Eddie Osborne
Eddie Osborne is a freelance writer and a former adjunct lecturer in English at the University of Miami and a one-time ESL teacher.
Knowledge of One Language Sometimes Helps When Learning Another
You’d think that knowing one language would make learning another relatively easy, right?
Well, it depends.
If the target language has nothing in common — either grammatically or in terms of vocabulary — with the language you already know, then you'd be starting from scratch, and practically none of what you already know would be transferable to the new language.