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If you have had the experience of learning a foreign language, you will have some idea of the range of knowledge that is needed in properly speaking, reading and writing that language. You have to learn about pronunciation, spelling, words and their meanings, and how to construct sentences with the words in the right order. Then there are different ways of constructing messages so as to be interesting, logical, persuasive, tactful, polite and so on.
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Learning to talk
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© 1993 Dennis Freeborn, Peter French, David Langford
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Freeborn, D., French, P., Langford, D. (1993). Learning to talk. In: Varieties of English. Studies in English Language series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22723-5_6
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