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1. Compare and contrast Vietnamese (first language) with English (second
language)
CommunicationsWrite an essay that’s about 1,000 words long in which you (1) compare
and contrast Vietnamese (first language) with English (second language) and (2) reflect on
your experience learning the second language by discussing which aspects of the language
were easy and which were hard to learn.To compare and contrast, consider one or more of
the following aspects:phoneme inventory (e.g. English has /ŋ/ but Spanish doesn’t. Instead
Spanish has /ɲ/ also known as “eñe”)pronunciation of a phoneme that exists in both (e.g.
/p/ in English is pronounced with aspiration at the beginning of a word, but it’s pronounced
without aspiration in Spanish)phonotactics (e.g. consonant clusters are allowed in English
but not in Japanese)word formation processes (e.g. circumfixation exists in Indonesian but
not in English)word order in phrases and sentences (e.g. English follows an SVO order while
Korean follows an SOV order; adjectives often appear before the noun they modify in
English but they often appear after the noun in French; English has prepositions but Turkish
has postpositions)agreement (e.g. German has three grammatical genders — masculine,
feminine, neuter — and an article and a noun that follows must agree in terms of gender but
there is no such gender agreement in English)