His early education was in Cingalese, his mother-tongue, but he was later educated in English and attended an English College. |
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Often students are barely able to use their mother-tongue but yet they are still forced to try to use the foreign language of English. |
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Though Begum Azad has sung in other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu, it is her mother-tongue that she is most comfortable with. |
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The Guru's followers were not required to chant Sanskrit hymns before stone idols, but sang hymns composed by the Guru himself in their mother-tongue. |
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Patients attending the paediatric diabetes clinic were interviewed by a mother-tongue Tswana speaker in English or Tswana, depending on the patient's preference. |
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