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mother tongue

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mother tongue

n.

native speech, native language, native tongue, dialect, ideolect, local idiom; see also language 1.

mother tongue Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • speak: School, with a roll of 1000 boys and girls who speak 24 mother tongues.
  • learn: A child learning the mother tongue has to understand, in a sense his life depends on it.

Adjective modifier

  • English: Role: Our client are currently looking for graduate linguists with English mother tongue and fluent German and French.
  • own: The normal rule is that interpreters convert spoken statements from another language into their own mother tongue.
  • different: In the East End of London, George Green secondary school has 800 pupils and among them over a hundred different mother tongues.
  • his/her: Unlike the translator, the interpreter renders the message in his/her mother tongue, giving the flavor, tone and convictions of the speaker.
  • German: AUDIO TYPISTS Applicants must have English, French or German mother tongue for these position.

Modifies a noun

  • speaker: Staff are all very friendly and I think are a mixture of native Italians with excellent English and mother tongue speakers.
  • language: We look at both the mother tongue language assistant and the qualified mother tongue teacher.
  • class: Would these exercises also be useful for work in mother tongue classes?
  • education: The most significant change in the new curriculum is the introduction of mother tongue education.
  • school: The Resource Unit is London-based and provides advice and training for community groups running supplementary and mother tongue schools.
  • teacher: We look at both the mother tongue language assistant and the qualified mother tongue teacher.

Possessives

  • child: My children's mother tongue My three children's mother tongue is British Sign Language.

Preposition: of

  • country: There I understood how important it is to speak the mother tongue of the country you live in.

Preposition: for

  • position: AUDIO TYPISTS Applicants must have English, French or German mother tongue for these position.

Preposition: by

  • majority: Taiwanese - the dialect of Fujian Province - is spoken as a mother tongue by a majority of the population.