Sedira's "Mother Tongue" (2002), which features three dialogues between three generations of women, shows how in immigrant families one's "mother tongue" is often not the same as one's mother's tongue.
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He slipped ably between his parents' mother tongue and English.
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I feel English is like a mother tongue to me.
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But English is not the mother tongue of most Singaporeans.
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We want to watch the WCF in our mother tongue.
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In many cases, they were illiterate in their own mother tongue.
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When my father was born, his mother tongue was a crime.
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Did I understand what it meant to renounce my mother tongue?
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Urdu is the mother tongue of only a minority of Pakistani children.
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Artists can choose whether to rap in their mother tongue—or not.
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Her mother tongue was Telugu, but they managed to communicate in Hindi.
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Learning a new language that's not your mother tongue can be real daunting.
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" Later he screams "leave me alone!" in his mother tongue in "Stigma, Everywhere.
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It's our mother tongue, our homeland; it's our people, or just one person.
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I speak English fluently (much better than my mother tongue, at this point).
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Not much of what Jamie says to Murtagh in their mother tongue is understood.
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In a rundown building, children attend after-school classes to learn their mother tongue.
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Spanish is also the mother tongue for a majority of Catalans, about 55 percent.
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Facts like country of birth, length of stay or mother tongue were not applicable.
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So we asked the islanders to describe the American president in their mother tongue.
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Now I mostly write articles in English, and only write literature in my mother tongue.
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Durdur already has a business idea: an app teaching the Aramaic language, his mother tongue.
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Culturally, it says something about you if you can speak more than your mother tongue.
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Tamil, Mr. Karunanidhi's mother tongue, is one of 22 languages officially recognized in India's constitution.
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He spoke accented English very fast, but I never learned what his mother tongue was.
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It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self.
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Ben Piper, who leads a USAID-funded literacy programme in government schools in Kenya, found, to his surprise, that children taught in their mother tongue learnt less maths than those taught in English or Swahili (the mother tongue of only a minority of Kenyans).
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To help his pupils, he also spoke to them in Ewe, his and their mother tongue.
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"The mocking of African learners' usage of their mother tongue must stop," it wrote on Facebook.
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Perhaps my mistake is assuming he speaks Spanish,so I switch to Purépecha, our mother tongue.
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"Mother Tongue" convincingly accesses emotive fragments of generational female experience within a framework of formalist rigor.
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The 2011 Canadian census counted only 225 people who identified the language as their mother tongue.
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The language is the "mother tongue" of roughly 530 million people, according to India's latest census.
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At school, he was not allowed to speak Kurmanji, a northern Kurdish dialect, his mother tongue.
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Some 4m of Peru's 31m people speak one of the country's native languages as their mother tongue.
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Unless they are confident of the standard of English on offer, parents should choose mother-tongue education.
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Their parents, however, often find themselves reverting to Mandarin, their mother tongue, when the going gets tough.
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The real cause of that: we're using a heritage language, not the mother tongue of the population.
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Fewer than 600 people in Canada cited Kanyen'kéha as their mother tongue in the country's 2011 census.
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Whatever your mother tongue, you had to master some pidgin English to enter the land of computers.
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I left Iraq at a very young age, so my command of my mother tongue is rather limited.
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The infinite variety of language means that even the choice of mother tongue is not an easy one.
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Since he was fined, Mr Centeno, a Catalan born and bred, refuses to speak in his mother tongue.
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Restless, he spoke so quickly in German that I had trouble following despite it being my mother tongue.
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"This prompted me to begin the work of correcting the gaps by translating the Bible into my mother tongue."
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History provides some intriguing examples of the effect of being educated in the mother tongue or some other language.
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Newspaper readership was also 25% higher among the mother-tongue-educated people, which very likely meant greater political participation.
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All her subjects show less brain activity when working in their mother tongue; they don't have to sweat it.
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We've had to fight for so much to just exist, speak our mother tongue, and become a sovereign state.
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Mustafa Akyol is an exponent, in snappy English as well as his mother-tongue, of a liberal interpretation of Islam.
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She says her mother tongue doesn't provide the romantic ideas and language necessary for what she is trying to express.
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Despite the rise of translation software, people prefer to be served by fellow humans who can speak their mother tongue.
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For example, public schools give most classes in Catalan, including to those children who speak Spanish as their mother tongue.
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A study by researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai may have somewhat resolved the "Father Tongue" versus "Mother Tongue" conundrum.
