Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com
in this video we are going to talk about ten common mistakes that English
learners make and I am hoping that after watching this video you'll never make
these mistakes again because I'm making you aware of what they are and okay so
let's just get into it the first mistake that a lot of English learners make is
they say I didn't wanted to go okay wanted is the past tense like I wanted
to go but when you say I didn't then you just have to use the regular verb want I
didn't want to go instead of saying I didn't want it okay so remember that
when you're speaking in the past tense about something you didn't do or want to
do okay you have to just use the regular form of the verb I didn't want to go not
I didn't want it okay number two a lot of you guys say thanks God okay instead
of thank God we just say oh thank God it didn't rain today or thank God I don't
have to go to work or thank God like whatever it's a beautiful day thank God
okay but I've seen a lot of you guys right
thanks God okay so now you know that's not how we say it and from now on you
can just say oh thank god thank God we have this awesome youtube
channel where we can improve our English right okay another mistake number three
is when you guys say I have 27 years old now I hear this one a lot even from
people that have a pretty good level of English but the way we say it is just I
am 27 years old or I am 35 years old I am 10 years old I am and then the years
old okay so not I have now the next one it's not necessarily a mistake number
four isn't necessarily like a grammatical mistake or something like
that but I'm going to count it as a mistake because it's something that we
don't do like socially what am I talking about
I'm talking about when you guys say hi teacher or thanks teacher or teacher can
you help me with this teacher can you do this teacher can you do that in English
we don't we don't do that we don't address our teachers
like that okay we just use their name or we use their last name like in
elementary school or high school when you have a teacher you say like Mr.
black or Mrs. white okay for example if you have a professor in
college you could say professor black professor white and I don't know why we
have all these last names that are like colors or shades of colors but we do
okay so those are the examples I came up with mr. Smith professor Smith but when
it comes to like online teachers and English coaches and all that stuff you
can just use our first name this is kind of like an informal relationship it's
not super formal you don't have to say Miss Stephanie just say Stephanie don't
say teacher that's that's kind of weird and as we're going along with this you
know number four not to say teacher I also want to throw in there that you
don't have to say ma'am okay ma'am is extremely formal it's something that you
know native English speakers use with elderly women like a woman who's like 65
or 80 years old then maybe you say ma'am or if you're on a phone call with a
client or something and it's very it's a very formal situation then we use ma'am
okay but not in this situation not I'm like I'm making a video in my room I'm
wearing a regular t-shirt like this is not a formal situation okay so
addressing me as ma'am or teacher to me it feels weird and it's incorrect in you
know English-speaking society like it's socially incorrect not necessarily
grammatically incorrect so that tip should definitely help a lot of you guys
now number five a lot of you say explain me or can you explain me you need to say
can you explain this to me or can you explain to me how XY and Z okay explain
to me or explain this to me but not just explain me now along with this one we
also have asked to I can't even say it asked to me a lot of people say oh he
asked to me to go to the store or will you ask to her to come with us instead
of saying that just they ask me or ask her will you ask her
if she wants to come with us or he asked me to go to the store ok number seven
the difference between funny and fun a lot of you guys get this confused and
let's say someone does an English class and you go to the class and you
say oh that class was so funny but maybe you meant that it was fun ok
something that's fun it's like a party you have a great time something that's
funny is a joke a joke makes you laugh it's humorous ok so when something is
funny usually it's something somebody says or it's a movie or you know
something that made you laugh that's funny but something you enjoyed and had
fun with that is something that's fun ok so number eight him/he her/she let's talk
about this because a lot of you guys accidentally start your sentences or use
he and and him when you're talking about a woman you know and and you'll get
confused you might start out by saying oh she goes to my school he's in the
same class with me and it's like whoa how did you just change the gender of
that person that's confusing ok so keep in mind keep this in mind try to be very
careful about using he and him you know for men and her she you know for women
and try not to confuse them when you're speaking about a woman make sure you
consistently use her she etc in your speech okay now let's move on number
nine a lot of you guys instead of saying like it is you just jump in and stay is
you forget to say it so you might say is hot out here is hot today or
something like that or when you write a lot of the times also you forget to say
it is and you just jump in and say is and then the rest of your sentence okay
so that's a mistake and I want to remind you guys to use it is and then the last
one is just about the way you guys ask questions a lot of times you ask
questions like when we will get they're what you will tell me how she
will do it and you need to switch two words in the sentence around instead of
when we will it needs to be when will we okay or what you will needs to be what
will you how she will needs to be how will she okay so you have the question
word the when the what the how then you have the will and then you have the you
the she the I etc does that make sense so instead of you know what we said earlier
just say when will we get there what will you tell me how will she do it does
that make sense I hope so alright you guys there you have it those are ten
extremely common mistakes that English learners make let me know in the
comments if you've been making any of these mistakes and I hope that now that
you're aware of this you won't make them anymore that's it and I'll see you in
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