non-speaker
noun[C]
(alsononspeaker)uk/ˌnɒnˈspiː.kər/us/ˌnɑːnˈspiː.kɚ/someone who does notspeakaparticularlanguage:
Subtitles areprovidedfor non-speakersofGerman.
SherarelyusedGaelic, except veryoccasionallytokeepasecretfrom hersonor some other nonspeaker.
apersonwho does notspeakor is notabletospeak:
Wewanttoimprovethecommunicationskillsof non-speakers.
Somehelpisavailableforseverelyimpairednonspeakers.
- Onereportraisedconcernsaboutteachingnativespeakersand non-speakers together.
- It isdifficultfor a non-speaker ofRussiantoevaluatetheseerrors.
- Anintensiveone-yearEnglishcourseisavailablefor nonspeakers.
- There are manycommunicationconstraintswith which nonspeakers have tostruggle.
Using other languages
- Anglocentric
- Anglocentrism
- anglophone
- bilingualism
- biliterate
- code switch
- lingo
- linguist
- native speaker
- non-native
- non-native speaker
- pinyin
- polyglot
- render
- rendering
- signer
- speaker
- speaking
- target language
- translator
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Falling silent and not speaking
Idiom
be (on) non-speakers