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Noun: how well you speak is your level of ...

fluency

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adj: If you don't use something for a while, a language for example, it may become a bit ...

rusty

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The language you speak from infancy

mother tongue

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If somebody speaks a language well, we could say they have an excellent ...

of the language

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Somebody who can express complex ideas is...

highly articulate

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Somebody who grew up with two languages and speaks them equally well is...

bilingual

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If you always use the correct word, we can say that you speak ....

accurately

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A phrasal verb that means 'to acquire a language'

pick up

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Another word for change, which means to stop speaking one language and start speaking another mid-conversation

switch

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In English: joie de vivre, Weltanschauung, schlep, Schadenfreude, are examples of these

fashionable loanwords

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