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POLAND – CIRCA 1957: A stamp printed by POLAND shows image portrait of Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) – a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England, circa 1957

Speaking in Tongues

“Was ist deine Muttersprache?” is one of the first sentences my German A1 students learn in class. After all, a person’s mother tongue is a central part of their personality. For me as a teacher, it is especially interesting to know, since their initial strengths and weaknesses in learning German heavily depend on their mother…