Done by: Ruziyeva Muhayyo Navoi-2022 year

Stage 4: Finally Fluent 
What distinguishes a "fluent" speaker of another language? There’s no one set 
definition, but I’ve always looked at it as: the point where I stop panicking when I 
have to spend all day speaking that language. When I feel a degree of physical 
comfort speaking this language, when I can date someone in that language, when I 
can take a course in that language (and actually learn something), and when I 
can 
enjoy
watching a film in that language, then I consider myself fluent. If I've 
finally had a dream in that language, then I also consider that an important milestone. 
Once you’re a fluent speaker, people no longer feel compelled to switch back into 
English with you. Congratulations, you’ve demonstrated your competency and earned 
their respect. It’s also a more challenging stage because people notice your mistakes 
more, simply because there are fewer of them, but they still give away your status as 
a non-native speaker. (Yep, after you’ve come all this way, studied Mandarin for 5 
years and learned 15,000 characters in a tonal language, natives will still poke fun of 
you for mispronouncing the tone of one single word.) 

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It’s a stage that makes your ego feel amazing one moment, and utterly crushed 
in another when you realize you’ll never quite sound exactly like "them." 
And that’s okay. The goal of language learning, I believe, is to 1) communicate 
and be understood, 2) gain cultural empathy, and 3) seamlessly maneuver in a foreign 
environment that lives in that language. If you can do all of those things, you’ve done 
what you came to do, considering you were not born and raised in that linguistic 
environment. 
Nevertheless, here are some tips to perfecting your command of this language 
within reason. 
Tips for Navigating the Stage Where You're Finally Fluent: