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By the middle of this century, English could fall into fifth place behind Arabic in the numbers who speak it as a first language.

到本世纪中叶，以英语为第一语言的人口可能少于阿拉伯母语人口，跌倒世界第五位。

It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as well asa native English speaker.

对于一个中国人来说把英语说得跟以英语为母语的人一样好是不容易的。

First, the low survival rate of phonemic loans introduced before 1949 is ascribable to two major factors: the love of semantic transparency as predisposed by logographicity of written Chinese and the low consensus on issues of lexical borrowing among translators.

计划性语言文化认同指某一语言文化的成员基于对另一语言的隐形优势的理解而放弃母语，并在另一语言文化的基础上建立一种新的语言文化认同。

By the age of 16 he had mastered a dozen languages and had read a paper before the Grenoble Academy concerning the Coptic language. By 20 he could also speak Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Amharic, Sanskrit, Avestan, Pahlavi, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean, Persian, Ethiopic, and Chinese in addition to his native French.

到16岁他已经掌握了12门语言，并且在格勒诺布尔学院宣读了一篇关于科普特语的论文。20岁时他除了母语法语，还会拉丁语、希腊语、希伯来语、阿姆哈拉语、梵文、阿维斯陀语、巴拉维语、阿拉伯语、叙利亚语、迦勒底语、波斯语、埃塞俄比亚语和中文。

The phonetic coordinate axis of ones mother tongue plays a leading role for foreign language learners, especially for adult foreign language learners.

他们一直在将自己的母语语音尤其是他们出生地的方言语音同第二语言的语音反复进行比较，最后才能形成条件反射脱口而出，流利地表达第二语言。

Many visitors baulk at being approached so baldly, and are worried that it could be a scam, but mostly the youngsters are desperate for access to real live Anglophones who can help them improve their conversational English.

对于这种鲁莽的主动接近，很多游客都有些犹豫，担心有人通过主动搭讪来行骗。但多数情况下只是一些年轻人想同以英语为母语的人套近乎，以此提高自己的英语会话能力。

And, this is my first article and English is not my native language, so don't be too hard on me.

而且，这是我的第一篇文章和英语不是我的母语，所以不要对我太硬。

If English is not your first language, it might be helpful to ask a native English speaker to review your paper.

如果英语不是你的第一语言，它可能是有益的问一个母语为英语发言检阅您的文件。

There are six spoken languages that are considered to be native to the British Isles as well as two local accents.

有6种语言被认为是不列颠群岛的母语，还包括两种当地口音。

If your resume is written in a language other than English, be sure to have a native speaker of that language carefully review your resume.

如果你的简历使用的是英语以外的某种语言，一定要让一个母语是这门语言的人仔细检查你的简历。

This brought fixed cost, but it also is meant at the same time use a source to won't make you singlehanded assume a problem.

这带来了一定的成本，但它同时也意味着使用开源不会让你独力承担问题。

He gained a small fortune in real estate.

他在房地产上发了一笔小财。