Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

billzhao

Some friends, especially those who are just learning English, often make the following mistakes.
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1. My husband has a good job. She makes over 100,000 dollars a year.
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

% D( x# P; E* t% ?The reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.

$ P2 _6 h6 N" I$ D$ f: Y6 d2 Y2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
' i' M0 i0 |- b# x1 B9 I3. Please close your phone.
These mistakes are made because of direct translation. Another similar mistake is: I very like Canada. You really like Canada, or you like Canada very much.
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4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.
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3 r: o, Z* _1 b, a: U! X0 {4 O" l7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
, D0 N0 N* B, J, \$ Y- z8. Thanks! No thanks!
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