bilingual speakers
Dual-language communicators fluently
Bilingual speakers are people who use two languages with functional fluency.
The term often appears in discussions of education, cognitive research, and language policy: The study compared bilingual speakers with monolinguals.
Degrees of bilingualism vary widely—some speakers are equally fluent in both languages, while others favor one for certain contexts.
- language identitySelfhood tied to mother tongue
- heritage languageLanguage of one's ancestors
- home languageLanguage acquired from birth
- language proficiencyAbility in a tongue
- language acquisitionDeveloping communication ability
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- English Speakersnative speakers, Americans, British, American, Australians
- Latino CultureHispanic Americans, Latino, Chicana, Mexican-American, Cuban Americans
- Japanophonesnative speakers, heritage speakers, interpreters, translators
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- CanadiansCeline Dion, Justin Bieber, Drake, Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey
- endangered languagesendangered language, extinct language, language preservation, language revival, indigenous languages
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