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A private’s keen to reform one who’s not had to learn the language
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native speaker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ You are shown a series of pictures which are described by phrases spoken by a native speaker . ▪ You select an Esperanto phrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker .
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Native Speaker (1995) is Chang-Rae Lee ’s first novel. In Native Speaker , he creates a man named Henry Park who tries to assimilate into American society.
Wiktionary
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n. A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.
WordNet
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n. a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood; "native speakers of French"
Usage examples of native speaker.
Definitely these are Halruaan spells, but the chant inflections are slightly off, as if the wizard were not a native speaker.
With these new hyperchips I should be able to access the terms almost as fast as a native speaker.
I have read them, in their hypothetical and reconstructed forms, though I had not, of course, heard them spoken by a native speaker.
By now, his German was fluent enough that, for a few words or a few sentences at a time, he could be mistaken for a native speaker, though not one from his listener's home region, whatever that happened to be.
The expert waited for the other to reassure her, meanwhile retrieving a complete suit readout indicating fatigue toxins and mild hypothermia and analyzing the vocal patterns to conclude that this individual was a pubertal human female, a native speaker of Gaesh with the accent common to the nearby merchanters of the Familias Regnant rather than that of the Guerni Republic.