books.google.com.au - Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Language_Interrupted_Signs_of_Non_Native.html?id=iEff_YCrGpgC&q=abbreviated&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLanguage Interrupted : Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars
