bilingual
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- noun
- /ˌbaɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/
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bilingüe
- In our community, there are many bilinguals, and they often help bridge cultural gaps.
- English bilinguals
- Spanish-English bilinguals
- balanced bilinguals
People who were fluent bilinguals after adolescence didn't react very strongly to those swear words.
- People who were fluent bilinguals after adolescence didn't react very strongly to those swear words.
- He's a good bilingual for a bunch of languages, but also in English and, and Pierre Ha.
Examples
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In addition, emergent bilinguals may be reluctant to share while they are developing new language skills (Hall & Axelrod, 2014b).
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Many bilinguals can easily switch between their two languages during conversations.
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They're either bilingual in Spanish and English or bilingual in Korean and English.
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But she has worked with an awful lot of students who are bilingual Turkish English speakers in both Turkish and United States universities.
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For example, children who did not learn to speak French were often socialized as passive bilinguals.
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Bilinguals have one concept with two labels for that concept (e.g., concept: dog, labels: perro and dog).
Academic text (2014) -
A bilingual is someone who can fluently speak both Spanish and English.
Synonyms
A person who speaks two languages well
Antonyms
Compounds
How Bilingual
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Morphology
Etymology
Bilingual comes from the parts bi- 'two' and lingua 'tongue' or 'language', the same root you see in linguist. So a bilingual is literally someone with 'two tongues', a person who can speak two languages.