What is Reading Fluency and Why Is It Important?

What is Reading Fluency and Why Is It Important?

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that we talk a lot about fluency in speaking your target language. There’s a good reason for this. Conversational practice is the fastest way of mastering another language. But if you are working every day...
How Long Does It Take to Learn English?

How Long Does It Take to Learn English?

At Fluency Corp, we’ve helped countless professionals improve their English skills. While our clients come from a variety of fields, they all have one thing in common: They’re eager to know how long it will take to accomplish their goals and reach a certain level of...
Where Do Accents Come From?

Where Do Accents Come From?

Where do accents really come from? Why do people even have an accent? Formal language classes focus on reading and writing from the first day of class. This causes us to input what we know about reading and writing on the new language before we even hear it. That...
Learning Grammar Rules is NOT Linked to Fluency

Learning Grammar Rules is NOT Linked to Fluency

With the strong movement towards multilingualism, there has been an uprising of language teaching apps, programs and websites that promises to make you fluent in a language. And gradually, many users flock towards these new sites with the hopes of attaining this goal....
Should Languages be Taught by Native Speakers?

Should Languages be Taught by Native Speakers?

You might have heard the discussions surrounding whether or not foreign languages should be taught only by native speakers. The debate is really whether or not untrained native speakers are better than trained teachers who learned English as their second language. One...

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