fluent

The lead officer, who spoke fluent Palestinian Arabic dialect, took me by the hand towards one of the rooms at the crossing point which were previously used by the Syrian army.

For young Marcel — German Jewish, a citizen of both France and the United States and fluent in three languages —the ethos and landscape of Southern California posed a very different and sometimes alienating experience.

But fluent speakers were more likely to communicate directly through the language, with half saying they usually text in Welsh, or use both languages equally.

She was fluent in the visual language that made up the city, knew its subcultures and neighborhoods like the back of her hand.

Mushtaq worked hard to become fluent in Kannada, but this alien tongue would become the language she chose for her literary expression.