A Mother Tongue

Derived or learned from or as if from one's mother; native. English is her mother tongue.

Artist Tanya Nixon-Silberg sews a phrase heard in childhood to a burlap tapestry for "Mother Tongue." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) One day, artist and educator Tanya Nixon-Silberg was with her 11-year-old ...

MinnPost: With ‘Mother Tongue,’ artist Mary Prescott will give her audience a taste of cultural narratives about food

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With ‘Mother Tongue,’ artist Mary Prescott will give her audience a taste of cultural narratives about food

Pajhwok Afghan News: Mother tongue in exile: An Identity must not be forgotten

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Preserving one’s mother tongue is a serious challenge for Afghan migrants living abroad, but experts say that if native languages are forgotten within families, part of the culture and identity of ...

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Smithsonian Magazine: Shared Experiences Through the Ongoing Virtual Mother Tongue Film Festival

Learn more about the films in the ongoing virtual festival Rebecca West This article is part of the Mother Tongue Film Festival digital retrospective, a series of streaming films that have screened in ...

Sir: When Federal Ministry of Education announced on that it was cancelling the three-year-old mother-tongue instruction policy, the reactions were divided and, in many cases, ...

The annual Mother Tongue Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year with 10 days of programming: four days of in-person and six days of virtual screenings. From Thursday, Feb. 20, to Sunday, Feb. 23, ...

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Stephen Kessler | A poet born without a mother tongue

MSN: Jhumpa Lahiri questions the mother tongue — and the need to belong

In a literary world fixated on roots, writer and translator Jhumpa Lahiri has a confession to make: she does not believe she has a mother tongue. “I have no mother tongue...I don’t call anything my ...

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