Do you make these common English mistakes? Time codes: 0:00 It's okay to make mistakes. 0:52 Do not say "Congratulations!" on somebody's birthday. 4:30 Do not say "I'll cook myself tonight." 5:38 PICK UP vs. PICK 6:25 SINCE vs. FOR 7:07 LOAN vs. BORROW 8:00 Do not say "My cousin is having three cats." 8:50 ME TOO vs. ME NEITHER 9:50 "What it looks like" or "How it looks like";
it depends on a non native speaker's mother tongue, some grammar rules that she may find difficult as a Russian speaker might be very similar to English in other languages.
"Pick up" can also be used metaphorically, as in to pick up an idea or information or to understand something. "I read her book and picked up some great ideas". " I took lessons in Chinese for years but I just never picked it up."
The greatest quality of you is that you agree with your mistakes!! Most of the RU-vidrs (to be particular, who teaches English,) will not agree that they used to do those mistakes! But you don't feel hesitant to be opened up with your faults! Really feeling lucky to have a teacher like you Marina!!!
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We also mess up with lend and borrow. Lend and loan have the same meaning too. In addition, we don't ask 'what it looks like' and 'how it looks like'. Instead we ask, 'What does it look like?' and How does it look?' Hope I'm right!😊 Thank you so much Marina! It was helpful.
I've learnt so many phrases today. It's very helpful. Some of the mistakes I just realized, I've never thought that I had made plenty of mistakes when I'm talking in English. Thank you so much.
Very thanks marina, your teaching style is really very excellent. From your help my English speaking is more improving than before. I'm a student of class 10
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*I used to make these mistakes a lot. Since had I watched this video, it happened to seem it to be like that I got to be in a better improvement phase.* I feel like I made some mistakes, I would appreciate it if someone corrected my grammar😊
@@juliaj6309 Thank you I like to make my sentences as compound as possible so that I get to make more mistakes which therefore helps me to improve my grammar
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing at that part. I’m a native English speaker and I never say “I will cook dinner by myself.” Instead I say “I’m going to cook tonight” or “I’m just going to cook instead of going out to eat” or something casual like that.
@@Moleda1986 - Yes, indeed! As a former English teacher myself, I find that a lot of students of English want to translate a certain way, but in practice, it's usually a lot simpler or altogether omitted (like in this case)!
She’s not perfect at English. Although she’s pretty close for sure. But she still makes mistakes in what “native” speakers say. When sometimes they actually don’t. She must have heard it somewhere in order to say that native speakers say they things?
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omg, I just want to say that i almost understand all the things you said, which means my listening skill is improving day by day, I'm so so happy right now. By this way, thank you so much for sharing useful tips. (Maybe my comment is incorrect, sr for that)
In fact to be honest i learned many things from your videos and also I like her English accent so much and I think it is easily to know what she saying.
Be careful--at the end of this video, "What it looks like?" and "How it looks?" are both incorrect. What does it look like? and How does it look? are the correct forms. The helping verb is needed to make a question.
@@farrukhotajonov1130 There are a lot of things that are acceptable in speaking, but this is not one of them. No native speaker would say "What it looks like?" in speaking.
remembering practice: pick up means to lift something up while pick refers to choose, borrow refers to get something from someone with an intension to give it back while loan or lend refers to give something to someone with an intension to get it back, if we r sharing a negative quality with someone else exclaiming this quality then we will say me neither. On the other hand,if we share a positive quality with someone exclaiming that quality then we will have to say me too.
Если бы мне в моё день рождение сказали: "Поздравляю"(Congratulations), я бы тоже не так понял.))) Люблю когда говорят: С днём Рождения!(Happy Birthday)
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I'm watching a lot of videos to learn English, but I cannot understand them completely. But also, I was able to understand your videos without subtitles. Your accent isn't difficult to understand for me. I can't understand most natural English speakers. I think you're speaking with a more understandable accent for us to understand. Thank you so much.
