Word: fluent
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...April 27 ABC will air Eloise at the Plaza, a live-action version of the children's books. Stepping into the title role is SOFIA VASSILIEVA: 10 years old, fluent in French and Russian and every bit the equal of her fictional alter...
...does everything for me but swing the club. She drives the cart, gardens divots, keeps score, and when my last ball plunks into a lake, she finds others in the bushes. Six years at Laem Chabang, where caddies must pass three months of training and testing, has made her fluent in golf...
Placement in most subjects reflects the tremendous diversity of backgrounds that Harvard students bring to campus. The math geniuses take Math 55, the semi-geniuses take Math 25, and down the ladder to those with less background who enroll in Math Xa. People who speak fluent French are not placed in the same level as people with a smattering of it from high school. This all seems fairly intuitive, does...
...Bizot's imprisonment in Anlong Veng in 1970, when the Khmer Rouge were still a rural guerrilla movement, and that of his return to Phnom Penh in 1975, when he showed up at the French embassy at the exact moment the Khmer Rouge arrived. As the only person there fluent in both French and Khmer, he served as the principal liaison between the French and the new regime, a job that gave him a first-hand view of the enforced evacuation of the city. One of his principal duties was to help man the entrance to the French compound...
...seems to help. Invented by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., it's a tiny, programmable earpiece that alters the pitch of the speaker's voice and echoes it back into the ear. This "choral effect" tricks the brain into thinking someone else is talking and encourages fluent speech. In initial tests, the SpeechEasy worked for about 85% of stutterers. The effect is nearly instantaneous; but like glasses for the nearsighted, it lasts only as long as the device is being used. --By Sora Song