second language

English

Noun

second language (plural second languages)

1. A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue.

   My second languages are Italian and German.

Related terms

• first language
• foreign language

Translations

language spoken other than the mother tongue

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第二語言／第二语言 (dì'èr yǔyán), 第二语言 (dì-èr yǔyán), 外語／外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ), 外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: muu kieli
• French: première langue (fr) f
• German: Zweitsprache (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: andrespråk (no) n

  Nynorsk: andrespråk n

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• Portuguese: segunda língua f
• Southern Sami: mubpien-gïele
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: andraspråk (sv) n