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Pidgin is a simple form of a language which speakers of a different language use to communicate. Pidgin is not anyone’s first language.
He’s at ease speaking ~ with the factory workers and guys on the docks.
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2.
If someone is speaking their own language simply or another language badly and is trying to communicate, you can say that they are speaking, for example, ~ English or ~ Italian.
The restaurant owner could only speak ~ English.
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