2:8

How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?: This is a real question that also expresses surprise. The Jews did not know how the believers were speaking those languages and dialects like native speakers. Here are some other ways to translate this question:

Then how is it possible that we each hear them in our own languages? (New Century Version)
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Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages? (Contemporary English Version)
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how can this be, for each of us is hearing them speak the language of the lands we have come from?

in his own native language: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as in his own native language is literally “in our own language in which we were born.” Those Jews were born in those countries and grew up speaking those languages. Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:

in our own language to which we were born (New American Standard Bible)
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our very own languages (Contemporary English Version)

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