linguistics1-10  Exercise 2: Predicting Transfer Errors
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  (a) Japanese speaker, English l and r
      Difficulty: hearing and producing the difference (rice/lice).
      Why: Japanese has one r-like phoneme, so l and r are not separate
      categories for the listener (Chapter 3).

  (b) English speaker, Hungarian case endings
      Difficulty: choosing and forming the endings (-ban, -ra, -nak ...).
      Why: English has almost no case system; word order and prepositions do
      the work, so the habit of marking function on the noun is new.

  (c) Hungarian speaker, he and she
      Difficulty: mixing up he and she.
      Why: Hungarian has one pronoun, ő, for both, so gender is not a
      habit of attention in the speaker's first language.

  (d) English speaker, Japanese verb at the end
      Difficulty: building sentences with the verb last, and holding the
      sentence in mind until it arrives.
      Why: English is SVO and puts the verb before the object; Japanese is
      SOV (Chapter 5).

Any reasonable error that follows from a real difference between the two
languages is acceptable.