 Re: Defining a native speaker
Ho ho - a hornet's nest. An area with lots of shades of grey I think. The extremes are easy, but in the middle??? My son is definitely a native speaker of Italian, but is he also a NS of English? He's never lived in an English speaking country for more than a month, but he's been brought up speaking English, and speaks fluently, and idiomatically - but with very occasional interference errors due to Italian, and probably not exactly the same as a British kid of his age would. So ....??? |