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
He spoke fluent Spanish and, not long before contact was lost, had moved to the Fontibon area of the capital, Bogota.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In Taichung, a meal so fluent in Chinese tradition it left me a little dazed, and yet set out simply to be enjoyed, not to prove a point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
Mother grabbed the officer and began speaking in Russian—pure, fluent Russian.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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