The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.
Neither party speaks English as their first language - idioms can easily be misunderstood.
Cornish is believed to have died out as a first language in the late 18th Century.
Cornish is believed to have died out as a first language in 1777.
After viewing the programme, I realised that we "English as our first language" speakers may be missing some important point.
Speaking mostly Low German (the majority of Belizeans speak Kriol or Spanish as their first language), they run their own schools, banks and churches.
"We identified problems with access to interpreting services for people who do not speak English as their first language and for those who are deaf, " Ms Drown said.
However, after this programme, I am wondering if people that speak a different language as their "first language" are more aware of the variances of English throughout the UK, US, Australia, Canada, etc.
Not really, just evidence of the familiar problem of British skills shortages a problem so acute that many employers prefer to hire a worker who does not have English as a first language, in preference to a less-skilled native.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones AM described it as "a historic day for the Welsh language" as the assembly government passed its first piece of legislation on the Welsh language.
English must be your first language, as that's what you'll be writing for us in.
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Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
Time Warner Cable will launch Time Warner Cable SportsNet, as well as the first-ever all Spanish language RSN, Time Warner Cable Deportes.
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As "American English" is my first language, I agreed with her.
Puppet has followed the evolution of most declarative systems such as HTML or SQL. At first, basic needs could be expressed in the declarative language, but as the nature of the work being performed became better understood, the declarative language became more powerful and could describe more complex and sophisticated results.
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We're also excited to offer an online outlet for the first time for Russian language audience feedback as well.
As many have said, the language trend that first started with email and later text messaging has been to use more abbreviations, and even symbols (emoticons or smiley faces) to convey ideas, emotions or context.
One of my closest friends has a son who studied both computer science and Japanese in college and also spent two summers in Tokyo, first taking language classes and then working as an intern at a technology company.
We looked at Costa Rica and Panama first, but both countries speak Spanish as their national language and, as with most South American countries, the legal system was based on Napoleonic law.
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Each volunteer speaker of a language of interest is first tested with what is known as a Swadesh list.
"It is the case that at about 3200 BC the first cuneiform tablets were written that we really do recognise as being representations of language, that being the standard definition of writing, " he said.
That language is a carry-over from 2011, when the bill was first fashioned as a job-creating measure designed to get money off the sidelines and into new companies.
This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.
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As they watch for longer, their first choice will often be a film made locally, in their own language.
As part of what was described as the "democratic opening, " the Turkish state established a Kurdish-language TV channel for the first time and eased bans on Kurdish language education in schools.
As a first step, NATO could consider regular training on cyberdefense so that national experts share the same knowledge and language.
The first to move east were the most international European companies, which tended to use English as their international working language regardless of their base.
These include Web clipping services, first introduced for the Palm VII, as well as Web sites transcoded from HTML to WML (Wireless Markup Language) using Aether Systems ScoutWeb technology.
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