Students will be able to choose between English, French and Russian as their first foreign language.

学生们将可以在英语、法语和俄语中任选一门作为他们的第一外语。

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After two months on an ESL (English as a Second Language) course, I got my first report card.

经过两个月的 ESL（非母语英语课程） 的学习，我拿到了我的第一份成绩单。

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About 60 percent of people identify English as their first language, while 24 percent claim French.

约有60%的人将英语作为他们的第一语言，而24%的人则选法语。

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it's like you know English as well as your first language.

看起来你对英语的了解就像你的母语一样了。

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Neither party speaks English as their first language - idioms can easily be misunderstood.

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After viewing the programme, I realised that we "English as our first language" speakers may be missing some important point.

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"We identified problems with access to interpreting services for people who do not speak English as their first language and for those who are deaf, " Ms Drown said.

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