Rohrbach says that there is a huge opportunity in the market for something like Fluent City.
This is no realist drama, but something mannered yet fluent; like Expressionism or an Assyrian bas-relief.
On that same morning, Frank happened to mention something about her fluent Italian, and I asked her how she'd come by it, given that her own ancestry is German.
A stocky and affable man, aged 64, he apologised before the interview in the city of Ramalan for his broken English – though it turned out to be fluent, something explained by a year spent in Britain learning English and 12 years as an oil industry engineer in Saudi Arabia, where the working language was also English.
Normally, you'd try to come up with something slightly more fluent than 'quantitative easing', but they did only a literal translation".
I guessed Lili would return to school when the summer was over, and then Mrs. Chen might hire another twenty-something who was fluent in English.
In the first week, I was further unnerved by an odd sound each time I'd turn to write something on the blackboard the fluent skittering of fingers across twenty laptop keyboards, transcribing my scrawled words as though they'd be on an exam later in the week.
Currently, if you had to compare Fluent to something, then "the future of email" looks a lot like a web-based version of Sparrow, an email client which has been achieved some popularity among the Mac/iOS crowd.
In the first week, I was further unnerved by an odd sound each time I'd turn to write something on the blackboard — the fluent skittering of fingers across twenty laptop keyboards, transcribing my scrawled words as though they'd be on an exam later in the week.
Despite its importance in modern life, fluent reading is something that many people take for granted, perhaps because it, like many other learned skills, is achieved with a remarkable degree of automaticity across many contexts (e.g., Neely 1977; Schneider and Shiffrin 1977).
