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Am a born Maharashtrian .. but my Gujrati is more fluent than my own mothertongue ..
Update Cardamom 2008
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It was the band's idea to make the English album, although it meant a lot of work both in translation and then for Bill to pull off singing in a language that is not his mothertongue.
The Ugly Truth About Tokio Hotel: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008
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It also affects me deeply – because I am used to use english more in my everyday life than my mothertongue danish… so I will hope that you work more on this – because yes – it is interesting
Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp) — Climb to the Stars 2007
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It also affects me deeply – because I am used to use english more in my everyday life than my mothertongue danish… so I will hope that you work more on this – because yes – it is interesting
Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp) — Climb to the Stars 2007
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Altough in practice more people have french as their mothertongue in Brussels than dutch + those that have dutch as their mother tongue more often speak also french than french-speaking people speak dutch.
Planet KDE 2010
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I'm lucky enough to have force-fed myself enough roleplaying games and science fiction comics to have picked up English to a level where I'm often more fluent in it, than I am in my mothertongue.
Binary Bonsai 2010
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Since I am a gentleman, I'll send some regards also in my mothertongue language, to make sure the message is delivered:
Sixers 4 guidos 2009
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People mistakenly think of you to be forgetting your mothertongue that they try too hard to be speaking in Tagalog. said …
dodongflores Up Close and Personal dodongflores 2008
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… once again wishing English was my mothertongue carien |
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It seems to me that our mothertongue – although it’s not all the time, but most of the times – requires no pronouns.
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