There are certain barriers that will be encountered when learning a new language in a multilingual community. These barriers occur in language learning while in a multicultural community because native and nonnative groups will think, act, and write in different ways based on each of their own cultural norms. Research shows that students in multicultural environments communicate less with those not familiar with their culture. Long-term problems can include that the foreign speakers will haveusing their own terms of expression combined into the language native to the area, which often makes for awkward sentences to a native speaker. Native students also tend to develop an exclusive attitude toward the nonnative speaker because they feel threatened when they do not understand the foreign language. Short-term problems include the fact that native students will usuallyoften lacklacking in-depth knowledge of the nonnative cultures, which makes them more likely to be unwilling to communicate with the foreign speakers. Because these foreign students grew up and were educated in a totally different cultural environment, their ideologies, identities and logic that form inat thean early age causelead to different ways of expressing ideas both in written and spoken form. They will have to modify and redefine their original identities when they enter a multicultural environment (Shen, 459). This is no easy task. ConsequentiallyConsequently, a low levellevels of social involvement and enculturation will occur for both native and nonnative speakers in the community.
