The native speakers talked too fast and used mysterious expressions.
And an iPad-only app, TOTALe Studio HD, lets you practice the language with native speakers during prescheduled video chats.
All the audio recordings have been made by native speakers, some of whom like Alfred "Bud" Lane are among the last fluent individuals in their native tongues.
The new law says local officials can use a "regional language" if at least 10% of the local population are native speakers of that language.
The small handful of native Russian speakers present didn't want to give their full names.
And yet, by some estimates, Esperanto still has more speakers than six thousand of the languages spoken around the world today, including approximately a thousand native speakers (among them George Soros) who learned it as their first language.
True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.
But the translations were done by native Russian speakers.
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But the circuit of openings and dinners can tax the energy and good will of even native speakers.
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About 36 percent of the New Yorkers expected to buy insurance through the exchanges won't be native English speakers, state officials estimate.
The number of areas of Wales where Welsh is the majority language - in north and west Wales - is still reducing, fuelling fears that the language may lose its capacity to produce new native speakers.
They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.
The only hope for English to remain the lingua franca till deathbed is a peaceful world and lots of love from non-native speakers.
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