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Google now offers a free translation service as part of its search engine. I'll give you an example of an English to Finnish translation. This is the original English text:The author, N. Taiwo, employs a very unique approach that uncovers the root causes (underlying factors) that produce or...

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Hi Forbes, I'm not taking sides but just want to clarify a few things. Chinese is such a totally different system, whatever English speakers see in "translation" may not give them an idea what Chinese is like. Each Chinese character is monosyllabic. But since we have a "rigid" writing system...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...