We know it works otherwise none of you would speak your mother tongue.

们知道这是有效，不然你连你母语都不会说。

Well, my mother tongue is English and I also speak Spanish and French badly!

，母语是英语，还说西班牙语和法语，但是说得不好！

She was asked about why we use the term 'mother tongue' in English.

她被问及为什么们在英语中使用" 母语" 一词。

Well, this depends on your mother tongue.

这个取决于你母语。

They just speak English as a mother tongue.

只是英语是他们母语。

I can only speak German, my mother tongue.

只会说母语德语。

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

那不是母语。爸爸是西班牙而妈妈是。

Urdu is the mother tongue of only a minority of Pakistani children.

乌尔都语是巴基斯坦少数儿童母语。

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

亨利四世母语就是英语，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.

们称之为 L1，们第一语言，们母语。但事实并非如此。

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

这个计划是要帮助母语非英语儿童。

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

94% 口声称西班牙语是他们母语。

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

他们中至少75%以俄语为母语。

But I understood then, you wanted to share that bond of our mother tongue.

但是懂得你们想分享们母语纽带。

That's howwe learned our mother tongues.

们学母语时就是如此。

OK. It's interesting that we say 'mother tongue', isn't it?

好。们称某些语言是" 母语" ，这很有趣，不是吗？

The name of mountain pass is, well translated from my mother tongue, the heights of hell.

那条山路名字，从母语翻译过来是地狱般高度。

Julie shares her thoughts on losing and refinding her mother tongue in her book, Memory Speaks.

朱莉在她书《记忆之声》中分享了她对丧失母语和重新找回母语想法。

Another is related to the similarities and differences between one's mother tongue and a second language.

还有一个原因跟第二语言和母语之间异同有关。

He had not used his mother tongue for so long that every word in the book seemed alien.

他好多年没有使用母语了书上每个字看起来都是那么陌生。