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What is fluency? By Steve Kaufman

26 March 2012, The Linguist Blog

A former Mayor of Vancouver has launched a program called "greeting fluency" in which he wants to encourage people in Vancouver to learn to greet one another in different languages. Being able to say "hello" and "how are you", without any chance of understanding the response, and without really knowing how you sound, strikes me as a gimmick, that has nothing to do with fluency. Read more...