From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnative speakerˌnative ˈspeaker ●●○ noun [countable] SLLsomeone who has learned a particular language 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 English
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native speaker• You select an Esperanto phrase, 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. 