Language & Language Learning

2. The ability to use two different languages equally well.
6. The correct way to make the sounds of a word when you speak it.
9. When the original meaning of a word or phrase changes or disappears when translated into another language. (4,1,11)
10. The rules of a language that show how words change their form and combine with other words to make sentences.
11. Less fluent in a language than you used to be because you have not practiced it for a long time.
12. A person who has spoken a specific language since they were a baby rather than learning it as an adult. (6,7)
15. Very informal words and expressions that are more common in spoken language than in writing.
16. Being able to speak or write a language easily and without thinking.

1. A form of a language spoken in one specific area with some of its own grammar and vocabulary.
3. The first language you learn as a child which you use naturally every day. (6,6)
4. A method of learning a language by living in a place where it is spoken all the time.
5. When people can’t understand each other because they speak different languages. (8,7)
7. All the words that you know or that exist in a language.
8. A person who can speak several different languages well.
13. The specific way that people from a particular country or area pronounce words.
14. A word in another language that looks like a word in your own language but means something completely different. (5,6)