Mr. Perkins said that efforts were being made to help people maintain their connection to native culture and language, but that some groups less likely to speak their native language, like the Aleuts, had relatively low suicide rates.
Vikander is extremely proficient in English — she lives in London now — but still makes occasional grammatical errors that remind you it's not her native language, like "part of my brain have forgotten that I did it".
There's not even a wink to the state's other native languages, like Tulu, Kodava or Konkani, though they've taken video of the regions where they're spoken.
Schools switched to teach mainly in English, and Lee badgered the majority Chinese population to give up their native languages (like Cantonese or Hokkien) even in their homes and to speak Mandarin instead.
Farmworkers in our community are mostly undocumented immigrants, ineligible to vote, many from indigenous communities who speak native languages like Mixteco, with little formal education to read and write in Spanish, let alone English.
I don't know very many people in the Army who can fluently speak native languages like Pashto," said Joshua Clark, who spent eight years in the US Army and did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he met Archie in the 4th Infantry Division.
But her grandmother, with whom she could only nod or shake her head "because her native language sounds like a tongue twister I can't seem to master," reminded her what it meant to carry the Latino identity in her veins. .
They shop, do Pilates and throw drinks and extravagant parties, only they do it in their native language in places like Athens, Tel Aviv and Vancouver.
I'm attempting to learn Spanish, not "just because", but because I plan to live in a Spanish speaking country and want to communicate in the native language (and I kinda just like learning).
"For a calculating prodigy like Devi, the manipulation of numbers is apparently like a native language, whereas for most of us, arithmetic calculation is at best like the foreign language we learnt at school," Jensen was quoted as saying.
He posited that for Ms. Devi, "the manipulation of numbers is apparently like a native language, whereas for most of us arithmetic calculation is at best like the foreign language we learned in school".
