nonspeaker

Unfortunately for my friends and me, they are written in Thai, which, regardless of how neat the script is, can be daunting to a nonspeaker.

If reporters want to use something the nonspeaker has said at the nonmeeting, they must paraphrase the nonspeaker and attribute his ideas to their own intuition or some nameless source."

"You can hear the words, but since I'm a nonspeaker of Italian or German, they don't mean anything to me," said Mr. Rodger, who doesn't dislike opera per se, although he did once attend a performance of "Carmen" at the Welsh National Opera that was so bad, he said, the audience began to boo.