Sentence examples for of my native language from inspiring English sources

By my teenage years, I had lost most of my native language.

I chuckled to myself, thinking of the many times when I'd imagined that I was as far from the sight and sound of my native language as I could possibly get -- on the riverfront in Luang Prabang, Laos, or in a church in the Slovenian Alps -- and suddenly, English had materialized on someone's lips, on a menu.

Just by comparison, after publishing seven books of writings in my native language and being awarded one of the most prestigious literary awards in Russia, it took me nearly 20 years to find a publisher in the US.

It's my native language, of course.

Dreaming in Spanish is sadly one of the last remaining traces of evidence that Spanish was once my native language, my mother tongue.

My native language, Neapolitan, has layers of Greek, Latin, Arabic, German, Spanish, English, and French a lot of French.

Aware of the ancestral rivalry between the Walloons and the Dutch-speaking Flemish, I knew that speaking the language of my native France was out of the question.

By 1770, within three years of the expulsion of the Jesuits, Spanish authorities instituted a new policy of forced "castilianization" or "Hispanicization" of the language, thereby causing the number of speakers of native languages to decline.

Tells something of the native language of Namur; about American slang picket up by the natives.

The guide was not hopeful for the future survival of her native language.

Not unlike previous large waves of immigrants, Latinos are introducing words and phrases of their native language into mainstream English.