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Perfect Stranger Posted 9 years ago
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Another e-mail

Hello,

Could you please help me find errors and mistakes in this one?

Hi Chuck,

No worries. I assumed you were busy. Thanks for your reply.

I'm going to try to prolong my current visa, so I would be grateful for any notifications if your company decided to resume the selection process in the upcoming weeks.

As for my request... I suppose I might have made it sound a bit unclear. It's actually more than one thing and these examples are not necessarily connected in any way. I'm quite interested in how the acquisition of L3 might affect one's L1 and/or L2. After all, each and every language we acquire rewires our brain in a way. I have noticed that my Greek has deteriorated slightly over the past few years (even though I use it quite often) whereas my English has not.

A slightly different scenario would be the case of using different varieties of the same language. I have come across Americans who claim that their L1 suffered greatly due to their prolonged stay in the environment where, say, English is not spoken the way it is spoken back home. Some of them used to live in South Africa.

Not sure if my explanation clarifies the matter sufficiently. Perhaps those examples would even be considered as overly simplistic and not worth doing any research on.

Best,

Bob

  
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