The phrase "already competent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has acquired the necessary skills or knowledge before a certain point in time or before a specific task.
Example: "By the time she started the new job, she was already competent in the required software applications."
Alternatives: "already skilled" or "already proficient".
Waldman's rabbi recommended a mohel-certification program for health-care professionals already competent in circumcision.
In these computational experiments an agent learns to predict the context-dependent effects of utterances by interacting with other agents that are already competent speakers.
A member of England's Under-17 side who beat Spain in the World Cup final last year who had been at Chelsea since the age of nine, he was already competent in French before sealing his move to Ligue 1 at the start of July.
However, this model assumes that STs, LTs and PLC Team Leaders are already competent in action research.
Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.
At 5, Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin, and at 76, Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa.
Among Germans, living in an energetic space of global-city cosmopolitanism, improving their already-competent English, and escaping from the 'boring' and 'provincial' German way of life were key factors behind their moves to London.
Other trainees expressed a preference for CBD over DOPS: CBDs led to 'real learning', whereas DOPS were 'tick-box exercises', simply signing off already-competent procedures.
The old curriculum taught basic skills such as word processing, which most current primary-level children will already be competent with, and are now merely complementary tools to every kind of work and study.
Born to Ivorian parents in south London, he was already a competent French speaker before sealing his move to Ligue 1 side Monaco at the start of July.
The key analytical strategies for growth research in the present article are presented is in increasing order of complexity, such that a researcher using one strategy ought to already be competent in all the preceding strategies.
