Sentence examples similar to but not fluently from inspiring English sources

I can read the Qu'ran, but not as fluently as they can, and so I chose to simply listen.

Mr. Bush does, if perhaps not fluently.

WS: Not fluently, no.

However, we excluded from interviews all community members who had not stayed in the area for more than six months and, those who could not fluently speak Luo (the local dialect and could not respondent to the translated tools).

The first author, a Zambian obstetrician practicing in a different part of the country, could understand the local language but not speak it fluently and so interviewed midwives in English.

I grew up with Punjabi and Japanese and I took five years of French, yet I still can't fluently speak a second language.

I speak the language fluently but not colloquially, so can't always understand.

The cardinal could have been a bridge between the church and the growing Latino community, particularly as he spoke Spanish fluently, but not many priests or parishioners ever warmed up to him.He was very much Pope John Paul II's man.

That I should possess the capacity for fluent speech but not be able to speak fluently all the time baffled him greatly, but it baffled me more.

I couldn't speak fluently, but I could do the accent really well and I knew enough to get by.

We didn't play fluently but it was a gritty performance and a steely performance.