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Hottiedoggie wrote:My first Language is English and my mother tongue is mandarin.
linguoboy wrote:Hottiedoggie wrote:My first Language is English and my mother tongue is mandarin.
Could you elabourate on that? For most people, their "first language" and "mother tongue" are the same. In Ireland, Irish is often called "mother tongue" by those whose first language is English, but that's exceptional. The usual term in the USA for a language which was spoken in your family (perhaps as recently as the previous generation) but which you didn't learn from birth is "heritage language".
Hottiedoggie wrote:linguoboy wrote:Hottiedoggie wrote:My first Language is English and my mother tongue is mandarin.
Could you elabourate on that? For most people, their "first language" and "mother tongue" are the same. In Ireland, Irish is often called "mother tongue" by those whose first language is English, but that's exceptional. The usual term in the USA for a language which was spoken in your family (perhaps as recently as the previous generation) but which you didn't learn from birth is "heritage language".
Well in Singapore, English is the common language. That's because Singapore is a multiracial society. We learn our mother tongues in school so for example. The chinese would learn mandarin, Malay would like malay and Indians would learn tamil/hindi.
linguoboy wrote:Hottiedoggie wrote:linguoboy wrote:Hottiedoggie wrote:My first Language is English and my mother tongue is mandarin.
Could you elabourate on that? For most people, their "first language" and "mother tongue" are the same. In Ireland, Irish is often called "mother tongue" by those whose first language is English, but that's exceptional. The usual term in the USA for a language which was spoken in your family (perhaps as recently as the previous generation) but which you didn't learn from birth is "heritage language".
Well in Singapore, English is the common language. That's because Singapore is a multiracial society. We learn our mother tongues in school so for example. The chinese would learn mandarin, Malay would like malay and Indians would learn tamil/hindi.
And if you're mixed race?
Hottiedoggie wrote:Well in Singapore, English is the common language. That's because Singapore is a multiracial society was colonised by the British and then kept English as the official language upon independence. We learn our mother tongues in school so for example. The chinese would learn mandarin, Malay would like malay and Indians would learn tamil/hindi.
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