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Confidence in a language outrunning your actual vocabulary, and nobody noticing.
means The ability to speak, write, or move through something smoothly and with ease, without visible effort or stumbling.
from From Latin fluere, 'to flow' — the same root that gives us 'fluid' and 'fluctuate.' A fluent speaker is, etymologically, just someone whose words flow rather than clog, which is a generous way of describing someone who has simply learned to hide the clogs well.
- illusion threshold
- fluent speakers still miss ten percent of words
- dream test
- real marker is thinking, not just speaking, in it
- plateau trap
- intermediate stage where most learners quietly quit
- native myth
- natives are fluent, not automatically grammatically correct