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Poll: Do you think it is possible to be native speaker in two languages?
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Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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Education Jan 12, 2017

EvaVer wrote:

how many native speakers will get tenses wrong? One can see horrible things out there, and even in texts we translate - at least, that I translate. I am just translating a French text by a French native speaker and it's awful. So do we speak about a native speaker, or about an EDUCATED native speaker?


I think we can assume that a translator will be educated.

While even educated natives will make slips when typing in a forum like this, and uneducated natives may make various grammatical errors, their basic style will be obviously native. Whereas some errors just scream "foreigner" - no natives would ever express themselves in that way.
 
Kay Denney
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France
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French to English
hokey cokey Jan 13, 2017

Chris S wrote:

How many Russian spies could hum the Birdie Song?



I'm not a Russian spy yet I'm pretty sure you wouldn't recognise the Birdie Song if I hummed it. I have the Hokey Cokey off pat though
 
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