Sentence examples for fluent in another tongue from inspiring English sources
Our language is spoken so widely that it makes us lazy about learning others but I would love to be fluent in another tongue.
In Luxembourg, an astonishing 99 per cent of people said they spoke a second language, while Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark and Sweden had more than 90 per cent of people fluent in another tongue.
Glover is fluent in tongue as well as foot, able to analyze his own work better than most artists.
There is Grandma, fluent in the old tongue.
And if few returned from the front fluent in a foreign tongue, trench chatter left its mark.
Sometimes, the goal is more to familiarize people with a foreign culture than to make them fluent in a foreign tongue.
But for Pendergraft and a growing number of white nationalists flocking to the campaign's circus-like tent, the billionaire sounds familiar, like a man fluent in the native tongue of disaffected whites.
Indeed, in some cases, the expense involved in subtitling persuades the producers of low-budget pictures to cut corners and hacks not entirely fluent in the secondary tongue can come up with some amusing howlers.
But, notes one observer wryly, it means that until they have had time to learn the new words, none of the existing Cornish speakers will be fluent in their new tongue.Nevertheless, say supporters, deciding on an official form of the language is worth some short-term pain.
In fact, it's often a bigger problem for parents of refugee children to ensure they remain fluent in their native tongue than it is for them to master English.
