Knowing the culture of the students and the fact that English is not their native tongue, I was surprised by the fluency and mastery that they demonstrated, particularly as the offerings that they shared were not simple or commonly used.
There is also a shared fluency in the matter-of-fact tongue of those who accept the risks of their calling.
The fluency with which he speaks the tongue, is spot on and it is Hussain at his best.
What Hamilton loved so much about Joyce was the mastery of language, the fluency of movement, the "polyphony of tongues, codes, ideolects" that released and inspired Hamilton himself to try out "some implausible associations in paint".
That was the challenge before chefs like Mario Batali, who didn't yoke themselves entirely to authenticity — at Babbo as far back as the late '90s, Batali put jalapeño on pasta and paired lamb chops with cumin-seasoned yogurt — but nonetheless preferred to explore the country's 20 regions and flex their Italian fluency than to speak in multiple tongues.
Yaqoub was crowned beauty queen at the Nuba Cultural Heritage festival in 2014 and uses her fluency in Arabic, English and her Nuban mother tongue to lobby politicians.
When I was 10, living in my native Ecuador, I spoke Spanish with the fluency that any 10-year-old has in his or her mother tongue.
English was not the mother tongue of all of my shipmates, but they made up for any mistakes with their fluency in American-Brit pop.
Over the next three years, his fluency was measured not only in the high-level meetings he conducted in the native tongue of his military hosts.
Ned Keenan's linguistic abilities were renowned, notably his native-level fluency in Russian, but also his facility in Spanish, an earlylove of his in foreign tongues.
