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Second Language Idioms

Posted by Grant Barrett on January 12, 2013 · Add Comment

If you master a second language by the age of ten, native speakers won’t recognize that it’s not your first. Even so, things like idioms or prepositions can often trip up even the most skilled second-language speakers, if their second language is English. This is part of a complete episode.