Sentence examples for in my first language from inspiring English sources

It's from my series Kinderwunsch; in my first language, German, this means "the desire to have children".

"The strugglesome life," he mused, in English — the only time I heard him speak an English phrase, appealing to me in my first language, attributing my taste for struggle to that other self.

It was, for instance, impossible to find local equivalents for terms such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in my first language.

I work as a novelist now in my second language, English, and make films.

I'm aware it won't be easy, given I'll be working in my fourth language (I'm learning Norwegian).

Still discombobulated in my second language skin, I haven't had the courage to chat much with my fellow students in theatre class.

She said, How am I supposed to talk about my problems with my partner in my second language?

While I can and do communicate with many people in English, my first language, Esperanto gives a different perspectives - everyone is on an equal footing in the ideas market.

And, for whatever reason, this is the voice that I heard it in — a voice speaking Chinglish, which was, in many ways, my first language.

"In a way, my first language is sign language," he said.

And, for whatever reason, this is the voice that I heard it in a voice speaking Chinglish, which was, in many ways, my first language.