Tag: mother tongue

Native Speaker

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Does a bilingual speaker have a mother and father tongue?

Are you an orphan if you prefer to talk tongue-in-cheek?

And I leave you with a plea for my profession:

Being a native speaker is not a profession.

Being a translator is.

anon.

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