Word Building in English

In this video, we will learn vocabulary related to studying and examine the building blocks of words, which are called 'affixes'.
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[@pallavi6228]

I didn't know about this even though I came to see if you're doing a live stream or not I don't know how I missed this😢😢 I'm feeling so sad, Teacher Rich......

[@EnglishRich]

C'est la vie!

[@dan93431]

Hello Professor Rich, Three examples from the Oxford English dictionary and the Britannica dictionary are 1) she never fully recovered from the traumas she suffered during her childhood. 2) The accident victims sustained multiple traumas. 3) It can take a long time to get over such a trauma. ,But I don't understand why these are countable in these examples. 😊

[@EnglishRich]

2 is used medically to mean two separate wounds or injuries. The others you could substitute for the uncountable version without any significant change in meaning. However, 3 does point to a single trauma causing event.

[@vogditis]

You can build the structure of your second language until a certain age from that started on the maintenance which is difficult for person who has more languages than one.

[@EnglishRich]

Hi @vogditis , The idea you are talking about is called language transfer and stems from the 1957 contrastive analysis theory by Robert Lado. It is not without some merit, but it has been roundly debunked and the critiques are well summarised by Lightbown and Spada (2021, pp. 41-43) who outline several convincing criticisms including that learner errors are not bi-directional, not all errors can be explained by L1 transfer, many errors are common among speakers of divergent L1s and L2 learner errors are often similar to developmental language in native children. Evidence today suggests that our L1 can influence our L2, and similarity plays a role, but it is far from the most important factor to consider for a given learner.

[@vogditis]

@@EnglishRich I don't know how my native language Latvian can affect any of my other languages, because each of my languages works as an independent structure in my brain. I have observed some people speaking English who watched American movies in the 90s. If they didn't learn English grammar by watching those movies, they can speak with words using the English sound they learned through translation. Those movies were in two languages. I didn't realize how my brain got English while watching those movies, but in my youth I had a hobby for two months to make a program for computer using English commands. During those two months I learned the sensitivity of words, how they are related to each other, but it was a very short time to have this knowledge for a long time. It took me many years to recover the English grammar.

[@vogditis]

@@EnglishRich I learned Russian and German with non-native teachers and I got these languages without explaining a single word in these languages. That would be one of the talents of my teachers, how to teach language as a language. That is why native teachers have an advantage over non-native teachers. Most of these teachers give a list of words to memorize. I was lucky to learn German in a country where there was no German television, so I can thank my non-native teacher. I doubt that rote learning works even in childhood.

[@EnglishRich]

@@vogditis That's right, I totally agree that rote learning is not helpful for communicative fluency. Rather, we need to learn both explicitly, in the case of lexis, and implicitly, in the case of underlying grammar. I am doing a class on this tomorrow.

[@vogditis]

@@EnglishRich My German teacher gave me an assignment to make sentences with new grammar or tell a story. I forget what it was like because it was 30 years ago, but there was a learning process going on in a similar way as in my native Latvian. My English started to recover when I started reading books in 2017. At first, it seemed like an impossible mission for me to read, which I had never done before. After half a year, I could read books in a similar way as in my native Latvia. I need only 7 years from the moment of reading with the help of input from book to rebuild system in English. My English is from the age of 16-17 and this language will never be the same as from childhood. Thus, it is better than a language over 18. I don't know it is correct to use "thus" in my sentence of the comment because I am using this word for the first time in my life. From that moment on, when my English had recovered, new words came up in my writing, which I put into my text with some doubt about the correctness of their use.

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