Sentence examples for good fluent from inspiring English sources

Towards the end of the book, Bellos gives a scornful list of the meaningless adjectives used by book reviewers to describe translations they think are good: fluent, racy, stylish ..

"A good translator is not just fluent in the source language but must also know how to write an eloquent Chinese sentence," Ms. Wang said.

The attention paid to youngish Mr. Charlap as a repository of obscure show tunes tends to obscure how good -- fluent, flexible, swinging -- a pianist he is.

"He learned good and fluent English".

Lena was a good speaker, fluent and determined, but never shrill.

"He learned good and fluent English". After the project at the base ended, a friend of Hikmat's who was working as a security guard for the U.S. military asked Hikmat to see him about another job.

It is not a very good, or fluent film: at that point Kazan was a far better director on stage, much more attuned to the momentum of live theatre.

He has all the tools — good looks, fluent Spanish, ethnic bona fides on his Mexican-American mother's side, instant name recognition and access to a network of political and financial connections on his father's — that could make him a formidable vote-getter.

We played good, were fluent with seven changes, but only one goal," added Klopp.

In other words, despite its good looks, Fluent is still walking a fine line between favoring pretty over powerful.

The acting here is good, the direction fluent and the writing generally astute.