first language• It follows that an individual's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language.• It was my first language, then Sincthi.• Given fluent processing of first language material, the articulatory loop may never consciously intrude into the interpreter's performance.• In this respectlearnererrors which revealfirst languageinfluence are the naturalreflex of procedures of meaning negotiation.• Under certain circumstances, however, children may learn a pidgin as their first language.