mother+tongue

  • 11mother tongue — noun (C) the first and main language that you learn as a child: Her mother tongue is French …

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  • 12Mother tongue mirroring — is a technique for teaching languages. It is the adaptation of the time honoured practice of literal translation, or word for word translation for pedagogical purposes. The aim is to make foreign constructions salient and transparent to learners… …

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  • 13Mother tongue (disambiguation) — Mother tongue usually refers to a person s first language. Mother tongue may also refer to: Proto Human language, the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world s languages The Mother Tongue (book), a history of the English… …

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  • 14Mother Tongue Records — is an independent record label formed in the early 1990s that featured the 12 piece glam orchestral Britpop band My Life Story, the label was resurrected in the early 2000s with The Barbs, Nick Oliveri and The Long Weekend amongst its acts. The… …

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  • 15Mother Tongue (Band) — Mother Tongue Mother Tongue beim …

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  • 16Mother Tongue (journal) — Mother Tongue is the yearly periodical of the Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory and was established in 1995. Its goal is to encourage international and interdisciplinary information sharing, discussion, and debate among… …

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  • 17Mother Tongue (Journal) — Mother Tongue ist das einmal jährlich erscheinende umfangreiche Periodikum (Journal) der Association for the Study of Languages in Prehistory (kurz ASLIP). Es wird seit 1995 von der ASLIP herausgegeben und enthält Artikel hervorragender… …

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  • 18mother tongue — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. native speech, native language, native tongue, dialect, ideolect, local idiom; see also language 1 …

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  • 19mother tongue — moth′er tongue n. ling. the language first learned by a person; native language …

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  • 20mother tongue — noun one s native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next • Syn: ↑maternal language, ↑first language • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue …

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