| 单词 | mother tongue |
| 例句 | He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In order to serve his rural clients, most of whom spoke Spanish, Bloom had painstakingly learned to speak that language well—but Linda had what almost amounted to an aversion toward her mother tongue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger had learned a great deal of the Incan mother tongue in the year since I had seen him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z For instance, although he can understand his mother tongue, and speak it fluently, he cannot read or write it with even modest proficiency. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was like switching from passively watching a film in a foreign language to actively debating in one’s mother tongue. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z But still I couldn’t enter any tribal university because I had failed my mother tongue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, sir,” I said, “even without my mother tongue, my average comes out higher than a second-class pass. So how could I have failed?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And neither had she, the two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as if there was no way to bridge the gap. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, too, I have lost my old mother tongue. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That poet she met at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound emotion, one would revert to one's mother tongue. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I managed to see the principal alone, and he showed me the computer printouts from Pretoria: yes, I had obtained a third-class pass because I had failed my mother tongue! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was. I would imagine that it is rather difficult to comprehend her assaults upon the mother tongue.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of us may have lost our “mother tongue,” as my nanni used to call it, but the custom of tameez—respect—for elders stays strong, despite decades of assimilation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “But in your grandpa’s case, because he is bilingual, he has lost his ability to speak English and has reverted to his mother tongue, as it is probably easiest.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Though most speak English as their mother tongue, there are some, newer fetched from their country, who spake two languages or three before ever they heard our British speech. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "English is my mother tongue. What can I do for you?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He spoke accented English very fast, but I never learned what his mother tongue was. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Globish is the version of English used by non-native speakers whose mother tongue is, for example, French, Russian, Japanese or Korean. Stranded abroad ? thank goodness everyone speaks Globish 2010-04-20T09:47:00Z It’s our mother tongue, our homeland; it’s our people, or just one person. Women Write of Home, and a Woman’s Place in It 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z We were new parents, bonding with our babies, and we, like parents everywhere, wanted to do that in our own mother tongue. Motherlode Blog: Teaching a Deaf Child Her Mother's Tongue 2012-05-08T19:22:55Z It was "shaytan," which means the devil in my parent's mother tongue, Amharic. Celebrating Halloween as an ex-Evangelical: The conflicting highs and lows of reclaiming youth 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z He noticed that, in meetings, non-native English speakers were communicating far more successfully with their Korean and Japanese clients than British or US executives, for whom English was the mother tongue. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z It hurts so much to realize that, in my search for new language, I don’t even consider Arabic, my mother tongue, a worthy option. An Exchange Between Etgar Keret and Sayed Kashua 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z As such, many of region’s artists sing in their mother tongue to solidify their domestic support. Hip hope: Universal Music opens Southeast Asia HQ betting on rap 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z After a few years of feeling stuck right between my mother tongue and my DP language and being incapable of writing in either of them, I finally began writing in English. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – extract 2013-02-23T08:00:19Z Learning Latin, she discovers, provides her with a more concrete sense of being grounded in her mother tongue. Eat, Pray, Latin 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Harvard speaks clearly, although with what he called a “deaf accent” that he is self-conscious about, and with the deliberateness of someone speaking a language that is not a mother tongue. Russell Harvard Finds Life Parallels ?Tribes? Role 2012-04-10T22:13:20Z Here in Paris, there is a special mothering comfort, delight, and fulfillment for me, as if the real mother, with her mother tongue and mother heart, were coaxing me forward. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It was a warm night and Kuke's sleeve was rolled up, revealing a tattoo on his forearm written in his mother tongue: "We are getting ready for the new crusades. We are captains of starships." Visual effects artist's Hollywood path began in Albania, with detour in Kosovo 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “I think we need to keep our cultural heritage — that’s why I think it’s important to sing in my mother tongue,” he said, adding: “We’re a new country. People have to know we exist.” Eurovision Splashes Into 2014 Finals, to Rapt Audiences 2014-05-09T16:56:59Z He's singled out by a loud racist when speaking his mother tongue on the phone, and then by officials. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Also remarkable is that the language of Mr. Zakariya’s poetry, Thai, is not his mother tongue. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z Could he really thinking at this moment of the Welsh language – which might, in other circumstances, have been his mother tongue? Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Yeah, it makes a difference because it's the mother tongue. A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z So French became my second mother tongue, but it didn’t erase my first language. Scholastique Mukasonga on Tutsi Life and the Rwandan Genocide 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Internet photos are the common language between a diner and a server who don’t share the same mother tongue. Shanghai Taste review: The virtuoso of soup dumplings 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z As her music reaches a growing European audience she's asked time and again when she'll start performing in English, but for now the mother tongue is too important. Sister Fa: African rapper with a cause 2013-02-16T17:00:02Z Yerushalmi and her family fled Iran after the revolution when she was 13, and she said that acting in her mother tongue of Farsi was an emotional experience. New Israeli espionage TV series tackles shadow war with Iran 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Maybe my mother tongue isn’t the one I share with them, but something like the one Philip spoke — the one you create when you’re from nowhere in particular. Divorce from my best friend 2013-02-12T01:00:00Z “My father’s mother tongue was Chinese, but he never taught it to me,” she said, which meant that she couldn’t understand much of what her extended family said. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z I knew it was not my mother tongue — and I don’t have time to learn it.” Special Report: Marketing to the Millennials 2010-03-02T13:30:00Z As we’d heard throughout the valley, he explained that the people of Gurez and Tulail are not truly Kashmiri, but from the Dard Shin tribe, and that their mother tongue is Shina. A Journey to Kashmir’s Gurez Valley 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Losing everything, James finds the only thing he truly values is his mother tongue. Somersaults ? review 2011-03-22T18:55:00Z And perhaps our job, as philosophers, is to re-create that original mother tongue or universal character, and rescue humankind from its long captivity in Babel. The secret philosophy of language: Searching for the origins of human thought 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z That’s why our leading political demand is really a cultural demand: the use of our mother tongue. Abroad: For Kurds in Turkey, Autonomy in Music 2011-06-01T13:26:46Z English was not the mother tongue of all of my shipmates, but they made up for any mistakes with their fluency in American-Brit pop. Explorer: An Aimless Sailing Trip Off Palawan in the Philippines 2012-03-09T23:12:36Z Canada, France and even the United States drove her meditations on regional identity, nationalism and its extremes, and the defining and restricting powers of a mother tongue. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z “If you asked Turks today whether, in the abstract, people should be able to speak their mother tongue, most of them would say, of course, no problem,” he said. Abroad: For Kurds in Turkey, Autonomy in Music 2011-06-01T13:26:46Z Every English-speaking visitor to India watches with fascination the facility with which contemporary Indians switch from Hindi or Gujarati into English, and then back into a mother tongue. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z The baby learns the family’s language — “the mother tongue.” Motherlode Blog: Teaching a Deaf Child Her Mother's Tongue 2012-05-08T19:22:55Z Daniella chatted with the volunteers in her mother tongue and switched seamlessly back and forth to English. At Eurovision, Ukrainians Find Community Far From Home 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z In the heartlands of the mother tongue, there are numerous anxieties about its future: in the United States, language conservatives agonise about the Hispanic threat to American English. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z English is neither one’s mother tongue, which is both a sign and a source of potential solidarity. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But as the new arrivals moved into the middle class and to the suburbs and away from their mother tongue, Yiddish theater declined. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “It is the possibility to belong to a culture that is not mine, not my mother tongue.” Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z They played it, with its bent pitches and fluid tempos, as if the blues were — at least for the moment — their musical mother tongue. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z From Joseph Conrad to Samuel Beckett, some writers have found their voices in a language not their mother tongue. Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z This impulse towards the transcendent contributed to his faith in poetry itself, up until the very end when he returned to the land of his "faithful mother tongue" and lived in Kraków. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z Results showed that they were better at remembering the object when the name tallied with the gender of the word in their mother tongue. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z A group of young Kenyan activists appear in the film, one of whom notes he can't think of another school in the world where the mother tongue isn't allowed. Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip' 2011-08-28T18:00:02Z He felt divorced from his mother tongue, he told me, and hoped translation would help him find his way back. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z So I'm coming into it with Korean almost being my third language even though it's my mother tongue. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “This is the place I was born, it’s my mother tongue, and I deeply love Hungarian culture.” A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The sisters shared a tent and were inseparable, constantly joking in their mother tongue. Can Film Save Indigenous Languages? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z They had a mother tongue in common, and speaking Russian seemed to make him more gregarious - on the way to the altar, he began to gossip about the sexual habits of his Filipino crew mates. T Magazine: The Love Boat 2012-11-14T22:00:06Z Or to express that sentiment in the show’s mother tongue, expensive-to-license rock anthems: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z For these writers, home is where we are most ourselves — our mother tongue, our homeland, our people or just one person. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It's kind of a second mother tongue for hundreds of millions now in India, Philippines, Malaysia Indonesia etc. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She will encourage them to speak Tamil, our mother tongue. Motherlode Blog: For Girls in India, the Pressure to Conform Comes From Family 2013-08-30T15:14:19Z More accurately, he recognised that what was happening to the mother tongue in the late 20th century was unprecedented, and he used his position at Oxford to publicise the fact. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z I know that something horrible happened to my Japanese aunt that made her lose her mother tongue. My mother and I haven't talked about the Atlanta spa attacks 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z As an immigrant living and working in the birthplace of Abstract Expressionism, Uklański states, “Neither English nor abstraction is my mother tongue. These paintings ‘speak’ an aesthetic ESL.” Artist Piotr Uklański Explores Immigration in a New Miami Exhibition 2013-12-06T05:00:00Z "She's not being able to learn her mother tongue Gujarati. She only speaks German, how will I be able to speak to her?" she asks. The baby at the centre of an India-Germany diplomatic row 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z According to a poll published by the reputable Razumkov Centre in 2006, only 30% of residents of Ukraine named Russian as their mother tongue, while 52 said Ukrainian was their native language. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z His mother tongue is Russian rather than Kazakh thanks to generations of Russification that made learning Russian essential to get ahead while casting indigenous languages by the wayside. How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z One of the last inheritors of wisdom transmitted over thousands of generations through his mother tongue, he knew what this bizarre phenomenon signified. This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language". Haiti conflict puts over 100,000 kids at risk of starving to death, UN says 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Later, as an adult, Esau realized the importance of preserving her mother tongue and founded a school in her home town of Upington to try to pass it on. Last known speaker fights to preserve South African indigenous language 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z His mother tongue wasn't Spanish, but a Mixtec indigenous language spoken in parts of Mexico and Central America. Special Report: How a fake ID let Hyundai suppliers use child labor in Alabama 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z They’re used to speaking English in the locker room, but the mother tongue slips out sometimes. For Alex Wennberg, pass preference ‘a gift and a curse,’ but helped get Kraken to NHL playoffs 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z But he forgot his own mother tongue, a dialect spoken in Rajasthan. Rajasthan: How a birthdate error sent an Indian teenager to death row 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “I see the same problems that I experienced in their eyes,” he said, describing how the children’s faces lit up when he spoke to them in their shared mother tongue. Gift of a Stethoscope to a Refugee Child Inspired a Career of Caring 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Cantopop, sung in the mother tongue of most of Hong Kong’s population, has made a strong comeback with new idols and diverse genres after falling behind Mandopop and K-pop for years. Hong Kong’s Mirror launches English song, revives Cantopop 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z "I can hear them. They are coming to destroy us," he shouts in his mother tongue, Dholuo. Kenyan rice farmers battle quelea birds in Kisumu 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z “The Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to extinguish the mother tongues, cultures, and faiths of different groups cannot be enumerated,” he said. Taiwan legislative leader says island has religious freedom, which China lacks 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z He said the changes were necessary because pupils learn better when they are taught in "their own mother tongue." Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Nobody seems to know how many people in Ukraine speak Ukrainian as their first language, and even the concept of a mother tongue is murky. Op-Ed: Learn Ukrainian, defeat Russia 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z She had to be persuaded to sing in her mother tongue. Tshala Muana: The raunchy DR Congo diva who captivated a continent 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Edmunds’ mother tongue is Rapanui, the only language he spoke until he turned 18 and left for South America to study. Easter Island rebounds from wildfire that singed its statues 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z MPs can use their mother tongue language when swearing into Parliament, but under the rules, they should use English when speaking in debates. Why speaking another language matters to these MPs 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z For many middle-class Nigerians, especially in the south, English is now their mother tongue and some may not speak any local languages. Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z So she started relearning her mother tongue, Punjabi, and is hoping to learn some family recipes from her mother. Missing the Home You Needed to Leave 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z He went to a Christian missionary school, learning English and Swahili to add to his mother tongue, Kikamba, before helping the family income by tending their goats and working on a British-owned dairy farm. Kamoya Kimeu, renowned fossil hunter in Africa, is dead 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z For the first time since Canada began collecting data on mother tongues over a century ago, a record number of Canadians do not count English or French as their native language. Canada’s Growing Linguistic Diversity 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z In this region, 90% of the population have Russian as their mother tongue, as do many of his recruits. Russian speakers in Latvia told to pick sides in test of patriotism 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Lagos' local language is Yoruba, but as it is the country's commercial hub, people who speak other languages have also moved there and still speak their mother tongue. Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z "To understand something better you need to first understand it in your mother tongue," said Njuki, who also finds the service handy for surfing the internet and social media. Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Fans of mythological linguistics may recall that the Targaryen family's mother tongue is High Valerian. House of the Dragon: What we know about the Games of Thrones spin-off 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z I watched as they painstakingly practiced words like “trenches” and phonetically coaxed out sounds that don’t exist in their mother tongue, part of a six-month language instruction program funded by Canada’s immigration agency. Canada’s Growing Linguistic Diversity 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Her struggles with mental health were difficult to explain to family members in their mother tongue, Hindi. Gen Z students want better mental health care access on campus 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “Having someone who knows my mother tongue, who knows where I came from, having him talk to my family, it was a very special moment, one I’ll always remember my whole life,” Taleni said. How a leap of faith led Tyrone Taleni from Samoa to USC for a sport he never played 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z "To write this in our mother tongue allows for the descriptions, names and stories to come across in their truth and hopefully encourage the continued use of dialect in our home." George Orwell's Animal Farm to be translated into Scots 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z “Whenever there is a war on your mother tongue, there is division — and identity becomes strong,” he said. Recording India’s Linguistic Riches as Leaders Push Hindi as Nation’s Tongue 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Researchers put this down to the new government recognising the country's ethnic diversity and allowing children to be taught in their mother tongue - although Amharic remained the official working language. The Ethiopians changing their names as a show of pride 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z They were born in Japan, have visited Brazil only briefly, speak Portuguese as their mother tongue, and have varying dexterity in Japanese. Japan and Brazil linked by soccer, baseball and immigration 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Though he grew up in Kyiv and holds a Ukrainian passport, Kurkov was born in St. Petersburg and writes in Russian, his mother tongue, a fact that has long drawn ire from Ukrainian nationalists. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The translation of his new name in his mother tongue of Tamil was Devasahayam, or “God has helped.” Pope Francis canonizes Indian man who struggled against caste 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z On the campaign trail, Duterte-Carpio banters with her audience and switches easily back and forth between Tagalog, effectively the national language, and Visayan, a language of the central and southern Philippines and her mother tongue. Is the Philippines ready for another Duterte? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z While born in Ukraine, his mother tongue is Russian. Descent into Hell: Ukrainians reclaim shelled homes near Kyiv 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z However, the children remained separated from their families, lost their mother tongue and struggled with identity issues. Lost lives of Greenland's Inuit children uprooted by Denmark 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The Ukrainian president spoke in his mother tongue as MPs followed a live translation over special headphones. PM says Zelensky's address 'moved hearts' 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It carries significance in my mother tongue, and I know my mother chose it with hope and love. Your Self-Worth Is Not in Your Inbox 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Increasingly, my mother regressed to her native Spanish, so I set about finding a home care worker who was fluent in her mother tongue. Opinion | My mother needed Spanish-speaking caregivers. It became my mission to find them. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Children whose parents are detained often end up in boarding schools where speaking in Uyghur, their mother tongue, is banned. A cauldron-lighting flash point one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Wikipedia says that he also gained fluency in classical Chinese, Sanskrit and Pali, in addition to his mother tongue, Vietnamese. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Show photos of the ‘right’ masks worn properly 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “I have no father,” the boy replied in Mandarin, not in Uyghur, his mother tongue. As Beijing Olympics begin, exiled Uyghurs fight for families oppressed in China 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Spain has also increasingly begun to attract Latin American students, especially those whose mother tongue is Spanish, and it is a popular choice for participants in U.S. study abroad programs. Dorms Pop Up in Spain as More Students Seek Housing Away From Home 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Chaudry tried to learn as much as he could on the ground in Lahore, but he admits his grasp of Pakistan’s mother tongues is shaky. Review | Charga Grill in Arlington is a delicious world unto itself 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z “Everybody agrees that Celtic branched off from the old Indo-European mother tongue as it spread westward,” said Patrick Sims-Williams, emeritus professor of Celtic studies at Aberystwyth University. 3,000 Years Ago, Britain Got Half Its Genes From … France? 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Words and languages are important, especially the mother tongue, because it’s really associated with your body, the physical being. He made one of the year's most acclaimed movies. