first language

Im likes to say that his first language was English, because he and the neighborhood kids learned to chase after the American GIs from the base near his house, shouting “Hello, give me chocolate!”

“Spanish is the first language I was spoken to,” Saldaña, 46, shares, shuttling back and forth between English and Spanish as we talk.

He also said he believed the Bobba entrepreneurs pitched their business “in good faith” and that, given English is not their first language, there was greater potential for miscommunication.

Tran said Vietnamese was his first language, but he has lost his childhood fluency.

Early on in her career, she said she was told by other tattoo artists that her "deafness would be an issue" because her first language was British Sign Language.