língua v angličtině:

Mother tongue.

If your tongue turns black, you should probably see a doctor.

Many doctors look at your tongue first when they begin an examination.

I'll try to stay on your good side, lest I get cut in two by that acerbic tongue of yours.

Do not fear the heavens and the earth, but be afraid of hearing a person from Wenzhou speak in their local tongue.

Foreign accent syndrome is an as-yet unexplained medical condition where the patient can no longer pronounce his mother tongue correctly and seems to have a foreign accent.

A woman whose tongue grew out of the roof of her mouth soon found herself surrounded by overeager linguists.

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

German punctuation is pedantic, English punctuation is chaotic, and for Esperanto Dr. Zamenhof suggested we look towards our mother tongue as a guideline. Go figure!

A linguistics student swallowed her own tongue after attempting the legendary glottal approximant.

He lay there for a moment before walking away with his tongue hanging out of one side of his mouth.

By the look in his eye I could tell that he was speaking tongue in cheek.

A dream... I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

If you sleep on your back it's easier for your upper airway to be obstructed because your tongue, uvula, etc. slip towards the back of your throat.

Nowadays UNESCO recommends that everybody should use three languages: the mother tongue, the language of local communication and the international language.

Watch your language.

The English language is undoubtedly the easiest and at the same time the most efficient means of international communication.

We cannot know too much about the language we speak every day of our lives.

Language acquisition requires creativity.

If you concentrate all your energies on the study of English, you will master the language.

You may write in any language you want. On Tatoeba, all languages are equal.

In all probability, no language is completely free of borrowed words.

Dr. Zamenhof believed that a language belongs to the people who speak it which is why he never copyrighted Esperanto.

A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know.

The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.

In many countries, whenever a group of people from various language backgrounds get together, English is usually the language that is spoken.

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.