mother tongue

Guided by many mentors, the children can perform more than 30 songs in their five distinctive mother tongues.

Some of its aims include preserving cultural heritage, attaining universal primary education and promoting the use of mother tongues.

But when people start making names for themselves outside of their mother tongues, the results are often comical to native speakers.

Even there, English was often chosen as the medium of education in preference to the inhabitants' mother tongues.

Our mother tongues, and the intermingling of our mother cultures, will be a source of vibrancy, and give us distinctiveness.

By the same token, Chinese students will also be able to learn the mother tongues of other ethnic groups, such as the Malay language.

Rodriguez acknowledged that the evening's pre-ceremony chatter - made up of over 80 mother tongues - was even more excited than usual.

As a small country, Norway is very respectful of other languages, especially the mother tongues of others.

We must ensure that different nationalities maintain their mother tongues at an acceptable level and not allow them to decline further.

Tribal language certification contributes to preserving tribal culture and creating a market to learn aboriginal mother tongues.

We strongly support education in our own mother tongues.

In some occasions and subject to some reasons, speakers whose mother tongues are not English have to deliver speeches in English.

On Different Thought Patterns of the Chinese and the English in Relation to Their Mother Tongues