How to define a native speaker?

Recently I got into an argument with a group of people on line because I listened to a voice recording this person's voice on a language learning site, who talked about being a native speaker. But he spoke with a french accent. I then read some of his comments which didn't contain mistakes but contained many unnatural strange English sentences. So i just commented that even though he spoke really good English it's obvious that he was not a native speaker. I then got a ton of abuse from many people on that forum including him, saying his english dad raised him in switzerland so he is. I said that's fine but unless he was raised in a native english speaking country then he can't be a native speaker because his first language is obviously not english. My argument was that If i received a CV and on it, said a native english speaker then i would assume he was at least raised (probably born) in a native english speaking country. Can i find anyone who can agree with me on that???

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shi .... de question After many years i still have a problem with the shi...de sentence structure. In the following example : 我是做会计的。 I do accounting. Can i also just say 我做会计。 I thought shi...de is only for the past but the translation is 'i do accounting' I don't quite understand. Thanks Jason

I'm confused over these 3 language word pairs. Can somebody please help. I still have problems over these three pairs of words. I always get them mixed up. Can somebody please tell me what are the differences and maybe give me an example. Or maybe they are the same? 1.保留 and 保持 2.临时 and 暂时 3.办法 and 方式 Many thanks Jason

some Chinese questions

Hi. Here are just some questions that i have about the mandarin language.

1. What is the best word to say motivation in Chinese? Everytime i ask a Chiense person i feel i get different answers and disagree with the previous translation i got.

2. To say all of a sudden, i think it's tu2  ran2 in chinese. But sometimes I see tu2 ran2 jian1. Why is jian added?

3. To say make a mistake i think i can say gao3 cuo4/nong4 cuo4/zuo4 cuo4/fan4 cuo4. Are these all the same?

4. To say encourage i sometimes use gu3 li4 and ji1 li4. Are these the same?

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从中 - using cong2........ zhong1....... Hi everyone. Could someone please explain this sentence structure using 从.........中. e.g. cong cuo wu zhong xue xi. I think this sentence is correct. It means like, you learn from your mistakes. My teacher said i can omit cong but not zhong. Could someone please give me some more examples using this and maybe try to explain this. Thanks

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Note book entry 4 (27th March 2018) 现在我花了快要三个星期就每天从早上到晚上学习中文。我的脑子感觉一点奇怪的。 今天这两天我集中精力尝试学习多愈发。有某一些规则我还有问题。比如怎么正确用 （是。。。的） 句型。而且很多别规则。下个周末我遇到一新的学习花瓣她不会好的英语她也没有兴趣学习英语因此我说很多中文也挺很多中文。

Note book entry day 2 (17th March 2018) 今天早上十一点钟我又一个在线的课在italki上。非常好的课程。然后我安排一个聚会根三个学生味了联系我们的语言。我们都去珠海的海边。 好玩。然后我回来洗衣服并且我继续学习多的中文

Note book entry day 2 现在这是第二次或者第二天我要写的在这个网站。 这个月我顶我自己的学习中文时间表。这个是一种的‘待办事项列表’。我觉得这个意思是 ‘To do list'我刚用我的字典找到这个句。我先看两个小时的汉字。然后，一个小时的听力， 然后一个小时的说活根学习伙伴，然后半个小时的做些，半个小时的复习生词。明天我回重复了