>>>>Hey! I'm not even a native speaker! :)
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>>>Hey, you live in Miami, Florida, U.S.A.! Or are you one of the Cuban refugees? :)
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>>Not a refugee, just a naturalized citizen (25 years here). (not a Cuban either :)
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>So, what's the criterion for being a native speaker? Been born there?


I would say having grown up, gone to early school, so you speak it without an accent, or with the local accent if you wish. As opposed to a good dutch speaker that did not grow up in there so when he speaks dutch you can hear a foreign accent. I do have an accent in English that differentiates me from a local. I may not have an accent in English in the web :)