bilingualadjective
uk/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/us/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/C1 (of a person) able to use two languages equally well, or (of a thing) using or involving two languages:
She works as a bilingual secretary for an insurance company.
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- anglophone
- code switching
- diglossia
- first language
- interpret
- linguist
- lusophone
- machine translation
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- multilingual
- non-native speaker
- pinyin
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- rendering
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