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

She especially loved to teach Spanish classes tailored to native speakers, seeding her lessons with stories from the Chicano movement that she had witnessed in real time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

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

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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