English is the leading international language. In different countries around the globe, English is acquired as the mother tongue, in others it's used as a second language.

英语主要的国际语言。在世同的国家，英语被看作母语，其他国家被看作为第二外语。

As soon as that man opens his mouth, you hear his mother tongue and yet we understand him all the time and he makes tons of money performing in American movies.

一旦他开口时你会听到他的母语口音，但我都能听懂他讲什么，而他也在美国电影的演出中赚进大把钞票。

What does this mean? Well most people learning a second language sort of take the mother tongue words and the target words and go over them again and again in their mind to try and remember them. Really inefficient.

这什么意思？大部分的人学习第二外语，就拿母语的字、目标学习的字然后断的重复，在心中一遍又一遍尝试把他记，非常没有效率。

The language divide is still evident today, as many parts of eastern Ukraine have a good knowledge of, or speak Russian as their mother tongue.

直到今天，语言鸿沟仍然十分明显，正如东乌克兰的许多地方通晓俄语，或者讲俄语 ，并将其作为他的母语。

Well, this depends on your mother tongue.

这个取决于你的母语。

I can only speak German, my mother tongue.

我只会说我的母语德语。

It's not my mother tongue. My father is Spanish and my mother is American.

那我的母语。我爸爸西班牙人而我妈妈美国人。

So if you hear a foreign accent, remember that it's a unique hybrid, it's like a lion with stripes, something you can only get if you're brave enough to venture beyond the comfort of your mother tongue.

所以，如果你听到了外国口音，请记一种独特的混合口音，就像一只身有条纹的狮子，只有当你有足够的勇气去超越你母语的舒适时，你才能得到这种口音。

His mother tongue was English, and he used English for all official events.

亨利四世的母语就英语，他在各种官方场合都使用英语。

We call it the L1, our first language, our mother tongue. But that's not it.

我称之为 L1，我的第一语言，我的母语。但事实并非如此。

The program is to help children whose mother tongue isn't English.

这个计划要帮助母语非英语的儿童。

When native speakers think in English, or when you think in your mother tongue, you don't often think like, " That's a tree."

当母语人士用英语思考时，或者当你用母语思考时，你会经常想，“那一棵树。”

94% of the population would claim Spanish as their mother tongue.

94% 的人口声称西班牙语他的母语。

At least 75 percent of them speak Russian as a mother tongue.

他中至少75%的人以俄语为母语。

After all, how many parents have to give their child a deck of flashcards for review to help their kids reach fluency in their mother tongue?

毕竟，有多少父母要给孩子一副抽认卡来复习，以帮助他的孩子达到流利的母语？

So when she had her six children, they copied the mother tongue.

所以她生了六个孩子，孩子都模仿了她的口音。

What is less well known is that English is also the mother tongue in countries such as the Republic of Ireland (officially called Eire) , Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana.

较为人所知的，英语也爱尔兰共和国（正式称呼为 Eire）、巴巴多斯、牙买加、特立尼达和圭亚那等国的母语。

Mr Sy has never spoken Peul on screen before, even though he grew up outside Paris with it as his mother tongue; his father came from Senegal and his mother from Mauritania.

希以前从未在屏幕说过富拉语，尽管他在巴黎郊外长大时的母语就富拉语；他的父亲来自塞内加尔，母亲来自毛里塔尼亚。

They may think it worth sacrificing some of the knowledge and understanding that can be gained from being educated in the mother tongue for better prospects in the labour market.

他可能认为，为了在劳动力市场获得更好的前景，牺牲一些从母语教育中获得的知识和理解值得的。

" The cognitive benefit is from having to inhibit your mother tongue, " she said, which your brain is forced to do if you're trying to recall the right words in another language.

“为认知带来的好处，你得抑制自己的母语，”她说。如果你试图回忆另一种语言里正确的单词，你的大脑就会被迫这么做。