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Discover LudwigThe phrase "able to speak it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone's capability to communicate in a particular language or dialect.
Example: "She is fluent in Spanish and is able to speak it with native speakers."
Alternatives: "capable of speaking it" or "proficient in speaking it".
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Were that pitch able to speak, it would have asked him to crush it to Kalamazoo.
"When he was able to speak, it was practically breathless," Kiriakou recalled.
(In China, students who perform well in English exams are often barely able to speak it).
And then you have to be able to speak it in English.
"I can't make promises that I'll be able to speak it fluently, but I'll try," he said when named captain.
She ranks herself as a "basic" speaker: understanding the language better than being able to speak it.
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"Rene felt a zeitgeist around fermentation and the literature supporting it was lacking, and if any restaurant on Earth was going to be able to speak to it, it was us," Zilber says.
Soon after the incident Brown told BBC Scotland: "I would love to be able to speak about it but it's in the hands of the police now.
You might be able to speak into it and it might speak back.
Why, when hearing the truth from the ghost's mouth, is Hamlet able neither to speak it to anyone unambiguously nor to act on it?
All of it, too, was able to speak as it did of the human dimension to these issues through the command of the artists concerned over the possibilities inherent in the imagery and materials they used.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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