This lesson is very useful as all your lessons are, so thank you ever so much for sharing videos like this. That means a lot to me, greetings from Colombia.
As a matter of fact, I love the way you teach us as ever! I intently listened this lesson. Plus I was able to learn something new from this video. Loads of love to the dearest teacher in the world.😍🙋😍
I have been learning a lot of with this channel, than traditional English courses. There are a bunch of expressions or tenses we saw on movies or any productions that we do not understand, but here, we can eliminate doubts
Saying which one should I pick up can still be correct. It is slang or an informal way to speak. You are not only indicating choice but also your intent to leave and go get it. Looking at pictures of dresses and asking that question means you intend to go buy one.
So interesting. Superb...I wanna add something. In, Korea. People usually say chokahamnida in any achievements or Birthdays. So, when they translate chokahamnida in English, it means congratulations 🎊. That's why they mis use this expression on Birthdays.
I really appreciate your channel! It seems you discuss important topics that non-native english speakers struggle with, so you hit the nail on the head very often haha. However, may I give you some regards? I think the correct term to describe giving something to someone and expecting to receive it back after some period would be "lend" instead of loan, because lend is an action, i.e. it's a verb, whereans loan is a noun. I know loan can be used as a verb as well, but technically it should not if you want to strictly follow grammatical rules.
Hi Marina. I really love your videos, and I've learned a lot from them. On this minute 9:54, I think none of them are grammatically correct since we must always use do/does after the WH-word. Therefore, I think the correct one would be something like: What does it look like?
You shouldn't say ' none of them ARE grammatically correct '. But it is correct to say 'none of them IS grammatically correct. Correct me if I am wrong.
I have never heard "How it looks" that sounds like caveman talk. "How does it look?" And "What does it look like?" Have the same meaning, but are used in different context
How it looks is incorrect because you need a subject (How does it look?). How does it look and What does it look like are different. What does it look like is used to ask for what something permanent looks like (a person, a house, an object, an animal), i.e. my. house is big and brown, and it has a brown front door and white shutters. How does it look is used to describe what something looks like that's temporary. For example, if you are painting a picture, you can ask "How does it look?" It looks beautiful! If you know someone is sick, you can ask, "How does she look?" She looks better or She looks tired. I hope that helps!
1:06 But can we say "Congrats on having another spin around the sun." By the way, it's a phrase. I have another doubt, Can we start a sentence with but? Could anybody help me??
You can start a sentence with “but” or “and” as long as it’s a direct continuation of the thought in the previous sentence. Although you would use a comma after the but or and. And, do you have another question ?
If you want to be extra proper it would be “what does it look like?” But honestly most would shorten it to “how’s it look?” Or “how’s it lookin’?” You’d only use “what it looks like?” in proper speaking if you wanted to clarify someone was asking you “what does it look like?” Because this question is asking for a comparison not a description as the reply To go further into it “how’s it look?” Is the equivalent of “how’s it going?” In some situations so be careful with that because “how’s it going?” Is often used as a hello or how are you but can also be answered with the status of a project or action since there was no specificity aside from “it”
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For those of you who had difficulties understanding the last one: 1.When you asked sb "how do these trousers look?",You should be expecting an answer involving an adjective,For instance the person'd answer "Oh They are great". 2.When you asked sb "What does The Eiffel tower look like?" ,then You should be expecting an answer involving a noun, For instance the person'd answer "it looks like the letter "A" ".
In Portuguese Brazil if it's someones birthday we say parabéns (congratulations) more often than feliz aniversário ( happy birthday). I think that's the reason so would say the biggest mistake that you make learning a new language is translate you language to English, that come as a mistake to me now is a tip, beginning the intermediate studying alone
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Spasibo, Marina) Another nice way to say about cooking by myself using a phrasal verb is "I am eating in tonight" (as opposed to "eating out" i.e. at a restaurant)
