non-native speakers
Second-language users
People who learned a language after early childhood, for whom it is not their mother tongue.
Non-native speakers may be highly fluent or still learning: The instructions were written with non-native speakers in mind.
The term often appears in discussions of language teaching, workplace communication, and accessibility.
- introducedMade formally acquainted
- foreignFrom another nation
- learnerOne gaining knowledge
- second languageTongue learned after childhood
- language acquisitionDeveloping communication ability
foreign accent · pronunciation · broken English · language barriers · lost in translation · code-switching · heritage language · interlanguage · immigrant · multilingualism · conversation partner · TESOL · pidginization · cultural adaptation · language immersion · bilingual education · refugee · expat
- language groupsbilingual communities, bilinguals, bilingual community, Romance languages, Celtic languages
- marginalized groupsminorities, ethnic minorities, people of color, disabled, LGBTQ
native, speaker, speakers, natively, nativity, nation, national, nationality, nationalize