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi talks about 'Drive My Car' 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The South African government held regular briefings, but these were on television and in English, when radio remains the most powerful medium and most South Africans do not speak English as their mother tongue. The Next Challenge to Vaccinating Africa: Overcoming Skepticism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z According to Statistics Canada, the share of the Canadian population whose mother tongue is French declined from nearly 30 percent in 1941 to about 21 percent in 2016. Air Canada CEO’s mostly English speech inflames French anxiety in Quebec 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z One reason for this is that Gurnah writes in English - not in Swahili, the language spoken by the majority of Tanzanians and which is the Nobel laureate's mother tongue. Why Tanzanian Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah is hardly known back home 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z For Ahmed, winning the top prize last month at Africa's prestigious Fespaco film festival proves that dramas in his mother tongue can cross borders. How film-school reject Khadar Ahmed is winning prizes and hearts 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z While many members of the Italian ski team are from South Tyrol and have it as their mother tongue, Goggia has to learn it from scratch. ‘Wie bitte?’: Why German is Alpine skiing’s common language 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Maybe he learned it at the studio like the white girls, or maybe his parents had been young at the Paradise Garage — either way, he knew how to address her in that mother tongue. Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In Quebec, the proportion of people whose mother tongue is French has stayed nearly constant over the past century, from around 80 percent in 1901 to around 78 percent in 2016. Air Canada CEO’s mostly English speech inflames French anxiety in Quebec 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z He wanted to improve the understanding of the Bible in the fervently religious country, where English is the official language, but not the mother tongue for millions of people. No-stress scripture: Nigerian Christians relish Pidgin Bible 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z With her hair shaved short, she was with a group of children being led in a game by a teacher speaking not in Uyghur - her mother tongue - but in Chinese. China fails to meet promises on missing Xinjiang children 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z He'd never heard his mother tongue spoken with such ease in England. Piccadilly 1965: How six Indian friends found their feet in the UK 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z His mother tongue, Menik, is one of Senegal’s 25 recognized native languages but one that had only about 3,000 speakers left at last count. His language is dying. This Senegalese singer is fighting to save it with music. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Like India itself, the diaspora is striated by religion, caste, class, mother tongue and other factors that continue to divide. As virus engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Among the changes, it allows immigration officers to carry guns and, in some cases, requires asylum seekers to communicate in a language other than their mother tongue. Activists fear HK immigration bill will allow arbitrary travel bans 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z They spoke to each other in Hungarian, their mother tongue, while addressing Betty and her older brother only in English or Yiddish. She Kept a Library Book for 63 Years. It Was Time to Return It. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z And after that first trip back to Kenya as a young boy - when he vowed never to forget his mother tongue again - he remains fluent in Gujarati. Piccadilly 1965: How six Indian friends found their feet in the UK 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z “He sings in our mother tongue — that gives courage,” she said. His language is dying. This Senegalese singer is fighting to save it with music. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “Too many children are not exposed enough to their mother tongue,” he said. Iceland Has a Request for Disney+: More Icelandic, Please 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Yet anxiety over losing their mother tongue is deep despite government assurances that some classes will still be taught in Mongolian. Why is China cracking down on its 'model minority'? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z “I’m Mongol. I won’t arrest Mongols,” he said, adding that there was no legal basis to arrest people who were fighting for their mother tongue. 'If we lose this, we lose everything': Government push to teach in Chinese sparks Mongol resistance 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But for ethnic Mongolians, the new directive is creating fear that they will lose their mother tongue. Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The punishment was humiliating, Keita said, but that was the point: It was an effective way of ensuring children spoke French, Senegal’s official language, rather than their mother tongues. His language is dying. This Senegalese singer is fighting to save it with music. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “We understood that these people were not even allowed to speak their own mother tongue,” he said. How China uses Muslim press trips to counter claims of Uighur abuse 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Hebrew is her mother tongue but her closeness to the German language is dominant. Blistering and virtuosic, depth and wisdom... women composers we should listen to 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Whenever Ng and Fang occasionally run into each other on the bustling streets in Chinatown, they will still nod at and greet each other in Taishanese, their shared mother tongue. The battle over two flags in Chinatown 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Family bonds, the psychology of immigrant households, estrangement from the mother tongue: these became the defining themes of Asian-American literature, in part because they were market-tested. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z "Apart from my general fascination with obscure languages it's because of family history, as it was my maternal grandfather's mother tongue," she said. Can language learning apps replace the classroom? 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Icelandic was introduced to Google Translate in 2009, earlier than many other more widely spoken languages as a Reykjavík-born employee at the tech company wanted his mother tongue included as soon as possible. Isolated Iceland newly vulnerable to computer scams 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z He also produced music in regional Indian languages, tapping into the more than half of the country for whom Hindi isn’t the mother tongue. How a maker of knockoff Bollywood tapes became the king of YouTube 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The young people here are creative, there is a slang called Sheng, a mix of Swahili, English and our mother tongues. 'There’s a lot of weirdness in a slum': making a living in Kenya's anarchic mud city 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Camilleri's use of Sicilian expressions - infusing the Italian language with Sicilian mother tongue - helped promote the island's culture, making people rethink their history. Inspector Montalbano creator Camilleri dies at 93 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z For Safa and her circle, the ability to speak about such issues in their mother tongue has implications far beyond the personal. Talking about sex no longer so taboo in the Arab world 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z However, in common with about 55% of the local population, her mother tongue is Spanish. Rosalía's 'Spanishisms' upset Catalonia's language purists 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Many people on social media praised her for reciting these as she is not a Hindi-speaker - her mother tongue is Bengali. Indian MP's 'rising fascism' speech wins plaudits 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z People communicate with body language and in Wolof, Senegal’s mother tongue. Trump administration unveils its new Africa strategy — with wins and snags 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z A native speaker of the Konkani language, he chose to write in Kannada, a language which was only his acquired mother tongue. Girish Karnad: The colossus of Indian theatre dies at 81 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z In Xinjiang, the authorities are holding an estimated 1 million Muslims in political education camps to compel them to stop speaking their mother tongue, celebrating their holidays and practicing their religion. Opinion | China tried to erase the memory of Tiananmen Square. But its legacy lives on. They’ll arrive three at a time and live in townhouses on the property next to Wiley’s personal studio, where tutors will be available to teach them French, English and Wolof — Senegal’s mother tongue. Inside Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley’s West African art party: ‘We’re just doing us’ 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “We want what we deserve, we want what we paid for. We want to watch the WCF in our mother tongue. Basketball is bigger than just one player.” Enes Kanter Is Playing, so Many N.B.A. Fans in Turkey Can’t Watch 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z "The council is all in French, which is not my mother tongue, so I need an extra level of concentration," she told BBC News. Knitting shows 'men talk too much' 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Some children were beaten for speaking their mother tongue. The film in a language only 20 people speak 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z There is now an alarming number of young Igbo people who are not fluent in their mother tongue or in English. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Prisoners at these places are taught to abandon their Turkic-based mother tongues and renounce outward displays of Islam. Perspective | China’s expanding war on Islam: Now they’re coming for the Kazakhs. 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Amos is a Jew from Iraq, and when he speaks to his son, the Israeli spy, it’s partly in his mother tongue, Arabic. Opinion | Israel’s Secret Founding Fathers 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A retired lawyer, Mr Fokas speaks impeccable formal Greek with a distinctive lilt: his mother tongue is Macedonian, a Slavic language related to Bulgarian and spoken in this part of the Balkans for centuries. Greece's invisible minority 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z “For international students, speaking in their mother tongue is a means of comfort and familiarity with a home and culture that is already oftentimes suppressed within the United States,” the association said. Outcry after Duke administrator warns Chinese students to speak English 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Igbo is among the world’s endangered languages, and there is a rising cry, especially among Igbo intellectuals, for drastic action to preserve and promote our mother tongue. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But the interview with Caal was in Spanish, while the family’s mother tongue was Q’eqchi’, a pre-Columbian Mayan language, the Washington Post reported. Anger grows after death of Guatemalan migrant girl held in US 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z As gender and law consultant Hilina Birhanu puts it: "Patriarchy is our society's mother tongue. We learn from early to look down on women." The women smashing Ethiopia's glass ceiling 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z The argument lasted for so long that the alliance’s interpreters left, leaving the members to debate in English rather than their mother tongues. Hungary’s Democracy Is in Danger, E.U. Parliament Decides 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z She holds both Japanese and American citizenship, and is far more adept in English than she is in her mother tongue. Japan charmed by 'new heroine' Osaka after Grand Slam breakthrough 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Upholding one’s mother tongue over English appeared to be the ultimate demonstration of one’s love of people and country – a middle finger raised in the face of British colonialism. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z All her subjects show less brain activity when working in their mother tongue; they don’t have to sweat it. The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr Ochui says he is worried about the consequences of "demonising" the mother tongue in an attempt to encourage students to speak English instead. The village with 'male and female languages' 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Omerzai had been out with three friends at the Denny’s in Lethbridge and all of them were speaking in their mother tongue of Dari when the woman began looking at them. Canadian police investigate video of woman's racist rant in Alberta restaurant 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Bilingual or Russian-only teaching will continue for younger children whose mother tongue is Russian. Russia warns Latvia in language dispute 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z My parents, who have spoken Igbo their entire lives, can hardly read and write their mother tongue fluently. