A native speaker of a language is someone who speaks that language as their first language rather than having learned it as a foreign language.
Our programme ensures daily opportunities to practice your study language with nativespeakers.
native speaker in British English
noun
a person having a specified native language
a native speaker of Cree
Examples of 'native speaker' in a sentence
native speaker
How native speakers use the language is the only evidence we have for what English is.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Research suggests that although pupils who are not native speakers struggle at first, most make up any lost ground by the time they reach secondary school.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
native speaker
British English: native speaker /ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkə/ NOUN
A native speaker of a language is someone who speaks that language as their first language rather than having learned it as a foreign language.
Our programme ensures daily opportunities to practise your study language with native speakers.
American English: native speaker
Arabic: مُتَحَدِّثٌ بِاللُّغَةِ الُأمّ
Brazilian Portuguese: falante de língua materna
Chinese: 说本族语的人
Croatian: izvorni govornik
Czech: rodilý mluvčí
Danish: modersmålstalende
Dutch: spreker van eigen taal
European Spanish: hablante nativo
Finnish: syntyperäinen kielenpuhuja
French: locuteur natif
German: Muttersprachler
Greek: αυτός που μιλά τη μητρική του γλώσσα
Italian: madrelingua
Japanese: 母国語とする人
Korean: 원어민
Norwegian: morsmålsbruker
Polish: rodzimy użytkownik języka
European Portuguese: falante de língua materna
Romanian: vorbitor nativ
Russian: носитель языка
Latin American Spanish: hablante nativo
Swedish: person med visst språk som modersmål
Thai: เจ้าของภาษา
Turkish: anadilini konuşan
Ukrainian: носій мови
Vietnamese: người bản ngữ
Chinese translation of 'native speaker'
native speaker
n(c)
讲(講)母语(語)的人 (jiǎng mǔyǔ de rén)
a native speaker of English, an English native speaker以英语(語)为(為)母语(語)的人 (yǐ Yīngyǔ wéi mǔyǔ de rén)