mother tongue

I think when you read something in the mother tongue it resonates more strongly.

In a moving autobiographical essay in 2001, Mother Tongue, he wrote: “At home, there was violence in the air.”

His mother tongue is French, but he speaks nine languages, including five African dialects.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

Come, give us again the message of the warrior and his armour and his battle, in the mother-tongue, so that all can understand it.

Our mother tongue hardly knew itself, it ran so fluently and sounded so magniloquently and lied so naturally.

We speak of the "mother country" and "mother tongue," but to the Roman these were patria and serm patrius.

It may sound severe and uncalled-for from me, but every man who has forgotten his mother-tongue is tottering on his feet.