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.
9 t4 J$ I6 j# ^7 U5 k2 I6 B$ P    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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  A5 b, B; ~" ]/ T2 l6 vThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.
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! \# M+ |+ `6 ]2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
1 E0 x2 w* i! r, T% {( C( R3. 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?
, p, W) a' w1 \. i6 H, }The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

  w+ ~$ W6 K5 }, ?! [1 p5. I am a Chinese.
5 S% }0 r# t  E) a( }I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

7. Why? No why.
1 n0 U8 L) b: ~Not no why, no reason.
0 n+ T3 O7 O! h4 b; ^8. Thanks! No thanks!