Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

How would you describe your competence yourself?

Develop your linguistic competence as much as possible.

Ted doesn't have the competence to teach English.

I do have a certain technical competence, yes.

We're looking for competence, discipline, endurance, and strength.

And one of the things that I learned is that over time, particularly men, who used to be non communicative, are becoming more and more communicative.

We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.

So we need to understand where our competence is and isn't.

A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief.

N, the same thing, the number of communicative civilizations out there that we might expect in our galaxy.

As one moves up the ladder, values other than technical competence are viewed with increasing suspicion.

This is a world in which there's no electricity, there's no money, there's no medical competence.

They are drive by technical competence customer needs, and the ability to let her final finished quality product.

Because we rate them on all these variables related to competence, like, how well structured is the speech?

It allows you to create the illusion of competence, the illusion of simplicity, and most destructively, the illusion of understanding.

There is a huge disconnect, we believe, between the communicative and discursive space of the Mall and the museums that line it to either side.

Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon.

So when individuals come together and find something that unites them that's greater than their individual competence, then something very important happens.

And we as citizens, as we go through this experience of the kind of, the crisis of confidence, crisis of competence, crisis of legitimacy,

I mean, go see a doctor or come back after six months, and then this happens as a way of bridging the technology competence.

He wanted to estimate N, the number of communicative civilizations out there in our galaxy, and he included in there the rate of star formation, the rate of planets, but crucially, intelligence.

It is important in choosing the direction to take in science to find the subject at your level of competence that interests you deeply, and focus on that.

I think you'll probably guess this one right, as you can tell that these two are pretty much the same thing by, I believe it's the transitive property no, no I think it's the communicative property.

For every scientist, whether researcher, technician, teacher, manager or businessman, working at any level of mathematical competence, there exists a discipline in science or medicine for which that level is enough to achieve excellence.

So there's a long history of extraordinary state infrastructural projects in China, which I suppose helps us to explain what we see today, which is something like the Three Gorges Dam and many other expressions of state competence within China.

I'm going to talk about using these strategies to actually design brain plasticity based approach to drive corrections in the machinery of a child that increases the competence of the child as a language receiver and user and, thereafter, as a reader.