For example, my first language is English. I think in English and know most of the slang of my English-speaking American culture. To graduate from college, I needed to learn a foreign language, so I took three years of Spanish. This language was foreign indeed. I studied and memorized and even passed the exam, but now, three decades later, I remember little. When class was over, I forgot most of what I learned and moved on to everyday life. Despite the courses I took in Spanish, I was a long way from being fluent. Fluency means being able to think in that language, not simply responding with
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