fluently
- adverb
- /ˈfluːəntli/
- Results showed that Spanish-speaking ELLs read less fluently on English passages than general education students across grades and testing periods.
- speak fluently
- read fluently
- write fluently
He couldn't speak Italian, but he read French and German fluently and spoke them pretty damn well.
- He couldn't speak Italian, but he read French and German fluently and spoke them pretty damn well.
- He's the only one who really speaks Pierre Ha fluently.
- And I said, I don't know the first thing about operations, but I speak Greek and Arabic fluently.
- Keep in mind that a child must first read a word accurately before she can read it fluently.
- The one I dealt with were all trained at Sandhurst, the British West Point, spoke English fluently.
- Once a word can be read fluently, the reader no longer has any need to rely on context.
- One is that the frontal lobe is important for articulating speech, creating the words and expressing them fluently.
- She is Nehia in Nakawi and speaks fluently in Nehia.
- To gain being able to speak a language fluently, how many fingers would you lose and what languages would they be?
- and you speak your language fluently and the the targets language fluently, but the target only speaks their own language fluently,
- For me, I can speak Korean pretty fluently, so maybe it is easier for me than meet Korean guys.
- But he gave the impression that he was thinking aloud in front of the audience so that he wasn't just spouting fluently.
Examples
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Reporting that he now speaks and writes English fluently, he suggests that even a short-term visiting appointment would do.
Academic text (1998) -
Jake, you speak Russian fluently.
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Did you know that I speak four languages fluently?
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I speak Hebrew fluently and I speak French.
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Her native language was Portuguese; however, she also spoke English and Spanish fluently.
Academic text (2015) -
All three spoke Spanish fluently; two were also fluent English speakers.
Academic text (2017) -
Some students have indicated that they were able to express ideas more fluently when speaking aloud.
Academic text (2013) -
The King spoke Arabic fluently and employed many Islamic poets, scholars, architects and scientists in his court.
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The elders told stories of their parents, aunties, and uncles who spoke the language fluently in their homes growing up.
Academic text (2016) -
I can read and write in Mandarin fluently, which helps me communicate well with my colleagues.
Synonyms
In a clear, fluent way that makes ideas easy to understand
To do something with skill and confidence
Antonyms
How Fluent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fluently comes from the Latin root flu- meaning 'to flow' and is the same root in flow and fluid. So to speak fluently is to speak with a smooth, easy 'flow' like water, without stopping.