I am fluent only in English, really.
Mallam Sile was fluent only in his northern Sisaala tongue, though he understood Hausa — the language of the street's inhabitants — and spoke just enough pidgin to be able to conduct his business.
Given that the community's children often grew up in refugee camps outside Afghanistan, young Afghan Sikhs sometimes no longer speak Dari, being fluent only in their mother tongue, Punjabi.
Individuals were considered to be monolingual if they were fluent only in the English language, with little or no training in a second language.
It was designed to represent a typical literature search performed by a North American researcher who is fluent only in English.
The researchers recruited three groups of participants — Pakistani students, who were fluent only in the Persian version of Indian numbers; Jordanian students, who were fluent only in the Arabic version of Indian numbers; and Spanish students, who had no knowledge of either.
Conservatives speak all six, but liberals are fluent in only three.
This represents a major break with a tradition whereby French has long been the exclusive language of formal education—a tradition that has impeded the learning of generations of Haitian students, the vast majority of whom are fluent in Kreyòl only.
Since only Mr Michael and one other member of the Welsh cabinet are fluent in Welsh, and only two others are learning, headphones with simultaneous translation are provided for members in the chamber.
