For his part, Mr. Watanabe, while fluent in English, insisted on conducting an interview in French, through an interpreter, to hone his comprehension.
While fluent in four languages as a child, her early goal in life was to become a veterinarian out of her love for animals, a goal she abandoned due to innate fears of medical procedures - a cruel irony in light of her eventually having to endure years of painful cancer treatments.
WHILE now fluent in Swedish, Mr. Nutley still prefers to direct in English because, he said, "I need to have control and to lose my language is like cutting my legs away".
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's memorable, often surreal, daily press briefings were all that proved to the world that the regime was still there.Mr Sahaf's English statements, while smooth and fluent, always seemed a little ludicrous.
"He was a brilliant guy," says Shepard. "He was a language teacher for a while, he spoke fluent Spanish, he was a Fulbright scholar, but he used to systematically self-destruct.
Hatttersley's book, while lucid, fluent and historically correct, falls short of perfection on several counts.
While the fluent Mandarin speaker introduced his Chinese guest with perfect pronunciation and an expert's grasp of the topic, his skills as an interviewer were less impressive.
The home side, while rarely fluent, chiselled out a lead as Willian's corner was nodded back towards the clutter in the six-yard box by John Terry for Costa to spin and crunch a fine volley into the net from close range.
There's a bit too much exposition in the first half, and the structure, while extraordinarily fluent, is old fashioned.
"What a bad-ass improvement that is!" Think about it, the previous image we had of the single woman was the tragic lady, sitting at home in granny panties and a baggy t-shirt, pining over romantic movies while becoming fluent in the feline language.
Mr Belda showed off his fluent French while promising that several of the merged firm's divisions would be run from Montreal.
