Fluent and Native

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Fluent adjective - Able to express oneself clearly and well.

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Native and fluent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Fluent".

Nearby Words: fluently, fluency

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.

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Fluent and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fluent" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Fortunately, Jean was fluent in Mock Swedish and was able to convince him to switch to his native language - Mock Japanese.

Source: Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish
Blackthorne himself is a subversion: His native language is English, but he's fluent enough in Dutch to serve on a Dutch ship and fluent enough in Portuguese to learn another language through it.

Source: Cunning Linguist
In Inglourious Basterds, Hans Landa shows fluent command of his native German, plus French, English, and it is implied, Italian good enough to spot accent issues in other non-native speakers.

Source: Cunning Linguist

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