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Are there any studies on vocabulary loss and/or simplification of "thought structures" due to multilingualism?
(I am not a linguist, so please forgive any wrong term or concept)
This question comes from personal experience. I have studied in a trilingual university, so that each student knew at least three ...
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Is there a concept to describe "a way of saying something that is incorrect, but occurs frequently due to the speaker speaking a second language"?
In the past ten years I've started working with people who's native language is not English. I've noticed that these folks say thing to get a concept across, but it's not something you'd hear a native ...
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The benefits of studying a second language with word-by-word translations in one's mother tongue [closed]
I've recently been taking French and am having a bit of a hard time understanding the word order of certain sentences or phrases when I'm forming them in my mind. I tend to do the word-by-word ...
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