Entry 2
https://youtu.be/h8XuxPJ-D5o I was very excited to do this interview. I found that this was a very beneficial experience. Having the opportunity to learn about someone's process of learning a second language was very enlightening to me. My subject discussed her experience learning English as a second language at a very young age in primary school. "Learning a second language, therefore, constitutes a very different task from learning the first language. The basic problems arise not out of any essential difficulty in the features of the new language themselves but primarily out of the special “set” created by the first language habits" (Fries, 1957, p.95). All languages have some similarities and differences whether it be grammatical or structural. My subject talks about having to learn to adjust in order learn English. This was a difficult thing for her to accomplish and she still struggles with it. “Those structures that are si...