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Now I have been self studying Japanese for 1 and a half year now. Today I came
across this sentence:

> 彼はかなり英語が上手です。  
>  He is pretty good at English.

I have always been taught that I should construct sentence like these like:

> 彼の英語はかなり上手です。  
>  His English is pretty good.

I just wanted to know if there is some kind of different message being
transferred with the first one. Maybe it's more fluent?

All help/criticism is welcome.
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Difference between 彼はかなり英語が上手です and 彼の英語はかなり上手です
I don't see any difference in terms of fluency.

It is really hard for me to tell the differences. They are almost the same.
But, after self-observation for a while, I came up with this.

「は」 limits scope of a topic. 「A は B」suggests that "I am talking only about A
but not other things."

So, for example, suppose someone asks 「我々には三人の候補者がいる。意見が欲しい。」("We have three
candidates. Any ideas?").

「彼はかなり英語が上手です。」(I am talking only about him not other candidates.)

「彼の英語はかなり上手です。」(I am talking only about his English skill.)
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