How To Use Mother tongue In A Sentence
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Speakers of any language often have problems pronouncing consonants or vowels which do not exist in their mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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I speak nothing but our mother tongue.
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Children's acquiring of the mother tongue is a long process.
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As a rule, interpreters are supposed to translate between their mother tongue and another language.
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OK, let's stop here, switch the language to mother tongue.
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The mastery of at least two languages as well as the mother tongue is essential to secure the future of British society.
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Nay truly it hath that praise that it wants not Grammar; for Grammer it might have, but it needs it not, being so easie in it selfe, and so voyd of those combersome differences of Cases, Genders, Moods, & Tenses, which I thinke was a peece of the Tower of Babilons curse {175}, that a man should be put to schoole to learn his mother tongue.
Defence of Poesie
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It's a must for all those whose mother tongue is not English.
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For an important but limited beginning, Stover's text forms only an incipient explication of the African American mother tongue.
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It does not seek to elbow out mother tongues, but to coexist and continue to evolve alongside other languages.
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of the educated man or woman.
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The pat answer is that, recognising that they are both Swedish, he thought they might like to mutter sweet nothings to each other in their mother tongue.
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The reality is that many immigrant groups have chosen to adopt a very closed culture retaining the mother tongue, barring out-marriage and bringing in brides from the areas of origin.
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Three. Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak English and French.
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She made her oath to the institution and the Scottish people in her mother tongue thus: "I, Maureen Watt, depone aat I wull be leal and bear ae fauld alleadgance tae her majesty Queen Elizabeth her airs an ony fa come aifter her anent the law."
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These pidgins resembled the one resorted to by our Portuguese-speaking whaler and his Inupiaq-speaking interlocutors: they were never spoken as mother tongues.
The English Is Coming!
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It does not seek to elbow out mother tongues, but to coexist and continue to evolve alongside other languages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speakers of any language often have problems pronouncing consonants or vowels which do not exist in their mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Secondly, the Commission recommends Mother Tongue as the medium of instruction for elementary education.
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of the educated man or woman.
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of an educated man or woman.
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In Africa, I heard original mother tongues, such as Hausa, and Swahili, being spoken, and there I was standing like some little boy, waiting for someone to tell me what had been said; I never will forget how ignorant I felt.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak English and French.
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And people don't choose their mother tongue, do they?
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of an educated man or woman.
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In a statement on Sunday, it said that points on the agenda included crime prevention, skills shortages and the exemption of young people from affirmative action, as well as community empowerment, worker empowerment, name changes, racial discrimination in the awarding of social subsidies, remigration, mother tongue education and the effect of poor mathematics and science marks on the economy.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak English and French.
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In mother tongue interference, errors at syntactic level take the highest percentage.
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What evolved was a partially creolised form of Dutch which became the mother tongue not only of the Cape Dutch minority, but also of the non-white majority of the population.
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Unlike their minority peers, most mainstream U.S. students grow up in a homogeneous monolingual family and in a community where their mother tongue and culture are the norms.
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Did these vernacular languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work?
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Speakers of any language often have problems pronouncing consonants or vowels which do not exist in their mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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And native speakers do less well in oral exams than those whose mother tongue is English, it is claimed.
The Sun
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Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter.
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Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I want to talk with people are using their mother tongue.
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Is English not your mother tongue or are you just plain illiterate?
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It had little relevance to their everyday concerns and displayed contempt for the Yiddish language-their mother tongue.
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Its people are the Jebali, hardy, semi-nomadic camel-herders whose mother tongue is not Arabic but an ancient South Arabian language related to that once spoken by the Queen of Sheba.
Ghost safari: spotting leopards in Oman
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Khowar, a Dardic language of Indo-Aryan group, is the mother tongue of the population in Chitral.
Globalization and small languages
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If I had been a German, I could not have received [N] the mission with which I am charged -- because the messenger in the mission with which I am charged, must come, according to prophecies, from the Slavonian nation, from the country called Illyria or Illyricum, from the town, named in my mother tongue Kamnik, in Greek and Latin Lithopolis, in
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Australian authorities also encourage immigrants to use their mother tongue.
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And native speakers do less well in oral exams than those whose mother tongue is English, it is claimed.
The Sun
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For a learner to acquire skills in a foreign language, correctness of speech in his mother tongue should be taught.
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Jenkins 2002 maintains that starting holistically from voice quality and then moving to work on segmentals imply that the learner is pushed to adapt and use the target language articulatory settings with their articulators still geared towards the pronunciation of the sounds of his/her mother tongue.
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What is less well known is that English is also the mother tongue in countries such as the Republic of Ireland (officially called Eire), Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana.
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Polish is my mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of an educated man or woman.
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Whatever their mother tongue: Spanish, Hindi, Finnish, Basque, Walpiri, Quechua, babies acquire it long before they learn to read and write.
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The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.
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Speakers of any language often have problems pronouncing consonants or vowels which do not exist in their mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three. Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak English and French.
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When school is over , pupils revert to speaking their mother tongue.
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Austria's mother tongue is German is not to say that?
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Such dialects, almost by definition, are media of intimacy: ‘mother tongues’ used in the family and in-groups.
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Including your mother tongue and your second foreign language tool.
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Polish is my mother tongue.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is especially difficult for people whose mother tongues lack the terms in which key concepts can be expressed.
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Talking about adult education, he lauded India's innovative programme that teaches people to read in their mother tongue in just two to three hours.
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Command of the mother tongue is the most distinguishing mark of an educated man or woman.
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In all three cases it would appear that teaching initially in the mother tongue has very beneficial results.
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