- published: 28 Feb 2016
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A first language (also native language, mother tongue, arterial language, or L1) is the language(s) a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity. In some countries, the terms native language or mother tongue refer to the language of one's ethnic group rather than one's first language. Sometimes, there can be more than one mother tongue, when the child's parents speak different languages. Those children are usually called bilingual.
By contrast, a second language is any language that one speaks other than one's first language.
Sometimes the term native language is used to indicate a language that a person is as proficient in as a native individual of that language's "base country", or as proficient as the average person who speaks no other language but that language.[citation needed]
Sometimes the term mother tongue or mother language is used for the language that a person learnt as a child at home (usually from their parents). Children growing up in bilingual homes can, according to this definition, have more than one mother tongue or native language.
What´s he gonna dream tonight
This world´s a nightmare
Don´t tell him that you understand
´Cause you and i don´t come from his land
So look out dream ´cause here comes your nightmare
Here he comes
Here comes your nightmare c´mon
From birth he was blamed and shamed
Beaten and battered, but no one complained
His heart was taken and his future was maimed
But no one cared ´til he was a threat
This nightmare you won´t forget, no you won´t
Here comes your nightmare! c´mon
Here comes your nightmare! and he don´t care
Is it any wonder he crashed like thunder
When it was the nightmare that he grew up under
Here comes the nightmare at the B of A
Here comes the nightmare at the ATM
Here comes the nightmare coming to your car now
Here comes your nightmare! c´mon
Nightmare! Nightmare!