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powerful and effective language "his eloquence attracted a large congregation" "fluency in spoken and written English is essential" "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police" skillfulness in speaking or writing the quality of being facile in speech and writing
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Fluency is the property of a person or of a system which delivers information quickly and with expertise.It implies very good information processing speed, i.e. very little average time between successively generated messages.Fluency is also proficiency in a language, most typically foreign language or another learned language. In this sense, "fluency" actually encompasses a number of related but separable skills: Reading: the ability to easily read and understand texts written in the language; Writing: the ability to formulate written texts in the language; Comprehension: the ability to follow and understand speech in the language; Speaking: the ability to speak in the language and be understood by its speakers.To some extent, these skills can be separately acquired. Generally, the later in life a learner approaches the study of a foreign language, the harder it is to acquire auditory comprehension and fluent speaking skills. Reading and writing a foreign language are skills that can be acquired more easily after the primary language acquisition period of youth is over, however. See also: Cognition theory Cognitics Linguistics
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