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The languages are all derived from a mother tongue, known as Proto-Australian, that was spoken about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. Australia's languages 'share single source' 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z "In my school here we punish students - beat them, at times they pay fines - for speaking their mother tongue," he says. The village with 'male and female languages' 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z "Delivering content and engaging with the Igbo and Yoruba audiences in their mother tongues is authentic, exciting and refreshing," she says. BBC Igbo and Yoruba launched in Nigeria 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The Latvian government says ethnic minorities will still be able to study their own cultures and learn in their mother tongue in primary school. Russia warns Latvia in language dispute 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Lee Kuan Yew pointed out in his book how a multitude of mother tongues could have been a major hindrance to Singapore’s national security. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Because the language learnt in infancy has the greatest emotional resonance, swearing in your mother tongue always feels most powerful, even among the most fluent multilinguals. The power of profane language 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Patuá is the name of De Jesus’ mother tongue, and she is one of its last surviving custodians. Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — When she was a student in Paraguay, teachers forced her to kneel on jagged granules of salt and maize for entire mornings as punishment for speaking her mother tongue, Guaraní, in the classroom. Newfound Pride in Guaraní, a Language Long Disdained in Paraguay 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Latin is generally considered Europe’s own mother tongue, as it forms the basis of the Romance languages and has contributed many words to English and German, too. Global outcry saves Latin news show broadcast from Finland 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z I attended a school in Nigeria where speaking your mother tongue was banned for that very reason. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z English, once a small language spoken in southern Britain, is now the mother tongue of hundreds of millions across the world. Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Melescanu said students would be educated in their mother tongue and also learn Ukrainian language, literature, history and geography. Romanian minister: Ukraine will keep minority schools open 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Under the law, signed by President Petro Poroshenko on 25 September, ethnic minority children will continue being taught in their mother tongue at primary school. Hungary in language dispute with Ukraine 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z None shared a mother tongue, so English was their lingua franca. Who is hurt by Trump's new refugee quota? People like Roqayah Mohammed | Deborah Campbell 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Language has been a politically charged issue in Ukraine, where 30 percent of those polled in the 2001 census called Russian their mother tongue. World Digest: Sept. 26, 2017 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Many cannot talk properly in their own mother tongue, or in several languages. Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The mother tongue of main islanders and outer islanders are so different that English is used as the common language. This Pacific Island Is Caught in a Global Power Struggle (And It's Not Guam) 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Mohamad Susilo was born on Java island so his mother tongue is Javanese, which is spoken by nearly 100 million people. Where speaking several languages is a given - BBC News 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z But to those born in Romania, in southeastern Europe, hearing religious services in their mother tongue is key. Local Romanian church members host unique event 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z It was where everyone spoke my mother tongue, where my skin was not described as being “yellow”. My two messed-up countries: an immigrant’s dilemma 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Because they either learn the classroom curriculum in their mother tongue, or they speak or learn many languages fluently, or at least reasonably well. Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The game — the name of which means “brain” in Serbo-Croatian, Dr. Popović’s mother tongue — presents players with images of mouse and human neurons captured on powerful microscopes by the Allen Institute in its laboratories. Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Some women wear headscarves, others let their bleached hair flow, men hug and share jokes in their mother tongue. Turkey referendum: Critics abroad fear Erdogan's reach - BBC News 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Charles Ferguson, an influential linguist who taught at Stanford, argued that there’s no evidence that the language of the Quran was ever anybody’s mother tongue. Learning Arabic from Egypt’s Revolution 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The author, for example, shows how scientists traced the origin of the Indo-European mother tongue to Anatolia around 6500 BC. Opinion | How a chain of scientific discovery leads to a history of the universe 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “Much as we love talking in our mother tongue, it can often be misconstrued. Please see if you can communicate in English in public places,” a statement from the organisation said. Crowds protest against Trump at Indian funeral of man killed in US 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z There can be no easy abandonment of mother, motherland or mother tongue. Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Mother Tongue Film Festival Feature- and short-length documentaries and narrative films that celebrate the importance of the mother tongues of indigenous communities around the world are screened during this multi-venue event. Going Out Guide for the District, Feb. 23-March 1, 2017 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Did I understand what it meant to renounce my mother tongue? To Speak Is to Blunder 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The Filipino language of Tagalog is the second-most common mother tongue spoken here. Filipino fast food chain Jollibee's opens in Winnipeg - BBC News 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Even when leaders speak another language fluently, they often choose to conduct official calls in their mother tongue. Presidential phone calls: How do world leaders talk to each other? - BBC News 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z A form of Pidgin has developed into a mother tongue for the Krio community in Sierra Leone, which non-Krios can find difficult to understand. Pidgin - West African lingua franca - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Ambitious organizations such as the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church made sure that their members, whatever their mother tongue, learned a second, common language. A Language to Unite Humankind 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z "Even though he speaks Spanish, it's never the same hearing your mother tongue." Venezuelan activist moves to US after release from 'dungeon' 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Faraway Singapore adopted it as one of its “mother tongues”. Let not a billion tongues bloom 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “My parents are quite reserved in English but funny and boisterous in their mother tongues,” she says. Madeleine Thien: ‘In China, you learn a lot from what people don’t tell you’ 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z As students in my Nigerian secondary school, we were not allowed to speak to each other in our mother tongues, another accusation which the protesters levelled against the Pretoria school. Letter from Africa: Were South African school hair rules racist? - BBC News 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The provincial education department also ordered an inquiry into the students’ claims of racial discrimination and said “the mocking of learners’ hairstyles” and “the mocking of African learners’ usage of their mother tongue” must stop. Protests over black girls’ hair rekindle debate about racism in South Africa 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Most here don’t speak my mother tongue, nor practice the same religion that I do. America accepted me – an Algerian Muslim – in a way France never did | Melyssa Haffaf 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The mocking of African learners' usage of their mother tongue must stop. 'Racist school hair rules' suspended at SA's Pretoria Girls High - BBC News 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z They’ll descend on a grandad heading home from Friday prayers, or a Romanian mum caught on a bus speaking her mother tongue. After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it’s become OK to be racist in Britain | Aditya Chakrabortty 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z There is, at first, no mother tongue to describe their experience of life, no traditions to bind themselves to the world. The Gay Bar as Safe Space Has Been Shattered After the Orlando Shooting 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The one who knows the mother tongue moved to Ondarroa in the Spanish Basque Country after college to take a break before finding work. Cultural identity fades among second-generation immigrants 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z If dramatists and explorers share an addiction to conflict, jeopardy and transgression, then Shakespeare and the first American settlers had rather more in common than their mother tongue. William Shakespeare: a quintessentially American author 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Before this moment, Cruz had refused to speak in his Cuban father’s mother tongue during the campaign, and he has previously called his Spanish “lousy.” Governor Bush, Hable de Su Historia Mexicana 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z No one at the convention on Friday seemed impressed by Mr. Trump’s foray into their mamaloshen, or mother tongue. A Festival of Language for the Good of Yiddish 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z "Some need to accommodate students whose mother tongue is different from the language spoken in the host community or whose families are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and some systems are confronted with all three challenges at once." How to Better Integrate Immigrant Students into the K-12 System 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Luttwak grew up speaking Romanian, Vlach and French, but his mother tongue, as was common among the Jewish population of the region, was German. The Machiavelli of Maryland: adviser to presidents, prime ministers – and the Dalai Lama | Thomas Meaney 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z As a result I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language. In Translation 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Among the indigenous domestic workers surveyed, a quarter said they had been banned from speaking in their mother tongue in the workplace. Mexico City's domestic workers: a life being treated as a lesser person 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Before the outbreak of the revolution in 2011, Syrian minorities, including Kurds, Assyrians and Turkmen, were only taught Arabic in schools, to the exclusion of their mother tongues. After 52 Years, Kurdish Returns to Syrian Schools 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The report’s authors said that students should be taught in their mother tongue, rather than in English and French, for the first few years of primary school. Easier said than written 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Only around 300 people actually claim Cornish as their mother tongue. Cornwall Council plan to promote the Cornish language - BBC News 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z My mother tongue, Bengali, is foreign in America. In Translation 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But in official functions, he only speaks Moore, his mother tongue. Mogho Naba: Burkina Faso's mediator monarch - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But will the national football