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I think fluency is a bastardized term, kind of like what Facebook did to "friends". I don't like the term either. I like "proficient" better. When someone asks
by wallflower 8y ago
I think fluency is a bastardized term, kind of like what Facebook did to "friends". I don't like the term either. I like "proficient" better.
When someone asks me "Are you fluent in Spanish?", I take that almost always as an indication that they have no idea what it takes to learn a language and try my best to educate them about what it really takes (The 1500 words frequency-based vocabulary, for example).
- emodendroket 8y agoProficiency is properly a lower standard than fluency though
- wallflower 8y agoI'll be more than happy with "proficiency" with Spanish in conversation in a pretty loud bar with a bunch of people who I may have never met before :)