native speakers

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of native speaker.
  native speaker

  noun

  a person whose knowledge and use of a language is characterized by the fact that it is their first or native language, a language that a person acquires fully through extensive exposure in childhood: The first requirement is that you can hold a one-minute conversation with a native speaker of German.

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native speakers

A high proportion of native speakers in Trabzon are over 65 years of age and fewer young people are learning the language.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024

Arieh Smith, 33, known as Xiaomanyc online, spent three weeks studying Welsh before flying across the Atlantic to chat with native speakers.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

Knowing this can help unburden scientists new to the English-speaking world from the expectation that we should already be native speakers by the time we arrive.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2023

Their task: to help Alexa master an Irish-accented English with the aid of artificial intelligence and recordings from native speakers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Of the African languages, Zulu has the largest number of native speakers, but we couldn’t keep that without also having Xhosa and Tswana and Ndebele.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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