when do you consider a speaker fluent?please complete answer?

Answer 1

My one friend learned Korean in the US Army. His seargant told him, "When you dream in Korean, you will be fluent in Korean." If your subconcious brain is thinking in the new language then you are more than likely fluent in that language.

Answer 2

A speaker who thinks fluent speaks fluent.
I consider a speaker fluent when he speaks from the heart and when he is comitted to the cause.

Answer 3

i think, a speaker is considered fluent if he or she is able to articulate and convey a complicated message in a simple way. The speaker has to able to make others understand what he or she is trying to say. its a good thing that certain people can using majestic words. it proves that they have a wide range of vocabulary. But there are certain people who use bombastic words, and yet they leave their listeners clueless. Those kind of things rarely happen when one is a fluent speaker.

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Answer 4

I'd say you are fluent in a language when you don't have to think in your native language before speaking in the second (or third) language. It just comes out without thinking. When you first start speaking a foreign language, you go through a translation process every time you want to say something. (Hmmm...a beer, please = una cerveza, por favor.) And a few cervezas seem to help your new language flow more easily, too. ;)

Dreaming in a foreign language is not a lot of bull. One of my majors in college was Spanish, and we took a 3-month trip to Mexico and South America. I sometimes talk in my sleep, and one night I scared the heck out of my roommates when I started sleep-talking in Spanish. They thought someone had gotten into our hotel room.

Having a good accent is certainly a plus and it makes it easier for you to be understood by those whose native language you are speaking, but you can speak a language fluently, and be understood, without perfecting the accent. This has to do with the age at which you learn the foreign language. At around age 12, there is a change in your brain which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to perfect the accent of a foreign language. For that reason, I taught both of my kids some Spanish as babies. Their Spanish is far from perfect, but they have near-perfect accents, which is good, since they are required to study foreign language in both high school and college.

I dated a German foreign exchange student in high school and asked him to teach me some German. I really tried, but one day he started laughing at me and said, "Boy, you have the worst German accent I've ever heard." But then again, his English sounded pretty funny with his German accent.

Answer 5

depends how fluent. Som say as long as you can have a normal to fast paced conversation without thinking. Other say when you think and dream as well as speak like it's your first language, others add in you have to have an accent like the people who have that language as their first.

Answer 6

I would say that someone is fluent in a particular language when they can converse in that language about any given subject. In other words, when they can speak as well as someone native to that language.

Answer 7

I think fluency is achieved when you can understand a comedian in that language. Humour is FILLED with nuance...and nuance and double entendres are the hardest things to pick up in another language...along with the understandings of that cultures' norms. Once you understand a comedian in another language...you are there.

Answer 8

when you can speak and write fluently, at least a post secondary level. the dreaming is utter nonsense, english is not even my first language and i dream in english.

Answer 9

When he/she speaks and write with no fault.

Answer 10

what?