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He felt divorced from his mother tongue, he told me, and hoped translation would help him find his way back.
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He was called Fiore by New Haven Italian-Americans, holding on to their own mother tongue in a new space.
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The word felt foreign in a way that Gaelic did not, that English did not, although neither was her mother tongue.
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She holds both Japanese and American citizenship, and is far more adept in English than she is in her mother tongue.
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It's easy to take for granted that English is the international language of commerce and politics when it's your mother tongue.
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I'm reminded of my high school days when I would deny my heritage and my mother tongue to avoid hearing it.
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But representing Japan does pose problems for a teenager who has yet to come to grips with her mother's mother tongue.
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CHRIS JOLLYJolly PhonicsChigwell, Essex What should the language of instruction be when the mother-tongue is orally spoken but not written?
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Having an accent, or simply speaking your mother tongue can do harm to your academic and career in the United States.
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When I was 22, I started writing novels in my mother tongue, a language filled with the essence of my mother.
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Her midwife gently coached her in their mother tongue, Inuktitut, as the morning sun cast a cool light across the floor.
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English, once a small language spoken in southern Britain, is now the mother tongue of hundreds of millions across the world.
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Creole is the mother tongue in Haiti, and is spoken by virtually the entire population, yet French remains the principal written language.
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I took pride in my convincing accent, too; unlike Korean, my parents' mother tongue, the rhythm of French came naturally to me.
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Last month the government introduced a new curriculum which includes a half-hour lesson in "literacy"—in the mother tongue—every day.
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In 2005, HBO hired the linguistics scholar to design the mother tongue of Drogo and his fellow Khals, according to Berkeley News.
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"The mother tongue of ethnic groups, especially of Kurds, should be respected and recognized," Mr. Rouhani said in a speech in Mahabad.
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As the Welsh government champions the revitalization of its mother tongue, the country's television industry is doing its part toward language immersion.
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However, the term "mother tongue" is not a complete misnomer; mothers have a great deal of influence over how infants acquire language.
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By this point, they're already capable of distinguishing between their own "mother tongue" and a foreign language and can recognize 800 words.
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Hindi is the most popular language in India and the "mother tongue" of roughly 530 million people, according to the country's census.
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He maintains his Indian connections, speaking with his parents in his mother tongue of Punjabi and visiting Gurdwaras wherever he can find them.
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Amos is a Jew from Iraq, and when he speaks to his son, the Israeli spy, it's partly in his mother tongue, Arabic.
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And the store has not forgotten its essence: that Germanness shared by everyone who speaks the mother tongue and loves a great sausage.
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"When you don't master a language as well, and English isn't my mother tongue, it's obviously more difficult," Ms. Huppert said, seemingly unfazed.
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Other European cities cannot offer the global language of business as its mother tongue and Vistesen argued this concept alone is a "big plus".
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Teaching Spanish — instead of the semiautonomous province's mother-tongue of Catalan — in schools would strike a blow against a key marker of Catalan identity.
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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.
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Mounir Fatmi, Fragmented Memory The artist explains that he doesn't have a mother tongue, as he learned Arabic and French at the same time.
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She studied in Britain and the United States, gave lectures in Japan and Australia, and taught Sanskrit as well as her mother tongue, Marathi.
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It combines "toktok" (to knock) and "hangyo" (to plead), two words from Cebuano, Duterte's mother tongue and a sister language to my own, Waray.
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I didn't know then that a term existed to describe this phenomenon -- subtractive bilingualism, the act of subtracting the mother tongue and substituting English.
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She wrote of learning English as a young Mexican immigrant and rejecting her "mother tongue"—and, for a while, her own (Spanish-speaking) mother.
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I used to wonder where she had come from, and who her people were; what language her mother spoke; what was her mother tongue.
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Political analysts fear that Sinhalese extremists are trying to transfer lingering hostility against Tamils onto Muslims (most of whom speak Tamil as their mother tongue).
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In reality, she'd been releasing since records in her mother tongue since the mid-90s, and that first English-language effort was her fifth overall.
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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.
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Wadsworth believes the people who use the app feel a sense of empowerment, as they can now communicate with the world, using their mother tongue.
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It was previously assumed language was acquired exclusively from mothersIn 1997, researchers also put forward a theory that opposed the notion of a "Mother Tongue".
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When our relationship to our mother tongue is compromised, so, too, is our self-image and our most natural way of interacting with the world.
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The bias in favour of English is sometimes ferociously enforced: Rose Goodhart, a teacher in Ghana, has seen children beaten for speaking in their mother tongue.
