Tatoeba.org Native Speakers with Native Language Sentences
Short, easy-to-remember URL to this page http://bit.ly/nativespeakers
This list limits each member to one language -- the language they are most fluent in (native language, strongest language, dominant language or primary language)
The best way to help us is to translate sentences by native speakers into your own native language.
The sentence counts are based on data from the
November 25, 2023
sentences-detailed.csv file.
8,425 = Native Speaker Usernames with Native Speaker Sentences
176 = The Number of Languages with Identified Native Speaker Contributions
8,532,812 = The Number of Sentences These Members Own in Their Native Languages
Additional links:
http://a4esl.org/temporary/tatoeba/native.html?t=jpn If you add the code for your native language at the end of the URL as shown above, you will also get links to sentences not yet translated into your own language.
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Why Is a List of Native Speakers Important?
Knowing who the native speakers are will help you find trustworthy sentences that you can translate into your own native language.
Of course, native speakers sometimes make mistakes, too, but their mistakes are usually typing mistakes.
Non-native speakers aren't just more likely to make grammar and vocabulary mistakes, but also often create sentences that aren't the most natural way things would be said.
Disclaimer
This is not an official list. This may not be accurate.
... if you want to let me know your native language so I can include you.
... if you know the native langauge of a member who is not listed here.
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Who Is Included?
These are all the native speakers I know about, either from what was written in their profiles or what I've been told. I have used this information under the (perhaps false) assumption that Tatoeba Project members are honest.
I have listed a member's strongest language, which in some cases may not actually be their "native language." (It happens.)
I have limited this to one native language per member. I know that there are some members that perhaps grew up speaking more than one language, but even for those people, one language is usually stronger. For most people, it's the language in which they did their formal education, have read the most, written the most, watched the most TV, listened to the most radio, and had the most conversations.