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Around the world. Accent. An accent is the way people from a particular country or

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social group pronounce words. I speak English with an American accent.

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Bilingual. Bilingual means able to use two languages equally well. He is

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bilingual in English and Japanese. Dialect. A dialect is a form of language

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that people speak in a particular part of a country. She uses different

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vocabulary because she speaks with a northern dialect. Fluent. Fluent means able to speak a

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language easily, well, and quickly. She's fluent in Russian. Mother tongue. Someone's mother tongue

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is the first language they learn when they are a baby. My mother tongue is English. Multilingual.

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Multilingual means able to use more than two languages for communication. She is multilingual.

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She speaks Spanish, French, and English.

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Native speaker.

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A native speaker is someone who has spoken a language since they were a baby.

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I am a native English speaker.

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Official language.

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An official language is the language accepted by a country's government or taught in schools.

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English is the official language of England.