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Pakistani Punjab has decided to end the English experiment; Uganda has introduced mother-tongue instruction in 12 different languages in the first four years of schooling.
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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.
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It is a view that persisted until very recently, discouraging many immigrant parents from using their own mother tongue to speak to their children, for instance.
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The education minister, Nouria Benghebrit, advocates the introduction of a fourth language: Darija, which fuses the other three and is the mother tongue of most Algerians.
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In contrast with the "Mother Tongue Hypothesis", the "Father Tongue Hypothesis" states that humans tend to pick up their fathers' language as opposed to their mothers'.
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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.
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As I grew up, the shame I felt about my mother tongue eventually drove a wedge between me and my own mother, who never learned English.
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Two extra years of mother-tongue schooling, instead of schooling in Afrikaans or English, raised both literacy and wages, according to a recent study of historical data.
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Uganda has implemented mother-tongue instruction for the first four years in 12 different languages, and seen big improvements in learning in some languages, though not all.
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Research demonstrates that children learn more when they are taught in their mother tongue than they do when they are taught in any other language (see article).
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But the film-makers also took the unusual step of making a real language—Xhosa, which was Nelson Mandela's mother tongue—stand in for the fictional "Wakandan".
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While MEPs can address colleagues via interpreters in their mother tongue — from German and French to Irish or Maltese — many use English to reach a wider public.
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Emotionally moving in another direction was Zineb Sedira's video triptych "Mother Tongue" (2002), which depicts discursive exchanges between three generations of women falling into non-discursive frustration.
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But I am slowly reclaiming what I'd been forced to give up -- my connection to my mother tongue and with it, my relationship with my own mother.
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The complexity of the linguistic landscape in many countries argues not for abandoning mother-tongue teaching, but for developing layered curriculums that ease children into learning other languages.
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"My mother tongue is Polish but my wife is Spanish so I also speak Spanish, and we live in Edinburgh so we also speak English," says Thomas Bak.
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The trouble is that the mother-tongue is none of these; it is the Moroccan dialect of Arabic, which is unique and not mutually intelligible with modern Arabic.
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I followed the rules, English is my mother tongue, I pursued degrees in higher education, pay my taxes, and fit the profile of what a "good" immigrant should be.
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It makes me think of the idea of a translator being a "traitor"—referring to the Italian phrase traduttore/traditore, someone who discloses the mother tongue to the public.
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I think for my dad, what he mostly cares about is that when I have a kid, he'll be able to talk to the kid in our mother tongue.
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In some cases, the first step is to teach the boys their mother tongue again, as many were forbidden to speak anything but Arabic by the militants, said Desbois.
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Billing, who is Swedish, said someone once compared the sensation of her work to skavsår, which in her mother tongue means the chafing of a pair of new shoes.
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About 20 percent of people have a mother tongue that is neither English nor French, according to the 2011 census, and a number of Syrian refugees have recently arrived.
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Many of you wrote poignantly of how a mother tongue was a formative connection -- sometimes tenuous, sometimes lost, other times cherished -- between yourself and your family, especially your parents.
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She left the true self, the Karen her experience and her mind had formed, and became another Karen — and in doing so, she abandoned her mother tongue, her true language.
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They may think it worth sacrificing some of the knowledge and understanding that can be gained from being educated in the mother tongue for better prospects in the labour market.
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After all, it was a good education in his mother tongue, rather than in the classics then favoured by the British aristocracy, that won Churchill the Nobel prize for literature.
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Baghdad, Tehran, Ankara and Damascus have historically sought to contain the ambitions of Kurds, banning education in their mother tongue and quelling uprisings, but they have been gaining international recognition.
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After a brief discussion about what language to converse in (Myers said they chose Hebrew, their "mother tongue") Netanyahu told him that all of Israel mourns with Pittsburgh, Myers said.
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But she answered her phone in Marathi, the state language and her mother tongue, genially weaving into the interview a seemingly nonstop series of other interviews with local news outlets.
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One example he gave was building a Kurdish book search engine that would provide Kurdish diaspora communities a portal from which they could purchase books in their own mother tongue.
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Children generally tend to spend more time with their mothers than with their fathers until they reach adolescence, they actually begin to learn their "mother tongue" before they're even born.
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She twerks, so you can ignore the fact that your mother's mother tongue is dying and that you're fighting with your whole family about the future of your little community.
