Such a view goes well beyond the simple hope of attaining a degree of fluency and passing an exam.
The boxing scenes that Kubrick shoots in Day of the Fight and Killer's Kiss show the difference, of course, between genuine and staged fighting, but Kubrick achieves a degree of fluency and realism that was streets ahead of anyone else.
"The study of modern foreign and ancient languages at AS and A level is valuable in developing communication skills and critical thinking, in gaining insight into other societies and cultures that can only be achieved through the language and in enriching the lives of students". Such a view goes well beyond the simple hope of attaining a degree of fluency and passing an exam.
Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish, and that came only after five years of intense classroom study and more than half a dozen trips to Latin America.
One would think the letters EZ are meant to indicate, oh, I don't know, a procedure that by comparison to brain transplants and speaking Lithuanian with a high degree of fluency might be construed as EASY.
Common sayings: North American English uses common sayings and idioms so much that communicating with a high degree of fluency can depend on these.
In fact, political discussions require a higher degree of fluency than what is needed for business transactions or tourism: "political communication has a large ritualistic component, and these ritualized forms of communication are typically language-specific.
It was also felt that a guaranteed degree of fluency was important because some items vary from each other in important, but very subtle ways, which might escape the notice of a non-native speaker.
Carol Clark's The Prisoner seems to me to stay almost entirely clear of it, achieving a quite remarkable degree of fluency by means of no more than deft minor adjustments to the original syntax, altering the function of a clause here, dividing a sentence into two there.
Bianchi was a pro basketball lifer, a man with no degree of fluency in the language corporate executives speak.
The degree of fluency and age of acquisition of a language for a multilingual speaker [ 25, 26], and even the number of languages known, are also very important in determining the speed of semantic processing.
