1092972 Tom seems to be unwilling to accept advice from native speakers who try to help him with his translations. CK 954079 It's getting easier to find audio files by native speakers for almost any language you might want to study. CK 1027519 I talked with Tom for over an hour before he said something that made me realize he wasn't a native speaker. CK 953472 I have a lot of friends who are native speakers, so I've had a lot of experience speaking with native speakers. CK 954200 Native speakers sometimes make mistakes, but not usually the same kind of mistakes that non-native speakers make. CK 1415525 The Belo Monte dam in Brazil is a controversial project because of its impact on the environment and native people. Spamster 953957 If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can. CK 1907470 It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language. CK 954864 Your English is grammatically correct, but sometimes what you say just doesn't sound like what a native speaker would say. CK 953966 If your company primarily does business with America, then you should be studying English with a native speaker from America. CK 953912 I've heard that it's impossible to sound like a native speaker unless one starts speaking the language before the age of twelve. CK 953963 If you want to sound more like a native speaker of American English, watch more American TV programs and fewer British TV programs. CK 2009243 One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages. CK 953965 If you weren't exposed to a language until you were an adult, you are very, very unlikely to ever sound like a native speaker of that language. CK 1230823 If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes. CK 953929 If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman. CK 2278815 The more time you spend speaking a foreign language, the better you get at guessing what non-native speakers are trying to say in your own language. CK 953943 If you can't go to an English-speaking country to study, perhaps you can find an English native speaker living nearby that can help you learn English. CK 2009244 One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages instead of visa versa. CM 954773 You may not learn to speak as well as a native speaker, but you should be able to speak well enough that native speakers will understand what you have to say. CK 1230633 If a person has not had a chance to acquire his target language by the time he's an adult, he's unlikely to be able to reach native speaker level in that language. alec 953960 If you want to sound like a native speaker, it's easier if you choose one dialect and stick with it. Native speakers don't usually mix dialects in everyday speaking. CK 2840514 One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages instead of the other way around. CK 953944 If you can't visit a country where they speak the language you are learning, find a local bar where native speakers of that language hang out and start hanging out there. CK 954354 The more countries a language is spoken in, the less important it is to sound like a native speaker, since speakers of that language are accustomed to hearing various dialects. CK 953070 A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know. CK 953962 If you want to sound like a native speaker, you must be willing to practice saying the same sentence over and over in the same way that banjo players practice the same phrase over and over until they can play it correctly and at the desired tempo. CK 953936 If someone who doesn't know your background says that you sound like a native speaker, it means they probably noticed something about your speaking that made them realize you weren't a native speaker. In other words, you don't really sound like a native speaker. CK