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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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"I began to realize that Hokkien was my real mother tongue and Mandarin was my stepmother tongue," said Lee Xuan Jin, 18, who started a Facebook page dedicated to preserving Hokkien.
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She used food as her medium to share with the world who she was: a woman, then just 2200, who'd been born in South Carolina's Lowcountry, speaking Gullah as her mother tongue.
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Tashi appeared in a New York Times video in January 2016 in which he spoke about his efforts to protect the right of Tibetans to attend school taught in their mother tongue.
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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.
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What if you don't speak the language and none of the nearby officers will speak to you in your mother tongue because you've just been a massive dick to all of them?
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His Swedish mother has gifted him citizenship and language, but the difference between the mother tongue and his mother's tongue trips Jonas up on his quest to be chatty, idiomatic and cool.
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Kaur meticulously works to present a different face to each market: On her website, she states that she writes in exclusively lowercase using only periods to pay homage to her mother tongue, Punjabi.
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CASTRO In Urban Bush Women, we talk a lot about our mother tongue: What were you dancing to in your kitchen, with your mother, the people who raised you, anyone you consider family?
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A foreign language having a single word to define something that they would need a whole sentence to express in their mother tongue would also be, conversely, a pleasure-giving piece of information.
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Angry that I retain only the slightest grasp of my mother tongue, a connection vanquished by colonial powers from Britain and Portugal and now, the U.S. Angry at the cinematic and literary canon.
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They've opened the door to us and we aren't going anywhere... It was empowering for me to hear the unapologetic use of my mother tongue at the Oscars -- not only from Luna but also from Javier Bardem and Alfonso Cuarón -- and it made me think about my childhood, when instead of pride, I was made to feel shame, when instead of a door being opened, an invisible wall was erected, when instead of being celebrated, my mother tongue was degraded.
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But even where public schools teach children in their mother tongue, or a local language, education authorities are switching to English medium, in part to stem the outflow of children into the private sector.
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Managing diversity De Klerk's foundation is lobbying the government to build bridges with South Africa's white minority, including through greater provision for mother tongue education, in the hope of lowering barriers and fostering integration.
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Most would infer from "mother tongue", usually defined as the language we start speaking first, that language acquisition in children is mostly down to mothers, but the term may be quite a big misnomer.
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And the 6.4 million Quebecers who have French as their mother tongue are also rightfully worried about the survival of their language, surrounded as they are by a sea of millions who don't speak French.
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Experts estimate that there are roughly 218 million mother-tongue Jinghpaw speakers — a tiny sliver in a nation of over 50 million — and crackdowns on speech have sometimes been a prelude to more troubling measures.
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Lam delivered her speech in Mandarin, the national language of China, but she spoke briefly in Cantonese, the mother tongue of most Hong Kong residents, to read the lyrics of a song about social cohesion.
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While Catalan, Galician and Euskara (or Basque) are all languages spoken by the Spanish, Castilian Spanish is the mother tongue of most Spaniards, about 82 percent of the population, according to a 2012 Eurobarometer survey.
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None of my three children grew to love classical music the way I did, and I'm sometimes sad about that, just as I regret not passing on to them fluency in my mother tongue, German.
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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.
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The problem, he realised, was that teachers are assigned jobs by a central agency, without regard to their mother tongue, so they often do not understand the local language in which they are supposed to teach.
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"English is not my mother tongue, I don't know that I would sound decent: There are so many pussies around your presidential campaign on both sides, that I prefer not to comment about this," he said.
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A brain, he said, sacrifices suppleness to gain stability as it matures; once you master your mother tongue, you don't need the phonetic plasticity of childhood, and a typical brain puts that circuitry to another use.
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I can't avoid the wall even in India, in Calcutta, in the city of my so-called mother tongue … almost everyone thinks that, because I was born and grew up outside India, I speak only English.
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The court heard at an earlier hearing that his mother tongue is Zaghawa, suggesting that he may be from Darfur, a region of Sudan ravaged by more than a decade of conflict between government and rebel forces.
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Pick any two Indians at random, and the chance that they share the same mother tongue is less than 203%, according to data compiled by Romain Wacziarg of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues.
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I was bowled over when I first saw Deana Lawson's work in her exhibition, Deana Lawson: Mother Tongue, at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago (February 28th – April 5th 2014) and have been looking forward to seeing more.
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Between 19823 and 1981, the percentage of Indigenous people reporting an Indigenous language as a mother tongue declined from 87.4 percent to 29.3; by 1996, 47 of Canada's roughly 50 Aboriginal languages were considered vulnerable or endangered.
