Non-native

"Non-native" in a Sentence (12 examples)

A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know.

I'm a non-native speaker of English and realize there is a lot that I still need to learn.

Native speakers sometimes make mistakes, but not usually the same kind of mistakes that non-native speakers make.

Some non-native speakers think they speak the language better than native speakers.

I always try, when I'm translating sentences, to make the translation as similar as possible to the original sentence. This makes language learning much easier for non-native speakers.

It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

The more time you spend speaking a foreign language, the better you get at guessing what non-native speakers are trying to say in your own language.

He was taught English by a non-native English teacher.

I wonder what our language sounds like to a non-native speaker.

There are many, many nuances in any language which are perfectly natural to the native speaker but which confuse the non-native speaker.

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Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).

The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted earlier this month of murdering a teacher, Ashling Murphy, in 2022.

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