The linguistic meaning of fluent refers to the fluidity of any skill. Proficiency is the accurate term here. Of course, people will continue to confuse the term fluency for proficiency, or one's ability in a language.
Edits;
One trick that might help
Envision the ideal point(s) you wish to reach in the language and follow through the steps necessary to acquire these skills. Four core areas to hone in language learning include: reading, listening, comprehensible output, and form-focused instruction. An aim for fluency isn't necessary and may hold you back, in the sense that fluency in that sense is very arbitrary and will never truly satisfy you. Reach a natural language learning flow by aiming for smaller, enjoyable / manageable endpoints and milestones that can be handled in the present moment. If fluency were just one single point in a far off uncertain future; reaching for it would be pretty unsatisfying. Learn steadily.
Attaining fluency, in that sense, is akin to losing one's virginity in that it's a socially misconstrued point of advancement or graduation. Might be a reflection of the status-based society we currently live in. To reach a certain arbitrary endpoint that somehow heightens your sense of self-worth.
Emphasis by me. Somewhat relevant. The links below contain quite a bit of information about goal perspective.
12
Edits;
One trick that might help
Envision the ideal point(s) you wish to reach in the language and follow through the steps necessary to acquire these skills. Four core areas to hone in language learning include: reading, listening, comprehensible output, and form-focused instruction. An aim for fluency isn't necessary and may hold you back, in the sense that fluency in that sense is very arbitrary and will never truly satisfy you. Reach a natural language learning flow by aiming for smaller, enjoyable / manageable endpoints and milestones that can be handled in the present moment. If fluency were just one single point in a far off uncertain future; reaching for it would be pretty unsatisfying. Learn steadily.
Attaining fluency, in that sense, is akin to losing one's virginity in that it's a socially misconstrued point of advancement or graduation. Might be a reflection of the status-based society we currently live in. To reach a certain arbitrary endpoint that somehow heightens your sense of self-worth.
Emphasis by me. Somewhat relevant. The links below contain quite a bit of information about goal perspective.
darkjapanese Wrote:The key with this idea is the ideal L2 self, the self we want to become, who has ultimate attainment of the L2. This idea subsumes previous notions of integrativeness and instrumentality, where positive feelings towards the L2 community and the desire for pragmatic benefits motivate learning. Your disposition towards L2 users is tied to how attractive you find the ideal L2 self. The more positive that disposition, the more attractive the related possible self becomes. Many researchers (Erling, 2004; Irie, 2003; Lamb, 2004; McClelland, 2000; Yashima, 2000) suggest that integration with the global community and language variants rather than assimilation with native users is the most useful aim (Dornyei, et al., 2006).[...]
lolajatt Wrote:There is no end. There is only more 5. So either you’re happy with your Japanese now, or you’re never happy with it, because more of it will not (and this is hard to believe) make you happier than the current amount: it’ll just make you numb…in a good way — it’ll numb you to Japanese itself and graduate you to another level, and give you other things to focus on; so the time to love it is now. The payoff, the fun, the joy is now or never. Ahora o nunca, meng. [...]
12
Edited: 2016-01-08, 4:13 pm