team, whose mother tongues include Albanian, Portuguese, Turkish and Serbo-Croat, sing it with greater gusto? Swiss vote for new national anthem to ditch old hymn - BBC News 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Palin also envisioned a country where every resident speaks the same language, a mother tongue she calls “American.” Sarah Palin: Let's all 'speak American' 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Tibetans in Aba are trying to bolster their mother tongue by banishing Chinese from their vocabulary. Immolations are just one sign of tension over Communist rule 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z A Swiss survey ranked Thailand 55th among 60 countries where English is not a mother tongue. Bombing the latest of many challenges for Thailand’s junta 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z But the atmosphere gradually soured after the Kurds’ demands for more autonomy and education in their mother tongue went unfulfilled. In Turkey’s Kurdish Heartland, a Quick Change in Fortunes 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z A separate report found that the US is now the world’s second-largest Spanish-speaking country after Mexico, with Spanish on course to be the mother tongue of almost a third of US citizens. Donald Trump and the Friends of Abe: tycoon brings immigration fight to LA 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z I have translated creative adaptations from the word ubhuche, in the Ndali language, my mother tongue and the language used by elders I spoke to. The African soldiers dragged into Europe's war - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z They greeted each other in Arabic, then French, which sounded like their mother tongue. Skyping with the enemy: how I was recruited by Isis to join their jihad in Syria 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Speaking sharply then in his German mother tongue, the multilingual Blatter showed rare and raw passion to his media inquisitors. Blatter set to polarize opinion for 4 more years at FIFA 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z She says she shares the concern that young people from minority communities would not be able to study their "mother tongue or that of their parents and family". Morgan backs Polish language A-levels - BBC News 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z For five minutes, I proceeded from one end of the airfield to the next, hoping I’d hear someone speaking my mother tongue—or German. Confessions of a Vulture Journalist 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr Lee also believed it necessary for Singaporeans to remain connected to their cultural roots and speak their "mother tongue", such as Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil. Lee Kuan Yew: Which way now for Singapore? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Lee is widely credited for mandating in 1966 that all students learn a “mother tongue” – a language associated with their ethnicity. Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy for Singapore: A Language Policy For A Globalized World 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “A mother tongue is a human birthright. We must fight for our own!” Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Those whose mother tongue is Russian rely largely on news from Russian state media. On the border 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z They spoke their mother tongue among themselves, but sometimes fractured the local language with such abandon that natives risked being “startled by a bilingual ‘Wow, quel babe!'” 'Wow, Quel Babes!': American Teenagers in Paris in the 1950s 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Not to worry: At the front of the crypt lies a “language integrator,” a machine intended to help the aliens who open said crypt with our mother tongue. The Coolest Time Capsules Yet to Be Opened But anyone who tries to move beyond their mother tongue will likely gain a brain boost, the small study finds. Some People May Be Pre-Wired to Be Bilingual 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “The young are the only ones who can articulate the loss of an identity rooted in a mother tongue that has become foreign to them.” Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z To Benn’s delight, Putin was quoted expressing his admiration for the first world leader with whom he could converse in his mother tongue. The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Instead, the elastic Brazilian won them all despite an ailing hamstring, earning the rare chance to deliver a victory speech in Portuguese, his mother tongue. Federer and Djokovic Battle for No.1 Ranking 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z All of this while the vast majority is able to communicate in their respective mother tongues. The Problem With The English Language In India 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z "Hong Kong introduced mother tongue education in '98 - in Cantonese. People are less likely to speak either English or Mandarin than before the handover. So it is very difficult for people to emigrate." Wider fears of Hong Kong's protesters 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Educational equity: When there are no differences in the academic achievement between groups of students based on race, gender, country of origin, mother tongue, income, etc. Jargon round III: Child-centered, phonemic awareness, equity, IEP 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The need to balance form with education is made harder by the fact that visitors have different degrees of knowledge, cultural backgrounds, and mother tongues. We Need Memorials to Keep From Repeating Dark Chapters of the Past 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Learning your mother tongue might seem effortless, but doesn’t always go without a hitch. That eggcorn moment 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z This discrimination has become so systemic that the elite and middle classes send their children to English private schools while the vast poor send theirs to the government schools of their mother tongue. The Problem With The English Language In India 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z People tend to think more rationally when speaking a language other than their mother tongue, for example. The Science of Metacognition 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z About 550 million Indians speak Hindi, and more than 125 million speak English in addition to their mother tongues, according to the 2001 census. Is Hindi making a comeback in India after years of pursuit of English? I could speak Marathi, my mother tongue, fluently and Hindi, the lingua franca of northern India, fairly comfortably. Readers who lost fluency in their language 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z "An ideal Indian of class should be able to recite Wordsworth as well as literature of his mother tongue." Is there a distinctive 'Indian English'? 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Her writings slip between an affected, homily style, the stilted syntax of someone pretending their mother tongue is a second language, and the casual platitudes of a Facebook update. The radicalisation of Samantha Lewthwaite, the Aylesbury schoolgirl who became the 'white widow' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z More than any other sitting Justice, he sees himself as both an authority on and an arbiter of our mother tongue. Scalia's Word Games: The Abramski Dissent and Guns 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z "You are always a bit different in the mother tongue. That's why it's maybe easier for me in English to be an extrovert. In Icelandic I'm more private." Björk: 'Even venture capitalists understand our future is in nature' 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z My Dutch family and friends think it quite hilarious how I butcher my mother tongue. Readers who lost fluency in their language 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z About a half-dozen Israelis of Iranian origin, who speak Farsi as a mother tongue, telephoned the 530 respondents in May and early June without revealing that they were Israelis or from where they were calling. Openness on Israeli Issues Seen in Survey of Iranians 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “English was a second language; but so in a sense was Italian. His mother tongue was Design.” Massimo Vignelli: A Master in the Grammar of Design 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z I speak Marathi, the state language from where I was born, and Tamil, my mother tongue. My Day: Radio host Rohini Ramnathan 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The decision is noteworthy because Urdu is the mother tongue of many of India’s Muslims, whose attitude to Modi ranges from outright hostility to, at best, ambivalence. Modi Gets a Bollywood Boost 2014-04-23T06:40:00Z About 30 percent of its half million population is ethnic Russian and more than half of the total speak Russian as a mother tongue. NATO commander warns of Russian threat to separatist Moldova region 2014-03-24T03:40:24Z “And if your mother tongue is English, then it is ridiculous to demand that you speak two additional languages.” International Education: E.U. Fights to Get Everyone Speaking Same Language on Education 2014-03-16T16:18:29Z Rather, they say, both language families are descendants of some lost mother tongue. Linguistic Study Sheds New Light on Peopling of North America 2014-03-12T21:01:25Z You will need your mother tongue to communicate properly with your grandparents. Letter from Africa: A gift for Kenya 2014-02-12T14:08:55Z Countries which use their mother tongue are more developed. Indian media: English language in parliament 2013-11-19T05:41:29Z Countries which use their mother tongues are more developed. Indian media: Tendulkar's 'guardianship role' in cricket 2013-11-18T06:06:57Z “Proficiency in the mother tongue is bad enough in the Netherlands,” he said. International Education: E.U. Fights to Get Everyone Speaking Same Language on Education 2014-03-16T16:18:29Z Besides Hindi, Dey, a Bengali, also sang in his mother tongue and was hugely popular in the state of West Bengal and even the neighbouring Bangladesh. In pictures: Legendary Indian singer Manna Dey 2013-10-24T14:18:06Z You arrived at a time of a huge public debate over the role of the mother tongue in children's education. Letter from Africa: A gift for Kenya 2014-02-12T14:08:55Z Before the move, all my education was in my mother tongue, Marathi. Bye-bye, birthplace 2013-10-02T22:57:14Z A proposal for parties to campaign in their mother tongue also falls short, the BDP says, because it only applies to the period before elections. Kurdish rebels, politicians say Turkish reforms not aimed at peace 2013-10-01T16:11:35Z Van Ahn claims that when languages students translate new content into their mother tongue, and through a Wiki-style, collective effort, they do a better job than the algorithms that power Google Translate. Duolingo Takes Online Teaching To Next Level, By Crowd Sourcing New Languages 2013-09-25T17:03:00Z Chinese is our mother tongue and a carrier of national culture, as Chinese. China media: iPhone models 2013-09-12T07:22:35Z The debate followed a Ministry of Education guideline that children under eight years of age, which is roughly when they are in primary class four, should be instructed in their mother tongue. Letter from Africa: A gift for Kenya 2014-02-12T14:08:55Z On the Kurdish language issue, it said it saw "no evidence" of any Turkish commitment to providing education in Kurdish children's mother tongue. Rebel Kurds 'halt Turkey pull-out' 2013-09-09T08:42:35Z "We haven't taken their statements because we are waiting for an official translator as we must give them the right to declare in their mother tongue." Peru drug women expected in court 2013-08-16T09:53:12Z The Sidis of Gujarat, for example, speak Gujarati as their mother tongue. In pictures: Indian Africans 2013-06-03T01:18:39Z Some people argue that the academic load primary students bear is already too much, so they should focus on learning their mother tongue. China media: iPhone models 2013-09-12T07:22:35Z She teaches a class at the center in “mamalushen,” the mother tongue of Yiddish, to seniors who want to better understand “the things you heard your mother say.” Some Say Spelling of a Winning Word Wasn’t Kosher 2013-06-01T01:50:59Z So, imagine my shock when I called the phone operator and upon confirming my name, he greeted me in Luganda, my mother tongue. Letter from Africa: A brighter future in Dubai? 