Andrea M. Ducas, MPH, is a program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working with programs related to payment and delivery system reform, purchaser and consumer engagement, health care price transparency, community-driven health improvements, and strengthening health departments.
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For me personally, a fluent speaker/writer is someone who is thinking in the very language he is speaking/writing. He might have a thick accent, and his grammar might be off, but as long as he's not pausing even for a split second to translate words from his mother tongue, that's fluency.