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Native Speaker
Native Speaker may refer to: * ''Native Speaker'' (novel), a 1995 novel by Chang-Rae Lee * ''Native Speaker'' (album), a 2011 album by Canadian band Braids * Native speaker, a person using their first language or mother tongue * Native speaker (by proficiency), a person who has achieved the highest level of proficiency in a language, meeting all linguistic, grammatical, and cultural benchmarks of a native speaker, regardless of age of acquisition {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Speaker (novel)
''Native Speaker'' (1995), author Chang-Rae Lee's debut novel, explores the life of a Korean-American man named Henry Park as he navigates his marriage and career as a spy. ''Native Speaker'' explores the themes of language, identity, and culture as an Asian-American, and is considered a literary fiction as well as a spy thriller. The novel won the 1996 PEN/Hemingway award for Best First Novel, and though not the first novel by a Korean American author to be published by a major American publisher (that honor belongs to ''East Goes West'', by Younghill Kang, Scribner's, 1935 it is the first ''contemporary'' novel in that category, published by Riverhead Books. Synopsis ''Native Speaker'' follows Henry Park, a Korean-American living in New York City during the 90s. Henry struggles with the recent separation from his wife, Lelia, who is white, following the death of their seven-year-old son. He also works at Glimmer & Co., a firm hired by clients to gather information on vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Speaker (album)
''Native Speaker'' is the debut studio album by the Canadians, Canadian experimental rock, experimental pop/art rock band Braids (band), Braids, released by Flemish Eye/Kanine Records on January 18, 2011 (April 11 in the UK) to critical acclaim. Background The band started working on ''Native Speaker'' in Montreal in September 2009. The recording of the album was completed during the winter of 2010. After negotiating with labels in the United States and Canada, Braids announced Chad VanGaalen's label Flemish Eye would distribute ''Native Speaker'' in Canada and Kanine Records would release the album in the United States. According to the band's Q (magazine), Q interview, it cost less than $500 to make. "We just had to rent drum mics and cover the mastering. I guess we only have to sell about 100 copies to break even!", Raphaelle Standell-Preston remarked.Dan Stubbs. Q (magazine), Q magazine. May 2011. New Albums review. Introducing Braids. Q&A. p. 118 The album was self-produced, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |