Editor's note: While BuzzFeed house style, based on guidelines from the National Center for Disability and Journalism, typically uses person-first language when referring to people with disabilities, person-first language is a divisive issue in the disabled community and the author has made a conscious choice to use identity-first language.
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Their first language was English, and they spoke without accents.
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Not sharing your first language with loved ones is hard.
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It was my first language and Spanish was my second.
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They speak Catalan, rather than Spanish, as a first language.
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She was born in London; her first language was not.
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Now, it's also the first language their newborns will hear.
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For how many people is it considered their first language?
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I once had a boyfriend whose first language was Welsh.
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Born in London to Indian immigrants, her first language was Bengali.
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French is your first language, but you've mostly worked in English.
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This is the landscape in which Trump's "America First" language resonated.
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We learned about institutionalization and the reasons behind person-first language.
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As Reinaldo was Cuban, she spoke Spanish as her first language. 4.
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Lorne is deaf — his first language is American Sign Language, or ASL.
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And Italian, which I still speak fluently, was actually my first language.
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Her father did not speak English and her first language was Spanish.
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English is not my first language, so I'm curious about word origins.
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Hanif borrowed books and read widely, starting in his first language, Punjabi.
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By then, he had forgotten how to speak Urdu, his first language.
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My mother learned English along with me Arabic was my first language.
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Hint: it's the general expected skin color and first-language of the populace.
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She avoids using pejorative terms like "dirty needles" and promotes person-first language.
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His first language is Q'eqchi', a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize.
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As young children, almost all of us picked up our first language easily.
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I'm native born of native-born parents, and my first language is English.
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"Almost everywhere the language had ceased to be a first language," he said.
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Or else an English as a first language instructor for the likes of Andy?
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We have our own rich culture, identity and almost everyone's first language is Spanish.
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English was not her first language, and Spanish wasn't mine, but we made do.
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It's because his son lives in the UK, and his grandchild's first language is English.
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As a resident of the area outside of Barcelona, Vidal's own first language is Catalan.
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English is actually my first language, but I've been living in French my whole life.
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The natives look down on him, he says, because English is not his first language.
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We didn't worry about whether I found him articulate, because Arabic was his first language.
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For some of them, 71 to be precise, English wasn't the first language they learned.
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She was Guatemalan, and her father's first language is a Mayan dialect (The Associated Press).
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Though his parents are from Pakistan, English is his first language; he barely speaks Urdu.
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Most of the 13,000 people who live in Nunavik speak Inuktitut as their first language.
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Van Hove, whose first language is Flemish, brings to English-language texts a guileless irreverence.
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This is its first language besides English (and various English accents) that Google Assistant can understand.
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She has the task of teaching those who do not speak English as their first language.
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Also, this competition feels a little unfair to Ariadna Gutiérrez-Arévalo, whose first language isn't English.
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When children are learning their first language, Macedonia argues, they absorb information with their entire bodies.
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You know, I'm white and speak English as a first language so I get a pass.
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Her first language was Russian and then she was blind, and then she was in captivity.
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Raised among blacks in a rural area bordering a tribal reserve, his first language was Xhosa.
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His father, who spoke Cheyenne as his first language, was a Native American Church ceremony leader.
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Her first language was Romanian, which she used when playing with her brother in basketball games.
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In census surveys since 2001, only 14,000 to 50,000 Indians list Sanskrit as their first language.
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Language barrier Zhang was clearly a Chinese national, with two Chinese passports, her first language Mandarin.
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I can speak, read, and understand Spanish because it was my first language that I learned.
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In fact, not one of their players that day would have spoken English as their first language.
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My tongue can easily sway from English to the flows of the first language I ever learned.
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Neither promises an effectively limitless population of people with whom you share values and a first language.
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His first language is Q'eqchi -- a Mayan language used in Guatemala -- and Spanish is his second language.
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Her father, a first-generation American who spoke Yiddish as his first language, was an auto salesman.
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Though they're both American, born and raised in New York, Esty and Yanky's first language is Yiddish.
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Chief Richardson called Mr. Singh an "American patriot," and noted that English was not his first language.
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According to Biden's campaign, only 6 percent of his Latino supporters speak Spanish as a first language.
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The midwives, trained by a nearby hospital, can speak the women's first language and know their culture.
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The midwives, trained by a nearby hospital, can speak the women's first language and know their culture.
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And there are more people who use English as a second language than as a first language.
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Participants also provided background information about themselves, including education level and whether English was their first language.
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No publicly available data compare results by country of birth, but some divide pupils by their first language.
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English is the first language in the city-state, which operates a bilingual language policy in state schools.
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His first language was Italian, thanks to his mother, and he learned French at school here in Paris.
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"He can speak Shakespeare as if it's his first language," says Nick Hytner, who directed "Hamlet" and "Othello".
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" And English is not our first language, so we were just like, "Oh, let's do it our way.
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She had mastered English (her first language is Sesotho) and memorized "Circle of Life" (she can't read music).
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He grew up in an intellectual household, speaking German as his first language (his mother is from Germany).
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Born to first-generation Italian-Canadian parents, the Expanse actor's first language wasn't what his teachers spoke in school.
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"I think for me, dance is first and foremost my first language," Rowlson-Hall told me over the phone.
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I was anxious and tired, and when that happens, my brain tends to fall back on its first language.
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There are people who think we're in China, and many don't realize we speak English as our first language.
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Though good writing is important, judges will make allowances for those for whom English is not their first language.
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Rather than refusing to learn English, today's immigrants actually abandon their first language much more readily than previous generations.
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It was the first language I learned, and I've persevered with it since, through the good times and bad.
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I'm the child of one Deaf parent and one hard-of-hearing one, so ASL was my first language.
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The two men were good friends for more than two decades, though neither could speak the other's first language.
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Spanish is my first language (my mom's side of the family has its roots in Colombia), so I was intrigued.
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English isn't his first language, so keep that in mind as you read his answers, which I've tweaked for clarity.
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I was born in China; I came to the U.S. about a year later and Mandarin was my first language.
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Globalisation and the communications revolution have locked in English as the world's first language, and language matters in international diplomacy.
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Lahiri's Indian readers, however, are likely to register this move as her further willed alienation from her first language, Bengali.
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There were signs of it before he used a fervent antiglobalization message and "America First" language to stir nationalist sentiment.
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I mean it's our first language — we put words together with all this white space and it gets figured out.
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O'Leary also does not speak French, which could turn off the millions of Canadians for whom French is their first language.
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About a year ago, I decided that now was the right time to commit myself to learning my parents' first language.
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So, then why shouldn't it be a programmer's first language if the future so clearly seems to be converging on JavaScript?
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Some 95% of its people speak Russian as their first language, so it is rare to hear Estonian on the streets.
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The pop up will also allow you to translate text from your first language back into the foreign language you're reading.
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We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.
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Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn't mark gender in any way.
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The women asked for religious lessons, and Hafeezo brought them a copy of the Koran translated into their first language, Tigrinya.
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Why a universal first language will never work Esperanto was invented in the late 1800s by L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish ophthalmologist.
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An accent is simply a way of speaking shaped by a combination of geography, social class, education, ethnicity and first language.
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Some waved Berber or Amazigh flags: a majority of the population here speaks the local Berber dialect as a first language.
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Ostashevsky, whose first language is Russian, spins his song from the displacements and discoveries of his own voyages for our reading pleasure.
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I'm also aware that English is not his first language, so the tweet may not have come out exactly as he intended.
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French was my first language, one I spoke exclusively until I was about 3 or 4, at which point I learned English.
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There were hugs and recollections of holidays and hockey practices, and Ho slipped in and out of French, the Nadons' first language.
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"Here's a person who until the fourth grade was in another country and English was not his first language," Mr. Fitzsimmons said.
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Most people speak German or French as a first language — many speak both — and nearly all children take English classes in school.
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"I am the Swiss-French link," he said, noting a quarter of his staff members speak Swiss German as a first language.
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They argued that the "magic words" rule would particularly disadvantage voters with limited literacy or for whom English is not a first language.
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Zuckerberg repeatedly referred to the idea of data "control" that was completely nonsensical to anybody who actually speaks English as a first language.
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The silver lining: perhaps Trump's America-first language will result in more serious domestic investment in the industries typically dominated by Asian corporations.
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" Speaking in English, which is not his first language, he added: "We're afraid you come very nice and paint us in black colors.
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Versteeg has explained that Lingo was the first language he ever used, and he stuck by it in the creation of several pieces.
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I was literally the only person born in the U.S. there and the only person who spoke probably English as a first language.
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Clinton's ringing defense of alliances like NATO does not have the same emotional resonance for some Americans as Mr. Trump's America-first language.
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"People first" language asserts that if we call ourselves "people with disabilities," we put our humanity first and consider our impairment a modification.
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Even though Farsi was my first language because of my parents, there are certain words you don't learn from your mum and dad.
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That is, because we had students and families for whom English was not their first language, newsletters, meetings, and other events were translated.
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GPT-2 runs on a neural net that is ten times larger than OpenAI's first language model, GPT (short for Generative Pretrained Transformer).
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" Another Twitter user said it "feels surreal to see a movie in your first language earn this much prestige from a Western audience.
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Gonzalez, who was surrounded by Spanish, his first language, at home, also had English classes in school when he moved to Southern California.
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LONDON — When you're speaking in your first language, some things are so automatic that you don't even realise how damn complicated they really are.
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Of the 70,000 people killed in the fight between the insurgents and the government, three-quarters did not speak Spanish as their first language.
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And speaking Thursday from the White House, he did just that, framing the decision in the "America First" language that won him the presidency.
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Harris: Over 90% of the individuals that we arrest will only speak the Spanish language, or the Spanish language will be their first language.
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When it was time to go to middle school, he could not be in the honors program because English was not his first language.
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The fact that I was Asian and an immigrant, and English was not my first language, seemed like facts that were beside the point.
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A young 32 years old, he's an internet native; the memes and cultivated irony that dominate web culture are a first language for him.
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The pungent beauty of the Tudor text was a revelation to me right at the time that English was becoming my chosen first language.
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I must have read hundreds of books, but I never encountered any character like me: Dominican, nerdy, an immigrant whose first language was Spanish.
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He is Belgian-born, and his first language is French, but his parents come from Agrigento in Sicily, and he grew up speaking Italian.
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The 2007 census, the most recent one available, found 3.4 million people — about 11 percent of the population — speaking Quechua as their first language.
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He was brought up in an underprivileged part of south London: 97% of pupils at his first school didn't speak English as a first language.
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"Violence was the first language of this country," Mckesson writes in his just-released book, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case For Hope.
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Berkenblit's first language consists of sharply angled, geometric forms, often concluding in the outline of a pointy nosed witch with long eyelashes but no eyes.
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One difference, though, was that because English is not her first language, Doe's statement wasn't delivered as eloquently as the victim statement in Turner's case.
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I don't see it as a style, I see it as Tutuola's English not being strong (it wasn't his first language) and him needing an editor.
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"I meant specifically Asians, actors from Asia who don't speak English as their first language," he told BuzzFeed News in July at a pizzeria in Hollywood.
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My older sister, herself a teenager, fielded their questions, as my Pakistani parents, whose first language is Urdu, couldn't fully comprehend what the agents were asking.
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Today Google is announcing the second language it'll work with: Hindi, the fourth most-spoken first language in the world and one of India's official languages.
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The Living First Language Project uses software powered by communities to record Indigenous languages, helping to foster traditional language learning for future generations through specialized apps.
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If you look at the top computer science schools in the country today, the majority of them are teaching this language Python as a first language.
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His first language was Portuguese because he'd lived in Brazil until the age of 14, and his second was Korean, the native tongue of his parents.
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In contrast, American-born players without any Latino background do not receive similar instruction in Spanish, even though it is the first language of numerous teammates.
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Ms. Dennison, who recently joined the shadow cast, Mr. Foxx and Mr. Harvard, who has some hearing but whose first language is A.S.L., spoke by email.
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His first language is Khmer, which Cambodians pronounce ka-mai to distinguish the word from the French-pronounced Khmer (ke-mare) as in the Khmer Rouge.
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"Preliminary studies suggest children at their first-language acquisition are increasingly not exposed to enough Icelandic to foster a strong base for later years," he said.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and are both Sanders supporters eager for their mom to have the chance to connect with their candidate's campaign in her first language.
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Many grow up speaking Gujarati, Punjabi or Urdu—something which boosts the group's results, since children without English as a first language tend to make more progress.
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Think of your favorite one: to you, and perhaps your friends, the meaning of that looping image is as clear as any word in your first language.
