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first lan·guage

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  1. mother tongue, maternal language, first languagenoun

    one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next

    Synonyms:
    maternal language, mother tongue

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  1. Natalie Portman:

    It was very meaningful for me, it's weird when your first language, and maybe the language of your emotions, of your childhood, is sort of missing.

  2. Rob Ford:

    Priti Patel speaks the language of the socially conservative right very fluently, it's not the first language of Boris Johnson.

  3. Keith Adams:

    This is our first language, this is our native language, we're using our native language on the field.

  4. Alexis Hiniker:

    Alexa isn't going to be able to teach a child to speak, just like children can't learn to speak from TV, even though smart speakers — unlike TV — are interactive, they are nowhere near the sophistication of a human, or more specifically, the sophistication of an adult who can instinctively coach a child in picking up her first language.


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