Andrea M. Ducas, MPH, is a program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working with programs related to payment and delivery system reform, purchaser and consumer engagement, health care price transparency, community-driven health improvements, and strengthening health departments.
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up vote 44 down vote accepted. A native speaker of English refers to someone who has learned and used English from early childhood. It does not necessarily mean that it is the speaker's only language, but it means it is and has been the primary means of concept formation and communication.It means having lived in a truly English-speaking culture during one's formative years, so that English has been absorbed effortlessly as by osmosis.hese are the parents baked a cake by their children. It's apparent that different people have different notions of what a native speaker is. To a linguist, the term generally implies that a speaker has internalised the language through natural acquisition, rather than through deliberate instruction/learning.