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“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

Ifs Needs Children Mother Speak Language Community Work Out Tongue Locals My Children Beneficial Pubs Cafes Welsh Mother Tongue

Author:Bryn Terfel

“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Mother Language Term Expression Horror Letters Tongue Newspapers Editors Predictions Creeps Mother Tongue

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.”

Wells Mother Universe Tongue Syllables Mother Tongue

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.”

Children Mother Education Higher Our Children Tongue Educated Your Children Branches Mother Tongue

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

People Two Form Mother Three Language Privilege Tongue Helpless Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

Young Mother Father Sleep Cry Died Tongue Chimneys Mother Tongue Mother Died

Author:William Blake

“The mother tongue is propaganda.”

Mother Tongue Propaganda Mother Tongue

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.”

Mother Language Tongue Indian Hindi Bengali Mother Tongue

Author:Shreya Ghoshal

“The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.”

Facts Christian Mother Language Identity Holy Islam Tongue Paradox Mother Tongue

Book:In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.”

People Used Mother South Rap Tongue Village Sudan Mother Tongue

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.”