The first language learnt; the language one grew up with.
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Examples for "first language"
Examples for "first language"
1Today, the first language is English, and the second language is Chinese.
2Children whose first language isn't English have a hard time getting by.
3I am a South African citizen, and English is my first language.
4Being deaf, I communicate in my first language - Irish Sign Language.
5Phillip switched easily to the French that had been his first language.
1It is a freeman's speech, this mother language.
2The Bible never calls God a mother , though the mother language, as here, is used of Him many times.
3Pashto is my mother language.
4He repeats English poetry with great propriety, and speaks the language nearly with the same facility as he does his mother language.
5One of the challenges was that some of her adult students had never learned to read and write in their mother language, she said.
1The services of the church were usually held in the native language.
2The lead Elite clicked something to his squad in their native language.
3Adding insult to injury by not using the native language, Michael thought.
4They refuse to have a concept of Ireland without its native language.
5The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.
1Then a warning voice in his ear said in the native tongue:-
2He particularly loved to follow those who spoke his native tongue, Spanish.
3At the sound of his native tongue his eyes lighted up, and:
4Her method of dealing with her native tongue came among the latter.
5Each speaker called it something different in his or her native tongue.
1Besides, Italian was Juana's maternal language.
1But the American has lost the elementary uses of his mother tongue.
2Hay Stockard swore, harshly, in the rugged monosyllables of his mother tongue.
3They understand the Spanish language, but have not forgotten their mother tongue.
4Russian, German and Hungarian have made French seem like my mother tongue-
5Dutch meant freedom to him; his mother tongue had become a burden.
6German was his mother tongue, but he also spoke Ukrainian and Romanian.
7There can be no easy abandonment of mother , motherland or mother tongue.
8Passing recent events in rapid review, he said, speaking in his mother tongue:
9Commanding attention, in their mother tongue I addressed myself to the Mexican foreman.
10Few men in that age and region were limited to their mother tongue.
11Of the three native Americans two spoke only their mother tongue.
12The present translation is thus the fifth into Campion's mother tongue.
13Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly.
14Both writ novels, and each of them cultivated his mother tongue.
15Only a very small proportion was translated into his mother tongue.
16They promised to translate my short story into their mother tongue.
Translations for mother tongue