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In natural English speech, "bilingual" appears in contexts such as: "went to New York. I hadn't told her that I speak English; I'm bilingual, well, almost completely bilingual. I had never told her that. We went to New York, we arrived at the first meeting, she spoke... she did". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/

Syllablesbi·lin·gu·al

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went to New York. I hadn't told her that I speak English; I'm

bilingual, well, almost completely bilingual. I had never told her that. We went to

New York, we arrived at the first meeting, she spoke... she did

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adjective

Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.

“He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.”

Synonyms:diglot two-tongued

adjective

Spoken or written in two different languages.

“a bilingual dictionary”

noun

A person who is able to use two languages.

“Imagine that you had to figure out the lexicon and grammar of a language that you did not know. How would you go about trying to figure out the structure of that language? It would be enormously helpful to have a bilingual speaker of your language and the new language: With a bilingual, you can agree on rough translations of morphemes and words (although their usages would be potentially different between the languages, and even across speakers).”

noun

An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.

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