{"id":1995,"date":"2023-01-13T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:20:18","slug":"fluency-vs-proficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/fluency-vs-proficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluency vs Proficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1995\" class=\"elementor elementor-1995\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3bc0557a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3bc0557a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a7bff2c\" data-id=\"a7bff2c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ee28507 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ee28507\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure><p>Everyone is on a language journey. You&#8217;re involved with some form of communication every day, whether you&#8217;re speaking, listening, reading, or writing. If you&#8217;re multilingual or studying a world language, then you have even more paths on your language journey.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/certifications-tests\/test-information\">Get Certified Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>As you grow in your first language and other world languages,\u00a0you&#8217;ll want to become more fluent. You may also understand the term \u201clanguage proficiency\u201d and wish you were more proficient. Proficiency and fluency in a language are two distinct concepts you need to differentiate between as you continue your language-learning experience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df811ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-read-more\" data-id=\"df811ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"read-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/fluency-vs-proficiency\/#more-1995\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Fluency vs Proficiency\">Continue reading<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is on a language journey. You&#8217;re involved with some form of communication every day, whether you&#8217;re speaking, listening, reading, or writing. If you&#8217;re multilingual or studying a world language, then you have even more paths on your language journey. 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