His mother tongue was German and at school he learned French and English, but he felt his English was poor.

他的母语是德语，在学校学了法语和英语，但他觉得自己的英语很差。

Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.

他希望发现一个没有听到母语的孩子会说什么语言，他让护士们保持沉默。

In different countries around the globe, English is acquired as the mother tongue; in others it is used as a second language.

在世界各地的不同国家，英语作为母语被习得；在其他地方，它被用作第二语言。

While learning a second language, students should also enhance their awareness of the importance of mastering their mother tongue.

在学习第二语言的同时，学生也应该更加重视掌握母语的重要性。

English is her mother tongue.

英语是她的母语。

How do we learn out mother tongue?

人们是如何学会母语的？

Maybe this is already her mother tongue.

也许这先前就是她的母语。

He wrote the article in his mother tongue.

他用母语写的文章。

People like to read in their mother tongue.

人们喜欢阅读他们的母语。

The mother tongue is Macedonian, a south Slavic language.

母语是马其顿语，一种南斯拉夫人的语言。

We did not even have parents whose mother tongue was English!

我们甚至都没有说英语为母语的父母！

Media is a form of language, and we always favor our mother tongue.

媒体是一种语言形式，而我们永远偏爱自己的母语。

Its disloyal children are ditching their mother tongue for English and French.

它不忠的孩子们将母语弃如敝屣，而开始学说英语和法语。

His 12-year-old daughter speaks Chinese and English but not his mother tongue, French.

他十二岁的女儿讲中文和英语而不是他的母语法语。

Perhaps Germans realise that English poses little threat to the mother tongue of 100m people.

或许是德国人认识到对有1亿人讲的母语来说，英语构成的威胁最小吧。

My mother tongue is (European) Portuguese, but my contact with other languages started early.

我的母语是（欧洲）葡萄牙语（译注：与美洲、非洲、亚洲等地区的葡萄牙语相对），但是我很早就开始接触其他语言。

We always look for translators to translate into their mother tongue and write this in our adverts.

我们通常找那些翻译自己母语的译者，然后把我们提及到的写下来。

Spoken and written in the media and on stuffy occasions, this kind of Arabic is no one's mother tongue.

这些用于媒体和公开场合的阿拉伯语根本不是任何人的母语。

British readers have access to an unprecedented range of news and ideas from Europe in their mother tongue.

英国读者单靠母语就可以接触到欧洲各类新闻和思想，范围之广，史无前例。

“Even though Chinese is my mother tongue, I would rather see it in English, ” she commented during the interval.

即便中文是我的母语，我还是希望听到英语版本的。

Though Cantonese was Sun's mother tongue, he still persuaded his countrymen in the Congress to give up Cantonese.

虽然粤语是孙的母语，他仍然在国会说服他的同乡放弃粤语。

In practice, however, English, the mother tongue of only 8% of South Africans, has taken over as the lingua franca.

然而实际上，仅为8%南非人母语的英语现在已经俨然成为了混合方言。

Austrians of German mother tongue, by far the country "s largest ethnic group, form between 85% and 89% of its population."

以德语作为母语的奥地利人是该国家的最大的种族，占总人口的85%到89%。

English has become a truly international language with more speakers of English as a second language than as a first or mother tongue.

英语已经成为真正的国际语言，因为把英语作为第二语言的人数已经超过以英语为第一语言或母语的人数。

And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.

而且黑人孩子大都来自文化程度很低的贫困家庭，他们的母语不是教学中所使用的英语。