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.

  }9 l, `  l2 |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.
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) X; }' s* ^* ^6 I4 U, ~2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
: Y1 t/ y( ?/ t- Y' x0 |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?

  O% |* P) l6 l1 k% U: e+ u5. I am a Chinese.
9 }  m  L, L2 y5 B7 ^& h+ cI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
4 [. N- P: V0 V9 aHe is gay.
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7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!

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