2013-05-21T11:41:11Z The university is located in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, where Zulu is the mother tongue of most people. SA university makes Zulu compulsory 2013-05-16T13:54:19Z According to Lisee, 50% of every new generation of French speakers from British Columbia to Ontario adopt English as a mother tongue. Language wars rage in Quebec 2013-05-06T23:35:28Z I take pity on my mother tongue because it is poorly exploited by most of its native users. Why Americans Need Spelling Bees and Vocabulary Tests 2013-04-16T09:45:48Z Or said something very different in his mother tongue. Six Nations 2013: Six talking points from the fourth round of matches 2013-03-11T12:34:10Z Most people speak English as their main language - with 92% in England and Wales speaking it as their mother tongue but there are a lot of other languages spoken in the UK. Chat: Do you speak another language? 2013-01-31T11:50:09Z It is the mother tongue for about 23% of the population and is also used as a lingua franca by many others. SA university makes Zulu compulsory 2013-05-16T13:54:19Z The law allows defendants to speak in their mother tongue, if they speak it better than they do Turkish. Turkey approves court reform, Kurds remain critical 2013-01-25T14:35:03Z The new legislation will allow defendants to speak in their mother tongue, if they speak it better than they do Turkish. Turkey approves court reform, addressing Kurdish demand 2013-01-25T09:06:20Z Of the estimated 150 languages still spoken, Dr Fogarty says that only a handful - about 6% - are considered "strong" and are still spoken as a mother tongue, while many others are endangered. Lost indigenous language revived in Australia 2013-01-22T00:35:44Z Otherwise, they dress like the British, their mother tongue is English, with an accentual twang of Indian and they are Christians. Is Anglo-Indian culture dying out? 2013-01-04T01:46:17Z More commonly, though, people transition out of one mother tongue into another, either by choice or under duress, a process that linguists refer to as language shift. New York, a graveyard for languages 2012-12-16T00:13:19Z The BDP was still critical however of the law's requirement that defendants speaking their mother tongue pay for a translator. Turkey approves court reform, Kurds remain critical 2013-01-25T14:35:03Z However, the BDP was critical of the law's requirement that defendants speaking their mother tongue pay for a translator. Turkey approves court reform, addressing Kurdish demand 2013-01-25T09:06:20Z Of course, there are large British communities that count Welsh, Scottish Gaelic or other indigenous languages as their mother tongues, but few are unable to understand English. Being British without English 2012-12-15T12:38:39Z It also described moves by the Scottish government to introduce a "1+2" approach to language learning - where every child would learn two languages in addition to their mother tongue - as "a positive step". Language skills 'cost business' 2012-11-27T00:55:27Z Coulthard apologized to television viewers afterwards, reminding them that neither driver had been speaking in his mother tongue. Formula One drivers told to avoid racy language 2012-11-08T17:30:24Z They spoke in French, since the boy had lost his command of Russian, his mother tongue. The ice pick assassination 2012-08-28T00:36:04Z Still, he summoned a broad smile, offered a predictably firm handshake and indicated that he'd prefer to speak in English, although he considers Japanese his mother tongue. Japanese javelin star embraces British roots at London 2012 2012-08-11T07:49:35Z He asserted in 1987 that most languages spoken in North and South America were derived from the single mother tongue of the first settlers from Siberia, which he called Amerind. Earliest Americans Arrived in 3 Waves, Not 1, DNA Study Finds 2012-07-11T17:14:21Z People in large swathes of Ukraine, notably the eastern industrial heartland, speak Russian as their mother tongue. Ukraine seethes after Russian language law voted in 2012-07-04T10:40:29Z Ms Sabet was born in the US - and is therefore an American citizen - and her father has her speak Farsi at home so that she does not forget her mother tongue. Are Iranians banned from buying iPads? 2012-06-22T02:00:59Z These are the “lettori” — literally “readers” — widely used here to designate language teachers hired in part for their proficiency in a mother tongue other than Italian. Foreign Instructors Fighting for Equality at Italian Universities 2012-06-17T11:27:18Z If you treat some of your citizens' mother tongue as a foreign language, you will show how far you are from the principle of equality regarding the solution of the problem. Turkey's press warms to Kurdish 2012-06-13T13:59:26Z The bill grants Russian, mother tongue of most people in east and south Ukraine, "regional language" status. Ukraine MPs back language bill 2012-06-05T12:01:49Z Though Ukrainian is the state language, Russian is the mother tongue of most people in the east and south, while Ukrainian predominates in parts of the centre and in the west. Ukraine ruling party wins first round over Russian 2012-06-05T10:10:24Z Even though the Communist Party, in theory, unified China under Mandarin, a northern dialect, most Chinese do not speak it as a mother tongue, but learn it in schools or from television broadcasts. Talk-to-text takes off in China 2012-05-31T23:00:28Z The double-agent was sent by Saudi officials to Yemen's capital, San'a, under the guise that he wanted to learn his family's mother tongue, Arabic, at one of the city's language schools, Mr. Alani said. Double Agent Had Western Roots 2012-05-11T04:08:50Z If we know anything about our mother tongue, the qualifications of the applicant were fully set out. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z We had been so long in Europe, and heard French, German, Italian, Greek and Turkish; and Arabic in Egypt; that at first I started to hear my own mother tongue. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z I therefore took leave of my mother tongue for a long time to come, and we drove over the bridge. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The French was his mother tongue, and German was the language of the people around him. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z How generous is self-interest in him, whose true self is all that is good and hopeful in all ages as far as the language of Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton, is the mother tongue. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z An illuminating essay by Arthur Symons places George Meredith among the decadents, the murderers of their mother tongue, the men who shatter syntax to serve their artistic ends. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The group first rose to prominence locally when they stopped singing folks songs and started deliveirng their own rendition of international hits in their mother tongue. Russian Grandmothers Are Eurovision Frontrunners 2012-03-13T04:35:37Z As said, it was in the last week of July, 1865, when the Welshmen first saw the land where they intended to perpetuate their mother tongue in its purity. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z This singular genius spoke several languages so perfectly, that each might have passed for his mother tongue; especially Italian, French, and English. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z The correct use of common words in the mother tongue ought orally, not out of any lesson book, to be taught all boys and girls. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z How can speakers of endangered languages protect their mother tongues from dying? Podcast: Saving Endangered Languages 2012-02-18T02:50:19Z He has no other language to build upon, while the other has his mother tongue with which to compare the foreign language he is learning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z His point was that a person must speak a country’s mother tongue to succeed. Gingrich Shows What He Knows on the Campaign Trail 2012-02-10T05:10:55Z He referred to the rigid laws of the time of Henry V., to prevent any from reading the Bible in the mother tongue; yet still the Book lives. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Latin was too learned for this simple, popular nature, and he composed in his mother tongue, in Italian. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z English-women don't make the moue, so, though I like sticking to my mother tongue, I confess my inability to translate the word. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z They made their appeal in the mother tongue to all men who could read and think, and sought to reduce the controversy to its most direct practical issue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Both ministers were accompanied everywhere by a Malay dolmetsch, although they spoke Javanese with the utmost fluency, in addition to their mother tongue. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z "I am awfully glad you came in," he said, resuming his mother tongue at last—"because if you won't charge me anything I will try the first experiment on you." The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Though most of the world’s languages have no written form, people are beginning to transliterate their mother tongues into the alphabet of a national language. Ventures: Everyone Speaks Text Message 2011-12-09T16:57:19Z In this conduct the determining factor seems to be a certain consideration for the hearer, who is not to think that it is immaterial to the speaker how he treats his mother tongue. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z He is already prepared to find a subject, predicate and object, in the sentence of a foreign language, even when he knows not a word of any but his own mother tongue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The poor little Negrilla hardly understood her own mother tongue, besides a very little Tagal, so that we had considerable difficulty in understanding each other. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z They were left very much to themselves for the rest of the day; and as their way was at such times, they talked in their mother tongue fast and eagerly. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z In his mother tongue he had a rich and splendid medium. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Consequently, when we find individuals recognizing some one whose portrait they have seen, but who talks in the mother tongue of the visionary, we are forced to conclude that the matter is unreal. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z He alone to whom this wondrous tone-language has become a second mother tongue, will be able to express himself with freedom in it; but how soon do we begin to attempt our mother tongue! Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z They speak French as a mother tongue, pepper cafe conversation with Sartre and Camus and are educated at some of the most elite schools in the country. France Is Sending North African Graduates Home 2011-11-09T18:12:17Z Classical Books.—The weakest point in every classical book is that it is written too much in the mother tongue of its author. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Thus, in the poem alluded to, could the thoughts contained in it, have been expressed as beautifully and tenderly in the mother tongue? Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Justinian was the last emperor who spoke Latin as his mother tongue, all his successors were better skilled in Greek. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z He also translated some excellent old popular tales into his mother tongue, and said in the preface, that next to the Bible, he scarcely knew any better admonitions than these. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z Sweet singer! may your mother tongue, Embellished by thy gift of song, Be ever heard the clans among While print is read— May future bards thy notes prolong When thou art dead. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z We talked mostly in German; she took to it almost with relief, as if speaking in her mother tongue was a comfort on a day when she felt so misunderstood by so many. Troy Davis' Execution: Outrage for Opponents, But Closure for Victim's Family? 2011-09-22T04:50:00Z The chief intellectual classifications that constitute the working capital of thought have been built up for us by our mother tongue. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Is it possible that Paul would call speech in a language, foreign to him, perhaps, but which nevertheless was the mother tongue of some nation, "speaking into air"? Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z In summer 2000, the number of internet users having a mother tongue other than English also reached 50%, and went on steadily increasing then. The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) 2011-08-08T02:00:19.250Z A whole nation is learning the use of its mother tongue. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It is no uncommon sight to find four men with three different mother tongues sharing a tent together. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Judy’s mouth was too full to attempt French but she managed to say in her mother tongue: “Why do you come in a respectable place like this and behave just like a Prussian?” Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z "Why should you apologize?" she addressed the tip of her shoe in her mother tongue. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z "My daughter Jane she is too young, She has not learned her mother tongue." National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z At this time Francis Bacon thought in Latin, for his mother tongue was wholly insufficient. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z “Now, men,” he said, in the ordinary Boer Dutch, which was their mother tongue. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z For those three, we went to the experts — native speakers of the mother tongue in question — for a quick language lesson. City Room: Pronouncing the Unpronounceable 2011-07-01T12:00:03Z Their own beautiful language was his mother tongue. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z By dint of mangling our mother tongue, he managed to inform us that he had made the campaign of 1815, and that he was never so happy as when he met Frenchmen. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z What he would have blushed to utter in his mother tongue, he could by this means write with a quiet conscience. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The late Mr. S. Read, who was one of the first special artists employed on the pictorial press, travelled much abroad, yet he knew little or nothing of any language save his mother tongue. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z Upon this mother tongue, upon this English language has Keats trampled as with the hoofs of a buffalo. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He told the story in German, partly for the sake of privacy, partly because when agitated he generally relapsed into his mother tongue. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z So much we learned before we learned to speak our mother tongue, and all in that first lesson, so far as I was concerned. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z He turned away as one who found his mother tongue inadequate to express the deep-seated scorn of his soul. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The rector was reading it in the same sweet voice, with all his old precision and knowledge of his mother tongue, and never a trip or an undue emphasis. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z His poetic genius is admitted by practically all the critics, while the greatest among them, George Brandes, pronounces him in addition an unsurpassed master in the command of his mother tongue. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z His songs are already part of the mother tongue, not of Scotland only but of Britain, and of the millions that in all the ends of the earth speak a British language. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z She makes use of all the adjectives in her mother tongue, and yet they are not enough to express all that she feels. The Girl in Her Teens 2011-04-26T02:00:26.063Z But they like me to speak to them in the mother tongue. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z I was particularly struck by the facility with which mere schoolboys read music at sight—as easily as if it were their mother tongue. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z In the third, these studies were carried over to the profit of the mother tongue. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "In that case, they'll choose to tweet in their mother tongue." Mother tongue 2011-04-08T13:23:36Z This of itself contributes very largely to the perfection of our use of the mother tongue. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z Truyn passes his hand over his grey hair in extreme perplexity and mutters in his mother tongue: "This woman will be the death of me!" and then he again blames his sister. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z We read our grandfather's testament in our mother tongue, while you are forbidden to read it in yours. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Lorenzo de' Medici could boast of having restored the mother tongue to a place of honor among the learned. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "It's very common to learn in a language other than your mother tongue, so it's not anything special or weird," says Lena Verbeek. Knowledge economy 2011-03-09T00:19:00Z She spoke in Russian sometimes, and it always pleased Colia to hear her attempt his dearly loved mother tongue. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z He has none of that facility for discounting gossip on the great which the Englishman learns with his mother tongue. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z For what can a man express his thoughts in so well as his mother tongue? with whom does he want to talk but his countrymen? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Even when they wrote their mother tongue, it followed that the men of humanistic culture had a false conception of style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Mrs. Grundy's success with her favourite institution encouraged others to emulate her example; and now sewing circles are common wherever the mother tongue of that benevolent lady is spoken. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z She is a true daughter of Hesperia, although she has passed her childhood in Germany, and therefore is as perfect a mistress of our language as she is of her mother tongue. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z I was to copy them, as people learning French or Italian try to catch an accent which is not that of their mother tongue. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The educated form of the language, based on the Koran, is literally nobody's mother tongue. Lost in translation 2011-02-24T17:10:31Z In the present chapter I propose to follow the transition from the middle ages effected by writers who, though they used the mother tongue, take rank among-148- cultivated authors. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The findings indicate that as babies learn to discriminate the two languages they're familiar with—Spanish and Catalan—they aren't just learning the specific rules of their two mother tongues. An Infant's Refined Tongue 2011-02-18T22:11:25Z Indian politicians, whose own children attend private English-language schools in India and abroad, want their constituents to marinate in their mother tongues. Letter from India: India Faces a Linguistic Truth: English Spoken Here 2011-02-16T13:00:47Z Once more, my muse, resume thy wonted seat, And ask permission of the wise and great, To admit, as tribute due, thy warbling song, In thy own land, and in thy mother tongue. Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z It is folly to give a secondary place to the treasures of our mother tongue, while so much time is devoted to studies which are often wholly inapplicable to the pursuits of after life. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z All will serve to develop power in the use of the mother tongue. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z He talks French beautifully, and several times I heard him in animated conversation with one or other of the smiling demoiselles in their mother tongue. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z My family became Italian, and I learned to speak Italian, but my mother tongue is French. An Alexandrian in Search of Lost Time 2011-02-06T05:00:00Z "Is it Franz you seek?" asked, the old man, now in his mother tongue. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z When a nurse and burgeoning Yiddish scholar, played by Ms. Annenberg, asks for help translating “Romeo and Juliet” into the mother tongue, they oblige. City Room: A Familiar Story of Boy Meets Girl, but in Yiddish 2011-01-20T23:18:09Z Miss Burnett had an eager class, more interested in the study of their mother tongue than they had ever been before, simply because she taught it. Briarwood Girls 2011-01-11T03:00:30.337Z Citizenship "is a form of symbolic relationship - recognition that after 90 years of living without Hungary we maintain our identity, we value our mother tongue," he said. Big demand for Hungary passports 2011-01-04T17:31:15Z Glad of an opportunity of speaking English again after so long, I answered him in his own mother tongue. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z It is the great misfortune of our mother tongue, my boy, that words of widely-different meanings have precisely the same sound, and in using one you seem to be abusing another. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z She speaks three or four modern languages, to say nothing of her mother tongue. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Moral freedom is not an artificial condition, because the ideal is the mother tongue of both the heart and the senses. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z If this picture of the state of things be really a true one, the French Academy, which was founded to look after the mother tongue of Molière, had better lower its blinds and burn tapers. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z Grotius, who speaks a host of languages, talking with the learned of all countries, and of every age, has forgot his mother tongue, and speech is at an end with her that bore him. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z In order save our mother tongue, many Tibetan students are protesting in Tibetan areas advocating for the Tibetan language. Tibetans Protest China?s Plan to Curb Language 2010-10-22T13:50:00Z People like to read in their mother tongue. Newspapers in India: Where print makes profits 2010-09-23T10:46:00Z Recently, it has been demonstrated in a series of ingenious experiments that we even perceive colors through the lens of our mother tongue. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z Today nearly half of the people in Tallinn — not all of them ethnic Russians — speak Russian as their mother tongue. Memo From Tallinn: Resentment Over Soviet-Era Policies Drives Estonian Citizenship Law 2010-08-16T01:41:00Z Mr. Cortiñas, who was born in Miami, writes his scripts in English with a poetry drawn from his mother tongue. Artists Sense an Increase in U.S.-Cuba Cultural Exchanges 2010-07-24T23:37:00Z “But our country’s mother tongue is Chinese, so we study in Chinese.” China?s Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet and Stir Unrest 2010-07-24T23:30:00Z Most of them speak English as their first language and do not speak their mother tongue. Keep party politics out of our police forces 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z The reaction was so severe that for decades, any attempts to explore the influence of the mother tongue on our thoughts were relegated to the loony fringes of disrepute. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z This can leave the younger generation, which often has limited or no knowledge of its parents' mother tongues, uninterested. A troubling cultural gap 2010-05-16T18:01:00Z La Raza put a high premium on the mother tongue, but Rosie Castro spoke English to her sons, and Julián studied Latin and Japanese in school, while Joaquín studied Latin and German. The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician 2010-05-09T02:34:00Z It is an axiom of translation that the work is best done from a foreign language into one's mother tongue. Iceland Translators Enjoy Moment in Sun 2010-04-30T00:54:00Z Almost the entire population is Christian and most speak English - a legacy of Church-funded education - in addition to their mother tongues. Remote state in vanguard of India's mobile phone love affair 2010-04-23T17:08:00Z The most serious one was to assume that our mother tongue constrains our minds and prevents us from being able to think certain thoughts. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z He would like one-third of all state sector jobs to be reserved for Tamils and Muslims, whose mother tongue is also Tamil. After the Tigers 2010-04-05T17:00:00Z Although Sri Lanka's population is three-quarters Sinhalese, Tamil is the mother tongue for not only Tamils but also the Muslims, seen as the third ethnic group. Colombo police in Tamil unit move 2010-03-19T12:48:00Z All successful candidates will still have to be fluent in one of the main EU languages - English, French or German - in addition to their mother tongue. Brussels beckons 2010-03-12T07:35:00Z For the film's star, Magaly Solier, it was a story which was close to home as an indigenous woman who speaks Quechua as her mother tongue. Tale of sorrow 2010-03-04T09:09:00Z For many years, our mother tongue was claimed to be a “prison house” that constrained our capacity to reason. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z Campus rivalry In schools across the country, the row is defused by calling language classes "mother tongue". Tongue-twister 2010-02-19T12:20:00Z My mother tongue is English, but I lived daily in Hebrew for several years and now live daily in Spanish. 