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I worked at Facebook surrounded by people in which I was the only one who spoke English as a first language and born in the United States.
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And a surprising number misunderstand terms like homosexual and bisexual, particularly if English is not their first language, leading to the totals being distorted by false positives.
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Even if the hotel worker does not speak English as a first language, the processes can be learned and as a result, the requests can be filled.
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Instead of looking down, inadvertently or intentionally, at children whose first language is not English, and discouraging their self-confidence, let's look to them as our teachers.
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SANDAS feels like a vibrant tour through a fantasy world of animals, cartoons, and superheroes, a place where Sahbabii's lingo is the first language of all inhabitants.
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Harrison High School has about 63 students, with 52.9 percent living in households where Spanish is the first language, according to the New Jersey Department of Education.
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Elie Wiesel endorsed it as a chronicle of "unusual power"; others marvelled that Kosinski had written it in English, given that it was not his first language.
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There, he was surrounded by highly motivated students, many of them holding down jobs while they went to school and many whose first language was not English.
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But when the researchers looked just at those whose first language was English, they saw no differences in the number of correct answers based on educational level.
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The tiny, emotive characters—from 😜 to 🎉 to 💩—represent the first language born of the digital world, designed to add emotional nuance to otherwise flat text.
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To apply, foreign doctors must take a series of hours-long exams, studying for weeks or months in English, which may or may not be their first language.
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Family and the Importance of Education: Ysiad's mother immigrated as a teenager from the Dominican Republic, raised him as a single parent and his first language was Spanish.
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" Some were surprised she knew Spanish and blasted her sloppy handling of the romance language: "She does speak it but quite badly for it being her first language.
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His co-broadcaster played down his "weird filter" as a result of him being foreign — in other words a person who doesn't speak English as a first language.
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My initial response to the comment was skepticism; through extra hours wouldn't have surprised me, the developers are Hungarian, so English might not have been their first language.
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Look out for strange wording or spelling and grammar mistakes, as it's common for these sites to be run out of countries where English isn't the first language.
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Whether the message was getting through was open to debate; only a handful of the players arrayed before the coach, Jonathan Vaughan, spoke English as their first language.
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" After that, she wrote ceaselessly, stuffing cupboards "full with unfinished novels, plays, stories"; from her teens, she wrote in English, which she came to consider her "first language.
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The application process could also be more difficult for anyone who struggles with expressing themselves through the written word, including those for whom English isn't a first language.
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She was, to her knowledge, the only certified speech pathologist working for the district who spoke Arabic, which made her indispensable to children whose first language was Arabic.
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About 85 percent of Quebecers speak French as their first language, but it doesn't necessarily follow that in a country with two official languages the second is English.
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I'd seen the same thing happen at home to co-workers whose first language was not English, although it had never fully registered until our roles were reversed.
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"I think it was closer to the end of my high school career then I said, 'No, actually, I love that Spanish is my first language,'" he said.
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Parley's Park Elementary School in Park City, Utah In public schools, students who speak English as a second language are often discouraged from speaking their first language in class.
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Tagalog itself is only spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population, so it's no surprise that Dasovich would hear a hodgepodge of words and phrases.
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One of the school's successful interventions was hiring teachers to work solely on communication in early years, since most of its pupils don't speak English as a first language.
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Americans enthusiastically learning from a kind Asian woman whose first language isn't English is one of the things that gives me hope in this time of rising xenophobia tbh.
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What makes handwriting a unique identifier stems in large part from where the writer was born, the first language spoken and, of course, the handwriting method taught at school.
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They believed that, as long as I had a strong command of sign language as a first language, I would have the foundation necessary to acquire English later on.
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He added that this wasn't just true for Chinese students, but that it was something he observed among Korean students, Russian students and others whose first language wasn't English.
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He was born and raised in San Francisco to a Chinese father and an American mother who was parts German, Scottish, Norwegian and Swiss; his first language was Cantonese.
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Many Puerto Ricans speak Spanish as a first language, yet FEMA "did not have enough bilingual employees to communicate with local residents or translate documents," the GAO report says.
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About 90% of Hong Kongers -- some 6.8 million people -- speak it as their first language, and a further 73 million people worldwide speak Cantonese or a closely related dialect.
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"We couldn't announce it before telling HH Dalai Lama☺️," added the 35-year-old Spanish businesswoman and activist, who went on to share the message in her first language.
