a person who has spoken the language in question from earliest childhood
说本族语的人。
说母语的人
She sat in the Spanish lab for hours, trying to acquire the accent of a native speaker.
她在西班牙语研究所里坐了好几个小时,试着学习以西班牙语为母语的人的口音。
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。
English has a large vocabulary with different usages so it's not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as fluently as a native speaker.
英语词汇量很大,用法也很多,所以一个中国人想把英语说的像母语者一样流利并不容易。
Native speaker: Mandarin and Cantonese
母语:普通话和广东话
He speaks English as well as a native speaker.
他英语说得同母语是英语的人一样好。
a person who has spoken the language in question from earliest childhood
说本族语的人。