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Studies of languages have shown that any given language will compensate for complexity in one area with simplicity in another and that if you compare any two languages that they have roughly the same number of complex and simple areas. Consider the following: Imagine a language with only two...

As far as I know nobody mentioned Hungarian. Well, try it....it is not similar to anything (closest relative is Finnish, but they separated so long ago, that they are not mutually understandable). It is agglutinative, meaning there are conjugations at the end of words, and you have to pronounce...

The basic problem is 'interference'. This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation. It can be word order, vocabulary, misuse of cognates, phonetics, etc. A few examples: English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa; most other languages are...

Hello Julielai Not at all dumb. 1. Cat- as in 'cat-astrophe'; + ull- as in 'pull'; + -us with the same vowel sound as 'pull' again. Stress on -ull-. 2. Contemporary and near-contemporary poets - Tibullus, Ovid, Martial - make allusions to his poems; Virgil is especially influenced by him, and...