fluent
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Her twin 10-year-olds “can kind of follow along” when she speaks to her parents in Tamil, but she is no longer fluent in Malayalam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Soares' defence barrister said his client was neither fluent in either Tetum or English.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The 22-year-old told AFP, in fluent Japanese, that he had been waiting for five hours to file his paperwork.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
“At the time, I was the first commissioner in the agency’s 37-year history to speak fluent Russian, the language of the world’s largest Arctic nation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Tomorrow Berlin wouldn’t be able to help because she’d be in a full-day intensive with a visiting Elder who was fluent in Southern Michif and Plains Cree, who had only enough English to get by.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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