Today, the first language is English, and the second language is Chinese.

Children whose first language isn't English have a hard time getting by.

I am a South African citizen, and English is my first language.

Being deaf, I communicate in my first language - Irish Sign Language.

Phillip switched easily to the French that had been his first language.

The services of the church were usually held in the native language.

The lead Elite clicked something to his squad in their native language.

Adding insult to injury by not using the native language, Michael thought.

They refuse to have a concept of Ireland without its native language.

The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.

But the American has lost the elementary uses of his mother tongue.

Hay Stockard swore, harshly, in the rugged monosyllables of his mother tongue.

They understand the Spanish language, but have not forgotten their mother tongue.

Russian, German and Hungarian have made French seem like my mother tongue-

Dutch meant freedom to him; his mother tongue had become a burden.

It is a freeman's speech, this mother language.

The Bible never calls God a mother , though the mother language, as here, is used of Him many times.

Pashto is my mother language.

He repeats English poetry with great propriety, and speaks the language nearly with the same facility as he does his mother language.

One of the challenges was that some of her adult students had never learned to read and write in their mother language, she said.

The father tongue had always seemed universal; even Dorothy spoke without peculiar inflections or special difficulty.