Speak English BETTER than a native!! - English lesson!

210,426 views ・ 2017-09-30

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You know this is?
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This is you about five minutes
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Because you're gonna speak English better than a native!
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The average English person is terrible at grammar
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spelling and you know being social
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For example: If you hear any native English speaker
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say the word "pronOUnciation"
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instead of saying it "pronunciation"
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Punch them in the face
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Hard
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True story: I used to work for someone
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who would send emails to very high-profile clients in other companies
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She was a native English
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and her grammar and spelling were so so bad
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A five-year-old could have done better
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So today you're going to learn the very common mistakes that native English speakers make
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Of course there are the annoying ones
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Yes okay sometimes I have made that mistake
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It can be a brain fart and generally we know that those are wrong
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but these next five examples of mistakes that native English speakers make
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make us sound so annoyingly stupid it makes me want to poke my eyes out
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First some pronunciation, again it's not pronOUnciation.
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That deserves a punch in the face
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But how about this: Ask your native english-speaking friends how do you pronounce that letter
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I guarantee you a large percentage of them will say:
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it's not Haitch no it's Aitch
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Punch in the face
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For all you Italians, this will annoy you:
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How do we say espresso?
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We change the S for an X
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Punch in the face!
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I especially get annoyed at "eXpecially"
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Where are these X's coming from?!
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It's equally awful and definitely deserves a punch in the face and
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defriending from Facebook forever
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This you will see more in text and written things
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but if you listen carefully sometimes you can hear it
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What am I talking about? This:
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These aren't things. Stop.
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Why do British people do this you have to think of the contraction
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say it enough times
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Is it "would of"!?
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No
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I guarantee you, search on Twitter the term "would of"
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you will find millions of examples of people using this incorrectly. It's nuts!
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so just remember it's not would of its would have should have could have
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Also native English speakers always get the third conditional wrong
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In third conditionals, wishes or ifs about a past situation
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You have to remember the order
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The hypothetical result of that includes "would have" / "could have", sure!
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but not with the "if" clause
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OH what's that?! Trump isn't very good at grammar
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Shocking!
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So what did he want to say?
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he wanted to say:
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blah blah blah bullshit
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But he's... an idiot
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Much more commonly, you will hear this in conversation
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and see it in text conversation
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You can correct your friends now!
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You know that this isn't the right way
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What way should it be?
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The next one is:
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Subject pronouns!? yeah
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Remember we're using subject pronouns
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You wouldn't for example say "me went to the pub"
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No you'd say "I went to the pub"
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"I did a thing" not "me did a thing"
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And it's the done thing to let the other person go first in the sentence
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and finally:
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Why would you pluralise something that's already plural!?
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If anyone says that, you know what to do!
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Hard!
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And if you ever see your friends
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on social media making any of these mistakes
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you can be that really super popular friend
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and correct their grammar
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everyone loves that person
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Are there any I've missed? What mistakes have you noticed that British or native English speakers make?
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Let me know in the comments and I'll see you in the next class!
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