Your bond with your mother tongue

How you relate to your mother tongue today — from fluent native to reconnecting.

A neutral self-identification of your fluency and connection with your first language — common and varied across multilingual and diaspora communities. (Heritage-language fluency)

Groups

• Fluent native speaker — It's your first and strongest language.
• Raised bilingual — You grew up with two or more first languages.
• Heritage speaker — You understand it but speak it less than you'd like.
• Speak but don't read or write — Fluent in speech, but not in literacy.
• Reconnecting — You lost it and are learning it again.
• Another language is stronger — You're now more fluent in a language learned later.

Related topics

• Language family of your mother tongue
• Your writing system
• Your accent
• How many languages you use
• Your dominant language

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