what's a native speaker?

Answer 1

Forget the stuff about "schooling" and "place where language originated". Native Speaker means that you have spoken that language since infancy. You can be a native speaker of Greek in the United States if Greek was your first language. Schooling doesn't matter. Native speakers of Navajo do not attend school in Navajo, but in English. You can also be a native speaker of two languages if you learn them nearly simultaneously in early childhood and use them both with regular frequency. For example, a child in Canada who speaks English in the home with his parents can speak French on the streets with his playmates--both with equal fluency. If you move to a new country as an older child (but still a child), you can achieve near-native competency in another language as well. The key is what languages did you speak as a child under the age of 10.

Answer 2

A native speaker is a person who's first language is of a certain language(ex. French native speaker = French was their first language and they were born in France)

Answer 3

A native speaker is someone who speaks a certain language and comes from the country where that language originates from. For example a native in the Amazon was born and breed in the Amazon. So too a native speaker would for example be a Greek that speaks Greek and comes from Greece (not born outside the country and speaks Greek because his/her parents do).

Hope I helped.

Answer 4

It normally refers to someone who has spoken a particular language from birth, and attended school in the language, in a place where the language is the majority language.

But, I don't know...I grew up mostly in Quebec (majority French speaking) and I'm definitely a native speaker of English but not of French. My schooling was all in English though. My husband also grew up mostly in Quebec, spoke only French until he was about 6, but then did all his schooling in English. I think it's safe to say he's a native speaker of both languages. My kids have spoken both French and English from birth, but we moved to Zurich when they were 2 & 6, so they've done their schooling in German...which is however quite different from the German spoken in the area. Not sure if they have no native language, or three. I think they quite arguably have French as a native language, since it's an official language of both countries they've lived in.

Answer 5

a native speaker, is a person who grew up speaking the language like the original people.

it doesn't have to be his native language, which we call "mother tongue".

so he is the person who speaks and uses the exact grammatical structure of the language as the original speakers.

Answer 6

"A native speaker " means, literally, "speaker since birth"; "a native speaker" of a language is someone who has that language as his or her mother tongue.

Answer 7

Someone who grew up learning a certain language. The language of his / her home country. You can speak several languages but your native one is the one you most relate to.

Answer 8

a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood