Hello! Hello! Hello Everybody!
and welcome to Learn English Live 30
my name is Steve Ford and today I have a great topic about
how to deal with typical mistakes English learners make when speaking in English from MJJSprincess
Something that I have been noticing a lot recently is students who have studied English
forever and a day, a really long time, but still make the following mistake
I would never do that
So am I
So what's happening here?
I have to tell you that native speakers use, "neihther and so" all the time
So you could just say me too or me neither, same here or ditto
but if you want to talk like a native speaker, learning this particular grammar point is important!
Let's look at some examples
So let''s make a sandwich, yeah here's the sandwich right here
I can't dance, well maybe a little bit
OK so first thing, we know the sentence is negative, "can't" so we will need neither
the first piece of bread and "I" and two thirds of the sandwich is done
I can't dance, make it into a question: Can I dance?
take the auxiliary "can" and put it in the middle neither can I
We have our sandwich! Ta-da!
There are other ways of saying these, so check out this lesson, yeah here, if you want more information
let's try that a little faster to get our mouths moving
I know that you can do better, let's go faster
are? no is! This is complicated for many people because in their own language
they use it one way and in English we use it totally differently
ah yes, let's take a look at some classic irregular plural nouns
English learners have problems with: people, children, is educated. No! are educated!
So the first example of children and people is plural.
Wait what?
I thought we just added an "s" to the end and that makes the word plural
You are partly right, but we also use something in English called "irregular plural nouns".
What does that mean? It means in the single form they are one thing: person, child
and in the plural people, children.
when you see children or people think THEY in terms of the conjugation
people, children = they
people, children, you know the rest
Now I got another question a day ago from Rosangela
Hello Rosangela, these words you've mentioned, "peoples/persons" have a different meaning
Peoples: men, women, and children of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group
Persons is a formal way to say individuals and the only place I've seen it is inside an elevator
This elevator can hold a maximum of 16 persons or individuals
wait there's 18 people, uh oh
What do you weight?
X It should be what do you weigh?
We pronounce weight, the noun the same as we pronounce "wait" the verb, w-a-i-t
and weigh, just like we pronounce the noun way, w-a-y
Another common one I hear is: the building is very height
The building is very high
What is your high?
What is your height?
Well everybody, I hope these tips can you an idea of some of the many mistakes
basic, intermediate, advanced and even fluent speakers of English can make
I can't wait until our next lesson!
Neither, neither can I
Have a great day! Bye for now!
Welll everybody I hope, well everybody..............everybody
we pronounce weight just like wait w-a-i-t
and.......no playing, no playing during the recording, OK? You wanna say hello? Hello! Hello! Hello!
Daddy's gotta...Dadd's gott work now
this is....this is what she was looking for
we pronounce high just like "hi"
and height would be h...eye.....t
she found the other ball, she's got me by the ...ball