61.   Like many newcomers, immigrants from China once relied on movies in their native tongue as a bridge between old country and new.

62.   Mrs. Synan does not believe in bilingual education, in which students may be taught partly in their native tongues for six years.

63.   Or you could say she is an infantile babbler whose writing, while charming, is incomprehensible and betrays only a negligible grasp of English, her native tongue.

64.   Several hairstylists allege that they lost their jobs for speaking their native tongue.

65.   She admonishes them to hold on to their native tongue.

66.   She discovers that the business world speaks the male language, and that when women bring their conversational techniques to work, their native tongue betrays them.

67.   She speaks and thinks in English, and has to be reminded to use her native tongue.

68.   Some nations, like France and Israel, try to protect the native tongue from invasion by coining words to describe new technical terms.

69.   Some believe Spanglish hurts the ability of Hispanic Americans to retain their native tongue.

70.   Some Spanish-language purists still denounce Spanglish as a debasement of their native tongue.