bilingual speaker
Dual-language fluent person
A bilingual speaker is someone who speaks two languages fluently.
The term emphasizes active command of both languages rather than just passive understanding: We need bilingual speakers for customer service.
In job listings and educational contexts, bilingual speaker typically implies professional-level competence in both languages.
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
- fluentSpeaking smoothly, effortlessly
- interpreterOne who conveys meaning between languages
- translatorOne who renders between languages
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
lost in translation · accent · native · tongue · dual · foreign accent · fluency · immigrant · dual citizenship · heritage · mother tongue · vocabulary · pronunciation · ESL · immersion · conversational · dialect · foreign
- English SpeakersAmericans, British, American, Australians, Australian
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- Non-native speakers
- linguistscomparativist, etymologist, philologist, phonologist, morphologist
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