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• What is your native language?
• Do you have one native language or are you natively bilingual?
• Do you speak one language at home and another at school/work?
• Are you often asked to translate for family members?
• Is your native language the majority language in your region/country?
• Is your native language threatened by other languages, perhaps English?
  • If yes, how does that make you feel?

• What is the prestige dialect of your language? Why?
• Do you speak that dialect or another one?

• Do you speak with an accent? What accent do you have?

• Who owns your language? Who controls it? Everybody or just educated people?
• Does your language have a language academy?
  • If yes, what does it do? Is it a good idea to have such an academy?
  • If no, do you think it would be a good idea for your language to have one?

• Is your language commonly learnt as a foreign language?
• Do you think your language is an easy language to learn? Why?
• Do you think your language is an easy language to pronounce? Why?
  • What sounds do non-native speakers often get wrong?
• What spelling system does your language use?
• Are words in your language easy to spell?

• What do you know about the grammar of your language?

• Assuming that your teacher is not also a native speaker of your language, can your teacher speak your language?
  • What's the best way for your teacher to learn your language?
• Should immigrants to your country learn your language? Why?

• How is your language similar to English? How is it different?
• How is your language similar to other languages? How is it different?