Non-native English speakers take the test to demonstrate their English skills when seeking a new job or a promotion.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Other languages don't have that distinction and so those distinctions are very difficult for non-native English speakers to learn.

其他语言并没有这样的差别,所以非英语母语的说话者,很难发现这些差别

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You told me that you're not a native English speaker.

你跟我说过你的母语不是英语。

第二外语，英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Graduate tutor Lars Soderlund says non-native English speakers generally have some trouble with English grammar.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He addresses instead the English language: "Hail native Language," Milton begins, and then he proceeds to set out in his heroic couplets of iambic pentameter a map for his future career as a famous poet.

反而写了英语这门语言：,开头写道，“为本土语言欢呼吧“,然后继续写他的五音部短长格对句,这是著名诗人对未来事业的规划。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It includes resources that can help non-native English speakers.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

maybe you're practicing English with a native speaker and you didn't quite catch what the other person said.

也许你正和一位母语为英语的朋友练习英语口语，但你没能很好地理解那个人在说什么。

Would you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The other half are native English speakers.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It was written by someone almost 100 years ago whose native language isn't English.

这是在近100年前的一个人写的,他的母语不是英语。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He wanted to make English easier to understand by listeners of VOA broadcasts whose native language was not English.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes--sorry, phonemes.

如果你是英语母语的单语说话者,你听到一段演讲,你所听到的每个声音,都被归类为这四十个音位中的一个

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For example,she says schools should teach African children in their native languages, not simply in English or French.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

And we had 20 native languages spoken at our school in addition to English.

除了英语，我们还有其它20种语言的教学。

旧金山的公立教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

With increased use of Chinook Jargon and English, the number of people speaking their native languages decreased.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

But when you say "I'm sorry" in English, it might mean something a little different than it does in your native tongue.

但是当你在英文中使用“I'm sorry”时，可能在意思上与你的母语有一点点差异。

I'm sorry 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The languages spoken by native tribes are increasingly endangered as younger generations learn and speak English.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

She sings mostly in English, with one song in her native Berber language.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

It was the first prime-time TV show to feature characters speaking in their native language with English subtitles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

It was an outdoor arboretum with trails,benches and signs identifying native plants with their English and Latin names.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

She said we need to modify outdated curriculum and improve instruction methods, such as teaching African children in their native languages, not simply in English or French.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19