Can a person have 2 mother tongue?

The person has two mother tongues only if the two languages were learned at the same time and are still understood by the person. For a child who has not yet learned to speak, the mother tongue is the language spoken most often to this child at home.

Can you have 3 first languages?

One can have two or more native languages, thus being a native bilingual or indeed multilingual. The order in which these languages are learned is not necessarily the order of proficiency.

Is it possible to have two native languages?

My wife is Italian and so that is their ‘mother tongue’, and what they use together while they of course use Portuguese at school and with their friends. If you can switch between them without though as the circumstances require and have been able to do so from an early age, then yes, you have two native languages.

What is the difference between first language and second language?

First language. Children brought up speaking more than one language can have more than one native language, and be bilingual or multilingual. By contrast, a second language is any language that one speaks other than one’s first language.

Should you learn two languages at the same time?

Or maybe you just want to start learning two languages simultaneously? Some might think that this is a bad idea because you can’t put your full efforts into each language, and you could get confused and mix them up. The logical result is sub-par abilities in both languages.

Do you speak more than one language at home?

There are millions of people, even in the mostly monolingual US, who speak more than one language at home. Competence in three languages is not unusual, and we’ve all heard stories of grandmas and grandpas who had to master four or five languages on their way from the old country to the new.