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1, 2. Fluent, glib, voluble may refer to a flow of words. Fluent suggests the easy and ready flow of an accomplished speaker and is usually a term of commendation: a fluent and interesting speech. Glib implies an excessive fluency divorced from sincerity or profundity; it often suggests talking smoothly and hurriedly to cover up or deceive, not giving the hearer a chance to stop and think; it may also imply a plausible, prepared, and well-rehearsed lie: He had a glib answer for everything. Voluble implies the overcopious and often rapid flow of words characteristic of a person who loves to talk: She overwhelmed him with her voluble answer. See also eloquent.

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Three fluent speakers, two of them native, worked on this.

By the way, you don't need to learn a language in elementary school to be a fluent speaker.

And fluent in the other's language, they are good friends to boot.

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fluent (ˈfluːənt)

—*adj*
1.	able to speak or write a specified foreign language with facility
2.	spoken or written with facility: his French is fluent
3.	easy and graceful in motion or shape
4.	flowing or able to flow freely

[C16: from Latin: flowing, from fluere to flow]

'fluently

—*adv*

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fluent

1580s, from L. fluentem (nom. fluens), prp. of fluere "to flow," from PIE *bhleugw-, extended form of from PIE *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cf. L. flumen "river;" Gk. phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of base *bhel- (2); see

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bole. Used interchangeably with fluid in Elizabethan times. Related: Fluently

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"For such orators to write is commonly as hard and fatal to their fame as to speak is easy and graceful to them. For to that easily fluent eloquence, the strength of judgment is seldom joined which must continue the style graceful to posterity. For their prompt and almost turbulent mind, when in that leisure which is given to writers it resolveth itself, is overladen with the multitude of fancies that meet, and confusedly oppressed with its own wealth, can neither write all which it doth invent nor judiciously elect the best."

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