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> There is a difference between proficiency and fluency and when teaching languages it is important to distinguish them.

That is important; thank you for the clarification.

> fluency is what you should aim for when teaching novices

I think you should aim for both, but yes this is important. An earlier thread mentioned autocompletion: use of it during early stages of learning is a good example of working against fluency.



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