{"id":4050,"date":"2017-11-14T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spanish.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:58:06","slug":"transference-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanish.kwiziq.com\/blog\/transference-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Transference Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A transference error is a certain type of mistake, common to foreign language learners, which can be particularly difficult to stop making. The hardest part is becoming aware of the error; once you’ve done that, it’s just a matter of figuring out the correction and practicing your way to perfection.<\/p>\n

Transference errors occur when students assume that aspects of their native language apply to the one they’re learning: they transfer the rules of one language onto another. These types of errors can be tricky to overcome because students are typically unaware that they’re making them. When you want to say “eagle,” for example, and realize you don’t know how, you’re aware of this gap in your knowledge and you can look it up in the dictionary or ask someone. But transference errors are much more difficult to spot – you usually need someone to point them out to you, or you need to explore contrastive analysis (the study of structural differences between two languages) in order to pinpoint the ones you’re making without even realizing it.<\/p>\n

Grammar gaffes – Gazapos gramaticales<\/i><\/h2>\n

Beginning and even intermediate students often assume that they can say something in Spanish just by changing the words, without looking at the underlying grammar. But there are many structural differences between English and Spanish (indeed, between any two languages), so you definitely need more than a bilingual dictionary to communicate effectively in a new language.<\/p>\n

Here are just a few big differences between English and Spanish:<\/p>\n