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What do you mean by first language?

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your first language is the language you learnt when you were a baby. For example When I was born I was born to parents that spoke Dutch so the language I first spoke was Dutch. We then migrated to Australia where I learned to speak English. The end result is that even though I speak English nearly exclusively my first language is Dutch. I know people that don't even remember their first language.

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