Four out of five second-generation immigrant children speak English fluently, but the same proportion are also fluent in Spanish.

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Mitt went on the traditional Mormon mission to France after a year at Stanford, and learned to speak French fluently.

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But today their job prospects are rosier - they are well equipped for multinational customer service positions and speak English fluently.

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Ms Estemirova did not speak Chechen fluently.

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And if you speak other languages fluently, you can notify Google so translations in those languages won't show up automatically.

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The role of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa -- the villain in Quentin Tarantino's film -- required Waltz to speak four languages fluently.

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The benefits of learning to speak more than one languages fluently are not necessarily limited to the formative years.

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