second language
English
Noun
second language (plural second languages)
- A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue.
- My second languages are Italian and German.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 105:
- Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts.
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language spoken other than the mother tongue
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