From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Languagesnative speakerˌnative ˈspeaker ●●○ noun [countable]SLLsomeone who has learned a particularlanguage 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 EnglishExamples from the Corpusnative speaker• You select an Esperantophrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker.• You are shown a series of pictures which are described by phrases spoken by a native speaker.
