker and whether or not it was their first language."
"I want to sound more confident in English when speaking to natives."
"But you talk in English is probably one of the most Polish signals I've seen for the European economy."
"Once you master one language, then the rest will be fairly easy."
"Getting to a near native level in a language like Japanese, the real difficulty is training your brain to fundamentally think like a Japanese person."
"When the IELTS examiner sees phrases, word combinations like this, that's when he says 'rock and roll, this person knows what they're doing.'"
"English proficiency tends to come with greater job and educational opportunities."
"At the 18th month mark, he passed the JLPT N1."
"When you've actually experienced this feeling of 'Wow, I can actually follow along now at full speed,' once you've actually had that experience in a language, you will never want to go back to listening to unnaturally slow audio again."
"I could talk to people without a dictionary and at least explain myself, explain words that I didn't know using other words."
"I have not learned Spanish fully, but how I got to the Spanish level that I'm at now."
"They found all spoke Korean pretty well. Amazing. And she asked them, she said, 'Can I interview you?' She did interviews. The common denominator: they were readers in Korean."
"So if you really like anime and you want to ride that wave as far as it can go, well anime can take you all the way to the highest peaks available when it comes to vocabulary and grammar comprehension."
"Within 10 years you're going to have the same vocabulary as a native."
"I've come a long way from the timid student who struggled to understand conversations on the train. Now, I initiate discussions, share my opinions, and tell stories in English with confidence."
"Defining what makes someone good at English should be an important thing for us all to consider. It's not just about accuracy or complexity, but about functionality."
"...at this stage in my life, I've pretty much managed to be very fluent in both."
"I didn't know Mel's vocabulary was so extensive."
"Dutch people speak phenomenal English and I'm not just talking about like vocabulary and grammar."
"You want to understand the vocabulary like a native. Even better than a native. Now you should be able to go to a native and explain what this means."
"...that's the biggest problem that I've had to deal with over the years as well, that you constantly have to prove to people that you're good enough just because you're a non-native speaker."
"...why native speakers are not better teachers and why you as a non-native speaker can be a really, really good teacher."
"I'll tell you, every student I ever have from a country in Europe whose English isn't their first language, they're always like, 'I'm sorry about my English,' and every single time, it's like, 'Yo, you speak English better than I do,' right?"
"The fact that you already know another language, that's a huge achievement and you should be very, very proud of it."
"By allowing students a dictionary and additional time, the teacher is adjusting instruction to meet the needs of the ELL students while promoting English proficiency and grade-level appropriate content."
"Instruction must be focused, targeted, and systematic in accordance with the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)."
"Never again judge anyone, laugh at anyone, or scan anyone because they are not masters of English language."
"If you have to understand the English language, right? You speak it, bro. You don't speak it the best because you don't want to. The only person, Lucas, I can give you so many negative lines from Eminem. My man, I'm standing. I can probably give you really bars."
"In order to communicate effectively with other non-native speakers, I should adapt, I should speak as accurately as possible, but sometimes it's a question of understanding how you can grade your English depending on the people you're talking to."
"Because of all the things I mentioned, you got an H in your fluency and coherence which is a very good score."
"Fundamentally, IELTS is an English Language exam. If you work on the skills you're lacking, you will improve."
"The important thing for vocabulary building is that it's not how many words you know, it's how well you know the vocabulary."
"Fluency comes from understanding something very well."
"It's crazy to see that that's just a thing you can do now but I will say if you aren't as strong in English I definitely wouldn't like go all into English because there's just so many people in English that have spoke English their whole life that are really good at it."
"The point is, it's about experience in a language to really understand something very well."
"It's really just understanding like a native."
"Once you get fluent in more words and phrases, that's when you start feeling fluent in the language itself."
"Confidence and fluency really, they come from how well you understand the language."
"It's really the only way to get fluent because this way just gives you hope, but this way you actually feel more fluent each time you get an example that you understand."
"Singapore's workforce is highly skilled, efficient, productive, and very fluent in English."
"Bilingualism is very much a matter of degree; use and fluency can vary."
"I quickly started remembering the stuff I forgot and soon I was speaking better than I did before taking the classes."
"The response contained little to no grammatical and technical errors, the applicant has good command of the language used."
"You may think that your English level is too low to begin speaking, but today I'd like to give you some tips so that you can start speaking today, no matter what your level is."
"Ultimately, it's just a matter of developing and improving your language skills."
"IELTS is not compulsory; you just need a letter of English proficiency."
"IELTS is a simple exam; it's not a test of general knowledge, it's just a test of your ability to speak English."
"It's always your personal journey because it's dependent on how well you can use English."
"Vocabulary is the number one reason people fail NCLEX."
"If you did your high school, your primary school, your lower level of education in English, you don't have to submit your English proficiency."
