Language a person was raised speaking from birth.
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Today, the first language is English, and the second language is Chinese.
2
Children whose first language isn't English have a hard time getting by.
3
I am a South African citizen, and English is my first language.
4
Being deaf, I communicate in my first language - Irish Sign Language.
5
Phillip switched easily to the French that had been his first language.
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Many deaf people continue to use English as their first language.
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English isn't my first language, but I'm certain I have that part right.
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It does, however, involve a constant misuse of our first language.
9
TEFL teachers teach English abroad to people whose first language is not English.
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And it was the first language that I really learned to write in.
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When we drink from it, we emerge speaking the first language we knew.
12
You think it's funny that English wasn't her first language, Andy?
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English may not be their first language, which can cause problems.
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Most Darfuri rebels do not speak Arabic as their first language.
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Fifteen participants had migrated to Australia and English was not their first language.
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Are you living in a country where English is not the first language?
