The Mother Tongue in the Foreign Language: An Account of Russian L2 Learners’ Error Incidence on Output

Table 1: Word by word translation of an equivalent fixed phrase

	L2		L1	IL
a	On the one hand/on the other (hand)	S odnoi storony/s drugoi storony	On the one side/on the other (side)
b	I see	Ponimayu	I understand
c	to some extent	v nekotoroi stepeni	in some extent
d	It remains to be seen...	Babushka nadvoe skazala...	Granny half said...
e	in the short/long run	v kratkosrochnoi/dolgosrochnoi perspektive	In the short/ long perspective
f	We were in the middle of nowhere.	My byli v seredine neizvestnosti.	We were in the center of nowhere.

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