Our FUNNY English mistakes | Native English Speakers Funny Language Mistake Stories

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English with Lucy


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hello everyone and welcome back to english with Lucy I have got Joel today
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we've got exciting so we'll have one on their channel as well do you want to
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introduce your channel today we're John oh yeah hi our channel is all things
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British yeah it's all about British culture we've got some accent tutorials
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things like that hey anything British yes if you're a fan of Britishness so if
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you're a fan of all things British then I'm sure you like their channel
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but today I was thinking that we spend our whole time correcting your mistakes
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when you're learning English so I thought it'd be quite funny to tell you
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about times that we have made mistakes in our own language yeah so we each got
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a couple to tell you so this was when I was quite young I was about four years
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old maybe five I was in recession which is what we call the lowest level of
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school yeah yeah yeah like age five age five yes I would be 405 and I had to go
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off school I had to go home because I was ill with a disease called
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impetigo gaps on your face it's just a skin condition but it's very contagious
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it can pass to the other children but when I went back I told all of my
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teachers that I had a very bad case of osteoporosis
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toward my teachers are you okay Lucy you've been off for a while honesty
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osteoporosis age oh no you know that's so sad to hear about Lucy's condition
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my mom was like yeah it was a bit annoying but you know how do we deal
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with this in the classroom and she was like well it's gone now it's gone I was
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always a fan of really long words as a child today you still in this understand
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slight misunderstanding it's like a fully different word and
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meaning I thought you're gonna say impotence say that you went back to
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school and told everyone you were Tiger like Tiger like I was a tiger anything
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but night Claire Lucy we've like really long words as a child so probably spent
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ages memorizing it right I'm gonna say mine okay so when you're at a train
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station sometimes they say like stand back there's a freight train coming free
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and I always thought that was a frightful train like fright train you
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should be scared of this train great I just like oh no there's a freight train
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coming get it what I can I just didn't know
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what a freak oh really quickly yeah what is a freight train it's like a train
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carrying no but I just thought it's trained to be
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scared of like these canapés frightful trains freight train it's really dumb
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hey guys will help dumb I'm done yeah better no that is very dumb but and I
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don't to say that because mine's also dumb sorry I can't understand this do
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you feel like we have this like dumb confession meeting yeah hi my name's
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John so I always get this word wrong I still right now don't really know what
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it means it's the word dozen like a dozen eggs how many is it six or is it
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twelve I can never remember yeah but wider so why do don't people
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just say I've got 12 eggs I've got a dozen eggs it doesn't make any sense and
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when you say just few it means like very little but you think a few it means if I
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go into my second one and then we can go onto yours because my second one is very
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similar the word fortnight what does support like me two weeks -
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then why don't people just say to ease oh we're going on holiday for a
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fortnight because I thought fortnight meant 10 days and I still kind of think
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it means 10 days Oh what would you say just these words
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doesn't and for tonight I'm like just use the actual numbers use the numbers
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so I bet half a dozen throws you yes what's that me exactly three six I have
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a way to remember it in Spanish yeah nothing it's 12 so it's like a dolphin
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dolphin
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my second wine so this one is really embarrassing but I have actually put it
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on my Instagram so wonder if you saw it but I was putting in like a dishwasher
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let's get your dishwasher fitted and I was texting the plumber and I was like
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look I just want to know if it can go in or not
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so he said send me a picture of the sink is like water and I opened and I saw and
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I was like I didn't understand the word exactly and it was like so no okay so I
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actually we were talking about this a moment ago I still can't get left and
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right without nothing to do with the words left and right when I was doing my
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driving test I had to write L on that led to small
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and AH here and to ask the examiner to just stipulate
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they're just like me you can ask them you can say look I really
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when you say left and right it just doesn't do anything in my brain so can
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you just go turn left so I could see her hands and I was like
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thank you thank you as well because they were saying you know just whatever makes
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an L that's left and I'd be like cool
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yeah it happens all the time with Lea when we're going and I'm not okay we'll
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just turn right and she'll be like just take the moment I think that people must
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think I'm really dumb but on paper I'm really smart other one really quickly is
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escalator and elevator I can't tell you if we're in an escalator quick in on and
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I can't get that say the first word again
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escalator you say that incorrectly how do you say yeah they're very similar I
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can imagine that being confusing for a learner
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I'm sure there's so many more by just calm yeah bring myself to that's the
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thing you shouldn't ever worry if you're making mistakes when this is a second
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language like when people who go who miss that first language like even we
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get stuff wrong I would say just use your mistakes as funny anecdotes which
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is
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this morning I know I feel like home so that's it for today's video I hope you
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enjoyed it I don't really think you would have learned much but this is more
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of a conversation listening practice
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just to make you laugh and feel a bit better about yourselves
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I know you do
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don't forget me and Jonah Miller of our social media which will be popping up on
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the screen right now and we hope to see you over on John and
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Leah's channel where we've got another video
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yeah yeah I'm about to now and I will see you soon for another lesson
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you
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