2010-02-05T12:02:00Z They become our moral language; we learn them as we learn our mother tongue; they distinguish us from foreigners; they are, in each of us, not indeed personal, but national characteristics. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The language was Western Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus and his apostles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" And as anyone whose mother tongue has a gender system will tell you, once the habit has taken hold, it is all but impossible to shake off. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? 2010-08-28T01:56:00Z Often the two foreign languages are taught by different teachers employing different methods, and both employing a different grammatical nomenclature from that used in studying the mother tongue. The Salvaging Of Civilisation And it was decided that I was not idiomatic enough in my treatment of our mother tongue. A Yankee from the West A Novel It has been said that our church maintained the privilege of having part of the daily service in the mother tongue. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 To change the unspoken language of thought into the spoken language of words is like translating the mother tongue into a foreign language. Stories from Tagore “Let the people be taught,” said Luther, “let schools be opened for the poor, let the truth reach them in simple words in their own mother tongue, and they will believe.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well. The Salvaging Of Civilisation In waking and sleeping dreams we speak our mother tongue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The writers speak directly and to the point, and find no difficulty in so using their mother tongue as to express their intentions. A Short History of French Literature The first idea suggested by the word Frenchman, or German, or any other national name, is that he is a man who speaks French or German as his mother tongue. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 He condemned those who despaired of their mother tongue, and used Latin for their more serious and ambitious work. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" I would therefore set down as a desirable part of this ideal education we are planning, two or three other languages in addition to the mother tongue learnt early and thoroughly. The Salvaging Of Civilisation All speak Romanian, and only one-fourth claimed Yiddish as their mother tongue in the 1950s. Area Handbook for Romania In her day, indeed, it was a distinction to write in the mother tongue, for among the classes which we should call literary Latin was considered the only proper vehicle for their wisdom. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Ethnic minorities have the right to instruction in their mother tongue; they also have the right to develop their national culture, although study of the Bulgarian language is compulsory.... Area Handbook for Bulgaria My daughter Jane she is too young, And has not learned her mother tongue. The Nursery Rhymes of England The object of language teaching in a civilized state is twofold: to give a thorough, intimate, usable knowledge of the mother tongue and of certain key languages. The Salvaging Of Civilisation National minorities are guaranteed the free use of their mother tongue in education, the communications media, and their dealings with government authorities and unrestricted perpetuation of their cultural traditions. Area Handbook for Romania Marie represents but a beginning--and yet it is a beginning--of the writing in their mother tongue, which was to make famous many women as well as men of France. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) It's just a dull necessity to them—this business of learning how to use their mother tongue—except, of course, to Sheila. The Torch Bearer "It is worth owning, and ought to be studied by many who heedlessly misuse their mother tongue." An American Girl Abroad When, however, this natural process of growth is allowed to go forward without watchful care, it is likely to displace the mother tongue. The Intellectual Life Ahmed was growing impatient under the rifleman's garrulity, though he took a certain pleasure in hearing his mother tongue again. Barclay of the Guides It is my name in my mother tongue, which I myself in better times embroidered on this band. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Andrew Clark still held to his mother tongue,—Lowland Scots. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia In his “Parisian Fatalities,” Wagner said of the Germans in Paris that they learned anew to appreciate their mother tongue and to strengthen their patriotic feeling. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians It is sometimes affirmed that the impressions of childhood are never effaced, that the mother tongue is never forgotten. The Intellectual Life In the study of Old English, the student must remember that he is dealing not with a foreign or isolated language but with the earlier forms of his own mother tongue. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary She was born in Lisbon in Portugal, but as she had come to France when quite young, she had forgotten her mother tongue and now spoke French and Italian. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso According to some, travelling increased, in a certain number of Englishmen, the tendency we have already noticed, to feel contempt towards their mother tongue. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare To hear our mother tongue so unexpectedly spoken in this out-of-the-way part of the world, was startling. Across Asia on a Bicycle At all stages of learning the mother tongue, the purely verbal exercises are more or less accompanied with the occupation of the mind upon things. Froebel's Gifts I’d like to come up with them, and hear a few words in my own mother tongue. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France In the acquisition of French, her own mother tongue, the German, was so totally neglected, that, incredible as it may seem, she actually lost the power either of speaking or of understanding it. Maria Antoinette Makers of History In late prehistoric times it evolved from one mother tongue two dialects which afterward displayed all the differences of separate languages springing from a common stock. Legends & Romances of Brittany Very often a poem can be imitated from its mother tongue. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Language Of Flowers The language of flowers in pre-eminently the language of refined and modest Courtship; millions have conveyed a message by presenting a flower which they dare not have uttered in their mother tongue. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Alexander could understand them very easily, as they were written in his mother tongue. Alexander the Great Makers of History I thanked my Russian grandmother then for all the time she had spent teaching me her mother tongue. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 In talking with any man in the street the writer had to resort to the man's mother tongue, while the farmers back in the country, as a rule, did not speak English at all. A Stake in the Land First, this study is meant to render easy by comparison and practice the knowledge and free use of the mother tongue. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts The author, whose mother tongue is French, is responsible for any remaining mistakes in English. The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] In these respects he is the literary herald of a century which, in the earlier half at least, is remarkable in the use it makes of our mother tongue for the exercise of common sense. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Fran�ois found in the village an Indian who had been brought up among the Spaniards of the Pacific Coast, and who still spoke their language as readily as he spoke his mother tongue. Pathfinders of the Great Plains A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons The priest explained that the Polish language is needed, as the people, especially the older people, understand it better and the priest is able to penetrate their souls more intimately in their mother tongue. A Stake in the Land I still believe that this would have afforded the best solution of our peculiar difficulties and have spared us the un-American subterfuge of "mother tongue" and "grandfather" clause. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Kind were the voices I used to hear Round such a fireside, Speaking the mother tongue old and dear; Making the heart beat, With endless tales of wonder and fear, Or plaintive singing. An Orkney Maid Obviously, grammatical work and translations into the mother tongue will now be minimized, and those devices which give the eye the power to find thought in new symbols will be emphasized. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Bad luck to you! do you understand your mother tongue? The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems O brothers! speaking the same dear mother tongue—O comrades! enemies no more, let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle! Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Nearly everything it learns, comes to it through its mother tongue; at play it hears, it speaks. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. Vernacular, from the Latin, has the same general sense as the Saxon mother tongue, of one's native language, or that of a people; as, the Scriptures were translated into the vernacular. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions He owed but little to books, and the books to which he owed anything were written in his mother tongue. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 He seemed at home in that wonderful language as much almost as if it had been his mother tongue. The History of Dartmouth College There were books in various languages of which Faith could make nothing—but sighs; in her own mother tongue there were varieties of learning and literature enough to distract her. Say and Seal, Volume I At five years of age it begins to go to school, and from that time until its fourteenth or sixteenth year, whatever else it studies, it must study its mother tongue. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. But should we not be speaking Latin, the mother tongue of the Church? The Saracen: Land of the Infidel All these works, however, exhibit a remarkable command of the mother tongue, a shrewd common-sense and mother wit, a fervid2750 spiritual life, and a wonderful knowledge of the English Bible. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 His translations might well be likened to celestial music, long pent-up in foreign caves, but now finding rich and varied and sweet expression, in the mother tongue. The History of Dartmouth College This unity of mother tongue and culture is the product of historical and cultural processes circumscribed, as Shaler points out, by separated geographical areas. Introduction to the Science of Sociology This makes fourteen days of ten hours or perhaps three weeks as against fourteen years spent by the child upon its mother tongue. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. Yet though he had neglected his mother tongue in order to bestow all his attention on French, his French was, after all, the French of a foreigner. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Translations should be welcomed by a people who themselves are in a state of translation, especially if the translations are from their mother tongue into the language they are learning. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Thus in language, after the mother tongue, teach other living languages, and then the classics. History of Education These wasps know just sufficient of English to make you disgusted with your mother tongue. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 They profess that they teach a foreign language as a child learns to speak its mother tongue. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. And quite aside from the thousands of volumes written in our own language, we have access to the literature of other nations both in translation and in their mother tongue. Paul and the Printing Press The Saxon stripling who could keep accounts in Norman fashion, and speak French as fluently as his mother tongue, might hope to sell his knowledge in a good market. A Book About Lawyers After reading, writing, drawing, geography, and the mother tongue are mastered, Locke, like Montaigne, would teach the language of nearest neighbors, and then Latin. History of Education Yet this has been done by men of mark and ability, by Italians, by men who read the Commedia in their own mother tongue. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Blackie says that after five months in Germany, he knew German as well as his mother tongue. The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. |
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