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 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.
More than 600,000 people speak Welsh to varying degrees of fluency, and on average 100,000 tune into S4C's Welsh-language soperaPobolPobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley).
Sorrentino has a basic level of fluency and verve.
Meanwhile, age, level of education, years of Canadian residency, degree of fluency in English and socio-economic status, clearly can create barriers beyond an assumed ethnic origin.
Throughout the interview, the interviewer took note of each interviewee's stressed comments, frequently used words and expressions, pauses, tones, laughter, repetition, and degree of fluency, all of which were used to analyze the recorded data.
Two factors complicate the debate on cerebral organization in bilingual people: first, the time of acquisition of the native and the second languages (early or late bilingual), and second, the degree of fluency in these languages (high or low proficiency).
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.
Bianchi was a pro basketball lifer, a man with no degree of fluency in the language corporate executives speak.
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.
