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  2. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish-English switching one could say, "Él es de México y así los criaron a ellos, you know." ("He's from Mexico, and they raise them like that, you know.") [37] Intra-word switching occurs within a word itself, such as at a morpheme boundary. [34] In Shona-English switching one could say, "But ma-day-s a-no a-ya ha-ndi-si ku-mu-on-a.

  3. Grammar–translation method - Wikipedia

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    The grammar–translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching Ancient Greek and Latin. In grammar–translation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.

  4. Second language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish taught as a second language to a class of native English speakers at an American private school in Massachusetts In pedagogy and sociolinguistics , a distinction is made between second language and foreign language, the latter is being learned for use in an area where that language is originally from another country and not spoken in ...

  5. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    The increased demand included many learners who struggled with traditional methods such as grammar translation, which involves the direct translation of sentence after sentence as a way to learn the language. Those methods assumed that students aimed to master the target language and were willing to study for years before expecting to use the ...

  6. Spanish as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    The global number of Spanish-speakers consists of approximately 559 million persons. [1] Objectives for Spanish-language education include preparing students to use the language for speaking, listening, reading and writing and to learn about the varied Spanish-speaking cultures as a context in which the language is used.

  7. Dubbing - Wikipedia

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    The dialogue writer's role is to make the translation sound natural in the target language, and to make the translation sound like a credible dialogue instead of merely a translated text. [ 12 ] Another task of dialogue writers is to check whether a translation matches an on-screen character's mouth movements or not, by reading aloud ...

  8. Equivalence (translation) - Wikipedia

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    In semantics and translation, dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence are seen as the main approaches to translation, and semantic equivalence, that prioritize either the meaning or literal structure of the source text respectively. The distinction was originally articulated by Eugene Nida in the context of Bible translation.

  9. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    [2] [page needed] [3] Many loanwords have entered into English from other languages. [ not verified in body ] [ 4 ] [ page range too broad ] English borrowed many words from Old Norse , the North Germanic language of the Vikings , [ 5 ] and later from Norman French , the Romance language of the Normans , which descends from Latin .