mother tongue
mother tongue
Definition
mother tongue
mother tongue
Synonyms
mother tongue
n.
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.
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