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native speakerˌnative ˈspeaker ●●○ noun [countable]   - 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.
the first language that you learn as a child► somebody's first language the first language you learn as a child - use this when you are comparing someone's first language with other languages that they learn later: · My first language is Dutch.· My daughter has several classmates whose first language is Bengali. ► somebody's mother tongue the first language you learn as a child - use this especially to talk about someone who now lives in a country where a different language is spoken: · We run classes for students whose mother tongue is not English. ► native speaker a native speaker of a language is someone who learned that language first as a child: · The book is aimed at learners of English rather than native speakers.native speaker of: · There has been an assumption in the past that anyone who is a native speaker of English is equipped to teach English. ► Languagesaccented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun 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 |