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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Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay.

在这里，我学到了我的第一课：虽然我不擅长语言，但我仍然可以很聪明，用粘土很好地表达自己。

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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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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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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.

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

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Cornish is believed to have died out as a first language in the late 18th Century.

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