The redheaded Blossom (with the voice of Catherine Cavadini), the trio's levelheaded leader, and the only one whose ears perk up instead of down, is fluent in Chinese.
Amongst the Singaporean geriatric population, the majority (80%) have below secondary educational qualifications, and many spoke only their mother tongue (Chinese dialects, Malay, or Tamil) which the treating physician may not be fluent at, instead of the official language, English.
Instead of hiring actors who are not fluent in the language to do ASL interpretation, creative directors could seek out some of the many talented deaf performers who are working hard to make a name for themselves.
However, programming ACASI questionnaires even in one language is time-consuming and may present barriers to enrolling people who are fluent in other languages instead of the majority language.
She showed off snippets of fluent Russian.
A commercial CFD code, FLUENT (of Fluent Inc., USA) was used.
The computational model with necessary sub-models was mapped on to a commercial solver FLUENT 6.2 (of Fluent Inc., USA).
A second control group of fluent children who used a language other than English in their pre-school years was recruited (fluent bilingual, termed FB).
She was a pianist and fluent in three languages, but instead of leaving her mark on the world, she was the backbone for husbands who did.
Studying accounting is akin to what students learn in linguistics class, says Michael Paz; but instead of developing a proficiency in a foreign tongue, accounting makes one fluent in the most familiar language on earth: business.
