Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin, University of Rochester, and Radboud University Nijmegen publish findings.
No 356/2019 from Nov 21, 2019
Linguistic similarities between languages play a determining role in people’s ability to learn a new language, according to a recent study by researchers from Freie Universität Berlin, University of Rochester (USA), and Radboud University Nijmegen (Holland). The researchers evaluated data from about 50,000 adults with 62 different native languages. The data came from the Dutch government’s citizenship test, which involves testing applicants’ language level in Dutch. ...
