Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

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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.
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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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, x4 A% T* T( t" G6 @# }0 I* U2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
5 Z$ u/ Z4 j2 K7 pThese 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?
0 i& z6 D- W! w. R! bThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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2 k9 y1 x% L" C6 G5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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1 \/ g) X9 R4 ?; G" o- g9 XHe is gay.
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6 k' @& B$ `/ U7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
: {; w; i  W9 o8 O# F% C6 N; G* A+ s8. Thanks! No thanks!