Keyword: «language interaction»

This article discusses the phenomenon of a interference, gives its most popular definition in modern linguistics and highlights the distinctive features. A brief description of the interference at different language levels is given: phonetic, orthographic, grammatical, lexical, and the corresponding examples are given. The interference is compared with a transference expressed in the stimulation of existing linguistic patterns and the possibility of making parallels in the knowledge of similar linguistic phenomena. The potential of the use of transference in the study of a foreign language is noted.