Hey naturals
What's up?
Gabby Wallace your favorite American English teacher here to bring you a go natural English lesson this time talking about
Extremely common mistakes that English learners make even at the advanced level
Imagine with me for a second a really good-looking
Man or a good-looking woman a beautiful woman you smile at her
She smiles at you, and yeah
She has a big piece of spinach in her teeth and it makes you kind of jump back
And you're not sure how to tell her
This is what happens when your English is pretty good
But you keep making those same
Common mistakes and nobody really knows how to tell you because it's awkward
they don't want to offend you, and they'd rather just ignore it and keep on going so I
want to help you out today and point out the
13 most common mistakes that even advanced English learners are making
So let's jump right into it number one has to do with making plans or talking about time
So let's say hey, do you want to get coffee with me next week and you say yeah, how about on next Monday?
No, no on next Monday is
Not correct. We can say on Monday or next Monday
but the thing is on Monday means the Monday closest to the present time and
Next Monday means the following Monday, so be careful a lot of people even native speakers get confused about
Scheduling whether it's this Monday or next Monday, so be sure to clarify, but you only need
One or the other you can say on
Monday or next Monday
Or if you're talking about the past you could say last Monday number two is similar
don't say in last year or in next year or
in last July or in next July you can pick one or the other in July or
Next July so we don't say in
And next or in and last plus a month or a year choose one or the other
Okay number
Three is huge when you guys tell me that you want to speak English like a native
That's awesome, but when you tell me you want to speak English like a Native American
It leaves me a little confused you see Native Americans are the people who first lived in
North America before the European settlers came here so a Native American is not
simply someone whose
mother tongue or native language is English
It's actually a whole nother group of people so be aware that
Native American is a group of people who were in North America before
European settlers came over here and a
native English speaker is
What I believe you're trying to say so next time say I'd like to speak English
Just like a native speaker or a native English speaker
very good
Number four this is I believe
especially for my Brazilian friends when you ask if there will be
Legends at the movies or on a video it leaves me a little confused
I know what you're trying to say, but what you really want to say is not
Legends a legend is like a hero if it's a person or it could be like The Legend of
Zelda which is a video game, but legend is a story or
An epic story so you don't mean legends you actually mean
Subtitles okay, so be careful
It's not the same or similar in English as it is in Portuguese and in case you didn't know subtitles are
The words or text at the bottom of the screen
But you can read along with if you're not understanding what you're listening really helpful for if you watch foreign movies
Now if you're wondering if you should use
Subtitles on the next english movie or video that you watch I have another video
Talking about that. You can click right up there to watch it
Number five I hear English learners skipping words and questions a lot like if you ask
where from
where from is
Not a complete sentence. It's not a complete question. So don't skip those words
You might think that native English speakers are saying
where from but you're hearing the stressed words we stress the words where
From, but those aren't the only words in the sentence we actually are saying
Where are you from so don't skip those two words in the middle. Where are you?
From where are you from?
I know they're very small when we speak quickly but practice saying them with less stress
But don't skip them altogether so repeat after me. Where are you from?
Where are you from?
awesome okay number six
Thanks God. I see you writing this all the time. Thanks God for your lesson. Well. Thank you
That's really nice, but that's not how we say it in English so English speakers always simply say
Thank God or thank goodness so drop the S and you'll be more like a native speaker and more correct
Number seven is not really incorrect
Grammatically, but it's incorrect
societally culturally when you say teacher
Can you tell me your teacher? Thank you for the lesson or teacher?
Your channel is great or teacher. I subscribe to you on YouTube
That's nice, but
Native English speakers don't refer to their teachers as teacher. We would simply say
Mr.. Smith or mrs. Smith for example if you're in high school, and it's more of a formal
situation if you're in a more informal situation like this or like with your
English tutor or someone who's closer to your age
Maybe if you're an adult student especially
Then you can simply say Gabi say your teachers first name if you feel uncomfortable about this
You can ask your teacher first is it okay?
If I call you Gabi or can I call you Gabi, or do you prefer?
Miss Smith if you're
Asking your teacher, so we don't call teachers teacher
It seems really strange and on this note we also
Don't say ma'am when you say ma'am to me
It makes me feel really strange because ma'am is very formal
It is often used in the American South so that is an exception
But even in the South we say ma'am when we are addressing a much older woman
Someone who is 60 70 80 years old?
So please understand that I am NOT 60 or 70 or 80 years old and you do not need to call me ma'am
Although I appreciate your respect you can simply call me Gabi number nine. Let's talk grammar for a second
I see a lot of you saying explain me this now you're forgetting a
Few words and maybe the order is a bit wrong so instead of saying explain me
the past present say explain
The past present to me or explain it to me or explain this to me
next very similarly
Do not say ask
To me or ask to him cut out that - we don't need it simply ask
Him or ask her or ask Gabi
number 11 a lot of us get confused between funny and fun so funny is something, that's
Haha, very comical makes you laugh
Fun is something like maybe
skydiving rock climbing
what else could be fun anything that you enjoy it as an activity where you're
Enjoying it, but you're not necessarily
Laughing because it's not comical number 12. I hear a lot of English learners saying or writing I
Haven't plus a noun for example. I haven't the money. I haven't the time
but
This is super formal and antiquated English so no native English speaker
That I know would say I haven't the time in a normal conversation
We usually use haven't as a contraction
Only with a verb in the past participle so for example. I haven't eaten
Yet today
Or I haven't studied or I haven't gone to the bank or whatever
It is but we only use this with the past participle
So have as an auxiliary verb plus not plus the past participle
We can actually contract have and nut
You can also keep them separate. I have not eaten. That's fine, but it's a little bit more natural
I guess to say I haven't eaten so if you want to talk about nouns like money or time
It's better to just say I don't have
The money I don't have the time that's a much more common way of expressing the same idea number
Thirteen we're gonna touch on grammar for our last and final
most
common mistake is
Sometimes we need to change the word order in all questions. I see a lot of you asking for example when you will
Start the next go natural English course. That's incorrect. We want to ask when will you?
Start the next go natural English course. When will you so don't make the mistake of saying?
when you will
Subject plus is for a regular statement a sentence we have to invert that for a question like this
When will you start the next go natural English course?
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