Is your native tongue Chinese or English?

你的母语是汉语还是英语？

Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.

大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语.

Find out about typical pronunciation mistakes people speaking your native tongue make.

找出同母语者常犯的典型发音错误。

But in the Romanized western provinces Latin or some variant of Latin became the native tongue.

但是在罗马化的西部行省，拉丁或变体拉丁语已经成了当地人的母语。

It's a long test, it's a difficult test, and it's a test in English; not your native tongue. Obviously, right?

这个考试持续时间很长，难度系数较高，还是全英文的，显然不是各位的母语，对吧？

Time seems to pass faster or slower depending on the language you speak, new research has revealed, because of the way your native tongue speaks about time.

新的研究表明，时间流逝的快慢取决于你掌握的语言，取决于你的母语描述时间的方式。

If possible, spend at least a few months living where the language you're learning is the native tongue; being totally immersed is the best way to pick it up.

如果可能的话，花费至少几个月的时间在你所学的语言为母语的地方。完全置身其中是学习一种语言最好的方法。

Many adoptees and emigrants have no conscious memory of their native tongue, but a new study suggests at least some information remains in the brain.

许多被收养的小孩或是移民的小孩对于他们的母语都没有有意识的记忆，但一项最新的研究表明，至少有部分信息是仍旧残留在他们大脑中的。

In my native tongue, my name is Dances with Tassels.

在我的家乡话里面，我的名字是在与稻穗共舞的意思。

As a person who doesn’t know the native tongue you are completely excluded from the culture.

如果不懂当地的语言，那么你就会被完全排除在当地文化之外。