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.

8 Z- M6 l  j+ [6 dThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.

& d( M( z; t. I! K2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
, a# x3 M: w% R+ z* O% jThese 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?
/ B, {4 d  z# L4 }' eThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
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7 x# I* `7 o" R7. Why? No why.
0 |  O8 Z+ S4 t% P7 K; LNot no why, no reason.
3 o) `1 Z1 H* N. x4 W. J8. Thanks! No thanks!