Search online in English for information on real estate for sale anywhere in the world where the people speak anything but English as a first language, and what are you going to find?
"It's not a first language, but most people understand it — with an accent".
Most politicians in Karnataka speak Kannada as a first language, but their advocacy efforts are limp.
This is crucial, not just for the growing majority of Muslims who do not speak Arabic as a first language, but for non-Muslims who are curious about this controversial religion.
Other Tamil communities, such as those in South Africa and Fiji, no longer speak Tamil as a first language, but still retain a strong Tamil identity, and are able to understand the language, while most elders speak it as a first language.
The survey was offered in English and French, but many community members have a first language other than English or French, and they might be more comfortable completing a survey in their native language.
But a second language shouldn't be an optional luxury.
That seems an unnatural place for language, but a second language always retains its brilliant, opiate character, especially if you are a poet whose every perception and process is articulated through it: voluptuousness, thick glass, poppies, opiates.
The interviews were carried out in English, the working language of health workers in Uganda but a second language for most people.
