What is mother tongue? A: Mother tongue is also called the first language. There are three explanations. One is: one or more languages that a person first contacts, learns and masters after birth. Mother tongue is generally contacted from childhood and continues to be used until teenagers or later; Moreover, a considerable part of a person's family or formal education, especially in the early days, is taught through his mother tongue; Another explanation of mother tongue is a person's national language, which is not necessarily the "language" that a person first came into contact with, learned and mastered, such as "mother island" and "mother country", but only means "root". Mother tongue is not only the language spoken by mother to someone, but also the national language recognized by him. In order to avoid ambiguity about the definition of multilingual mother tongue, the third explanation is the language learned without borrowing other languages (such as translation). (For example, babies learn nouns by looking at pictures, which is mother tongue learning)

195 1 year, UNESCO held a conference on mother tongue in Paris, and made the following definition: "Mother tongue refers to the language that a person has learned since childhood, which is usually a natural tool for thinking and communication."

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1. The language a person has learned since childhood is usually a natural tool for his thinking and communication.

2. A person's mother tongue; Natural language acquired in infancy and childhood; A person's mother tongue.

3. The language from which another language originated.

detailed description

1. Generally speaking, it refers to the national standard language that one learns first.

2. One language has evolved into many languages, and this language is the mother tongue of these languages.

3. The language of your own country.

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Mother tongue, if it is the first language, its application ability is very important for a person's further learning process, because thinking is mostly based on mother tongue; Therefore, the mother tongue plays a central role in the education process. If you don't master your mother tongue well, it will be difficult to learn other languages. Mother tongue is not determined by birthplace or descent. Mother tongue is not necessarily the mother's language. For example, in some patriarchal societies, mothers come from different language areas, while children usually only use the local language, and only a few people can master the mother's language. Similarly, for the descendants of immigrants, "mother tongue" is not necessarily the language of the mother country or the motherland, and may even be an artificial language (such as Esperanto). A person can have two or more mother tongues, so he is bilingual or multilingual. The order of language learning does not necessarily represent proficiency.