[General] technical/linguistic/educational term for translation issue

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donnach

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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?


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Donna
 

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linguistic interference
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language transfer
 

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

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:up: 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. :-?
 
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