How many times was I told "my son / daughter is fluent" by proud mums and dads at Parents' Evenings when I was a languages teacher back in the day? These children certainly were NOT fluent as they were only doing CSE / O-level / GCSE at the time. So, what does "fluent" mean?

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Languages develop and change all the time. They are influenced by other languages, or new technologies add new words and phrases. ​These are categorised by linguisticians as "loan words" or "loan translations".

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