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I think it's significant that we speak of a "mother tongue" because that first language nurtures our worldview in a way which cannot be rivaled by anything introduced in school. Although English is my native language and America my home, my mother is German and she spoke German as she raised us at home, so to me German is literally my mother tongue. No matter how little I've used it over the years, I've managed to maintain a relatively high ability, most likely because of this very early familiarity. I feel privileged to know more than one language. I find myself thinking in idioms from German which cannot be translated or sometimes even understood in English. It definitely enriches m
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