"For English language proficiency, the test can also be waived for students where English is the primary language or one of the official languages."
"I always excelled in English so grammar and the like were never an issue for me."
"I want to become way more fluent."
"To achieve band 9, the candidate should use a range of grammatical structures appropriately and naturally."
"Vocabulary: you used a wide range of sophisticated words naturally, accurately, and appropriately."
"To reach this point and start sounding more like a native speaker, it's vital to learn the fundamentals of sentence structure."
"If you get proficient with even one of the programming languages I've mentioned earlier, learning any other language will be a breeze."
"The average adult speaker of English knows about forty to sixty thousand words."
"The answer to speaking for three to five minutes without being stuck is to understand the language very well."
"You should be understanding like a native; that's how you become a fluent speaker."
"Forget the language, forget that you're an English learner; you're just a person who can speak English."
"When you understand the language well, that's when you feel confident about speaking."
"So how can you say that you're fluent in a certain language? Good question."
"You get fluent word by word as you understand more."
"I'm just curious, and I think if you want to improve and keep a high proficiency in the language, you definitely need to be curious."
"English proficiency is like a continuum; there is no endpoint."
"The point is to understand the language really well so you use it automatically."
"Don't pay hundreds of dollars for private tutors or waste hours on apps that don't really help you speak the language."
"Use details that really show that you're able to talk about specific things."
"IELTS 6.5 is the name of the antidote that's gonna save their life."
"The law is made of words, and so those of us who wish to make our living by working with the law must be experts in the use of language."
"Over time, it became easier, and now it's a total pleasure to be able to say everything that I want in English."
"Getting some proficiency in these ancient languages is going to open up really important vistas in the study of this material."
"I speak English fluently and then German pretty well, like highly proficient, same with Korean."
"If you want to get a good score in IELTS, you need to get better at English."
"Language courses are always important because not sounding like an amateur in professional emails will always be a good thing."
"You now know all that you need to know to pronounce German well enough to be understood and actually come across as someone who kind of knows what they're doing."
"I want to be able to speak Japanese at a level that I can talk to a Japanese person without making them any kind of uncomfortable."
"He had studied every educational systems of the civilized world and that he could speak sixteen languages and write ten of them."
"It's a very thorough exploration of everything that is needed language-wise at C1."
"Candidates tell us that the preparation they do for the OET speaking test is immediately useful when they enter the English-speaking healthcare workplace."
"They have no difficulty in understanding any kind of spoken language whether live or broadcast, which is delivered at fast native speed."
"In order to pass the OET writing, your letter needs to be fluent."
"...I could understand Japanese very well and I could read novels pretty much no problem..."
"You have a fair chance to show that you are good enough and you can communicate well in English."
"I'm very fluent since I've been working with that language for so many years."
"If someone is non-native English, I need real proof that they're going to be able to write in English virtually equivalent to a native speaker."
"In order to get a good score on the speaking test, a candidate will need to use both simple and complex grammatical structures."
"Students who have completed secondary schooling, an undergraduate program, or graduate program at a recognized institution where the language of instruction is English are not required to take an English proficiency test."
"When you know how to do that for yourself, now THAT'S the way to fluency."
"You'll get detailed and practical reporting that shows exactly what you can do with the English that you've studied for."
"Fluency is when you can have deep conversations about a range of topics."
"Overall very good in content coherence, vocabulary."
"You want to show the raters your range of words and phrases specific to the scenario."
"If you have a really complete ability to use English grammar and vocab, what you say will be unambiguous."
"Knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills are essential for a transcriptionist."
"English test is a mandatory requirement."
"Language proficiency tests are really important for Korean universities."
"I have excellent control of complex grammar and can accurately use a very broad range of precise and context-specific vocabulary and idioms."
"The OET, which stands for Occupational English Test, was created to assess the English language ability of medical professionals."
"It's scientifically proven to help you start speaking a language in only three short weeks."
"Speaking fluent English has somehow become a standard against which success is measured in my community."
"Colleges and universities will require a proof of language proficiency."
"The more comfortable you are and the wider the range of vocabulary you have, the easier this is going to be."
"It's a completely better experience when you speak Japanese; people treat you different, you get better access to places."
"With 30 minutes of daily use, you can get solid speaking skills in only 3 to 4 months."
"Students who score high in the receptive skills such as listening and reading usually find it quite easy to improve their score in the productive skills such as speaking and writing."
"The Japanese you speak should match your level as a human being."
"Fluent just refers to being able to do something without thinking about it."
"If you really want to just get to the language, if you really want to speak and actually communicate."
"Every day you have a goal where you move a little bit closer to fluency."
"Remember, if you want to get fluent in English faster, don't worry about the difficult things up here; get fluent with the basics down here."