The first language learnt; the language one grew up with.
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Today, the first language is English, and the second language is Chinese.
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Children whose first language isn't English have a hard time getting by.
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I am a South African citizen, and English is my first language.
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Being deaf, I communicate in my first language - Irish Sign Language.
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Phillip switched easily to the French that had been his first language.
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It is a freeman's speech, this mother language.
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The Bible never calls God a mother , though the mother language, as here, is used of Him many times.
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Pashto is my mother language.
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He repeats English poetry with great propriety, and speaks the language nearly with the same facility as he does his mother language.
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One of the challenges was that some of her adult students had never learned to read and write in their mother language, she said.
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But the American has lost the elementary uses of his mother tongue.
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Hay Stockard swore, harshly, in the rugged monosyllables of his mother tongue.
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They understand the Spanish language, but have not forgotten their mother tongue.
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Russian, German and Hungarian have made French seem like my mother tongue-
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Dutch meant freedom to him; his mother tongue had become a burden.
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Then a warning voice in his ear said in the native tongue:-
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He particularly loved to follow those who spoke his native tongue, Spanish.
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At the sound of his native tongue his eyes lighted up, and:
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Her method of dealing with her native tongue came among the latter.
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Each speaker called it something different in his or her native tongue.
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The services of the church were usually held in the native language.
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The lead Elite clicked something to his squad in their native language.
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Adding insult to injury by not using the native language, Michael thought.
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They refuse to have a concept of Ireland without its native language.
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The words were of his native language, but the malediction was universal.
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It is just one word and it isn't in their native language.
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He first introduced the study of his native language into this island.
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Had turned away from her native language, away from her own history.
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Ronald felt a thrill of pleasure at hearing his native language spoken.
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The guide barked in his native language, giving instructions to the porters.
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When he spoke his native language, he sounded like an angry rockslide.
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The fact that I can't speak my native language in a court room.
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Syria's once native language that it shared with Iraq and Iran was Assyrian.
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Or rather as if it were our native language, but learned very late.
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Like Ireland, the native language was kept alive mainly by peasants.
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Filemoni, the Samoan pastor, followed with an eloquent speech in the native language.
