Stuck at Level 3 (Professional-Level Proficiency): Pragmatic Fluency
You know how to ask for things. You can make suggestions, offer compliments, and express disagreement. Your grammar is solid, your vocabulary rich. But do you know how to ask without offending? How to decline without closing the door? How to compliment without sounding insincere? 🗣️ Pragmatics Is the Social Logic of Language Pragmatic fluency is the ability to navigate speech acts—requests, refusals, apologies, compliments, corrections—with cultural precision. It’s not just what you say, but how and why you say it. At Level 3, you may be linguistically correct but socially off-key. You might sound too blunt in a culture that values indirectness. Too vague in a culture that prizes clarity. Too formal in a casual setting, or too casual in a formal one. You’re fluent, but not fitting . 🔍 Pragmatics Is Contextual Intelligence It’s knowing that “Can you open the window?” might be a polite request in one culture and a passive-aggressive complaint in another. That “I’ll try” migh...