Don't Speak BAD English Like Donald Trump!!!

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