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Even though his first language is French, Soemone's letters are also in English, and while their shape is of central importance to him, he's writing deeply personal messages to himself.
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The fact that students of color, students from low-income families and students whose first language isn't English are disproportionately defined as chaff makes the whole enterprise even more insidious.
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For the first time since the late 21980s, a television series was recently broadcast in Hokkien, which in the 1970s was the first language of about 40 percent of Singaporeans.
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At Match in Boston, where many students' first language was Spanish, Mr. Bacrania, who has consulted with the school, advised that it switch from the SAT to the ACT this year.
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Also, I have a very tense relation with language because English is not my first language, and yet, as we grow older, our mother tongue is always suspended in that tension.
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But unlike the EU, they all have centuries of history as common polities and a strong majority tongue; by contrast, only 18% of EU citizens speak German as their first language.
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"Americans enthusiastically learning from a kind Asian woman whose first language isn't English is one of the things that gives me hope in this time of rising xenophobia," the user wrote.
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Unlike John, Khexxi was reluctant to share much about themselves, outside of noting English wasn't their first language, they're currently in their early 20s, and are preparing a return to school.
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It's really a personal project that I started because I am Palestinian and my first language is Arabic and I want her to be able to speak Arabic back to me.
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But many of the parents are members of indigenous groups, do not speak Spanish as a first language and live in poor, rural areas of Central America with dubious telephone service.
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Now Afrikaans both unites and divides the country; it is the basis of a white-identity movement, but it is also the first language of three-quarters of colored South Africans.
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While we're quite forgiving of spelling, grammar or vocabulary errors — after all, for many in our audience, English is not a first language — we do not approve rude or disrespectful remarks.
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And he noted one more, rather obvious, benefit to the move: "I'm excited to go be able to speak my first language on a day-to-day basis," he said, laughing.
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The rationale is clear: It's a hard technical problem to solve, and a necessary one — most growth in the internet will come from places where English is not the first language.
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Alongside the marketplace, the free, all-ages event will also have talks on queer and Latinx publishing, workshops on "first-language zines," among other topics, live music, and food from local vendors.
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Advisers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, supporters of the "America First" language of the Trump campaign and inauguration, now have company and competition from those with more globalist points of view.
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N. also studied painting, which meant that he saw her almost every day, but since A.'s first language was German and N.'s was French, communication between them was somewhat limited.
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Their first language is Plautdietsch, or Low German, an archaic unwritten dialect that dates back to sixteenth-century Polish Prussia, where many of their ancestors settled after persecution drove them from home.
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And, crucially, the moment she finally kills Red, she lets out a deep roar that's similar to the primal calls of the Tethered — as if she's remembered her first language at last.
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"Too often there are parts of our country, parts of London still and other cities as well, where English is not spoken by some people as their first language," Mr. Johnson said.
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The researchers found that nearly 27 percent of participants did not speak English as a first language, which is a higher rate than London as a whole, at 22 percent, they note.
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" She made sure that English was the first language her son spoke because "if you're black in South Africa, speaking English is the one thing that can give you a leg up.
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If it does wind up being your first language, I'd recommend Marijn Haverbeke's short-ish Eloquent JavaScript for its focus on teaching programming principles by way of JavaScript minus most of the clutter.
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Most of her role involved stoically suffering in long, wordless closeups; the scant dialogue was in Plautdietsch, her parents' first language, which she does not really speak, so she learned her lines phonetically.
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It rankled him that most of his colleagues did not speak English as a first language, and that the Muslim workers seemed to be allotted favorable hours during the holy month of Ramadan.
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People who speak Spanish as a first language, for example, are understood 6 percent less frequently by smart speakers than West Coast English speakers, according to a Washington Post investigation earlier this year.
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However some white people with Afrikaans as their first language, who make up about 5% of the population according to the 2011 census, say they feel squeezed out (despite unemployment data suggesting relative stability).
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In this emerging world, it's not just diasporas listening to their respective musics, though those groups play an enormous part, especially the substantial chunk of the US that speaks Spanish as their first language.
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Eventually, he met my blonde-haired, blue-eyed grandmother and moved to California, hoping to raise their children somewhere it would matter less that one of their parents spoke Spanish as a first language.
