English is not my native language.

There are millions of Pakistanis whose native language is not Urdu, but because they have studied in Urdu medium schools, they can read and write Urdu along with their native language.

In 1933, out of 1,178,914 inhabitants 833,500 were of Polish mother tongue.

Nevertheless, they should always also have an opportunity to learn their mother tongue.

By then, most Icelanders spoke fluent English alongside their native tongue.

When it comes to the next generation of African descended Costa Ricans, English hasn t always been the mother tongue.

Then once the children know the song, the community is asked to translate the lyrics into their own native language.

89.4 of Turku's population speak Finnish as their native language, while 5.2 speak Swedish.

According to the 2011 Census, 95.6 of citizens of Croatia declared Croatian as their native language, 1.2 declared Serbian as their native language, while no other language is represented in Croatia by more than 0.5 of native speakers among population of Croatia.

According to the 2011 Census, 95.60 of citizens of Croatia declared Croatian as their native language, 1.23 declared Serbian as their native language, while no other language is represented in Croatia by more than 0.5 of native speakers among the population of Croatia.

It s a big deal for any linguistic group to witness the marginalization of their mother tongue.

Attention was drawn to the common features of Afro descendants as the descendants of slaves who had been deprived of their mother tongue, culture and religion.

4.3 States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have instruction in their mother tongue

Icelanders admire immigrants like Kahssay who ve mastered their language.

Other reasons are that the parents of fushugaku children want their children to go to a school where they would use their native language.

Yet the government of Austria tried its best to be accommodating in some respects The Reichsgesetzblatt , publishing the laws and ordinances of Cisleithania, was issued in eight languages and all national groups were entitled to schools in their own language and to the use of their mother tongue at state offices, for example.

The main thing about IDN ccTLD is that people who do not understand Latin (English) will be able to use their own language to access the Internet. The Web will become more familiar to people, Veni Markovski, a representative for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe, told the GVO.

The 1957 census determined that those who declared their mother tongue as Turkish made up close to 40 of the population in the City of Kirkuk, which made up the majority of the population.

Berbers love their language.

T I want to speak S I want to speak T perfect English. S perfect English.

I wanted to improve my Japanese pronunciation.

Fluency in English and Russian.

Can you speak English?

English is taught in most countries.

When did you begin studying English?

In line with the general requirement in article 1 that States shall encourage the promotion of the linguistic identity of the minority concerned, measures are required for persons belonging to minorities to learn their mother tongue (which is a minimum) or to have instruction in their mother tongue (which goes some steps further).

Why English? In a single word Opportunity.

T I want to speak perfect English.

S I want to speak perfect English.

English is the world's second language.

Is there someone here who speaks English?

Watch the video below with English subtitle

It's not English. It's noisy English.

Jay Walker on the world's English mania

Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.

25 percent of her grade is based on English.

I'll help you with your French, if you help me with my English.

There would therefore appear to a be a strong argument that such children do not benefit from the right to education to the same extent as children whose mother tongue is the language of the school, and that this distinction is based on language.

Written in easy English, this book is suitable for beginners.

Through this online campaign, we want to recognize and encourage Internet users who are sharing their language on Twitter with a special focus on indigenous, endangered and minority languages, all of which may not be as well represented online.

The mother tongue must be the first learning language and the national language the second language curricula should reflect indigenous peoples' holistic worldviews, knowledge systems, histories, spiritual values and physical activities, physical education and sports

Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English the world's second language by the thousands.

Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.

My English teacher would say such a situation is a dire situation.

Recently a programme on the Florian region in western Greece, due to be broadcast on State television, had been postponed indefinitely because it showed some local inhabitants saying that their mother tongue was Macedonian and that it had been banned by the State for decades.