Jan 3rd, 2007, 07:56 pm
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 | Sifu | | Join Date: Mar 21st, 2006
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 Re: Defining a native speaker
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No matter how good someone is at a language, if they are still translating words/sentences from the language into their base language, then I will only go as far as to define them as Near Native Speaker
| That sounds fair to me. If you translate when you speak, you will be using English 'thought-patterns' to present Chinese sentences. In the case of Chinese, ever noticed how some students get the grammar correct but still somehow don't sound natural? |
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