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The unforeseen wrinkle was that the translator spoke only Farsi and Spanish, the first language of most of my students and, of course, the idiom of the country where we all happened to be.
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That night, on Italian television, Mr. Salvini was asked if he didn't see a certain dissonance in campaigning with rosary beads while using the "Italians First" language that seemed opposed to the pope's message.
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Quality education in high-poverty areas costs more money than quality education in affluent areas, not least because of greater numbers of special education students and students for whom English isn't a first language.
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Because they left their communities well before their due dates, they spent weeks away from their families to give birth in unfamiliar surroundings, tended by doctors and nurses who didn't speak their first language.
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From assimilating the Irish and Italians into whiteness to our current battles to eradicate bilingualism (but only among those whose first language isn't English); from yesterday's redlining and blockbusting to today's gentrification and deportations.
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"It is silly and absurd to conclude that he is behind the ambush just because he misspeaks the Filipino language, which is not his native tongue or first language," Panelo said, the Times reported.
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Shot in collaboration with a first language isiXhosa cast, all but one of whom had been through "ulwaluko," the director had been at pains to tread delicately, and chose to omit much of the rite.
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The new Austrian government portrayed its plan to offer citizenship to Alto Adige residents whose first language is German as a pro-European gesture to promote "an ever-closer union of citizens of member states".
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In fact, Truth's first language, under the Hardenbergh family, was Dutch, and she most likely would not have learned English until she was sold to the English-speaking Neely family at 9 years of age.
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Though English isn't his first language, the Swedish-born musician—whose real name is Micke Berlander—is a thoughtful, precise speaker, one who will often double back on a point to make sure he's understood.
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The hospital, located in Borough Park, serves one of the most diverse patient populations in the country, from ultra-Orthodox Jews to immigrants whose first language might be Mandarin, Russian, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, or Uzbek.
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But just because this guy is a douchebag (I know English is not your first language, so in case douchebag doesn't translate for you, let's go with asshole) doesn't let you off the hook here.
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Word Lens gained support Chinese last year and Chinese was the first language Google picked for its new machine learning translation technology, which went live last September and hugely advanced the way the service works.
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He lived with his Tante Emilie on the Upper West Side and in Strasbourg (French was the little boy's first language) and then in a Bronxville mansion where Emilie for a spell became the governess.
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Whereas translators today mostly convert texts into their first language, Livius was a Greek, a native speaker of the source language, and Naevius, who followed him, though born in Italy, had Greek as a childhood language.
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At a taxi school in Queens on Friday, even some students who were studying for the taxi exam and do not speak English as their first language conceded they thought the English test had been necessary.
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There are millions of English learners out there, many of whom speak it as their first language, but still find themselves unable to make themselves understood especially to Americans, who are particularly underexposed to certain accents.
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This can be especially helpful when the candidate comes from a different culture or speaks another first language, says Ellyn Shook, chief leadership and HR officer of Accenture, a consultancy with 435,000 employees that also uses HireVue.
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Because we had people from all over, but many of them, English wasn't their first language, and they didn't have any ... Right, so you were taking pictures and maybe selling them to a big [outlet], AP or ...?
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Way back in The Good Place's pilot, part of the magic of the supposed "Good Place" was that Chidi's first language of French was automatically translated into English so that Eleanor would understand it, and vice versa.
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But lately, something's changed: There's a spike in younger people who are addicted and who speak English as their first language — a sign they got hooked on drugs in the US. Some have been deported by immigration officials.
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When a 20th century Dutch mathematician named Hans Freudenthal created LINCOS, the first language expressly designed for communicating with extraterrestrials, he used mathematical principles to discuss everything from the nature of time to what it means to love.
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He also learned how to speak English (German is his first language,) and he used to ask about the meaning of so many words at dinner that Elke wouldn't get around to eating until her food was cold.
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Instead of penalizing people and businesses that don't, the city is focusing on educating residents, particularly those for whom English is not their first language, about the shelter-in-place mandate and the importance of it, she said.
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For its program, Australian Dance Theater explores the natural world in "The Beginning of Nature," which is set to a score sung in Kaurna, the first language of the Indigenous peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.
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" He recalled Mr. Facher writing in the margins of a brief drafted by a young lawyer, "Is English your first language?" and asking a student at Harvard, where he taught law: "What are you going to do next?
