Maybe you're practicing English with a native speaker and you didn't quite catch what the other person said.

也许你正和一位母语为英语的朋友练习英语，但你没能很好地理解那个人在说什么。

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Me not being a native English speaker, I didn't even know what the word meant.

我母语不是英语，都不知道孤僻这个词什么意思。

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STEVEN WEINBERGER: "The biggest plus, of course, is that it is so uniform that you can immediately compare a Kiswahili speaker to a native English speaker."

温伯格：“最大的长处当然是这份档案如此统一，你可以立即对斯瓦希里语朗读者和英语母语朗读者做比较。”

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The scammer claims to be a native-born American citizen, but uses poor grammar indicative of a non-native English speaker.

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Mary, a charming and gently-spoken woman who speaks English with the soft lilt of the native Gaelic-speaker - has a photograph of them all in Edinburgh: some haven't seen one another since.

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