native tongue
Example Sentences
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In the same way that learning another language helps us understand our native tongue more deeply, travel forms character through lived experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Somewhere along the line, she also became extremely adept at writing in English, as her novels are not written in her native tongue.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
The Welsh Not - or Welsh Stick - was employed across schools in the 19th Century to discourage children from speaking in their native tongue.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
For me, as a third-culture kid navigating multiple identities, I always felt torn—caught between the cultural world my parents raised me in and the white Pennsylvania suburb that rejected our customs and native tongue.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025
I had no memory of ever having had to work hard for my native tongue.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
