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first language

noun

a person's native language

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"People are literally walking in with their phones, particularly if English isn't their first language, and they're holding up pictures or showing us reels and saying: 'I want this'."

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Otherwise, my dad lived in a world of español, my first language.

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The second group is made up of individuals who were born outside of the United States and whose first language isn’t English.

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Masters student George Karabassis, 26, uses AI to assist with translation as English isn't his first language.

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When Ali awoke from a coma, she could no longer speak English, only her first language, Urdu.

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