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Like all intimacies, the intimacy between one and one's mother tongue can be comforting and irreplaceable, yet it can also demand more than what one is willing to give, or more than one is capable of giving.
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With tensions between Russia and the West rising, Narva might also serve as a reminder to the rest of the EU that speaking Russian as a mother tongue and supporting Mr Putin are not necessarily the same thing.
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A policy change in South Africa introduced in 1955 by the apartheid government used the medium of education to sharpen the divide between whites and blacks, increasing the years of schooling that children got in their mother tongue.
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Some time ago, the philosopher Philippe Van Parijs argued that a special language tax should be imposed on native English speakers because they reap such large unearned benefits from having been raised with English as their mother tongue.
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She raps almost exclusively in her mother tongue mandarin, but you don't really have to understand the words to appreciate her sound – a sinister and skulking blend of half-whispered vocal shapes spread over dissonant, glitch-ridden production.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the winter of 2014, I happened to see the exhibition Deana Lawson: Mother Tongue at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and I was immediately hooked by the concentrated dignity of Lawson's subjects.
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The Commission wants to set a goal that all university students should speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue by 2025, improve computer literacy and create a network of world-class European universities that can work together.
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And for me, the genre gave me a deeper grasp of my mother tongue, even if only in the sense that I learned how to call someone a ho and talk about the universal phenomenon that is coke dick.
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My mind turned to the poet Paul Celan's phrase, "the thousand darknesses of murderous speech," and to the complications for a postwar German Jew, or indeed any German, of having a mother tongue that was also the murder tongue.
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Hiwa K retraces the route he traveled as a refugee fleeing Iraq while balancing a set of mirrors on the bridge of his nose on "Pre-image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)," a gorgeous reflection (and refraction) of his life.
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Mr. Ince has offered the vision of strengthening a production-based economy, developing agriculture and offering better conditions for local and foreign investors, apart from educating Turkish youth in both their mother tongue and global languages to compete with the world.
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Every time the government stepped up its repression of Turkey's Kurdish-majority areas and denied the Kurds equal rights, including the right to education in their mother tongue, Kurdish activists would rally at the Human Rights Monument to issue press statements.
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As a young woman studying at the Sorbonne, Johanna — then known as Pauline — shared a room with Halla, a young woman from Iceland, "as carefree as I was conscientious," who taught Johanna her mother tongue in exchange for French lessons.
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And, for full disclosure, since after moving to New York, I find myself using my mother tongue in stores and in taxis more frequently than I did since leaving Kolkata as a college student, it will be of some advantage to me.
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And while conservatives — and others for whom the vexing issue of gender identity is considered a problem of no importance — might well resent any evolution in the mother tongue, it's worth remembering that English has a long history of adapting to cultural change.
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Photo via AP/Stephan Savoia Keyootak, whose mother tongue is Inuktitut, was first elected to Nunavut's non-partisan, consensus-based legislature last February in a by-election, and hails from the tiny Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq, with a population of just 520 people.
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But part of the reason lies with developers who haven't localized their titles to Iran's mother tongue, Farsi (247 percent say they primarily play games in English!), due to obvious socioeconomic reasons, nor the payment method and in-game packs to local channels and conditions.
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PUERTO WILLIAMS, Chile (Reuters) - Sitting in the warmth of a wood fire in her home in Chile's deep south, Cristina Calderón sometimes wishes she had more people to speak to in her mother tongue as she weaves woolen socks to sell at the local market.
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What's most fascinating about her is not just the fact that she's the first Spanish woman set to make it big in the UK singing in her mother tongue, but that she's opening the door to a new subgenre for us to enjoy too.
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After the Stern family's flight from Breslau, now Polish Wroclaw, Germany could no longer be his fatherland, but German, precise and expressive, was still his mother-tongue—and there was nowhere else, he said fondly, where he could use it in the same way.
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Gives you more social and global skillsAs more than 60 million people in the US speak a language other than English at home, those who only speak English miss out on being able to directly communicate in the mother tongue of many friends and neighbors.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. As a Polish immigrant coming to Britain in the 90s at the age of ten, I was quick to lose my Polish identity, avoid speaking in my mother tongue in public, or even pronounce my name in the Polish way.
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I hope that among the millions of people watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night, there was a 5th-grade immigrant girl who heard her mother tongue being spoken at one of the most prestigious events in the country and realized that she is not invisible, not broken.
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