- Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English. Today, we're looking at six English mistakes that
Donald Trump has made. And I need you guys to help me correct them.
- I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. I know words, I have the
best words.
- Hmm, so Donald Trump knows words. Let's find out.
Okay, before we get to number one,
I just want to make sure you guys know that I'm not making fun of Donald Trump. I'm simply
here to show you that even native English speakers make English mistakes too. And so
it's okay for you to do so when you are speaking English. Alright, so with that said, let's
get to number one. So I'm gonna give you 10 seconds to have a look at this first tweet,
find the mistake, and we'll look at it afterwards.
Okay, did you see the mistake? Okay, the mistake
here is on there. He says, "There always playing politics". There, well, it's the wrong there.
Isn't it? What are we talking about here? We're talking about the haters and the fools
out there. Now, what he really wanted to say was, "They are", yeah? Now, these are homophones,
these sound the same when we say them, but they're spelled differently, and of course
they have different meanings as well. So it's not there, it should be "they are always "playing
politics", they are. So when we contract they are, it sounds like they're, they're, which
is the same sound as there. Hmm, so we've got they are is they're, we've got there for
position. Where's your house? Oh it's over there. And then we have the third their, which
is for possession. Who's house is it? It's their house. So they are, they're. There for
position and place, and their for possession. And what we find here is actually there are
quite a few examples of mistakes that Donald Trump has made with homophones. Let's look at another one
Okay, did you find it? It was on council. Now the way he's used it is
with a C, and that meaning is usually a body of people that are elected to give advice
or to manage something. So a town council could be the people in the town who manage
and run the town's affairs. What he really wanted to use was counsel with an S, which
is an attorney or barrister. A Special Counsel is the highest level barrister that advises
the President on legal issues. Now I think this particular tweet was about Robert Mueller
and his investigation. So he used the C, but really he wanted to use the S. Now this is
a common mistake that we might make, is when we are using written English, we might use
the wrong spelling of a word that sounds the same as the one we want. These are called
homophones. So homophones, words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have
different meanings. So council is one of them. We just looked at another one, which is they're.
There are so many examples of this, won for example. Won, W-O-N, which means to win something,
we won in the past, and one, O-N-E, is the number. It's quite common to make a silly
mistake like this when you're writing. Maybe you're not really thinking and you put the
wrong word in and it has a different meaning. But in your head, the sound is the same, so
you type it out. So when you're speaking English, obviously context will tell you what word
is actually being used. So for example, I don't know the score. I don't know the score.
Well, you can use the context there to tell you that it's K-N-O-W, to have the knowledge,
rather than no, is in the negative. Yeah, you can use the context to help you out. Not
a huge mistake, but if you're the President of the United States, you might want to get
that correct. Okay, let's get to some pronunciation of Donald J Trump.
- Look at what happened in the 1990s. Our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
- Tanzania? Where, where is Tanzania? Hmm, so what has happened here? Donald Trump has
put the stress on the wrong syllable. So instead of saying "Tanzania", he meant to say, "Tanzania",
put the stress on the last syllable. And that is a country in Africa, right? Tanzania is
a country we all know, not Tanzania, which sounds like Transylvania. Now stress is really
important and it does play an important part in the meaning of words. There are some words
which change meaning depending on where we stress the word. So for example, perfect,
okay? So I said perfect is the adjective. The stress is on the first syllable. That
means that it's without mistake, right? It's flawless. So that was the perfect sunset.
That was the perfect sunset, the sunset was flawless, it was amazing. Now, if I shift
the stress to the second syllable, perfect, it now becomes a verb, and it means to make
something perfect, to make something without flaws, any mistakes. I need to perfect my
Japanese means, I need to make my Japanese absolutely perfect. So as you can see, shifting
the stress from one syllable to another can change the meaning. And so from Tanzania to
Tanzania, it goes from a fantasy country to a real country.
- Look at what happened in the 1990s. Our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
- Okay, let's get to number four. See if you could find the mistake here.
- And I hope that this investigation now, which is finished, it's totally finished,
no collusion, no obstruction. I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the
oranges of the investigation.
- Alright, what was the word that he really wanted? He said, "oranges". He really wanted
origins. Oranges, origins. Not too far away.
- I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges. I know words, I have the best words.
They sacrifice every day for the furniture and future of their children.
- Okay, so he said "furniture and future". Now, this mistake, I believe, was because
of the teleprompter. Here's the teleprompter telling him what to say. He misread the word
future for furniture. But then he kind of styled it out, right? He said furniture and
future, as if that was the plan, that's what he wanted to say. And they sound kinda similar.
Furniture, future, kind of alliterative almost. So yeah, I think he did quite a good job there,
in fairness, to make that mistake seem not so bad. Alright, let's get to the last one.
Okay, did you see where it was? Shady. Okay, so first of all, shady is an adjective. It's
doesn't need to have that capital S. We don't capitalize adjectives, so don't need that.
Secondly, the E. No need for the E, right? We take away the E. So when we a noun that
ends in an E, then we turn it into an adjective. We take that E away, and we put it in the
Y. So shade turns to shady. Noise turns to noisy. Juice turns to juicy. Ice turns to
icy. You get the idea, right? So just a small spelling mistake. Take the E away, throw in
the Y, you've got yourself your adjective. Now he also capitalizes leak and lie. They
are verbs. Verbs don't take capital letters. So it should be leak with a small L, lie with
a small L as well. I hope this shows you that it doesn't matter who you are, even if you're
the President of the United States of America, you can still make mistakes in English. And
therefore, you shouldn't be shy or embarrassed about your mistakes. Embrace them, use them
as a platform for learning. And then next time, you can improve your English. If you
would like to analyze someone else's English mistakes, then let me know. Who would you
like me to do next? It could be a famous actor, could be a sports star, could be a singer,
could be another politician. You let me know and I will make that video. Thank you so much
again for watching. This is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.