People use a language in one of three ways: as a native language, as a second language, or as a foreign language.

人们以三种方式中的一种来使用一种语言：本国语言、第二语言、外国语言。

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Teacher Keysha also speaks Spanish as a native language. So anybody who wants to learn Spanish can choose her as your Spanish teacher.

金莎老师也是从小同时讲西班牙语的， 想学习西班牙语的朋友们也可以来找她哦。

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Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home.

教育家经常告诉那些把英语作为第二语言来学习的孩子的家人，在家里要只说英语，不要说自己的母语。

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ICANN says about half the Internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language, adding the change will affect billions of potential users.

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We mean that his native language, not one that he's acquired subsequently, but the one that he learned as a child, was Greek, some version of the Greek language.

我们以他的母语为依据,即他们非后天习得的,而是从小所学的语言,即是希腊语的,或是一些希腊地区的方言的

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Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.

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Cornish has died out as a native language but is being revived: and of course Irish Gaelic, or Erse, is still spoken, more widely in the west of the island than the east.

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