technical/linguistic/educational term for translation issue

[donnach]

Hi,

There is a term I learned in credential school that I cannot remember but would like to. It describes the tendency to translate certain things certain ways from one language to another. For instance, in Japanese mass nouns (from what I understand) are the norm, so oftentimes when Japanese people speak English, they have a tendency to drop the article in front of singular count nouns. The term describes this tendency.

Does anyone know what it is?


Thanks,

Donna

[freezeframe]

linguistic interference
or
language transfer

[donnach]

thank you!

[BobK]

linguistic interference
or
language transfer

And, to be more specific, when the interference is from the mother tongue, it's sometimes called 'L1 interference'.

b

[freezeframe]

And, to be more specific, when the interference is from the mother tongue, it's sometimes called 'L1 interference'.

b

And interference from a language learned later in the first language learned is 'L2 interference' (linguists are very creative with their terms!). Which is what happens to me when I speak Russian.