Brief introduction : About First and Second Language
First language The first language is the native language or the mother tongue of all human beings. We acquire our first or L1 from our childhood through the environment and from our parents etc. Everybody in the world acquires the first language subconsciously. There are no certain affecting factors that influence the L1 acquisition as such little effort should be paid to acquire the first language, as it happens automatically. Normally, it means a child when he/she is 3 or 4 years old get the ability to speak the native language. However, if one likes to learn any other language he/she has to learn formally from a school or an institution. Second Language The second language is the language that is learnt after the native language. Simply if a person wishes to acquire a second language one should have to go to an institution, school, or extra classes and so on. And when we study the second language it has a process that we have to undergo step by step. Even though the...
