passive speaker in English

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        "(linguistics) A person—often a heritage speaker—with high-level or native-like passive comprehension skills, but weak or low level active speaking skills."
      ],
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        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "passive speakers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "passive speaker (plural passive speakers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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        "en:Linguistics"
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      "glosses": [
        "A person—often a heritage speaker—with high-level or native-like passive comprehension skills, but weak or low level active speaking skills."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "heritage speaker",
          "heritage speaker"
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          "speaking",
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        "(linguistics) A person—often a heritage speaker—with high-level or native-like passive comprehension skills, but weak or low level active speaking skills."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "passive speaker"
}

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"passive speaker" meaning in English

Noun