Author and filmmaker Michel Houellebecq returned to France because he missed speaking in his native tongue.
An unkind observer might remark that many footballers are less than articulate even in their native tongue.
As I was debating whether I should get the Gucci sunglasses, I overheard some women speaking my native tongue, Mandarin.
"If we were to win, it will be impossible because of the costs, " she said, in an interview translated from her native tongue.
But, if English is the native tongue of your home, then rest assured your flavor of Google has just gotten a little bit smarter.
The aim is to carry out conversation experiments between humans and robots in space, speaking with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata in his native tongue.
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English is the global language of business, yet English is also the native tongue of relatively few people, and it is notoriously hard to learn.
In a bid to make his station a beacon of tasteful Gallic sounds, 80% of the station's music will be by French artists or in their native tongue.
But he spoke in Italian, the language cardinals most commonly use inside Vatican City and the native tongue of Italy's 28 voting-age cardinals, the most of any single nation.
Of course, Huong could pass for Vietnamese, speaking the language as her native tongue, and Nana could pretend to be Malaysian or Singaporean, since she came from Hong Kong and spoke accented Mandarin.
It apparently started after a Google engineer found himself in a car with a member of the Cherokee Nation and was persuaded by the need to encourage younger Cherokee generations to learn their native tongue.
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It appears that the opening ceremony is gearing up to be a spectacular beginners' guide to modern British history aimed at a billion people, many of whom know little of our "isle full of noises" or the native tongue.
Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.
You can hear the heartbreaking, beautiful sound of Koro being sung, or read 18th-century manuscripts written in a nearly-dead Native American tongue.
Described as 6ft tall and blond, he is reported to have arrived on the island of Utoya and opened fire after beckoning several young people over in his native Norwegian tongue.
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The thing that struck me first was her warm and sparkling grin of greeting, and words of Malayalam, her only language, the tongue of her native Kerala.
Twenty native speakers of Yucatec, Mexico's most widely spoken Mayan tongue, met last Thursday to help bring the language to Google, Mozilla and Wikimedia projects.
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