Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments

Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment situation of diglossia in the Czech Republic, diaglossia in Germany influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic factors on L2 acquisition, especially age.