31.   English as a first language is bad enough.

32.   Fetter mentioned an applicant whose parents are migrant farm workers and whose first language is Spanish.

33.   Fewer speak Spanish as a first language, and they tend to be older, more upwardly mobile and better educated.

34.   French is his first language, but his English is smooth, articulate, delivered in a lowered, resonant voice that sounds nearly theater-trained.

35.   French has ceded to English its longtime standing as the first language of diplomacy.

36.   French was my first language.

37.   GED material can be difficult to master because English is not the first language for many refugees.

38.   Gendron, whose first language is French, enlisted because he figured a stint in the US military would be a way to receive free English instruction.

39.   He could speak Spanish, his first language, but had forgotten English.

40.   He likes to tell his audience that his first language was not English.