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(a person who has spoken a particular language ever since he was able to speak at all: I am a native speaker of English; a native Spanish speaker.) ντόπιος
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native speaker — n someone who has learned a particular language as their first language, rather than as a foreign language →non native speaker ▪ For the spoken language, students are taught by native speakers. native speaker of ▪ a native speaker of English … Dictionary of contemporary English
native speaker — noun A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue. a native speaker of English See Also: native speaking … Wiktionary
native speaker — noun (C) someone who has learned a particular language as their first language, rather than as a foreign language: a native speaker of English … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Native Speaker — Author(s) Chang Rae Lee … Wikipedia
Non-native pronunciations of English — result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non native users of any language tend to carry the intonation, phonological processes and pronunciation rules from their mother tongue into their English speech. They may also create… … Wikipedia
speaker — noun 1 person who makes a speech ADJECTIVE ▪ brilliant (esp. BrE), good, great ▪ featured (esp. AmE), keynote, main, principal ▪ … Collocations dictionary
native — natively, adv. nativeness, n. /nay tiv/, adj. 1. being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one s native land. 2. belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability; native… … Universalium
English as a lingua franca — or ELF refers to the use of English between speakers of different varieties of English. The term is used to describe communication that involves people who do not consider English their first language.ELF researchers prefer this term to… … Wikipedia
English grammar — is a body of rules (grammar) specifying how phrases and sentences are constructed in the English language. Accounts of English grammar tend to fall into two groups: the descriptivist , which describes the grammatical system of English; and the… … Wikipedia
English orthography — is the alphabetic spelling system used by the English language. English orthography, like other alphabetic orthographies, uses a set of rules that generally governs how speech sounds are represented in writing. English has relatively complicated… … Wikipedia
native — 1. In many of its meanings, native is uncontroversial: native speaker, native of Liverpool, native oak are typical examples of uneventful usage. The danger signals start to sound when the word is used to mean ‘an original inhabitant of a country’ … Modern English usage