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.
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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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5 O1 t: |" K5 g8 L2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
' e. G- X+ J- I1 n; kThese 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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: K: K- _. r9 C! {- E$ `. l4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
3 R% \" y- J6 Q8 k1 @. B* c, _& uThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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5. I am a Chinese.
" _1 X1 a  }8 c2 OI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6 s  x, v0 W4 Q6 t0 D7 y5 f6. He is a gay.
He is gay.
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* e: \) |: M1 T7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
" G' S6 d9 M! E% h  h+ n" q8. Thanks! No thanks!
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