Saturday, August 13, 2011

What's the difference between being fluent in a language and "native like?"?

Fluent is a fuzzy term, but it's generally taken to mean that you don't have to hesitate or stop to think about how to say things. It's really just another word for "flowing" if that helps clarify it. "Native-like" is the point at which the only "mistakes" you usually make are the ones that natives do. Pope Benedict, for example, is just barely fluent in English (from what I've heard) and he's certainly not even close to native-like.

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