second language
Noun
Meaning
second language (plural second languages)
A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue.
My second languages are Italian and German.
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Examples
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.