Those efforts include everything from apprenticeship programs that pair a fluent elder with a student, to immersion school programs.
As Bell inched his way past 50, bringing up his first half century of the series with a scythe through point, Fleming proved more expansive in pouncing on anything loose and he brought up a fluent 50 with a neat clip through midwicket that typified his innings.
Years ago, you needed a nursing qualification and be fluent in a foreign language in order to work for BA. But now, customer service experience is low and staff only stay for a short period of time.
As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.
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To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1, 200 words.
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Twenty20 specialist Warner - who played seven ODIs for Australia last year but is not in their current 50-over squad - was out in the first over but Middlesex skipper Gilchrist, who retired from the international arena two years ago, made a fluent 38, dispatching Shane Watson for a glorious straight six.
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It is hard to imagine that a man who speaks fluent Spanish and has a Latina sister-in-law really stands for white racist values, as he has sometimes seemed to suggest.
Warriors surged ahead again with their first fluent attack with a fine try by Shaw.
But he felt it was not a fluent knock until the second new ball arrived.
He has since become a fluent favourite on television chat-shows, his ties as embarrassingly jolly as ever.
The session lasted seven hours, and Rajaratnam, relaxed and fluent, spent a good part of it telling lies.
She studied modern languages at Oxford and is a fluent French and Italian speaker with some "rusty Japanese".
Adriano shot narrowly over three minutes later as Middlesbrough failed to get to grips with a fluent Sevilla side.
Cook departed for a fluent 67, but Ian Bell made only four and three balls later Strauss (58) fell at leg gully.
Oliver (7) has blossomed into a fluent French speaker, and his little brother, Robert (4) can grunt his way through most situations!
On the second day of his incarceration, a prosecuting judge told Athanasiadis, a fluent Farsi speaker, that he was facing charges of espionage.
The County Championship challengers recovered from the loss of three early wickets to post 388, Read making a fluent 110 from 148 balls.
Wilkins is a fluent Italian speaker and has been credited with maintaining strong links between the players and the coaching staff at Stamford Bridge.
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Chasing a revised 209 from 46 overs they reached 100-0 in 20 overs as Robin Uthappa hit a huge six in a fluent 55.
Take one colleague who said that as a Welsh learner, or as she puts it, "a fluent eavesdropper" she found the Welsh-related questions "deeply unsatisfactory".
He is a fluent speaker of Italian - as well as German and Spanish - so will have no problems communicating with the team around him.
Virender Sehwag struck a fluent 92 as India raced to 116-0 before they lost three quick wickets, including Sourav Ganguly first ball in his final Test.
Pansieri, a fluent speaker of English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to her native Italian, holds doctorate degrees in philosophy from Milan University and in Chinese language and literature from Venice University.
But South African Malan was equal to the situation, receiving stubborn lower-order support as he compiled a fluent 88 from 114 balls, with 12 fours, despite suffering the hamstring strain which later prevented him from fielding.
Harner, a fluent Chinese speaker who has lived in Asia for 30 years, says China's opening the door to new foreign and private owners indicates that it has learned from Japan's decadelong mire in the 1990s.
As security correspondent, Frank, a fluent Arabic speaker, has used his expertise and unique insights into the complex situations in the Middle East to inform audiences about al-Qaeda and the world and environment in which they operate.
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