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She was blamed for wearing her hair uncovered and for wearing a bikini while in the U.S., and the judge took issue with English — not Arabic — being Zaina's first language, as a sign of her failure to assimilate.
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Ms. Escobar said she first wrote her speech in English, her first language, before translating it to Spanish, in part to help facilitate the translation of words like "background check" that she does not normally use in Spanish.
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And at the G7 summit in June, Trump reportedly told world leaders that Crimea, the contested territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, was rightfully part of Russia because most Crimeans speak Russian as their first language.
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But the ire was swift and rather severe: She's been called out across the internet for potentially shaming a foreign reporter whose first language isn't English — and for generally being a little brattier than necessary while making her point.
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When I finally got older, I realized the importance of continuing to learn my first language as a way of communicating more effectively with my family members and also as a way of keeping a connection to my heritage.
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The statement from Caal Maquin's father, however, points out that Spanish isn't his first language — the indigenous language Q'eqchi' is — and so it's not clear whether he was asked about his daughter's health in a language he could understand.
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"I want to be what people think of when they think of America—a person who, no matter what her first language was or what her religion is, can see her dreams come to life if she works hard enough."
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Sandra McNally, one of the authors, notes that, whereas the boost faded with time for better-off children, who would have eventually learned to read well anyway, it persisted for poor readers and those without English as a first language.
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The fact that people whose first language isn't even English were shouting the line "Giggs better pop up in your thoughts as an artist" while propelling their limbs in the air at this year's Fresh Island felt like testament to that.
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I want to be what people think of when they think of America — a person who, no matter what her first language was or what her religion is, can see her dreams come to life if she works hard enough.
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But simply because of the color of my skin, my last name, my first language (Spanish) and my country of origin, I am painted with a denigrating broad brush handed to those with anti-immigrant bents, by our own president.
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Saginaw Valley State University, which chartered Cesar Chavez Academy, defended its decision to allow the school to expand, arguing that many of the students come in without English as a first language, and do better as they move into high school.
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Survivors and former residents told me many of the tenants did not speak English as a first language, and felt this meant their concerns were dismissed during and after a refurbishment project that, it now seems clear, exacerbated the fire.
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However, disability groups on Thursday noted that moving to just paper could make it difficult to vote for blind or visually impaired people, those who have difficulty leaving their homes, or those for whom English is not their first language.
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My first language is Spanish thanks to my mami, who convinced me that Spanish would be our "secret" language (despite the fact that over 37 million people in the U.S. also speak it), and always taught me to feel proud about my roots.
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"We understand that they may not be available at that time," said Lorena Hitchcock, spokesperson for Orlando, Florida's Orange County Public Schools, which already enrolls more than 10,000 students who were born in Puerto Rico and spoke Spanish as their first language.
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"Because of the budget cuts, frozen budgets, we've had to eliminate almost all of our extended learning time," said Alan Cunningham, the superintendent of Dodge City Public Schools, a district where the first language of a majority of students is not English.
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According to a campaign source with knowledge of Biden's paid communication strategy, Biden's Latino supporters in Nevada primarily speak English as their first language and are older than 40, while his percentage of Spanish-speaking supporters ranks in the mid-single digits.
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I read mostly in French, my first language, and loved "The Little Prince," by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, but also loved "The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett; "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott; and "Eloise," by Kay Thompson, for how naughty she was.
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Artem is very serious in rehearsals – with Russian being his first language, I have a hard time telling if he doesn't understand my jokes or he just doesn't think they're funny – but at first he was very careful with how he gave me criticism.
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In advance of the exam, testing professionals and educators worried that it was more text-based and that more dense text in both the reading and math sections could end up hurting lower-income students and students who don't speak English as a first language.
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Though my parents, whose first language is Russian, were unable to help me with my English, they encouraged me to read as much as possible, driving my siblings and me to the local library every week and allowing us to read whatever piqued our interest.
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In December, she spoke at a campaign stop in Las Vegas entirely in Spanish, in an event that saw young Latino Sanders supporters bring in their parents and grandparents to engage directly in their first language for the first time in the presidential campaign.
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The campaign plans to hold more Spanish-language events going forward as part of their Latino outreach strategy, particularly as part of an effort to connect with mostly Spanish-speaking Latino voters who don't normally have a chance to directly engage with campaigns in their first language.
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