first language

Even today, "for people who have German as a first language, it's fairly easy to understand," said 66-year-old retiree and festival attendee Sabine Lioy.

The neighborhood around MacArthur Park is made up predominantly of working-class, low-income tenants who speak Spanish as their first language.

The couple were both first language Welsh speakers who worked in Welsh, spoke Welsh at home with their family and registered every significant life event including their wedding and the birth of their children bilingually.

His parents didn’t speak English and taught him Italian as his first language.

Fourteen of the women did not speak English as their first language and, the report recorded, interpreting was not used consistently in seven of those cases.