There were plenty of competent English speakers available for interviews.

The proliferation of community cable television programs, business conferences and other activities has exponentially increased the demand for competent speakers.

Murat was a controversial governor but a competent political speaker.

As of 2010, she lives in San Jose and is a competent Swedish speaker.

Even the largest American division has only a handful of moderately competent Arabic speakers, which could be a problem if the forces went to war.

Both these designs prove that musically competent speakers can buck the inflationary trend and still be produced at reasonable cost.

Careful attention to surface features is a temporary skill needed for language learning - and neglected thereafter by competent speakers'(ibid. p. 51).

An extreme "mentalist" viewpoint denies that the linguistic description of a language can be done by anyone but a competent speaker.

It turned out that Cellen had been a competent Spanish speaker after having lived in Mexico years ago.

He is generally regarded to have been a competent speaker, having few strong views that might have biased him.